Germany has remarkably few COVID-19 deaths. Its healthcare system shows how Germany prevented a runaway death toll.
, the senior vice president and global health and HIV policy director at the Kaiser Family Foundation said.Despite widespread testing efforts, the German coronavirus outbreak continued.
to slow the coronavirus spread and save lives and announced that gatherings of more than 1,000 people would be shut down.But perhaps what has contributed to Germany's low death rate most is an ace up its sleeve that many other countries can't match: An extremely high bed-to-person ratio. According to data from
"The factors [in Germany's success] have not been in place in other settings," Kates said. "The US has largely bungled its testing effort and Italy's hospitals have been overwhelmed. These are very hard barriers to overcome once countries are at this point." By March 22, Germany's cases hovered at around 25,000, but deaths were just 86 — a fatality rate of approximatelyThat day, the German government announced that people would need to remain six feet apart, and.
In the US, the coronavirus battle was ramping up. On March 22, the US 140 deaths that day and 557 cumulative fatalities. A mortality rate of 1.2%. This is partly due to the country's slow roll out of tests early on, Grubaugh said. Statistics indicate that Germany is in a far better place than many of the other developed countries worldwide. And testing may be central to its success., and has been able to test more than 2,000 per million people.
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