Government against Drosten: Virologist proposes new coronavirus key figure - and receives a rejection

In Germany, the number of newly infected people is increasing.

Virologist Christian Drosten suggests introducing a new corona guideline value.

The federal government seems to reject this.

• The number of coronavirus * cases in Germany continues to rise rapidly.

• Virologist

  Christian Drosten

  suggested

  introducing

  an over

  50 incidence

  .

• The government does not seem to want to implement the proposal.

Berlin - The number of

increasing and increasing.

On Thursday, the Robert Koch Institute announced a new record with over 11,000 new infections.

The number of

increasing.

133 of the 401 German urban and rural districts have exceeded the seven-day incidence * of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants.

While Germany has long since slipped into the second wave of coronavirus *,

the proposal to introduce a

.

Coronavirus in Germany: Virologist Drosten suggests a new incidence indicator

As can be seen from a post on

by

, the idea is

to introduce

a so-called over

.

In other words, an

for people who are over 50 years old.

The over 50 incidence should not be confused with the seven-day incidence.

This is because this is independent of the age of the infected people.

As can be seen from a report in the "Bild" newspaper (article behind the payment barrier), the over 50 incidence is not intended to replace the seven-day incidence, but rather serve as a

for the federal government to decide on further Corona * measures.

"Since in this group of people, according to reliable findings, an increased rate of severe courses is to be expected, the over

would result in

a prognosis about the more severe cases to be expected in the near future and thus about the bed occupancy", a spokeswoman for

told

explained the need for the key figure.

In general, Drosten should also

leave

the

.

This could also be a higher age such as 60 or 70.

(5 / n) There are ideas: starting with an age-specific consideration of the incidence ("over 50 incidence") and switching to the retrospective cluster strategy as an emergency mode ("A plan for autumn") to a pre-quarantine to protect high-risk patients

- Christian Drosten (@c_drosten) October 21, 2020

Coronavirus in Germany: additional incidence value?

Government reacts promptly

But as it

goes on

in the report of

, the government will probably not implement the proposal.

A spokesman for the

of

reportedly told the newspaper: “It is right

and to set a national framework for it.

The two existing warning levels already provide orientation for this. "

The speaker refers to the measures that

should come into effect

from

of 35 or 50.

decided on

this

last Wednesday at a summit with the Prime Minister.

It remains to be seen whether a supplementary incidence value that takes into account the age of the infected will not be introduced in view of the increasing number of corona cases *.

It would not only be

a trend-setting value

for the Federal Government with regard to new

, but also helpful for older people in order to be able to better assess the developments.

Meanwhile, the horror scenario of a renewed lockdown accompanies the second corona wave.

However, SPD politician Karl Lauterbach and virologist Christian Drosten brought up another proposal.

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