Due to the careful planning of the German government, the intensive care units (ICUs) have not been overly stressed. In March, a register of ICUs was established by the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine and RKI and information was reported daily since April 16. The data showed a long-term trend of sufficient ICU capacity, and thus the government passed a law on May 14 providing free ICU care to patients from other EU countries

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In order for the health cares system to efficiently deal with the surging cases and provide the best treatment, two factors needed to be considered:
- Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)

Germany's effort to treat Covid-19

Our World in Data. 2020. Emerging COVID-19 Success Story: Germany’S Strong Enabling Environment. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar-germany    
   Accessed 14 July 2020.

Emerging COVID-19 success story: Germany’s strong enabling environment

Germany's Management on Intensive Care Units

Germany was less successful in the management of supplies of PPE and the government not only had to launch a crisis team to centrally procure PPE, they also had to ban the export of all PPE on March 4. There were still shortages, however,  leading to a protest by health care providers on April 27

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