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Sends people in earlier so they wont be as ill? WTAF.

As in instead of asking people to stay at home and ride it out.

You can give them oxygen earlier, rather than wait until they are already struggling to breathe

Send people in earlier so they wont be as ill? WTAF.

First part of https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/world/europe/germany-coronavirus-death-rate.html

They call them corona taxis: Medics outfitted in protective gear,
driving around the empty streets of Heidelberg to check on patients
who are at home, five or six days into being sick with the
coronavirus.

They take a blood test, looking for signs that a patient is about to
go into a steep decline. They might suggest hospitalization, even to a
patient who has only mild symptoms; the chances of surviving that
decline are vastly improved by being in a hospital when it begins.

Also covers the discssuon above on number of people tested..

Another explanation for the low fatality rate is that Germany has been
testing far more people than most nations. That means it catches more
people with few or no symptoms, increasing the number of known cases,
but not the number of fatalities.