id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-027027-2vxnmiyj Schartau, Patricia Male mortality and the German response: lessons from COVID‐19 2020-06-04 .txt text/plain 2040 106 58 The current COVID‐19 outbreak has raised many questions, amongst them the higher mortality rates in men and the low overall mortality rates in Germany compared to other European countries. Over time this was confirmed by data collected by Global Health 50/50 (May 6th) in countries that had a high COVID-19 caseload; with death rates of 62% men and 38% women in Italy, 58% and 42% (respectively) in Spain, and 80% and 20% (respectively) in Greece. In the next section, we will move to discuss how governmental and public The current COVID-19 outbreak has raised many questions, amongst them the higher mortality rates in men and the low overall mortality rates in Germany compared to other European countries. 5 As it happens, one of the authors (PS) of this article was in the small town of Landsberg for a meeting on the day when Germany's first COVID-19 case was recorded there: the patient was a male who worked for a company that has two car plants in Wuhan in China. ./cache/cord-027027-2vxnmiyj.txt ./txt/cord-027027-2vxnmiyj.txt