(Y its so hard to get tested here) In USA IF MORE PEOPLE GOT TESTED WE WOULD FIND OUT THIS IS A SERIOUS FLU EPIDEMIC "Why Germany's Coronavirus Death Rate Is So Low ...other words, while Germany is a relatively rich, healthy country, there is no reason why its death rate from COVID-19 should be a fraction of what it is in other similarly rich, healthy countries. What differs is measurement. And part of the reason testing was more effective in Germany is that it was decentralized. Independent labs have been doing the testing, without the direction of a central bureaucracy.."