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Corona crisis: mask statements by the doctor's president cause an uproar - Söder's government: "Fake News"

2020-10-23T07:33:59.825Z


Federal Medical Association President Klaus Reinhardt publicly questions the effectiveness of everyday masks. The anger is not only great in the State Chancellery. There is resistance in his own organization too.


Federal Medical Association President Klaus Reinhardt publicly questions the effectiveness of everyday masks.

The anger is not only great in the State Chancellery.

There is resistance in his own organization too.

  • In the

    Corona crisis

    , the mask has long since become a daily companion.

  • But now the President of the

    Medical Association

    doubts

    the usefulness of mouth and nose protection in a TV broadcast.

  • After much criticism, a statement from his company follows.

Munich - Markus Lanz's voice goes up.

“Seriously now?” Asks the ZDF talker.

His guest

Klaus Reinhardt

has just

explained to him that he is “not convinced” of the so-called

everyday masks

that tens of millions of Germans

wear

every day

because of the

corona pandemic *

- not least because they have to when they travel, work or want to go out to eat .

There is "no actual

scientific evidence

(...) that they are actually helpful," said Reinhardt.

"Least of all in

self-protection

and probably very little in the protection of infecting others."

None of this would be unusual.

After all, Reinhardt is not the first physician to

question

whether the mask requirement

makes

sense

.

Only none of the others were president of the German Medical Association.

President of the Medical Association on masks: Will not allow himself to be instrumentalized in the “mask war”

The

highest-ranking German medical officer continues to speak of

a

“masking requirement”

in the course of the program.

In tight spaces “I want to put up with that,” says Reinhardt.

He also does not want to become the "figurehead of the mask

opponents"

or be

instrumentalized in the "mask war"

.

But it could be too late for that at this moment.

"The way you have just expressed yourself can at least be

misunderstood,

" says Lanz.

This fear is also harbored in the Bavarian State Chancellery.

"It is more than irritating when a senior representative of the medical profession

uses

irresponsible corona denier diction

and spreads fake news," says Corona coordinator Florian Herrmann (CSU) of our newspaper.

"The mask is a

small means with a big effect

, which

enables

us

more freedom

and

more security

in the pandemic

, especially where it is difficult to

keep our

distance." For Herrmann's boss Markus Söder, it has also become a

trademark

.

The entire republic should now know the prime minister with white and blue diamonds on his face.

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Has caused a sensation and excitement: the President of the Medical Association, Klaus Reinhardt, is not an everyday friend with a mask.

© Wolfgang Kumm / dpa

Medical Association President on masks: For SPD politician Lauterbach, statements are "a reason to resign"

But the state government is by no means alone with its anger.

The

SPD health

politician

Karl Lauterbach

describes the comparison of the mask requirement with a “masking requirement” as “inexcusable”.

That is "a

reason to resign

if he does not take it back immediately".

And even

Bavaria's Medical Association President Gerald Quitterer

is “not happy” about the statements made by his federal chairman.

They thwarted efforts to make patients

aware of

the

usefulness of mouth and nose protection

.

He also wears a mask outside of his everyday practice, as it makes "infectiologically sensible", Quitterer tells our newspaper.

“The aerosols

don't

fly

that far

with a mask

.

Without a mask you would be completely unprotected. ”In addition, doctors should not simply

ignore

the recommendations of the

Robert Koch Institute (RKI) *

and the“ decisions of the prescribers ”.

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Everyday life with a mask: The new obligation during the Corona crisis is also pointed out in shop windows.

© Christof Stache / afp

In fact, Reinhardt tried to capture his statements on Thursday.

Together with his vice-presidents, he issued a

statement

in which the medical association called for “

mouth and nose protection

to be worn

in all situations in which a sufficient distance cannot be maintained”

.

For people at increased risk,

higher quality masks

could also be

useful.

“We therefore advocate

providing FFP2 masks * to high-risk patients

,” write the heads of the German Medical Association.

(Sebastian Horsch) * merkur.de and tz.de are part of the Ippen-Digital network

List of rubric lists: © Christof Stache / afp

Source: merkur

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