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Originally Posted by Hugh
Seriously - of all the arguments you could have put forward on the things Germany have got wrong about the COVID pandemic (and, like most countries, there have been quite a few), you went with the one where in fact our COVID death rate is much higher than theirs?
Germany, population 84 million, COVID deaths 72,000 (1 in 1177)
U.K., population 68 million, COVID deaths 123,000 (1 in 553)
Our COVID death rate is more than twice Germany’s...
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Misleading figures of course. What is the comparative death rate for the number of hospitalisations?
Plenty of countries will have lower death rates, but they will tend to be ones that had a LOWER number of infections and hospitalisations in the first place.