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Re:Germany's Coronavirus Death Rate Is Lower Than in Other C... by adventured on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @11:26PM (#22745343)
The latest I have is 1.08%. Johns Hopkins has it at 775 deaths on 71,808 cases. Their very low mortality rate has held throughout, and they currently have a very large number of recovered patients, implying it's holding through the progression (most countries with good mortality numbers lose that as the cases get worse; you can spot this delay by the very low recovery cases as a percentage).

So far among nations in Western Europe, 1.08% is extraordinary. France is at 6.6% at a similar point in recovered cases vs positive tests. And Germany is the second oldest nation at the median, behind Japan, among major nations. That mortality rate is a remarkable achievement so far.

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Re:Germany's Coronavirus Death Rate Is Lower Than in Other C... by Zenst on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @12:11AM (#22745581)
That also may be case of better testing and by that, more widespread. Many countries playing catch up, well they all are and may well be case that many countries with high death rates also have many untested people who had what they thought was mild cold and in some countries those mild cold's would of been tested.

So it is one of those things when we won't be able to compare until down the line, and able to compare like for like.

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Re:Germany's Coronavirus Death Rate Is Lower Than in Other C... by Tomte on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @11:52PM (#22745473)
> and they currently have a very large number of recovered patients

And note that the real number of recovered patients is certainly higher than reported in those dashboards, because while reporting infections and deaths is mandatory, some municipalities report recoveries, others don't, and on the whole, reporting recoveries is low priority, even for those who do report them.

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Re:Germany's Coronavirus Death Rate Is Lower Than in Other C... by jacquesm on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @11:47PM (#22745441)
They are doing well enough that they confidently use their excess ICU capacity to help other countries.
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