![]() ![]() The German city of Aachen’s University Clinic, which has strong ties with the medical center affiliated with the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, has also pledged to cooperate should the need arise for more intensive care patients to be transported from Holland to Germany. And, in fact, this weekend two Dutch intensive care patients were transported to a hospital in Munster, Germany. Germany officials have said they’re prepared to accept Dutch Covid-19 patients. It has led to a situation in which the Netherlands now faces the real possibility of an impending shortage of intensive care units. Yet, thus far, the impact from Covid-19 in the Netherlands has been worse. Similarly, the numbers of patients in serious or critical condition have remained very low.īoth the German and Dutch healthcare systems are relatively well-funded, and score well internationally on population health indicators, such as life expectancy and morbidity. While the number of confirmed cases in Germany is large, partly due to its testing campaign, the case fatality rate and overall death toll have been relatively small, compared not only to the Netherlands, but also almost all other European nations. And, unlike Germany, the Dutch haven’t done widespread testing, so it’s likely its number of confirmed cases significantly underestimates the actual number of infections. The Netherlands, with a younger overall population and one that is almost 5 times smaller than Germany’s, has 60% more deaths. ![]() The confirmed case fatality rate in the Netherlands of over 7% stands in stark contrast to its neighbor Germany’s 0.7%. ![]()
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