There's a lot of information we still don't have about COVID-19.
If you’re standing in Germany, the coronavirus pandemic might look a little bit less overwhelming than if you’re standing in, say, Italy or the United States. Germany’s coronavirus mortality rate is among the lowest in the world ― 1.4% as of Saturday ― while Italy’s is a shocking 9.4% and the U.S. is standing at 2.7%.The answer, like the coronavirus crisis itself, is complicated.
There are also different ways to define “mortality rate,” Dr. Daniel Diekema, director of the University of Iowa’s Division of Infectious Diseases, told HuffPost. Some researchers define it as the number of deaths over the number of people who were sick enough to require hospitalization. Another way to look at it is the number of deaths compared to the total number of people who actually got infected ― a number that is impossible to know.
How people in a country or city responded to the virus — and how quickly they mobilized — affects the mortality rate, too.back in January. By February, the country was testing aggressively to identify cases even in people who weren’t showing symptoms, allowing them to quarantine efficiently and squash the virus.and its residents were initially reluctant to stay at home to prevent the spread of the virus.
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