> health services between Germany and Italy should not be even comparable in terms of equipment and capacity. Italy's health care is among the best in the worl

> health services between Germany and Italy should not be even comparable in terms of equipment and capacity. Italy's health care is among the best in the world, and Lombardy's is several points above the Italian average. Germany has apparently 2.6 times the amount of IC beds available in proportion to the population- in the Covid epidemic this should offset the reach of maximum capacity by a week.