A single person died outside China is in Philippines so far. It tells more about their health care than about how deadly the virus is at this point.
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I fully expect the Chinese will have a higher death rate, both because of healthcare quality, hysteria and political lies, and potentially garbage like in this article.
That said, we’ve not had a lot of deaths, nor have we had a lot of recoveries. Both in and out of China we’ve had a statistically insignificance near equality between those stated as recovered and those reportedly having died.
You are right in a sense that it is too early to draw any conclusions.
... of people admitted to hospitals. If you want to know the mortality rate of AIDS do you go to all the hospitals, find the AIDS patients and track them? Or do you track every AIDS patient whether in a hospital or not?
The mortality may be more than the 2-3% that you get dividing fatalities by cases. But probably not much more. And it could be less, much less, if there are lots of untracked cases.
The vast majority of reported cases remain sick in hospital beds. Too sick to release, not dead yet....