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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s all about testing. Until we can do what Germany and South Korea have done we can’t open. [/quote]

Germany had one of the strictest lockdown restrictions of anywhere in Europe and still had the 3rd most cases in Europe, on par with France. The difference between these countries is the average age infected in S. Korea was in their 20s, Germany 49 and France 62. [/quote]

Nobody knows how many cases countries have because no country is testing everyone and there are a lot of asymptomatic carriers. Countries that do more testing find more cases. Germany’s death rate is much lower. 
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True, and more testing has been showing more positives without symptoms than previously thought, lowering the overall mortality rate, as you state above for Germany.

Also, per this NYT article,  and I've seen this elsewhere,  the avg age of those infected are resulting in significantly different mortality rates, like the difference between Italy and France versus Germany.

The average age of those infected is lower in Germany than in many other countries. Many of the early patients caught the virus in Austrian and Italian ski resorts and were relatively young and healthy, Professor Kräusslich said.

“It started as an epidemic of skiers,” he said.

As infections have spread, more older people have been hit and the death rate, only 0.2 percent two weeks ago, has risen, too. But the average age of contracting the disease remains relatively low, at 49. In France, it is 62.5 and in Italy 62, according to their latest national reports.[/quote]

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