Model this asymmetric fatality rate?

by Tyler Cowen February 6, 2020 at 8:02 am in

Current Affairs
Medicine

The fatality rate in Wuhan is 4.1 percent and 2.8 percent in Hubei, compared to just 0.17 percent elsewhere in mainland China.

Is it really medical supply scarcity, as brought by the quarantine, as the NYT article seems to suggest? Why is the fatality rate so asymmetrically distributed, or is it?