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How does Germany keep the death count lower from corona than Italy?

What are the full stats and demographics? Or is it their healthcare system? Testing system? Just looking for helpful answers.
I would say its these points:
(1) the german healthcare system is actually not overrun. In italy, they have more patients than they can handle and put on breath machines. So if you cannot handle the patients number, you cannot do the best for all of them.

(2) germany does more testing, so the number of infected people is way more accurate. In germany they also test a lot of people with no or only slight symptoms, while in italy they dont have enough capacity to do that, also caused by the amount of really sick people. So I would guess the are testing "only" people which get into the clinic already more or less.

(3) in germany the average age of (confirmed) infected people is way lower.
Italy was the first. If Germany was first , they have the same results with Italy.
I dont know if it would be exactly the same, but surely not being the "first", but already having the news from italy helped.
Because Germans are more durable to common cold idiots!
The scientific reason is: In ww2, they killed millions of people. Eventually, Death was too scared to bother with germany, so they are immune to death.
italy's government is a lot more corrupt and their doctors don't put on their masks correctly(or so I heard)
I think that, as a society, Germany is more welcoming of such ideas as social distancing than Italy is due to cultural differences. To be fair, I was only in Italy for about two weeks (much less time than I have been in Germany), but from what I observed, Italians place a higher emphasis on social life than Germans, especially in Southern Italy.

Also, Italy is a more popular destination for tourists, which makes it harder to contain the spread of a disease.
Vee Cherrrmans haff vays to make ze covid Dizzappear...

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