QUESTION: US is testing less than 5k/million while S. Korea, Germany, Greenland, Hong Kong...

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12. A few things

Germans are mostly pretty good at following rules (with mixed results, if you look at their history in the last century). Also they have strict guidelines as to how they report things. If the guidelines say that someone can only have died of the virus if such and such conditions are fulfilled, then even if you DID die of the virus, if their strict rules say you didn't, then you didn't.

That's just the way they are here. When my daughter was in school here, she was marked wrong for solving math problems correctly, but not the exact way the teacher said she should. It would be typical if they said here that a fatality cannot be directly attributed to Coronavirus if it was due to "complications from" the virus.

On the other hand, they usually ARE meticulous about keeping their clinics clean, so I can imagine the number of people acquiring infections in clinics here might be lower than in places that have looser guidelines.