John Hopkins has a world map here:
arcgis.com
This map lists all the countries and confirmed cases in the country and the deaths.
If you click on a country on the left side of the screen you see the cases and deaths.
They say the death rate for the normal flu is 0.1%
COVID-19 does not change shape going over country borders but health services do change.
So if we want to know the death rate for COVID-19 you can select a number of countries and see what the lowest death rate is. That should define the lowest death rate for COVID-19.
Germany is a large country with 1,966 cases and 3 deaths so the death rate is 0.15%
Denmark is 0 deaths,
Norway is 0 deaths,
Finland is 0 deaths
Sweden just had its 1st death so it is 0.2%
Singapore is 0 deaths.
South Korea, with 7,755 cases has 0.8% death rate
And then there are lots of countries, like Iran and italy who probably do not have as good of a medical system and they have much, much higher death rates.
So this is not like ebola where there is a super high death rate.
Interestingly, our annual flu kills tens of thousands of Americans every year but we go about our daily business. This year from Oct 1 to end of February which is the typical flu season 12,000 people died in USA but nobody seems to want to report this. Why?
"While the impact of flu varies, it places a substantial burden on the health of people in the United States each year. CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010.
www.cdc.gov › flu › about › burden
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