Early predictions were wrong, a provocative film shows. Also Sweden's criticized state epidemiologist comes to the floor. Let's start with the voices that set the tone at the time: "I would be very happy if I and all the other experts were totally wrong. Unfortunately, the probability is very small. [...]
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Let's start with the voices that set the tone at the time: "I would be very happy if I and all the other experts were totally wrong. Unfortunately, the probability is very small." That's what the Bernese epidemiology Christian Althaus said at the end of February 2020 to the "NZZ". Althaus proclaimed that "the mortality [to Covid-19] is about one percent." Without countermeasures, this could therefore have meant for Switzerland: about 30-000 Coro…