The two corona vaccination centers in the Dachau district are ready.
If the long-awaited vaccine arrives, the citizens can come too.
The figures for the facilities in Dachau and Karlsfeld are impressive, as was shown during a test run on Wednesday.
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"As soon as the vaccine is available, we are ready," said District Administrator Stefan Löwl at the beginning of the test run with test subjects - of course without an actual vaccination - at the Dachau Corona Vaccination Center in the rooms of the BRK headquarters on Rotkreuzplatz.
"We have completely rebuilt", added BRK district manager Paul Polyfka, who spoke of "ten days of emergency".
Like the Red Cross in Dachau, the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe at Karlsfelder See gave everything to set up the second vaccination center in the district with the help of containers (report on the test run there follows).
Now both facilities are ready and the numbers related to the operation are impressive.
300 vaccinations a day were originally planned.
"We are assuming that this will be done in four hours," said the district administrator.
But because the shifts could be increased to up to twelve hours, a total of up to 1000 vaccinations per day are possible.
Around 20 helpers are available per shift in Dachau to cope with everything.
25 doctors have so far confirmed their cooperation, including some who have retired.
And that is just the beginning!
The application hotline for supporters of the centers was set up recently "and is already running hot," said Polyfka.
Depending on the vaccine available and the citizens' willingness to vaccinate, up to five mobile vaccination teams are available.
They can be used in retirement and nursing homes, for example.
If you visit one of the two centers, you will find six stations: 1. Registration, where you receive a self-assessment form that you have to fill out.
2. The waiting area where questions about the procedure are answered.
3. The doctor's consultation.
4. The vaccination site.
5. The relaxation room.
Waiting for ten to 30 minutes is mandatory there.
6. The checkout at which the sheet is returned.
The pharmacist Maximilian Lernbecher, spokesman for the pharmacists in the district, explained about the vaccine (from Biontech / Pfizer).
It is delivered from secret central warehouses.
Pharmaceutical workers would prepare it in the BRK kitchen.
You can do 30 cans an hour.
The fabric is stored at minus 70 degrees.
At room temperature, the staff would have two hours to get him ready for the syringe.
“Nobody is vaccinated at minus 70 degrees”, promises Lernbecher.
Three big questions remain: When will the vaccine be delivered?
When can I be vaccinated?
And: In what order are people vaccinated?
Everyone is still waiting for the decisive federal ordinance, said Löwl, who estimates that “the first syringe could be set shortly before or shortly after Christmas”.
"First, 1,000 to 2,000 hand-picked people are vaccinated according to the doctors' recommendations," says Löwl.
This is followed by the residents and employees of the old people's and nursing homes and gradually the rest of the population.
Please note: If you want to be vaccinated, you have to do this at your main residence, unless you are an employee of a medical facility.
For the population in the district this means: You can come to Dachau or Karlsfeld.
And: everyone has to be pricked twice.
After the first injection, three weeks must pass before the second follows.
After another ten days, you are finally immune.
The goal that everyone has: "To turn the tide," says Polyfka.
Or, as the BRK district chief and CSU state parliament member Bernhard Seidenath put it: slowly coming to herd immunity.
That is 65 percent of the total population.
"We have to vaccinate 84 percent of people over 18 so that we can say: We defeated Corona," said Seidenath.