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Corona numbers are increasing: Spicy research reveals a problem that RKI is not aware of

2020-09-27T18:38:44.493Z


The different approaches of the federal states probably plays a role in the increase in the corona numbers. The tracking of contact persons appears to be a further weak point.


The different approaches of the federal states probably plays a role in the increase in the corona numbers.

The tracking of contact persons appears to be a further weak point.

  • The number of corona infections in Germany has been increasing for some time.

  • The federal government is worried and is pushing for a

    common line of

    the federal states.

  • However, the new wave * seems to have several causes.

    It's about

    tracking the contact persons

    of people infected with corona.

Berlin - The

German government is concerned about the

development of

corona infections

.

Therefore, the Federal Chancellery in Berlin is in close contact with the federal states in order to advance a common line in the measures to combat the

Sars-CoV-2

virus

.

In a conversation between the head of the Chancellery, Helge Braun, and the state secretaries, the confidante of the Chancellor apparently warned that the

increase in the number of corona cases could

also be due to the different approaches within the republic.

An evaluation by the German health authorities clarifies other circumstances that may be partly responsible for the renewed increase in the corona numbers.

Corona in Germany: Noticeable differences in the numbers of the health authorities

A study by

Süddeutsche Zeitung

,

WDR

and

NDR

shows that there are

noticeable differences

between the federal states

with regard to the identified

contact persons

of infected people.

There is therefore no official body that bundles and evaluates the data collected by the health authorities.

There is also no clarity as to how well they ultimately succeed in

locating

chains of

infection

.

SZ

as well as the two public TV companies asked all

380 health authorities

in Germany.

However, information about the month of August 2020 was only provided by 152 offices and thus not even half.

Corona infected people had, on average, "close" contact with 4.9 people. What does that mean?

According to the criteria of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI),

close contact persons

are people who are closer than 1, for at least 15 minutes during the days of infection 5 meters have come. 

The problem is ultimately again due to large regional differences: As

reported by

Tagesschau.de

,

among others

, there are

enormous deviations

that appear unrealistic: such as Saxony (9.8 contact persons) and Bavaria (1.7).

The differences at the district level are even greater.

According to the report, the health authorities also do not know where this discrepancy, which is sometimes clear, comes from.

Tübingen (Baden-Württemberg) identified only 1.7 contact persons, Leipzig 25 per corona infected person.

Does that mean that some federal states are being followed up more persistently than others?

Corona infection numbers in Germany: A major problem in tracking contact persons

One reason for the

large deviations

could therefore be that no central body analyzes and compares the figures from the health authorities.

Wouldn't this measure be something for the Robert Koch Institute?

The RKI announced that it had no knowledge of this and that no data was available.

Another problem - and this has been known for a long time - is the common behavior of giving false names on guest lists in bars and restaurants.

Restaurateurs depend on the forms being filled out correctly.

But the rate of forgery is considerable, with false names or telephone numbers being entered.

This behavior also torpedoes careful

follow-up of contact persons

in the event of a corona infection *.

Incidentally, this peculiarity also occurs frequently when

filling out disembarkation cards for air travel

, as Ute Teichert, chairwoman of the Federal Association of Doctors in the Public Health Service, informed the authors.

But improvement seems to be in sight here: According to this, federal police officers should in future compare the names on the card with the passport.

Corona pandemic: criticism of Bavaria for alleged "muzzle" for health authorities

According to the report, there is a different obstacle in Bavaria *, where the most

corona deaths

per inhabitant are

recorded: The Bavarian state government is giving its health authorities a “muzzle” for press inquiries.

According to

SZ

as well as

NDR

and

WDR,

this should have

happened in March and is one reason why the authorities in Bavaria are only slow to provide information about their data to identify contact persons.

The Bavarian state government was then often referred to, which, however, refused to release data when asked again.

According to the authors, the Free State remains a "black box" (

Sueddeutsche Zeitung

) with regard to the results of the health authorities: it is neither clear how many contact persons the authorities are determining, nor how effective the protective measures are.

Two health authorities answered the request: Neu-Ulm and the Berchtesgadener Land, which have an astonishingly low number of contact persons per infected person (1.6 on average).

Virologist Christian Drosten has now said that the corona virus will also keep Germany busy for a long time.

He does not describe the pandemic as a scientific phenomenon, but as a natural disaster:

(PF) * Merkur.de is an offer of the Ippen-Digital-Netzwerk

List of rubric lists: © Christophe Gateau / dpa

Source: merkur

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