“In general, countries that test less and reserve it for those already very ill, like Italy, have higher fatality rates.” https://nytimes.com/2020/03/28/opinion/germany-coronavirus.html…
Italy tests the hospitalized. “And many more young people in Germany have tested positive for the virus than in other countries. In part, that’s attributable to the country’s more extensive testing.” And then you compare death rates? What did I miss?
Absolute death rates per capita. Rate of positives as an artifact of greater testing, and naive fatality rate are both irrelevant. High testing incidence is a sign of longer period in test-and-trace containment phase, so the conclusion that Germany is doing better is well founded