"In addition, Saarland is a special case as half of the deaths, unlike in the other German states, occurred in only a few long-term care facilities where a high number of people were infected in a short time and all deaths during the episode were attributed to Corona without autopsies being made."
to be fair he is merely quoting recent studies done by Stanford, Oxford, the CDC and elsewhere. the CFR is looking more and more like it will shake out to be similar to a bad seasonal flu with a skew toward the elderly and leaving children basically unaffected.