A question about Corona Virus Mortality Rates in Europe

Mar 16, 2020
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How come Germany has roughly 3-1/2 times the confirmed number of cases than the UK - but 1/3 of the deaths?
That equates to about 1/10 the death rate in the UK.
Why?
 

SHaines

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Since things are still happening on a rapid timeline (a lot of the deaths in Italy happened in a 24 hour period) so there will need to be more research by medical professionals before we can say with certainty. Once that research is done, we'll share it to the forums.
 
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A lot depends on who and how much is tested in the respective countries. Differences can be seen in the statistics (by age, number of hospitalized, etc.)

A leading German virologist believes that Germany recognized his outbreak very early and tested a lot.

The transcripts of his podcasts can be found here:

You just have to have them machine-translated.
For example you can find something on the first page of Podcast 11,