Nursing homes are particularly affected by the coronavirus.
Vaccinations are supposed to protect risk patients here.
But what if the vaccination doctor himself becomes a risk?
Nowhere else do so many
coronavirus
infections die as in old people's and nursing homes
Vaccinations are supposed to change that
But the
president of the German Medical Association
warns
vaccination doctors
could the
virus
spread
Berlin - Many would like to see the
end of the pandemic at the
turn of the year
.
But the
corona virus
will still keep us
busy in
2021
.
However,
just
in
time for Christmas there was an apparently relieving message: The vaccine from the Mainz company
Biontech
was also
approved
in
Germany
.
The alternative from
Moderna
is also in the starting blocks.
The most vulnerable groups have been making the start since December 27th.
According to an ordinance issued by the Federal Ministry of Health to include
over-80-year-old
or
residents
of
old
-
or nursing homes
.
Vaccination teams
or
vaccination doctors
travel to the various facilities and pick up the syringe.
But this is exactly where
the alarm bells
ring for
Federal Medical President
Klaus Reinhardt
: He appeals urgently to his medical colleagues.
The patients were
“definitely not” adequately
protected from infection, he warned on Saturday in an interview with the
Bild newspaper
.
Many federal states and municipalities would
adhere
to the
guidelines
, and vaccination teams would not have all of them tested in advance.
"The basic
test strategy
in the area of the
nursing staff
is not carried out regularly enough."
Medical president calls for protection for old people's and nursing homes - vaccination doctors as super spreaders?
He himself learned of
cases
in which doctors “who are currently going to old
people's
homes and
vaccinate people who are 90, 95, even over a hundred years old
”
did not have to do a rapid corona test
beforehand
.
Without knowing it, vaccinating doctors could become dangerous,
super-spreaders
.
Rapid tests
are "the minimum" here, emphasizes Reinhardt.
The
general practitioner
does not want to take the slightest risk.
“I know that both medical and nursing staff are definitely working on the verge of performance.
The purely
numerical capacities
are used to over
90 percent
".
If a nursing home resident who is already at risk gets infected with his vaccination doctor, he will most likely end up in the hospital.
The staff is already overloaded here.
His
New Year wishes
directed the
doctors President
therefore to the local staff, "I wish that we the employees in the
hospital
says you've got to order your work and the economic situation of your hospital in the next three to six months ever worry ".
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