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Covid-19: Why Germany’s case fatality rate seems so low

Ned Stafford

2020BMJ116 citationsDOI

Abstract

Germany has the third highest number of coronavirus cases in Europe, but deaths are relatively few when compared with neighbouring countries. Ned Stafford explains why

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