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There are various discussions and theories especially as to the low death rates in Germany. Germany has had distributed testing capabilities very early (end of
by danielbln 7y ago
There are various discussions and theories especially as to the low death rates in Germany. Germany has had distributed testing capabilities very early (end of January) and has performed a large amount of testing compared to other European countries, which means cases are cought early and not when they hit the ICU. Other theories are the large amount of ICU beds, local medical production facilities, still ongoing contact tracing and some other things. The expectation however is that the death rate will go up a fair bit.
- thu2111 7y agoAlso - different reporting strategies. Germany is not always reporting someone as a CV death if the dominating factor was something else, whereas Italy reports them all as CV deaths. Or at least that's a widespread theory I've seen. It's hard to imagine such a huge difference can be down purely to testing. I think the next days will see people dig into these stats and start a more complex discussion about what exactly it means to die of this virus, what exactly capacity means in a world where doctors can go to enormous lengths to save every life in quiet times but can't in crisis times. Just comparing raw numbers doesn't tell us the whole story.