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A new study shows that the federal government is acting in a similar way to the 1918 pandemic. The authors say it is clear which measures are effective. The study is a “wake-up call.”
The Spanish flu swept across the world in 1918: American soldiers quarantined in Kansas.
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Much was different compared to today, when the largest pandemic in recent history swept through Switzerland about 100 years ago, claiming 25,000 lives among the four million inhabitants at the time.
The parallels between the current corona pandemic and the powerless action of the authorities are even more staggering. It was discovered by a research team from the universities of Zurich and Toronto. The study just published in the journal “Annals of Internal Medicine” analyzed more than 120,000 flu cases from 500 municipalities in Bern that were reported to cantonal authorities during the Spanish flu between June 1918 and June 1919.
