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Switzerland relies heavily on the knowledge of other countries, such as Great Britain, says Salathé in an interview with the “Tages-Anzeiger”. It would be worthwhile to sequence many more samples and to determine more precisely which variants are occurring in Switzerland.
These findings would have to be combined with other contact tracing data. The following questions arose: Who infected whom and when? Does age or work affect the risk of infection? All this knowledge would be essential, but Switzerland does not have this information.
As long as contact tracing is inadequate, Switzerland will keep flying blind. “A pilot who only gets pixelated images from his night vision device every 15 minutes lives dangerously. It is exactly the same in the fight against the pandemic, ”said Salathé.
Behind digitization
He’s extremely depressed because Switzerland still has such poor data. The data infrastructure is old. When it comes to digitization, Switzerland is not the most progressive country, but it is about two decades behind.
Facing the development of the pandemic, Salathé once again points out that the virus will remain for the rest of life. When risk groups are vaccinated, much of the problem is already solved. If everyone who wanted to get vaccinated, normalcy could return to some extent. (SDA)
