[rankam]

Or those places aren't testing? The UK has ~62,000 confirmed cases and ~7,100 deaths - that implies a > 10% mortality rate which is definitely not true. Why is the mortality rate so high? Because they only test those with severe symptoms - the actual number of cases is much higher than 62,000.

[woofie11]

To be fair, the mortality rate could be a lot higher than estimated. That has huge error bars too. We all look on the bright side (why it might be lower). There's also a dark side.

[rankam]

Based on what? Nothing points to a higher mortality rate - but some countries are admittedly not testing a lot. Even if you quadruple the estimated mortality rate, the UK numbers would still be under-represented.