Flatten the infection curve - and back to normal right away? A virologist at ZDF talker Markus Lanz explained what a next phase in the fight against Corona could look like.
- The corona pandemic was the subject of ZDF talker Markus Lanz
- Virologist Alexander Kekulé was among the guests
- He explained what is important if the shutdown is gradually removed.
- Here you will find the Corona News from Germany *. You can also find current case numbers in Bavaria as a map *. The following recommendations for corona protective measures * are currently available.
Munich - Just a few days shutdown in Germany - and there are already voices from the economy that the federal government should deal with an exit strategy. FDP chief Lindner is also pressing the gas and is also campaigning for a strategy to end the measures * against the further spread of Corona . Every day, the FDP asks how long the measures will still be necessary, Lindner told the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger .
Corona topic at Lanz: "Communicate what the strategy could be afterwards"
So the shutdown is an endless horror? "It's a strangulation that you can't keep going for as long as you like," agreed virologist Alexander Kekulé on Thursday evening on ZDF with Markus Lanz . And therefore one has to "communicate very openly what the strategy could be afterwards".
In a pandemic, there are typical phases, Kekulé explained: "There was a phase that we had here in Germany at the beginning, so you could control it quite well. We showed how great our healthcare system is. ” With the appearance of the first infections at the auto parts supplier Webasto, attempts were made to exit the smaller foci of infection.
Virologist at Markus Lanz: "I don't really want to experience the scenario"
Unfortunately, that only works to a certain extent. Now the pandemic is in an exponential phase : "And there is only one radical measure that we can take now - the total shutdown."
But how do you get out of the shutdown? "We have to consider: how do we go on living and what do we do to prevent the virus from coming back", Kekulé pointed out. “As the Chancellor said, that will end when 70 percent of the population is infected. I don't really want to experience the scenario. "
Corona and the shutdown: "Clear effect" will occur
If instead the shutdown succeeds in pushing the pandemic back into the first phase, then three points are important, according to Kekulé: First: Protect the old - with special protective masks. Second, further contain the disease in social interaction - "We need the normal face masks for this," says the virologist. Third, if we do it that way, if we have it under control, then we can open the schools again unlike now. ” Incidentally, he was "very optimistic that the shutdown would have a" clear effect ".
It is also important that Germany massively increase its test capacities for the corona virus . The large laboratories currently have “around 20 percent air”. It is also important to develop the tests that can be used at home. These could “work in two or three months”. Before that, however, Germany had to come back to a phase "in which we are considering a new strategy," said the virologist.
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