Earlier this week, Germany became one of the first countries to start easing COVID-19 restrictions. That's because its initial response to the pandemic helped keep the death rate low. Germany:
- Caught the coronavirus early
- Does lots of testing
- Has a robust health care system.
As the pressure mounts to reopen economies across the globe, other countries may have something to learn. On this episode of The Dose, Michael Laxy, a health economics researcher at the Helmholtz Center in Munich, talks about the German approach.
