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Top virologist Christian Drosten warns: "The pandemic will only really start for us now"

2020-09-23T13:20:52.968Z


The virologist Christian Drosten sees Germany not yet adequately prepared in the corona pandemic. In order to control the situation, you have to change things.


The virologist Christian Drosten sees Germany not yet adequately prepared in the corona pandemic.

In order to control the situation, you have to change things.

  • The virologist

    Christian Drosten

    sees

    Germany

    not yet adequately armed

    in the

    corona pandemic *

    .

  • Drosten

    warns: “The

    pandemic

    will only really start now.

    Also with us."

  • Basic 

    facts about

     the corona

    virus *

    and the corona news from Germany can be found here.

    We also offer you the current number of cases in

    Germany

    on a map 

    .

Berlin / Munich - The Berlin virologist

Christian Drosten

sees

Germany

not yet adequately prepared for the coming period

in the

corona pandemic

.

"We need to check the situation in the coming months to master change things," he said ahead of the

Oct.

forthcoming Health Assembly

World Health Summit

in

Berlin

.

“The pandemic will only really start now.

With us too, ”he warned.

Drosten: “We didn't do anything particularly well.

We only did it earlier "

According to the

World Health Summit

,

Drosten

said

that pragmatic decisions are necessary.

"There are already festive speeches about the German success, but it is not quite clear where it came from,"

explained Drosten

.

The success is simply due to the fact that

Germany

reacted

around

four weeks earlier

than other countries.

“We responded using exactly the same means as others.

We haven't done anything particularly well.

We only did it earlier, ”explained the head of the

Institute for Virology at the Charité

in

Berlin

.

Drosten

made it clear that

Germany had

not been so successful because our

health authorities were

better than the

French

, or the

hospitals are

better equipped than in

Italy

.

"If you carry that over to autumn, then of course you have to realize that we will not continue to do anything better than others," said the virologist.

Germany has to take a

much more differentiated and closer

look at

developments abroad

.

“We have to stop talking about things like football stadiums.

That is really completely misleading, ”warned

Drosten

.

... more and more elderly people are infected again, more serious cases and deaths will occur again.

The only way to avoid serious illness and death is by reducing the spread of SARS-COV-2. "(3/3)

- Christian Drosten (@c_drosten) September 23, 2020

Corona: Drosten calls the pandemic a natural disaster

Nobody currently knows exactly how the

corona pandemic * will

continue.

It is possible that the whole thing is no longer manageable and "that science, for example with the availability of vaccines, has simply been too slow," says

Drosten

.

Only at the end will it be clear how

science * has

fared.

The

pandemic

is finally

no

scientific phenomenon

, but a

natural disaster

, the director told the Institute of Virology of the

Charité

.

Detlev Ganten

, President and Founder of the

World Health Summit

, said in the double interview: “Economy, culture and all of that no longer work when what we consider guaranteed is no longer there.

I'm not sure everyone is really that clear. ”An

important lesson

from the

pandemic

for the future is that

health is

the most important thing for the

individual

and the

basis for a functioning society

.

Drosten: Approval of a vaccine does not mean an immediate solution to the problem

In addition,

Drosten

said

it had to be clear that the

approval of a vaccine

- a German biotech company is already very far in development * - does not immediately

mean

the

solution to the problem

.

The

priority

must first be with

risk groups

.

"In addition to the expected distribution competence, it is also not that easy to fill so many vaccine doses into bottles and then to vaccinate them," explained

Drosten

.

Therefore, this is already an undertaking for the whole of

2021

.

Drosten

has recently made a gloomy forecast in terms of

mask requirements

.

The number of

new infections is

increasing again sharply.

Not only in

France

and

Spain

, but also in

Germany

.

This

worries

the head of the Institute for Virology at the

Charité

.

Walter Plassmann

, board member of the

Hamburg Association

of

Statutory Health Insurance Physicians

, recently criticized the fearful

corona policy

and

Christian Drosten

by name.

(ph / dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editorial network

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Source: merkur

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