Better medical equipment, early testing, and younger patients are some of the explanations for Germany’s low COVID-19 death rates.
EuroNews mentions another possible factor: No post-mortem tests.
Quoting from David Courbe, “Dissecting Germany’s low coronavirus death rate” Agence France-Presse (AFP):
Another explanation cited by Italian experts, could be that Germany, unlike other countries, tends not to test those who have already died.
“We don’t consider post-mortem tests to be a decisive factor. We work on the principle that patients are tested before they die,” the [disease control agency Robert Koch Institute (RKI)] told AFP.
That means that if a person dies in quarantine at home and does not go to hospital, there is a high chance they will not be included in the statistics, as Giovanni Maga of Italy’s National Research Council pointed out in an interview with Euronews.