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Germany has more than three times more hospital beds per inhabitant than the UK: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/hospital-beds-vs-gdp?country=DEU~GBR https:/

by amai 6y ago

Germany has more than three times more hospital beds per inhabitant than the UK: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/hospital-beds-vs-gdp?country=DEU~GBR https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/hospital-beds-vs-gdp?coun... It also has 70% more medical doctors per inhabitant: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/medical-doctors-per-1000-people-vs-gdp-per-capita?country=DEU~GBR https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/medical-doctors-per-1000-... All this comes in handy in case of a pandemic.

rurban 6y ago
With an average utilization of 10% of ICU's during this flu season this argument is moot. More likely is that they did better nursing homes protections, or just had less dangerous Virus variants than in the west. I don't see any other advantages of the German system affecting this year's flu pandemic. It's better of course. But mostly irrelevant.