Why is Nigeria's Covid-19 death rate per capita 4,000 times less than New York state?

Nigeria's Covid-19 death rate per capita is 4,000 times less than New York state notes Lee Merritt, MD.

(She says 10,000 times in the video, but I assume she meant 4,000.)

She notes that the death rate from Covid-19 per capita in New York state when she looked at the data in approximately August 2020 was 0.17% in New York state compared to 0.00004% in Nigeria.

(0.17% divided by 0.00004% = 4,250.)

She says that a patient from Nigeria (and another patient from Senegal) told her that in Nigeria, because Malaria is common, when you get a fever, you go down to the store and buy some chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine and take it.