{"id":334457,"date":"2020-04-09T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/he-who-seeks-more-finds\/"},"modified":"2020-04-09T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T01:00:00","slug":"he-who-seeks-more-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/he-who-seeks-more-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"He who seeks (more) finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The number of new infections is a key indicator of a possible easing of the lockdown &#8211; it just needs to be interpreted correctly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The number of new COVID-19 infections is a key indicator of whether the lockdown should be relaxed or continue at its current level after April 19.<\/p>\n<p>However, the numbers of newly infected persons published by the FOPH can only be correctly assessed in relation to the SARS-CoV-2 tests performed per time unit. Out of 150,000 tests performed so far, approximately 21,000 tests have been returned as &#8220;positive&#8221;. In international comparison, Switzerland carries out many tests, in the meantime also within the framework of home or drive-in testing. Therefore, assuming that more and more corona tests are performed per day, the alleged &#8220;stable number&#8221; of newly infected persons (ca 1000\/day) would de facto be an actual relative decrease of newly infected persons (=calming).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the economic consequences of the continuation of the current lockdown, there is currently also a great danger in Switzerland that non-COVID-19 patients will be medically under-cared for, and this despite the fact that the majority of Swiss hospitals are currently 50-70% empty and the associated medical staff have nothing to do.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prof. Dr. med Paul Mohacsi, eMBA UZH, Herrliberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\">\u00a9 NZZ<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of new infections is a key indicator of a possible easing of the lockdown &#8211; it just needs to be interpreted correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":95801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","cat_1_feature_home_top":false,"cat_2_editor_pick":false,"csco_eyebrow_text":"Letter to the editor","footnotes":""},"category":[11406,11500,11455,11548],"tags":[],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"class_list":["post-334457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-infectiology","category-news-en","category-pneumology","category-rx-en","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 05:45:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":{"fr_FR":{"locale":"fr_FR","id":334464,"slug":"qui-cherche-plus-trouve","post_title":"Qui cherche (plus) trouve","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/fr\/qui-cherche-plus-trouve\/"},"it_IT":{"locale":"it_IT","id":334471,"slug":"chi-cerca-di-piu-trova","post_title":"Chi cerca (di pi\u00f9) trova","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/it\/chi-cerca-di-piu-trova\/"},"pt_PT":{"locale":"pt_PT","id":334478,"slug":"aquele-que-procura-mais-encontra","post_title":"Aquele que procura (mais) encontra","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/pt-pt\/aquele-que-procura-mais-encontra\/"},"es_ES":{"locale":"es_ES","id":334488,"slug":"el-que-busca-mas-encuentra","post_title":"El que busca (m\u00e1s) encuentra","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/es\/el-que-busca-mas-encuentra\/"}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=334457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334457"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=334457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}