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In Germany, comparatively more people now die from or in connection with Corona than in the US and this despite the fact that many more people in the US are infected with the virus. That comes from figures from the US Johns Hopkins University, which represent the average of the last seven days.
For every 1 million inhabitants in the US, about 750 people were infected on Wednesday, in Germany it was just a little less than a third of them. In a comparison of the countries of the European Union, Germany is below the average, which is more than 300.
However, in terms of death rates, Germany is ahead of the United States and is approaching 11 deaths per million inhabitants. In the US, as of Wednesday, just over 10 people per day die from or in connection with Corona. Only last week Germany surpassed the United States. Now there is more than ever. Here Germany is well above the EU average of around 7.5.
The death rate per confirmed corona case is now higher in Germany than in the US At the beginning of the week, 2.2 percent of infections in this country ended fatally, in the United States it was 1.7 percent. .
In terms of deaths per million inhabitants, Germany is now among the worst affected countries. Only Great Britain and the four EU countries, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Portugal are most affected. The British registered the highest number of deaths per million inhabitants in the last seven days with 23.1.
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The high mortality rate could also be related to the age distribution. The trend is clear: people who died from or in connection with Corona in Germany are older than in the US According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), 96 percent of those who died in Germany are over 60 years old, and just under 70 percent are over 80.
In the US, four out of five corona deaths are over the age of 65, but only 60 percent are over the age of 75. This is based on figures from the US health authority CDC.
US President Donald Trump has come under heavy criticism in recent weeks and months for his handling of the corona pandemic. Sometimes he compared it to the flu. After his electoral defeat in November, there was more criticism, as he was dealing with legal measures against him and not with the worsening situation of the crown in the US.
The concentration of countries in Europe, where by comparison more people die from or in connection with Corona, could be related to the fact that the much more aggressive mutant Corona is rampant there. Another interesting detail in this regard: in the EU, the seven-day incidence is still well below that of the US.
The fact that the US has significantly more confirmed infections, but fewer deaths in comparison, may also be explained by the fact that significantly more tests are performed in the US. In recent days there was an average of four tests per 1000 inhabitants, in Germany it was slightly more than one test per 1000 inhabitants.
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Therefore, the proportion of positive tests in the total number gives a better idea of the infection rate and corresponds to the mortality rate. Because the so-called positive rate in Germany at the beginning of the year was just as slightly higher than that in the US as the number of people who died from or in connection with Corona: in Germany it was 16.1 percent in early January , in the US 15 percent.
The positive rate in Germany has never been higher before, in the US it was well above 20 percent. In Germany, the rate fell this week, according to RKI data, again below 13 percent, a US comparison value not yet available for this week.
Due to the respective situation, both countries are trying to accelerate their vaccination campaigns. The United States, which was vaccinating nine million of its 328 million residents as of Tuesday, is now gradually injecting the vaccine into everyone 65 and older. In Germany, where only just under 690,000 people have been vaccinated, it will be a while until then; after all, millions of doses of vaccines have recently been ordered from Biontech and Pfizer.
