How Germany's Approach to COVID-19 Sets the Country Apart

01/05/2020 21 min Episodio 40
How Germany's Approach to COVID-19 Sets the Country Apart

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Episode Synopsis

Earlier this week, Germany became one of the first countries to start easing COVID-19 restrictions. That's because its initial response to the pandemic helped keep the death rate low. Germany: Caught the coronavirus early Does lots of testing Has a robust health care system. As the pressure mounts to reopen economies across the globe, other countries may have something to learn. On this episode of The Dose, Michael Laxy, a health economics researcher at the Helmholtz Center in Munich, talks about the German approach.