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Corona vaccination in medical practices from April: For the time being, only small amounts per practice

2021-03-22T15:34:55.111Z


Starting in April, family doctors will finally be included in the vaccination in the corona pandemic. However, there will only be a few doses per practice for the time being.


Starting in April, family doctors will finally be included in the vaccination in the corona pandemic.

However, there will only be a few doses per practice for the time being.

Update from March 22, 2021

: The corona vaccinations in Germany should pick up speed in April after a lot of frustration due to sluggish progress - with a stronger involvement of the doctor's practices immediately after Easter.

"The motto is: vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate," said Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) on Friday in Berlin after a conference call with the Prime Minister.

And for this, the proverbial German thoroughness should also be supplemented by more “German flexibility”.

Corona: General practitioners will be involved in vaccination from April - but initially only a few doses per practice

However, the practices cannot immediately vaccinate on a large scale, since the regional vaccination centers of the countries are also to continue to operate.

The number of vaccination doses per practice will "only grow slowly at the beginning", formulated the federal and state governments in their resolution.

This means

that the general practitioners' practices

"can begin with about one vaccination consultation per week"

, as Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) had already made clear.

That is why it makes sense that the respective practices invite their “particularly vulnerable patients” first, declared the federal and state governments.

Once more vaccine quantities are available, specialists and company doctors should also be able to be involved.


Step by step there should be more vaccinations in April.

Last week, before the vaccination with the vaccine from the manufacturer Astrazeneca was interrupted, the countries injected almost 1.8 million vaccine doses.

In the week after Easter, almost 3.3 million cans are to be delivered.

Doctors in private practice are said to receive just under a million of them.

With 50,000 practices involved, that would be 20 doses per week

.

There will then be a surge in the week of April 26th with a total of 5.4 million expected doses - 3.2 million of them for the practices.

For the first time, they would have more vaccine than the vaccination centers in the countries that are still to be given priority: with reserved 2.25 million doses per week.

Merkel said it was not about an “either-or”, but rather the fastest possible combination.

Practice doctors reacted spontaneously disappointed.

The National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) declared that a chance had been missed.

"We have to vaccinate, vaccinate - and that quickly." However, the federal states continue to rely primarily on the vaccination centers.

“But now the countries have to deliver.” In some places, selected practices are already making vaccinations, for example for cancer patients.

Corona summit: vaccination sequence should be maintained for vaccinations in medical practices

The prioritization should also apply to the practices that give

the elderly and particularly vulnerable people priority in the event of a shortage of vaccines

.

However, doctors should “apply the guidelines flexibly”, declared the federal and state governments.

Merkel warned that protection for those in particular need of protection should not be lost sight of for a second.

Spahn called on the federal states to protect the chronically ill as well.

“With all understanding of vaccinating 30-year-olds in certain professional contexts, it is important to vaccinate the elderly, also with a view to the development of infections.” At the beginning, doctors should also vaccinate non-mobile people at home.

The SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach said: “The risk of dying from an infection of Covid is 600 times higher for an 80-year-old than for a 30-year-old.

Therefore, I am very critical of suggestions to change the sequence of vaccinations. ”The fact that teachers, such as in North Rhine-Westphalia, are vaccinated as a priority, arouses criticism.

First of all, people with an increased risk of a severe to fatal course had to be vaccinated, the federal and state officials had called for the concerns of people with disabilities.

Corona vaccination in doctor's offices as early as March?

Pilot projects are starting in these federal states

Original message from March 2, 2021

: Currently, the national vaccination strategy on paper stipulates that corona vaccinations only take place in so-called vaccination centers.

But that could change soon: Health Minister Jens Spahn would like to expand the vaccination options.

His

proposed

change:

From April, general practitioners will also be supplied with corona vaccines from Biontech, Moderna and Astrazeneca

.

This measure is intended to drive up the vaccination quota in Germany more quickly.

As of March 1, 2021, 2,159,412 people in Germany were fully vaccinated, which corresponds to 2.6 percent of the total population, according to the government's vaccination dashboard.

If you also take into account those who have already received the first dose of vaccine, 5.1 percent of Germans have already been vaccinated.

For comparison: In Great Britain the vaccination quota is 29.87 percent, in the USA 15.17 percent and in Israel 55.13 percent of the residents have already been vaccinated against corona, reports the Ärztezeitung.

Since Germany is lagging behind here, Spahn's proposal meets with open ears: In some federal states, pilot projects are already starting that provide for the implementation of corona vaccinations at the family doctor.

As the editorial network Germany (RND) informs, five general practitioners' practices in Lower Saxony started corona vaccinations on March 1st as part of such projects.

"In order to run through the logistics and storage of the vaccines and the technical processes, in particular, and to gain experience with the practical implementation in everyday life, we first start a short test phase of about two weeks in the nine pilot practices," the RND quotes Carola Reimann, who Lower Saxony Minister of Health: "

It is expected that from April onwards, significantly more practices in Lower Saxony will be able to be on board

." It was not disclosed which doctors exactly carry out the vaccinations.

Also read

: Three more contagious corona mutations in Germany - What that means for the effectiveness of vaccinations.

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Freshly vaccinated: An entry in the vaccination booklet for a Covid-19 vaccination with the Astrazeneca vaccine could soon be obtained from the family doctor, according to the proposal of the Federal Ministry of Health.

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Corona vaccinations: GPs should relieve vaccination centers

Also in Thuringia, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg and Saarland, projects have started or have started that enable the corona vaccination at the family doctor.

In Thuringia and Brandenburg these should start in March, in the other two federal states selected family doctors have been vaccinating since February.

The model project for corona vaccinations by resident doctors in seven general practitioners' practices is taking effect in Saarland

.

The Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, the Medical Association and the Association of General Practitioners are involved, as reported by the RND.

Such model projects are to be expanded to all of Germany.

For example, the Business Insider portal quotes from a proposal paper by the Federal Ministry of Health on the national vaccination strategy that the Ministry wants to “further develop the existing option of involving resident doctors.”

From March, vaccinations against the coronavirus are to be carried out in “selected” medical practices

.

According to the Business Insider, the reason given in the paper was: “In most countries, the number of available vaccine doses will already exceed the maximum capacities reported by the countries in the vaccination centers in April”, and further: “In this phase, the home and Specialist practices that routinely offer vaccinations as part of standard care are fully integrated into the vaccination campaign ”.

Sources: https://impfdashboard.de/;

https://www.aerztezeitung.de/Ppolitik/Deutschland-Bundeslaender-im-Vergleich-So-oft-wurde-bereits-gegen-COVID-19-geimpft-415936.html

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