Maybe it is me but the bc CDC is reporting like a 50% recovery rate, while say Italy (hardly apples to apples) is around 14%. Are we doing that much of a better job with treatment than other regions? Italy is severely overwhelmed no question. I'm sure there are many more factors such as age of patients, etc.
So much of the numbers game is not going to translate, though, because of the different testing protocols in different countries.
Italy being overwhelmed, there's no way they can afford to test and test and test, confirming that minor cases are now completely recovered, etc. We can't even do that; globally it seems about the only people who can really do it are the Germans. So you can't take the Italian "recovered" numbers very seriously...there's just no way they're doing any testing that isn't absolutely necessary. I would guess their total case numbers are ten times their confirmed numbers at a bare minimum; probably a lot more than that. On the plus side, this means that their mortality rate isn't as bad as it looks, and their recovery rate is better than it looks, partly because they don't have the resources to throw at adding people to the officially recovered stats.
I would be hesitant to compare numbers across very many countries; Germany and South Korea seem to have the testing game dialed in way better than most and the Koreans were innovative and well-equipped from the get-go and got people into mass testing and everybody wearing masks while here, they were still telling everyone that masks wouldn't help in the hopes that they'd be able to stock up the hospital system, which was totally underequipped. In fact I haven't checked in the last couple of days; maybe Health Canada is still pretending masks won't help the average person? At any rate, clearly untrue but most people would have a hard time getting them right now anyway, since the global supply chain is so haywire.
And the Germans are testing on a scale would even impress the Koreans...they probably have the most accurate picture of the whole situation out of anyone. I would treat their numbers as the best indication of what it does in a powerful, industrial country and it looks like for the moment, a mortality rate somewhere around 1% of known cases is probably about right. Although I think ultimately it will stabilize at more like half that, probably less, because even the Germans aren't conducting random tests on a mass scale, nor is there any serology testing that I've heard of to test for the presence of antibodies in people who were sick and recovered, or were asymptomatic and never had any idea they were sick at all.