Serious question about coronavirus testing

Another difference could be how they report deaths. What is actually a “coronavirus” death?

We are seeing that in Louisiana right now.

I think Germany is qualifying their deaths differently. If someone has a preexisting condition, they are using that as cause of death instead of corona.

To clarify my previous post they might tell you in Italy to not even seek out a test unless your symptoms are pretty significant.

Germany on the other hand might be testing more mild cases in addition to the serious ones

More likely to pick up the infections that are mild and moderate that people thought were something else. Also more asymptomatic positive cases tested due to possible contact or some other reason. Rate is a % of infected totals. Increase those and rate goes down, but not necessarily actual deaths.

With early testing part due to high testing numbers (don't have to ration to just test most likely and most sick) you also are more likely to catch early enough to hopefully avoid mistreating as something else, and you stop more infected including mild and asymptomatic and beginning symptoms from infecting others but especially those with other conditions that are more likely to die from virus (as without test they don't know they have it or think it's a cold or allergies at first).

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My question is why does early testing help? If you’ve got the virus, you got the virus. Test or no test.

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I think this relates to undetected community spread and not knowing the number of infected individuals. A rigorous early testing program could possibly lead to more severe distancing and quarantining programs. It is to get the infected out of the population and quarantined before they can pass it along. I have no idea if this is the reason Germany has lower death rates. I suspect it has nothing to do with the genetics of Germans versus Italians.