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Corona vaccination in Germany: details about Spahn plan leaked

2020-11-17T21:04:38.220Z


The Corona year 2020 could end with the first vaccinations against the insidious virus. Now important details about the exact plan of Health Minister Jens Spahn have been leaked.


The Corona year 2020 could end with the first vaccinations against the insidious virus.

Now important details about the exact plan of Health Minister Jens Spahn have been leaked.

  • The new coronavirus has been affecting the world's population for nine months.

  • Now there are the first vaccines that are supposed to help.

  • A clear vaccination plan is being worked on in Germany - details are already emerging.

Munich - For months,

research

was carried out on a

vaccine

that

protects

against the

Sars-CoV-2 * coronavirus

.

There is now light at the end of the tunnel.

Two very promising variants received

approval

after successfully completing the test phases

: The active ingredient from the Mainz pharmaceutical company

Biontech *

and its US partner

Pfizer

has an outstanding protective effect of 90 percent, that of the US company

Moderna

even surpasses this result with 94.5 percent .

As has been the case since the beginning of the

corona pandemic

: don't lose any time!

That is why the

Ministry of Health is working

feverishly on a comprehensive vaccination plan.

After all, the first cans should already be ready in December - for many citizens the best

Christmas present *

.

Accordingly, a rush for the drug would be expected - but everything should run in a regular manner.

+

Exemplary: Health Minister Jens Spahn only appears in public with mouth and nose protection.

© Kay Nietfeld / dpa

Coronavirus vaccine: 60 sites for administration are planned

How, that's what the

picture

wants to

know, which

reports

on a 24-page paper from the house of Health Minister

Jens Spahn

(article behind a payment barrier).

The newspaper was able to see a draft from November 11th, which is also to be discussed among the Prime Ministers.

A total of

60 locations for vaccination centers

nationwide are

planned, and every district and every urban district should have at least one.

Priority would have been given to the

risk groups

, which, according to Spahn, include 40 percent of German citizens.

Thereafter, the

medical staff can

benefit from the vaccination, even before other important professional groups such as

police officers, teachers or educators

.

Then it is the turn of the rest of the population.

It is said that Europe has secured more than

a billion vaccine doses

- from four different corporations.

Coronavirus vaccine: three phases of deployment in Germany

For Germany, the Spahn Plan aims

to achieve

“a high vaccination rate”

as

early as

2021

.

Whatever that means exactly.

A

distinction is made between

three vaccination phases

.

In 1a and 1b - when “little” or “more” vaccine is available -

people

should be

immunologized in vaccination centers

.

In phase 2 the “vaccine is widely available” - during this time “medical facilities, resident doctors, company doctors” should be named.

The focus of the paper is on the

equipment of the vaccination centers

and the exact procedure.

The use of

gymnastics, exhibition and concert halls as well as churches is

recommended for this purpose

.

A disadvantage of temporary accommodation such as

tents or construction containers

is that heating

facilities must be

guaranteed

in all vaccination rooms in winter

.

Nevertheless, the so-called “mobile structures that can be built up” are also being considered as options.

Coronavirus vaccine: There should be one-way streets in the centers

The prerequisite for the vaccination centers is that they should be

easily accessible, secured and equipped with lockable rooms

.

The example cited here is “material storage facilities with an ultra-low-temperature facility for vaccines”.

The centers should have

check-in and check-out

, so that one-way streets with fixed stations would be guaranteed.

Even before the entrance, "trained security personnel" will check every vaccine candidate for

symptoms of colds

.

If necessary,

fever can

be

measured

with a forehead thermometer

.

People with

corona symptoms * are

refused entry.

In addition, the general rule is:

nobody comes to the centers

without an

appointment

.

Due to

precipitation or cold, it

would have to be guaranteed that the queues were "weatherproof".

Coronavirus vaccine: A doctor can vaccinate up to 96 people a day

The centers themselves should be equipped with

"Corona-compatible waiting rooms"

, all rooms would have to be heated.

The entire

process of a vaccination

is strictly defined.

There are also clear regulations for logistics in the centers, the storage of vaccines and medical processes.

Each vaccination is

estimated to take

15 minutes

- five minutes each for registration and consultation.

A doctor can vaccinate up to 96 people a day.

After the vaccination there will be a period of “monitoring of general health status” to determine

possible side effects

.

A

second vaccination will

follow at a later point in time

, although no exact interval seems to have been established yet.

In any case, Germany alone needs

more than 160 million syringes

.

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Time for the vaccination plan: Several pharmaceutical companies are researching an active ingredient against Sars-CoV-2.

© Hans Pennink / dpa

Vaccine against coronavirus: Bundeswehr soldiers and students should also help

Basically,

bottlenecks in medical staff are

expected.

Therefore doctors, hospitals, public order and other offices as well as the

armed

forces

, medical services,

students from health professions and logistics

(for contact tracking) as well as aid organizations like the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund or the German Red Cross are asked.

There are also plans to work with

mobile teams

that visit people in need of care and people who cannot come to the vaccination center alone.

This also includes refugees, the homeless or people with addictions.

In addition, professional groups from the healthcare sector, police officers and fire fighters could be

vaccinated in cohorts

- so not everyone would have to go to the vaccination center individually.

In addition to “mini-teams”, the mobile teams should also include “vaccination buses” and they are also connected to the vaccination centers.

(mg) * merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network

List of rubric lists: © Hans Pennink / dpa

Source: merkur

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