Germany's death rate is around 0.74%, after around 53,000 confirmed infections. In Spain and Italy the rate is more than 10 times higher. Here's why.
The coronavirus is ravaging large parts of Europe, with Italy and Spain now the worst-hit countries in the world.53,340 Germans had tested positive for the coronavirus as of midday Berlin time on March 28, with 397 deaths, according to the German newspaper Die Zeit. That means Germany has a death rate of 0.74%.That rate is far below that of Spain, which at 7.82%, China at 4.02%, and Italy, which is at 10.56%.
"We have a culture here in Germany that is actually not supporting a centralized diagnostic system," Drosten said."So Germany does not have a public health laboratory that would restrict other labs from doing the tests. So we had an open market from the beginning." The town of Vó in northern Italy quashed an outbreak after relentless testing, but the country as a whole has not been able to replicate the phenomenon.
Germany spends $4,714.26 per person each year on healthcare, according to World Bank data from 2016. The figure is higher than most other nations. Old people have by and large avoided infection. The average age of a German infected with coronavirus is 46, whereas in Italy it is 63, according to Wired.
"Germany's also a little bit earlier on in the process than Italy," Martin Hibberd, professor of emerging infectious diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told Wired."It takes two or three weeks of intensive care before people often succumb to the disease."
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