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Germany and UK COVID-19 response compared:

Ventilators
🇩🇪: 25k, with 10k on order
🇬🇧: 5k, plus a Twitter shout-out

Tests per week
🇩🇪: 160k
🇬🇧: 35k

Social distancing
🇩🇪: Social venues closed
🇬🇧: ‘Advice’ to socially distance

Deaths
🇩🇪: 48
🇬🇧: 144
Source for stats on German testing and ventilators here: ft.com/content/c0755b…
Stats on UK testing from here: gov.uk/government/new…
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