what to do now

The Covid-pandemic of the 19th century may not have been the biggest Pandemicsince the bird flu virusH5N1) is distributed worldwide and has already spread to other animals such as minks and seals. Director of the Institute of Virology and Immunology (St.IV), Barbara Wieland, has already alerted the cantonal doctors and medical professionals and will keep them informed. She said we can bird flu pandemic speak.”

The only question is what exactly will happen if the virus spreads to us? How would the authorities behave this time? Wait, watch and calm down – that was the motto of Covid-19 when the first reports came in from Wuhan and Bergamo. It wasn’t very successful. With over 13,000 deaths, we have had comparatively significantly more deaths than, for example, Germany. However, in general, now you can hear that things are “going well” with us. Finally, all the party leaders praised – with the exception of the President of the Green Party, Balthazar. smooth – Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) on the occasion of the SRF Arena broadcast. However, not everyone shares this opinion. The people, communes and cantons have the right and the interest to know what lessons FOPH has learned from the last three pandemic years pulled out and what’s with the new Pandemic in fact it would be different.

Careful processing Pandemic were important

It would be extremely important to carefully analyze the Covid-19 pandemic. First separated technically by the national committee of virologists and epidemiologists and then through politics. Who are the federal government’s official statements during Pandemic followed, it did not escape attention that important key information was not communicated to the population in advance or was not communicated to the population at all.

The fact that aerosols are involved in the transmission, that Long Covid can develop, that the vaccinated can also be carriers, that FFP2 masks protect especially well – all this became known very late or did not exist at all. The misleading masquerade ballad circulated by the higher authorities must also be dealt with. A serious professional review led by experts would be an extremely important first step. When their report is available, politicians will be required, notably the BAG, the health commissions of the two chambers, and finally the Federal Council. This would have a confidence-building effect and would therefore be very useful from a political point of view.

If you don’t take precautions you will be left behind

effects Pandemic but go on. In addition to some 6,000 long-standing cases of Covid, there is also a significant excess mortality of about 15 percent. But are worried. At the moment, no one seems to feel responsible for addressing these two important issues. But this is unacceptable. To dispel suspicions that vaccines are to blame, one could find out whether vaccinated people who are not sick with Covid are also susceptible to excess mortality.

Clarification of all these and many other questions requires personnel and knowledge. pandemics come very quickly and expand very quickly. Therefore, speed and good preparation are crucial. It’s important to create clarity about what’s really important. Three goals are of paramount importance: preventing death and serious illness, not overburdening the health care system, and preventing serious long-term consequences. The institution or group of experts will have to constantly deal with this problem through data processing. It might be helpful if we get another one Pandemic chase. Nobody wants to panic, but good preparation is needed. After Chernobyl, we were in a pretty good position, because we had an institute specializing in nuclear problems, the AU Center in Spitz BE, and we had AS specialists in the army who could immediately initiate measurements.

Why pandemic center would be a logical step

BAG is here pandemics and epidemics over 130 years ago. From a historical point of view, working with them is the central task of this office, that is, linking facts to political decision-making processes. Even then it was clear that this pandemics could only happen at the national level. We also recently voted for the Epidemic Law and the people passed it, so we don’t have different cantonal laws. Therefore, there will be pandemic center only logical so that specific experts with a network (Switzerland and worldwide) can also contribute directly and quickly. Thus, the BAG was able to perform its main task very well, namely to have the facts to prepare decisions at the political level.

* Hans Rudolf Olpe – honorary member medical Faculty of the University of Basel, Bertino-Somaini doctor, public Health Expert and former Deputy Director BAG

Source: Blick