I'm not sure there's any magic to it - countries that are testing a very large proportion of their population are seeing much lower death rates. Still high, but I think it's a matter of case identification more than anythinghttps://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/1241863954785169409 …
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For example, Germany has run roughly 2 tests for every 1,000 people in the country with a crude CFR of 0.4% The UK has run less than half the number of tests per person, and the crude CFR is 4.9%
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As ever, when looking at rates of things in a population, the DENOMINATOR is what matters most!
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I'd make a graph of this by country, but the information on number of tests is so sparse and patchy that I think best not
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