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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 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?

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I 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...

Oh well, so we had at least 2 countries counting COVID cases by fax. 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).

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