> Italy sits at 9%. So the situation is either that Italy is vastly underestimating cases, or Germany and South Korea have lost a magnitude of corpses somewhere

> Italy sits at 9%. So the situation is either that Italy is vastly underestimating cases, or Germany and South Korea have lost a magnitude of corpses somewhere. I find the latter less likely than the former. Both could be true. For example, Germany doesn't systematically test dead old and/or hospitalized people for Coronavirus infections while Italy apparently does. Germany has more resources to test potentially infected people than Italy, where all resources are needed for treatment of the hospitalized cases. In reality, both Italy and Germany will have infections in the 100.000s, most of them with mild or no symptoms.