If you exclude hubei, in China, the fatality rate among confirmed cases is under 1%. I expect this is due to the confluence of a few factors. Deaths happen fas

If you exclude hubei, in China, the fatality rate among confirmed cases is under 1%. I expect this is due to the confluence of a few factors. Deaths happen faster than recoveries, more acute cases are easier to detect than the mild ones, except in places where they're proactively testing (China, Korea)