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Scientist on "Anne Will" warns: panic and hysteria, "down to the absurd"

2020-03-10T08:43:47.988Z


The new corona virus is now spreading rapidly in Germany. Anne Will deals with the question on ARD on Sunday: "How justified is fear?"


The new corona virus is now spreading rapidly in Germany. Anne Will deals with the question on ARD on Sunday: "How justified is fear?"

  • ARD talk "Anne Will" on Sunday evening, March 8th, from 9.45pm.
  • Topic: "Quarantine, hamster purchases, canceled events - how justified is the fear of the coronavirus *?"
  • The new Sars-CoV-2 continues to keep the world in suspense. Uncertainty is spreading in Germany with an increasing number of new infections.

Update of March 8, 10:47 p.m .: "Quarantine is like a belt in a car - for the worst case," says scientist Ranga Yogeshwar at Anne Will's ARD. "What I experience a bit is that we now have such a strange mixture: actually hardly any illnesses, 1000 pieces, but panic, hysteria, in some places down to the point of absurdity!"

Yogeshwar also emphasizes: “It is an exponential growth. The number of cases will double every week, which means we will have a million people infected by the end of May! ”

Anne Will: "But how dangerous is the situation now?"

"But how dangerous is the situation now?" Asks Will Susanne Herold , professor of infectious diseases of the lungs. "We always have a comparison with influenza," says the professor. In winter 2017/18, 25,000 people in Germany died of the flu - without football games being canceled or schools being closed. “Nobody really noticed that back then,” says Herold.

However, the coronavirus differs from the flu, because "it looks like the mortality rate is much higher." Herold explains that there is not enough data yet to be able to derive a clear mortality rate . How many people die from the virus depends on medical care, how well prepared the doctors are and how much experience you have with Covid 19 disease . In the city of Wuhan, 5.4 percent of those infected had died at the beginning of the crisis . That was also due to the overstraining of the health system. In the Hubei region, on the other hand, the mortality rate was 0.7 percent. In South Korea, the second most affected country, the mortality rate is currently 0.6 percent.

However, the developments in Italy raise questions. "Mortality is relatively high in Italy - at over three percent," says Herold. "We don't exactly know why," Herold says. This could be due to several factors. For example, medical care or the fact that a region with particularly sensitive people is affected. You don't know, says Herold. Therefore, a so-called joint mission of experts from different countries is in Italy to investigate the circumstances there in more detail.

"Anne Will" on the corona virus - "How justified is the fear?"

Update 22:07: Are the positive tests for the corona virus "chance" , asks Anne Will on Sunday evening in the ARD. Patients suspected of having an infection often seem to have difficulty getting tested. If you call the health department, you will often be referred to your family doctor. However, the resident doctors not only run the risk of infecting themselves - medical practices must also be closed if a coronavirus infection is reported from the practice.

Laumann, who a few days ago defended the decision of the local authorities to allow Mönchengladbach 's top Bundesliga game against Dortmund to take place on Saturday, is now emphasizing that he wants to implement the recommendation of Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn. After all, he had advocated a uniform regulation days ago. "If you want to miss Bundesliga games, you can't decide in one federal state," the CDU politician had told WDR on Thursday morning. Accordingly, events with more than 1000 participants should no longer take place in NRW .

"In Germany, we can evaluate 20,000 tests," says the capacities, explains Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU), Minister of Health in NRW.

"Anne Will" on the corona virus - "How justified is the fear?"

Original message from March 8:

Berlin - "Anne Will" is on ARD on Sunday evening, March 8, from 9.45 p.m. on the new virus Sars-CoV-2: "Quarantine, hamster purchases, canceled events - how justified is the fear of the corona virus *? "

In just under a week, around 900 infections (as of Sunday 7:00 p.m.) with the new corona virus * from China were reported in Germany. On Monday, March 2, there were 150 people infected, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported 902 infections on Sunday evening. Scientific experts contradict each other when assessing the danger situation and whether the German health system can handle a massive infection.

The uncertainty leads to insecurity among the population, the Germans have been tending to buy hamsters for a few days. The prices of infectious agents and face masks are rising massively. And just on Sunday, Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn advised to cancel events with more than 1000 participants.

In some federal states , individual schools and day care centers have already been closed. Quarantine measures are intended to contain further spread. In her ARD talk , Anne Will wants to deal with the questions, “How appropriate is this handling of the virus? Doctors are already complaining about shortcomings in medical care. Is the healthcare system armed? And what are the economic consequences? "

The number of infections worldwide has risen to over 100,000.

"Anne Will" (ARD): These are the guests of the program on Sunday, March 8th:

  • Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) , Minister for Labor, Health and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Ranga Yogeshwar , science journalist and moderator
  • Susanne Herold , professor of infectious diseases of the lungs
  • Sibylle Katzenstein , specialist for general medicine and geriatrics
  • Marcel Fratzscher , President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

Today at #AnneWill: quarantine, hamster purchases, canceled events - how justified is the fear of the corona virus? With Karl-Josef Laumann, @RangaYogeshwar, Susanne Herold, Sibylle Katzenstein and @MFratzscher - 9:45 p.m. @dasErste. #Coronavirus https://t.co/QXHsl9cxTa

- ANNE WILL Talk Show (@AnneWillTalk) March 8, 2020

In Europe, Italy has been the most severely affected by the new disease Covid-19 *. The death toll increases every day.

Corona virus: The isolation of metropolises such as Milan and Venice shows how controversial the situation is now. Commentary from Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis.

Coronavirus madness: A video probably recorded at Lidl in Kassel causes astonishment.

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

Source: merkur

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