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> Famously - or rather notoriously, during the pandemic local German health authorities faxed case numbers and other relevant data to federal authorities, which
by ale42 2y ago
> Famously - or rather notoriously, during the pandemic local German health authorities faxed case numbers and other relevant data to federal authorities, which led to massively delayed response times and a general unavailability of dependable, actionable data.
Wasn't this in Switzerland? Or did it happen ALSO in Germany?
- BjoernKW 2y agoI don't know about Switzerland, but this very famously was known to be the case in Germany: https://www.dw.com/en/german-health-care-tackling-covid-with-paper-pen-and-a-fax-machine/a-56360491 https://www.dw.com/en/german-health-care-tackling-covid-with...
- ale42 2y agoOh well, so we had at least 2 countries counting COVID cases by fax. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/crunching-the-numbers_why-switzerland-struggles-to-keep-track-of-coronavirus-cases/45628604 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/crunching-the-numbers_w... (couldn't find a better source, I think they even ended up weighing fax piles to count cases, but I'd like to verify that as it might as well be an urban legend).