How Germany Leveraged Digital Health to Combat COVID19 -

If you take a look at the number of novel coronavirus cases, you will notice that Germany ranks among the top in terms of most cases. Now, if you take a closer look, you will see that the number of fatal cases in the country is merely a fraction of the total cases. Their mortality rate has been consistently lower than that of those nations sharing a similarly high number of confirmed cases like China, Italy and Spain.

How does Germany manage those numbers? The truth is that even experts aren’t sure. “We don’t know the reason for the lower death rate,” Marieke Degen, deputy spokeswoman of Germany’s Robert Koch Institute (RKI), told Vox.

However, there might be several factors contributing to the country’s successful management of the pandemic. Early tests, transparent communication, a well-prepared health IT infrastructure and digital health differentiated Germany’s approach from that of other countries.