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Prime Minister Merkel:
"I'm so worried"
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Michel Kappeler via REUTERS
In spring 2020, a three-page article will appear in the “Journal of Public Health” at Oxford University.
It's about fear and depression as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany.
The authors work as scientists at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Duisburg-Essen. At the height of the first wave of infections, they interviewed 12,244 people in March about the "effects of Angela Merkel's handling of the pandemic" on psychological distress, behavior and risk perception. to investigate.
The researchers are medical professionals and psychologists, but their study is highly political.
Because she comes to the conclusion that Angela Merkel's almost 16-year-old chancellorship needs to be reinterpreted in one central point.
On March 18, the Chancellor addressed the Germans in a televised address.
Except for New Years, she has never done this before.
Not in the financial crisis, not in the Greek crisis and not even in the refugee crisis.
More than 20 million Germans watch as Merkel appears on the screen that evening.
Cobalt blue blazer, colored necklace, on her left the Germany flag, in the background the Reichstag, with her hands she forms the Merkel diamond.
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