She is vaccinated, she is allowed in.
He's not vaccinated, he isn't.
Such special rules for corona vaccinated people are currently being discussed again.
Many reject them, but they are not entirely new.
Health Minister
Jens Spahn
speaks out clearly against privileges for people who have been vaccinated against Corona.
Experts point out that too little is known about long-term
immunity
and the
risk of infection
.
In the long run, however,
World Medical President Montgomery
does not
want to
shut
himself
off from the discussion.
Update from December 28th, 9:30 p.m
.: A message from Spain could fuel the debate about
special rights
for
corona vaccinated people
in Germany: There they want to keep a central register for those who refuse to be vaccinated.
The data should be stored in compliance with data protection regulations - but also be made available to EU partners, for example.
Meanwhile, there are debates in this country about the foreseeable shortage of
vaccines,
at least in the medium term
: Has Germany backed the wrong horse?
The 300 million vaccine doses that the EU - and Germany pro-rata - secured from the French company Sanofi-GSK are particularly criticized.
Their
vaccine development
is now delayed due to the lack of proof of effectiveness.
"To Mr. Spahn but the question must be addressed: Why did he fails to time with the
vaccine manufacturers BioNTech
and
Moderna
such great Impfkontingente to order that we can now move faster when Impfbeginn?" Writes about health policy spokeswoman for the
FDP
, Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus.
Meanwhile, the editor-in-chief of
Münchner Merkur *
, Georg Anastasiadis,
expressed doubts about the permanent equal treatment of vaccinated and non-vaccinated people
in a comment.
Immediately after the start of the vaccination: What rights will corona vaccinated people have and which not?
Discussion burns up
First report
from December 28, 10.45 a.m
.: Berlin - The
corona vaccination start
is
done
, then the next discussion pops up: Should vaccinated people
receive
special rights
?
In the spring, the company was still concerned with whether there should be a corona immunity card.
The idea of giving people more rights if they were already suffering from
Covid-19 *
was discarded.
Not least because it was and is uncertain how long sick people are immune to the virus.
Federal Health
Minister Jens Spahn
(CDU) is now clearly
positioning himself whether corona-vaccinated people are allowed to meet again in larger groups or are allowed to go to restaurants
.
“Many are waiting in solidarity so that some can be vaccinated first.
And those who have not yet been vaccinated expect the vaccinated to be patient in solidarity, ”he told the newspapers of the
Funke media group
.
“Nobody should claim special rights until everyone has had a chance to
vaccinate
.
This mutual respect holds us together as a nation. "
Special rights for corona vaccinated people: Seehofer and Lauterbach, like Spahn, are against it
On Sunday, Federal Interior Minister
Horst Seehofer
(CSU)
spoke out
against such privileges.
He justified
his stance
in the
Bild am Sonntag
by saying that a distinction between vaccinated and non-
vaccinated people was
equivalent to
mandatory vaccination
.
That shouldn't exist in Germany, as many politicians regularly emphasize.
Another rejection comes from SPD * health expert
Karl Lauterbach
.
"Privileges for the vaccinated are neither controllable nor easy to justify," he also told the
Funke
sheets.
In addition, it has not yet been conclusively clarified whether vaccinated people can still infect other people with the coronavirus.
World Medical President
Frank Ulrich Montgomery
does not rule out special rights for vaccinated people or disadvantages for non-vaccinated people, as he said on Deutschlandfunk.
“At the moment, when it is not possible to offer the vaccination to all people, such a procedure is out of the question.” But the
discussion
about it could start now.
Later, when everyone has had the chance to get vaccinated and when more is known about whether one really
remains
immune to
corona variants and mutations *
, "then one can come to conclusions in this debate." That would be for Montgomery is not a novelty either.
As an example, he cites that some countries prohibit entry for people who are not vaccinated against yellow fever.
Or possible restrictive measures for children who are not vaccinated against measles.
Special rights for vaccinated people against Corona: Other countries are also discussing it
There are also discussions about special rights in other countries.
Great Britain,
for example, is discussing a so-called “Freedom Pass”, which should enable vaccinated people to live an everyday life without restrictions.
But collections of signatures for petitions are already running against the project.
The airline Qantas also debated whether corona vaccinations should be compulsory for connections to
Australia
.
At the weekend,
vaccinations with the approved vaccine from
Biontech and Pfizer
started
in
Germany
and the EU
.
In Bavaria there were occasional delays for the time being because problems arose in the cold chain.
Vaccination teams set out across the country to initially vaccinate people over 80 years of age and those in need of care in homes.
Nursing staff and particularly endangered hospital staff are also
given priority
in the
first
priority level.
At first there were a good 150,000 vaccination doses in Germany.
By the end of the year it should be 1.3 million and by the end of March over ten million vaccine doses.
Almost a year after the outbreak of the corona pandemic in Germany, vaccinations against the virus have started nationwide.
The vaccination is "the key to getting out of the pandemic," said Health Minister @jensspahn (CDU).
pic.twitter.com/58Hssb1Vy1
- ZDF Morgenmagazin (@morgenmagazin) December 28, 2020
Spahn spoke of
hope and confidence in
view of the start of the vaccinations
.
"Vaccination is the key to get out of the pandemic," he wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
On Bayerischer Rundfunk, he spoke of a
"giant step"
in the fight against the corona virus.
(cibo) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.