It's simply the amount of tests done. The instruction here was: stay at home and if it's really bad directly call the hospital... There's hardly middle cases.
Globally i think it spread more in latine european countries, Germany made more tests but France has probably much more real cases.

As simple as that. Thus I'm noticing your emergency cases increased drastically in the very last days, isnt it ?

For the last 4 days NY has been testing more per capita than anywhere in the world. Admission rates is something that has been constant across the globe. Either you aren’t testing enough, or Germans are the healthiest demographic in the world. My wife would be happy to think it’s the latter haha. Iirc even S. Korea had hospitalization rate of ~10%

It doesn't matter if you know some people who anecdotally couldn't get a test in Germany. The testing is far worse in pretty much every other country which is the only thing that matters if you're looking to compare with other countries.



We're doing 7000 tests a day and the government haven't got a clue. We were actively pursuing a strategy of herd immunity until 3 weeks ago so there's no extra PPE, ventilators or testing kits available. Like you said in a roundabout way, the NHS is pretty shit too, from a result of chronic underfunding.

The amounts of tests affects the case fatality rate. Which is highly skewed by the testing regimes, which vary wildly between countries. But I was talking about the actual number of deaths, since that's a metric which shouldnt be as skewed. And on this metric, Germany is doing suspiciously well compared to almost anyone else.


Our hospitals have been filling up in recent days, but there are still enough capacities open for our own people; we even flew in a few emergency cases from France and Italy; into less affected regions of our country where we're confident we wont need the beds for another 3 weeks or so.
One thing to keep in mind is that deaths are lagging behind the infection numbers by around 10 or so days, and the reported infection numbers lag the actual infection events by another 10 or so days on average iirc.

The amount of tests is a controllable thing, and i can tell you the French government first tried to not make too much tests, especially on suspicious cases who were properly instructed, even ordered, to stay at home.
The amount of deaths is not relevant at this stage, this is an exponential formula and you know the final results, you have the global picture, only several weeks after the pike is done. Just before the pseudo-provoked second wave - and here we have an ethical problem.

Some countries applied containment early enough while not having much cases, i guess Germany is one of these. Secondary factors are then: are only essential workers working etc...? Even promiscuity habits.

There's others factors incoming; like in US it will be the layer of people who are simply badly covered, so the pike may continue or not lower enough, relatively.

/nb: anyone could write what i wrote above, simple logic, btw i have to confess France delayed its official results by 24h for some reason... We have second largest criticals, not sure if they are really critical or if it's because we take care of our people more than others.

or if critical have a different meaning here


/nb2: i would not be surprised if Germany decided to "trick" things too, each one doing it following their manners: bluff, manipulation, censorship...etc. Diversity.

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Mar 31 2020 05:42pm

I had no idea. Can you take deep breaths and/or hold them?

I worry this bug will kill me. I'm not necessarily old enough to really worry about it, but I have a mild heart condition that may not handle fluid pressure pushing on the lungs.

Sure, there were only 2 days (on day II and day XII, strangely) where I felt that this infection was affecting my lungs. But I could always take deep breaths and also hold them.

In general, this was a very weird infection curve. No fever, no pain in the joints, no running nose, only a dry and tenacious cough. On the first two days, I also had the typical feeling of sickness that you get during a viral infection. In general this thing came in waves. A good day followed a bad day, a couple of hours with nothing going on at all were followed by a couple of hours of persistent coughing, etc. The most strange thing was that the worst days came only 2 weeks in, last friday and saturday, on days XII and XIII of the disease.

I'm in my early 30s with no pre-condtions though, so the progression I had probably falls on the more severe side for someone with my demographic parameters.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 31 2020 06:03pm

The commander of the "USS Theodore Roosevelt" claims the right to evacuate the crew. Several dozen sailors are said to be infected with the virus.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/31/politics/trump-white-house-guidelines-coronavirus/index.html

200 thousand deaths they say. I have a funny feeling it will end up being substantially less and Trump will claim his actions stopped the 200 + death toll.

Glad you are okay!