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cord-310996-ihs9xbv8	Stang, Andreas	Characteristics of COVID-19 pandemic and public health consequences	2020-04-24		.txt	text/plain	851	62	60	It has been speculated that the total number of COVID-infected people is about five times higher than the official statistics. Due to the changing availability of corona testing and the changing conditions that must be met in order to test a suspected case of corona in Germany, the evaluation of the devel-opment of the daily number of newly confirmed corona infections is complicated. A review of 355 COVID-19 deaths in Italy showed that the mean age at diagnosis was 79.5 years (SD: 8.1) and 70% were male. However, as soon as the daily number of newly infected people decreases ("flatteningofthe curve")asiscurrentlythe case in Germany (. Fig. 1b, c) , age-, sex-, comorbidity-, region-, and setting-specific data on the infection rate and CF should help to set up targeted, that is, risk-adapted measures to contain the pandemic without severely restricting the entire economy and social life [3] .	./cache/cord-310996-ihs9xbv8.txt	./txt/cord-310996-ihs9xbv8.txt