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Vaccination week: Mobile vaccination in Hamburg

2021-09-16T04:32:48.743Z


A week of action should give Germany's vaccination campaign new impetus. Hamburg relies on mobile vaccination teams. How well does it work? And who is getting vaccinated now?


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Corona vaccine almost free to your door: Mobile vaccination teams are on the road all over Germany - a week of action is intended to drive the quota up.

What does the strategy bring?

And who is getting vaccinated now?

The central vaccination center in Hamburg was closed at the end of August, and the city is now focusing more on mobile services.

Today, among other things, the community center in the Eimsbüttel district becomes a vaccination center for a few hours.

It should start at 1 p.m. - and there is the material. The German Red Cross supplies Johnson & Johnson and Biontech. Christina Wulf draws the first syringes in the tea kitchen. The pediatrician leads the mobile vaccination teams throughout Hamburg. And they still have a lot to do, because with 62 percent fully vaccinated, Germany is only in the middle of a European comparison.

Christina Wulf, Head of Mobile Vaccination Team


“There are still enough adults who are not vaccinated, and that is definitely something where we still have to try to take countermeasures a little.

It's not just about how high my risk is.

For example, me or all of us here work very closely with unvaccinated people.

That said, it is our responsibility to get vaccinated.

And that's exactly how I see it for teachers, for example, for daycare staff and of course for nursing staff and geriatric nurses. "

There is no compulsory vaccination in Germany.

The strategy instead: The corona vaccinations should be as simple and convenient as possible.

Christina Wulf, Head of Mobile Vaccination Team


»You have been to the vaccination center, haven't you?

You too?

OK.

So, it's a little different here because we don't have preprinted notes.

This means that everyone must always fill in their name and also write the name on the top of the vaccination certificate.

This is the classic mistake that the pieces of paper go back without a name.

That's the hardest part. "

It is already the second vaccination campaign in the community center, the last time more than 300 people came, today even 420 people will be vaccinated, including many schoolchildren.

Ana, schoolgirl, 17 years old


»You always have to do these tests, and those that are fully vaccinated don't.

And there is always something like this: Why not now?

No idea."

Pepe, pupil, 13 years old


»All in all, the subject is now a bit complete, and somehow you feel a bit more free.

Otherwise there was always a bit of pressure, you can get it again and have to be quarantined.

And now you're just through. "

An educational talk in Arabic - the vaccination team is prepared for the fact that not everyone who is vaccinated speaks good German.

Arian Abi-Chokami, Mobile Vaccination Team


"Today we have Arabic, Farsi, Russian, we have French, Chinese, we have Spanish with us, and of course English too."

Four doctors work in parallel today, nobody has to stand in line for a long time.

The community center offers drinks and snacks in the waiting area for the vaccinated.

Ralf Helling, board member of the Lenzsiedlung eV association


“It takes a lot of information, a lot of clarification, a lot of advice.

In this respect, it is very good that such a vaccination team also comes to us here in the settlement.

It's just important to reach the people here on site.

We live here in the Lenzsiedlung, about 60 percent from some countries on earth with corresponding cultural peculiarities and so on.

And so it is very good to keep such offers low-threshold.

With Covid, because we know how differently this is discussed and felt. "

Nima


»I live close here, so I didn't have time to go to the doctor and get an appointment.

It was close here and it went quickly. "

There is hardly a more convenient way to get vaccinated.

And that is also

a

reason why people come to the community center.

But there is also a second reason: the pressure on unvaccinated people is increasing.

Eyüpcan Bilgin, painter


»I actually thought that when 70 percent are vaccinated, they'll leave us alone, but: No.

I heard a lot of things are being restricted, right?

I don't feel like taking a test every day when I go out to eat or something.

I heard one syringe is enough, Johnson & Johnson, now I have no problems for the time being. "

Nick Nebel, Student


»You need a test for everything.

They also said for the university that if you are not vaccinated or have recovered, you have to show a test every day.

It's laziness, I'll just put it this way.

I now wanted to register with a friend at the fitness center, so you have to get tested beforehand every time. "

Ulla Lehsken, pensioner


»I didn't really want to, but I want to take a computer course in October.

And without it does not work.

So that my grandchildren are not always annoyed because they have to explain everything to me. "

Reporter


"Why didn't you want to be vaccinated?"

Ulla Lehsken, retiree


»Because basically I kind of don't know what against it.

I am never sick.

I'm 83, but healthy.

What's the point? "

Despite the vaccination campaign week and many other creative campaigns - there will be no herd immunity in Germany this autumn.

Christina Wulf, Head of Mobile Vaccination Team


»We have worked our way out so that everyone can be offered a vaccination.

We even go with the mobile vaccination team, if the family doctor can't, we even go to the apartment, so we really walk the last meter so that everyone who needs it can be vaccinated.

And it must not be the case that those who do not want to be vaccinated are so outnumbered that they clog our intensive care units so that we cannot record a traffic accident or heart attack at all. "

Howard Bridges is a musician.

The American hesitated for a long time to get vaccinated - today he is doing it, among other things because there are more and more parties and concerts exclusively for those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered.

Howard Bridges, musician


»I call it coercion because it's about my work in connection with family and freedom of movement and freedom of movement.

I'm actually against it, but I jump over my shadow and accept the offer. "

The vaccination will probably not cost anything in the future either.

But from mid-October, the corona rapid tests will be chargeable and more and more regions are relying on 2G.

That means: even more pressure on the unvaccinated and probably more work for the mobile vaccination teams.

Source: spiegel

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