What Germany is doing right to fight the coronavirus

Germany, the most populated country in the European Union, has one of the lowest coronavirus death rates. It has 24% fewer confirmed COVID-19 cases per capita than the U.S.

By Jackeline Luna,

Maggie Beidelman

April 19, 2020 12:28 PM PT

Germany has one of the lowest coronavirus case fatality rates. While 50 out of every 1,000 people with confirmed infections in the U.S. have died, in Germany it’s only 26 per 1,000.

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Jackeline Luna

Jackeline Luna is a senior producer for video series. Before joining the Los Angeles Times, she interned for Politico, ABC7 and the Mercury News. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a master’s in journalism in May 2018.

Maggie Beidelman

Maggie Beidelman is a senior video director focusing on the L.A. Times’ YouTube channel. Before joining the Los Angeles Times, Beidelman helped launch AJ+, the digital media channel of Al Jazeera Media Network, where she produced the award-winning series “Untold America.” Beidelman has her master’s in documentary film from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

What Germany is doing right to fight the coronavirus

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