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Germany tested more and tested earlier. This allowed Germany to look into the future, nothing more.

If you look at the increase in deaths it’s pretty obvious that Germany is now catching up fast.

Testing alone obviously doesn’t do anything against the epidemic so it still remains to be seen whether everything that happened besides testing helped and whether the time won through being able to look into the future was used well.



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