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The mystery of Germany’s low coronavirus death rate
- Johnjonjoan 7y agoIf you just look at the coronavirus deaths in Germany they are increasing at pretty much the same rates that Spain and Italy did. I wonder if Germany is a few days behind the UK and has just tested way more people making it this outlier.
- rurban 7y agoGermany was hit as one the first European countries. And they aggressively went after each possible contact and tested all of them. It was hit weeks before Italy. Their testing capacity is the highest in Europe (I'm leaving out Russia, as I don't trust their testing numbers. Maybe they do just antibody or temperature tests). The UK was infected very very late from a tourist in Ischgl, Austria, which got it from Italy. Weeks later. Same timeline as with the other scandanavian infections. So Germany is more than a month ahead of the UK. The rates are increasing, because they are testing so much. (Not enough for my taste, but this Europe, not Asia). The death rates are so low because no centres of seniors where hit yet, the age group is much younger. And the treatment in the ICU's is doing pretty well.
- Johnjonjoan 7y agoI hope this is the case. The increasing number of deaths is a fairly recent occurrence in Germany with them surpassing ten deaths two days after the UK did.