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Federal President Guy Parmelin says that Switzerland has one of the oldest populations in the world. That could explain the pandemic deaths. Both are not true.
No, Mr. Federal President, the high average age of the Swiss population is not a good excuse.
Photo: Melanie Duchene (Keystone)
Does Switzerland have a particularly high number of corona deaths because its population is particularly older? Federal Councilor Guy Parmelin (SVP) suspects that. Asked by “SonntagsBlick” why the death rate is particularly high in a European comparison, said the new federal president: «Today we do not know what the reasons are. In two or three years we will make a global balance: What explanations are there for the excess mortality? Our population is one of the oldest in the world, does that matter? “
Parmelin is right when he assumes that an older population has a higher risk of contracting the coronavirus than a younger one. 98 out of 100 deaths in the pandemic affect people 60 years of age and older. Of the roughly 7,200 deaths that Switzerland has suffered so far in the pandemic, only 147 are under the age of 60.
