But there are two few confirmed cases to understand the mortality rate. Might be there are additional factors unique to China that is causing a higher death rate.
It might mean, out of those patients being treated (i.e. already very ill with it), rather than total infected?
I was reading somewhere that the doubling in cases in China was mainly due to increasing capacity for hospitals to diagnose the infection rather than an actual measurement of the spread of the disease.
Isn't that too early since there are still thousands of new cases? The survival rate can improve. Most of those deaths are probably early patients who did not benefit from proper cares since at the time they did not know what it was.
I don't think there are enough cases outside China to perform that analysis yet. Of the 4474 cases, only 65 are outside China. My stats is rusty, but given that something like 2-3% of that 4474 in China have died, I think zero deaths from 65 cases outside China doesn't mean a ton.
I guess it is difficult to know if these are the right numbers. Elderly people, and people with a disposition (eg. COPD) are much more vulnerable to a corona virus infection.
I would wait before more people have gone through the disease before making a conclusion about statistics such as case fatality rates et cetera.
Unfortunately, none of the numbers are reliable at this point.
People are being turned away from hospitals. Dead patients are not being post-humously tested for coronavirus. Most patients hospitalized arent yet recovered (or dead) yet etc...
The only rate we know so far is the dead/hospitalized rate, which is around 13% - which comperable to SARS.
But there are two few confirmed cases to understand the mortality rate. Might be there are additional factors unique to China that is causing a higher death rate.