FILE - In this March 9, 2020, file photo, Christian Drosten, left, virologist of the Charite hospital, and German Health Minister Jens Spahn, right, arrive for a press conference on the new coronavirus in Berlin, Germany. “The reason why we in Germany have so few deaths at the moment compared to the number of infected can be largely explained by the fact that we are doing an extremely large number of lab diagnoses," said Drosten, whose team developed the first test…
April 1, 2020
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Mass testing, empty ICUs: Germany scores early against virus
BERLIN (AP) — Late last year — long before most people had heard of the new coronavirus now sweeping the globe — scientists in Germany sprang into action to develop a test for the virus that was causing an unusual respiratory disease in central China.