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In this March 26, 2020 photo, a dummy doll lies on a bed of the newly opened intensive care unit of the Vivantes Humboldt Clinic in the Reinickendorf district in Berlin, Germany. Labs were quick to ramp up their testing capacity and now experts say up to 500,000 tests can be conducted in Germany per week. That quick work, coupled with the country's large number of intensive care unit beds and its early implementation of social distancing measures, could be behind Germany's relatively low death toll. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

In this March 26, 2020 photo, a dummy doll lies on a bed of the newly opened intensive care unit of the Vivantes Humboldt Clinic in the Reinickendorf district in Berlin, Germany. Labs were quick to ramp up their testing capacity and now experts say up to 500,000 tests can be conducted in Germany per week. That quick work, coupled with the country's large number of intensive care unit beds and its early implementation of social distancing measures, could be behind Germany's r…

April 1, 2020

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Mass testing, empty ICUs: Germany scores early against virus
April 1, 2020 5:05 a.m.

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.