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mortality depends on the country in which the patient is treated in my view.

according to WHO's situation report, Singapore has 91 confirmed cases and 0 death so far. in most developed country, mortality rate seems to be on much lower side. Of course these numbers can change at any minute.

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...

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It's more patients vs resources than developed vs undeveloped, it's much easier to handle 91 cases at once than 900 or 9000. Italy is also a developed country and the mortality is around ~3% so far in Italy, Japan is developed and it's at ~1.5%. At the moment it seems like Korea is the biggest outlier with mortality under 1% but also with a lot of cases.

I'd rather be in a developed nation, but you're cherry picking your example.

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