In an interview with the Rotary Club Schliersee, virologist Hendrik Streeck warned against too much euphoria about the corona vaccine.
He also expressed criticism of Söder's statements.
Virologist Hendrik Streeck warns that the duration of protection and effectiveness of the corona vaccine could fall short of the expectations of many.
Streeck also criticizes the distribution concept.
Vaccination centers alone could not administer this across the board.
It needs the family doctors.
Streeck condemns number games of politics to mortality.
If you look at the numbers, it is "not the enormous catastrophe that it is being portrayed as".
Schliersee
-
There
is great
hope
that
a
corona vaccine will
soon be
available
.
But the
virologist Hendrik Streeck
warns of too much euphoria.
"At the moment we still know very little about the vaccine," said the director of the Institute for Virology and HIV Research at the Medical Faculty of the University of Bonn at a video conference of the
Rotary Club Schliersee.
"The worst situation would be that the vaccine is only effective for six months and we will have the same problem in autumn next year as we have today."
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Corona vaccination shortly before approval: Streeck sees problems - incomprehension about Söder's statement
Over 80 members and guests followed Streeck's lecture online on Monday evening.
He was quickly confronted with a whole series of questions in the chat, but was only able to answer a fraction of the time.
The focus of interest: the early
approval of a vaccine
.
Here the 43-year-old dampened expectations of a quick end to the current state of emergency.
"Even if you want to, you will not be able to vaccinate people so quickly," emphasized the virologist, who also described a
willingness to vaccinate
in the population of 50 percent as "very high".
Many questions are still unanswered - for example, whether the vaccine from the
US pharmaceutical company Moderna
protects against infection or only against a severe course.
“We also don't know how long vaccination protection lasts,” Streeck reported.
"We can only
draw conclusions
about the
effectiveness of
the vaccine
from the natural
immunity
- and there are now cases of re-
infections
in Germany too
."
Virologist Streeck warns of vaccine euphoria: increase army for corona protection?
The professor predicted problems with administering the vaccine.
"It will
not be possible to solve
this with
vaccination centers,
" said the virologist.
Logistical questions are still open.
"It won't work without the family doctors - or we have to add to the army." Leonhard Stark, who won Streeck for the online lecture, shared the
skepticism.
"At first there was talk of a hundred people to be vaccinated per day in the test centers in the districts, now we are talking about 300 people," reported the state manager of the Bavarian Red Cross.
The reason is that the
corona vaccine from
the Mainz company
Biontec is delivered
in containers of 975
vaccination
doses
and can only be kept for three days.
"I can't imagine how that should work if you want to talk to each subject for five minutes."
Finally there was a
swipe at politics.
Schliersee's Rotary President Linda Gebser wanted to know what chance virologists have to assert themselves with their advice against prime ministers who are addicted to profile.
"I don't think the decisions are made on a
virologist basis
," Streeck said curtly.
In conversation with the Rotary Club Schliersee: Streeck with Söder criticism - "Talking past reality"
Previously, the 43-year-old had also
commented
on
mortality
from the
corona
virus and
condemned
political numbers games
.
On average, according to Streeck, around 2,600 people die every day in Germany.
Usually flu or other infections led to a seasonally increased mortality.
Due to the current precautions and restrictions, the value is currently below the average mortality of the past five years.
"When Mr
Söder
says that the death toll is currently so high that it would be as if an airplane crashed every day, then he is
ignoring reality,"
Streeck clarified.
Every single death is tragic and one cannot simply ignore it.
"But if you look at the
numbers,
" says the virologist, "then it is not the enormous
catastrophe
that it is currently being portrayed as."