{"id":103583,"date":"2020-03-10T19:44:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T02:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/experts-rapid-testing-helps-explain-few-german-virus-deaths"},"modified":"2020-03-10T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T02:44:13","slug":"experts-rapid-testing-helps-explain-few-german-virus-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/experts-rapid-testing-helps-explain-few-german-virus-deaths","title":{"rendered":"Experts: Rapid testing helps explain few German virus deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experts-rapid-testing-helps-explain-few-german-virus-deaths2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Germany has confirmed more than 1,100 cases of the new coronavirus but \u2014 so far \u2014 just two deaths, far fewer than other European countries with a similar number of reported infections.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said Monday that rapid testing as the outbreak unfolded meant Germany has probably diagnosed a much larger proportion of those who have been infected, including younger patients who are less likely to develop serious complications.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s given authorities more chance of containing the virus, and more time to prepare for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Germany has confirmed more than 1,100 cases of the new coronavirus but \u2014 so far \u2014 just two deaths, far fewer than other European countries with a similar number of reported infections. Experts said Monday that rapid testing as the outbreak unfolded meant Germany has probably diagnosed a much larger proportion of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}