It's not an outlier. Germany has even lower numbers despite doing even less than Korea. Italy and the UK book the death of anyone who died testing positive as

It's not an outlier. Germany has even lower numbers despite doing even less than Korea. Italy and the UK book the death of anyone who died testing positive as a covid19 death. The UK won't release any figures beyond that. Not even hospitalisation data. Studies in Italy show fewer than 15% of those deaths might be specifically caused by it. > On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity - many had two or three,” he says.^ In fact the average comorbiditities is 2.7. mean age of death is 79.5 years. Median 80.5. ^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/have-many-coronavirus-patients-died-italy/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...