RE: Captain Sir Tom Moore2 Feb 2021 21:13
Germany has less than half the deaths of UK. I am sure they record their deaths similar to UK.
It is believed that Germany’s relatively low covid-19 fatality rate can be attributed partly to the nation’s early and high level of of guess what........TESTING among a wide sample of the German population. While other countries were conducting a limited number of tests of older patients with severe cases of the virus, Germany was conducting many more tests that included milder cases in younger people.
The more tests are performed, the more likely it is that new cases will be found, and the higher total case numbers are relative to the proportion of cases that lead to death. Thus, the fatality rate decreases as this ratio widens.
Whatever your views of the stats I am sure we all agree that TESTING is a critical step to getting on top of this virus. The UK are behind on this but hopefully will now ramp up testing as the penny slowly and painfully drops.