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I bet Germany's rate is so low because they do so much testing. Betting the number tested in the US is the tip of the iceberg so our mortality rate is probably significantly lower than what you currently see. Want to get people back to work fast, test people to see if they already had it and let those folks go back first, safely. I still can't believe how little testing is being done here.

Germany's success (so far) was a combination of testing and getting on top of it very early and quickly. We obviously couldn't do that without tests. However SK did the same thing and still has a mortality rate of about 1.3%. One thing is for sure - hospitals are overwhelmed in areas getting slammed, and more HCW are getting sick

"Germany has confirmed nearly 34,000 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday morning (March 25), but just 171 deaths total. That number — about a 0.5% death rate — suggests the death rate of the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 is way, way lower in Germany than it is in other countries, such as France, where about 4.3% of cases have ended in death or the United States with a 1.3% mortality rate from the coronavirus.

"Why does Germany seem to be spared lethal cases of the new coronavirus? Early in the infection spread, Germany began to try to test and quarantine all of those who tested positive, at a time when numbers weren't overwhelming, The Washington Post reported.

"At the beginning, when we had relatively few cases, when it came to finding them and isolating them, we did quite well in Germany," Reinhard Busse, head of the department of health care management at the Berlin University of Technology, told the Post. "That's the major reason."
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Some epidemiologists told the Journal that high testing rates in Germany might partly explain the lower death rate, as more testing would catch even the mildest cases. However, Germany didn't do mass testing at the highest rates — as was seen in South Korea where 10,000 tests were run a day — but Germany was meticulous about the process, the Post reported. Once an individual tested positive, officials then tracked every one of their contacts and proceeded to test and quarantine those individuals, essentially breaking "infection chains," the Post reported" https://www.livescience.com/germany-...hs-so-low.html

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Germany's success (so far) was a combination of testing and getting on top of it very early and quickly. We obviously couldn't do that without tests. However SK did the same thing and still has a mortality rate of about 1.3%. One thing is for sure - hospitals are overwhelmed in areas getting slammed, and more HCW are getting sick

"Germany has confirmed nearly 34,000 cases of COVID-19 as of Tuesday morning (March 25), but just 171 deaths total. That number — about a 0.5% death rate — suggests the death rate of the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 is way, way lower in Germany than it is in other countries, such as France, where about 4.3% of cases have ended in death or the United States with a 1.3% mortality rate from the coronavirus.

"Why does Germany seem to be spared lethal cases of the new coronavirus? Early in the infection spread, Germany began to try to test and quarantine all of those who tested positive, at a time when numbers weren't overwhelming, The Washington Post reported.

"At the beginning, when we had relatively few cases, when it came to finding them and isolating them, we did quite well in Germany," Reinhard Busse, head of the department of health care management at the Berlin University of Technology, told the Post. "That's the major reason."
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Some epidemiologists told the Journal that high testing rates in Germany might partly explain the lower death rate, as more testing would catch even the mildest cases. However, Germany didn't do mass testing at the highest rates — as was seen in South Korea where 10,000 tests were run a day — but Germany was meticulous about the process, the Post reported. Once an individual tested positive, officials then tracked every one of their contacts and proceeded to test and quarantine those individuals, essentially breaking "infection chains," the Post reported" https://www.livescience.com/germany-...hs-so-low.html

This article is misleading. A few things. 1) Germany’s first case was 6 days after ours, so they are behind us as we are behind Italy by 8 days. 2) Death rates are very shaky if you haven’t tested everyone (which is obviously an impossibility). 3) Death per capita, the US is exactly the same as Germany. 5 deaths per million of population.

Germany is doing well now but growing each day. With the advanced notice, one would think they would end up better off than the US, for the same reason the US is doing better than Italy.