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by fabian2k 2249 days ago
As far as I've seen it, that response from him was in cases where people tried to simply use the rate of infection measured in Gangelt and apply that to the entirety of Germany. That is obviously invalid as Gangelt had a much larger outbreak than most places.

That doesn't mean that you can't learn anything from this study for the rest of the country, just that you can't extrapolate it naively.