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Other than the number of cases, a key metric is ICU load. There's a good visualisation here https://covid.visium.ch/ https://covid.visium.ch/ ... the peak ICU l
by harryf 6y ago
Other than the number of cases, a key metric is ICU load. There's a good visualisation here https://covid.visium.ch/ https://covid.visium.ch/ ... the peak ICU load at the end of March / early April was 62% (the source of this data is described here: https://github.com/schoolofdata-ch/swiss-hospital-data https://github.com/schoolofdata-ch/swiss-hospital-data ) ... in other words hospitals weren't overloaded the way they were in Italy for example.
IMO some of the main reasons for that were;
- Switzerland has an effective / working healthcare system
- Personal health is taken pretty seriously; there's a general emphasis on fitness and good diet - Switzerland has one of the lowest obesity rates in Europe for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Switzerland
- Measures like shutting schools and working from home were implemented pretty quickly at the beginning of March.
- As a whole people behaved sensibly. Advice from the government was taken. There was no panic but largely people adapted to the new situation very quickly
- Finally, in general, the social systems works well here. There aren't large numbers of homeless and most people furloughed or who lost their job will have received at least 80% of their normal salary, so you don't have large numbers of people living in unhealthy conditions that would help a virus spread
- mattmanser 6y agoAs far as I know here in the UK we never went above 60%, and yet still had lots of deaths, so how is this a key metric?
- Arnt 6y agoThere are others factors... obesity has been mentioned many times and might be part of the answer to your question, so I looked at the Wikipedia link posted and see that Switzerland has Europe's lowest obesity rate. The UK, OTOH: "Obesity in the United Kingdom is a significant contemporary health concern, with authorities stating that it is one of the leading preventable causes of death."
- ben_w 6y agoThe various NHS Nightingale hospitals have a distinctly Potempkin feeling to them, given how few patients went into the London one before it was dismantled. I doubt the value of statistics distributed by the UK government.
- ekianjo 6y ago> - Personal health is taken pretty seriously; there's a general emphasis on fitness and good diet - Switzerland has one of the lowest obesity rates in Europe for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Switzerland That's also reflected on how insurance companies work and incentivize personal health in Switzerland, too.
- huhtenberg 6y ago> As a whole people behaved sensibly. Switzerland has its fair share of non-compliant idiots, but the share is historically smaller than in other countries and the country itself is small. So the idiots don't create enough of critical mass to make it appears as an "alternative norm" and they end up sticking out as exceptions. That said, there was a considerable push back to the closure of restaurants and bars. In the end, they HAD to be closed formally, because simple pleas for behaving responsibly and not congregating into larger groups did not work well. Especially on Fridays. But once a law is in place, it is generally observed and not questioned.
- 082349872349872 6y agoI didn't mind the idiots so much (here they were playing "foot sauvage"). What bothers me is that SRF2 was reporting untraceable fake news left by voicemail — which were in Züritüütsch. I'd have thought that would have been too small a demographic to be worth targeting? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow9qf5DgrVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow9qf5DgrVI