Overview of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe, presented by mortality rate (as of April 27, 2020). However, since the mortality rate is primarily determined by regional testing habits/quantities, the numbers should be interpreted with caution; Only a complete count of the number of unreported cases would provide clarity here. However, it can be assumed that the special path that Sweden was willing to take must be questioned; likewise the health care situation in some other European countries, which – at least as far as the mortality rate, which should be assessed with caution – perform much worse. The task of health services research would now be to find out why this is in detail: about access and availability (here especially medical specialists, hospital beds, intensive care beds and ventilators, etc.) of care, the quality of the same, hospitalization rate, etc. In Germany this is likely to be the case Mortality, as in many other European countries shown here, is around a tenth if the number of unreported cases is taken into account. But no one yet knows the population to which the lethality is based. The exception is Austria.

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