The ongoing bottlenecks in vaccine delivery are shaking the federal government's schedule.
Meanwhile, there is good news from the Biontech vaccine.
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The
vaccination strategy
* has been
severely criticized
by the
federal and state governments for
days
Delivery problems
are just one of the many
mishaps when vaccinations
against the coronavirus started *
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news ticker
on
coronavirus vaccinations in Germany
is updated regularly.
Update from January 8, 10:20 a.m.:
The
EU Commission
has signed a contract for
up to 300 million doses of
the corona vaccine from the Mainz company Biontech and its US partner Pfizer.
75 million cans of
it should already be available in the
second quarter of 2021
, said EU Commission chief
Ursula von der Leyen
on Friday in Brussels.
We make sure Europeans have sufficient doses of safe & effective # COVID19 vaccines.
We now enable EU countries to buy more doses of the 1st vaccine approved in EU.
They can now buy up to 300 million more doses of the # BioNTech / @ Pfizer vaccine.https: //t.co/vjZd0L17VL
- Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) January 8, 2021
Corona vaccinations in Germany: Montgomery criticizes different approaches of the federal states
Update from January 8, 9:57 a.m.:
The chairman of the World Medical Association,
Frank Ulrich Montgomery
, criticized the
different approaches of
the federal states when assigning
vaccination
appointments
.
That creates
confusion and anger
, he told the
Rheinische Post
.
Montgomery added that
there should have been a
nationwide identical route
to vaccination appointments via telephone and an Internet platform
from the outset
.
At the same time, the World Medical President defended the Federal Minister of Health
Jens Spahn
against continued criticism.
"Jens Spahn is
not to blame for
the shortage of the vaccine," said
Montgomery
.
"For his previous actions in the Corona crisis, he gets
a straight A
from me
."
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Frank Ulrich Montgomery, Chairman of the World Medical Association.
(Archive image)
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Guido Kirchner
In addition,
Montgomery
stated
that he
could not understand
the
skepticism
among
nurses
about the
vaccination
.
"If there was a drop of vaccine left somewhere, I would get vaccinated immediately," he said.
Corona vaccinations in Germany: Biontech / Pfizer products are also effective against mutations
Update January 8, 7:14
: Good news in the fight against
Coronavirus
: A report from the news agency
Reuters
, according to
The vaccine from the companies
Biontech and Pfizer
also
seems
to be effective against corona variants that occurred in Great Britain or South Africa, for example.
“We have now
tested
16 different
mutations
, none of which had any really significant effects.
That's the good news, "said one of Pfizer's leading viral vaccine scientists.
However, he made it clear: "That does not mean that the 17th will have no effects."
The study by Pfizer and the University of Texas Medical Department examined the blood of people
injected
with the
Biontech vaccine
.
It has been shown that the
vaccine
neutralizes
the
virus
even if the spike protein is changed, writes
Reuters
.
The study has not yet been peer-reviewed.
Corona vaccinations in Germany: new delivery is coming - change in vaccination strategy required
Update from January 8, 6:26 a.m.:
Today, Friday, the federal states are to receive a new delivery of the
Biontech vaccine
.
In total, they should
receive
almost
668,000 vaccine doses
.
The delivery should go directly from the manufacturer to the 27
delivery centers in
the countries.
The most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia receives the largest share with 141,375 cans.
Bremen gets the smallest share with 4875 cans.
The delivery was announced on this scale.
Since the start of the
vaccination campaign
, at least 417,060 people have been injected, as the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Thursday.
201,000 people received the vaccine for professional reasons, such as doctors and nurses.
In addition, the preparation has now been administered to more than 168,000 residents of nursing homes.
Saxony's Minister of Health Petra Köpping (SPD) called for a
change in the vaccination strategy
.
“So far, the vaccine has been distributed according to the population of the federal states.
I believe that other factors should also play a role in new deliveries, ”said the minister, according to a statement on Thursday evening.
In their opinion, a high proportion of older people should also be taken into account.
There are one million people in Saxony who are older than 65 years.
The state is particularly badly affected by the pandemic.
Corona in Germany: Race of vaccine manufacturers is picking up speed
Update from January 7th, 5 p.m.:
In the fight against the
corona virus
, the race of the various
vaccine manufacturers
has picked up more and more speed.
While the vaccine from the Mainz-based company
Biontech
has also been approved in the EU since December, the American colleague
Moderna
now
seems to be following
suit.
The Tübingen-based biotech company Curevac hopes
to follow suit
in
summer 2021
.
In order to speed up the process, the company has now announced a cooperation with the pharmaceutical company Bayer.
It is still unclear whether Bayer will
also take over the production of the vaccine in
addition to helping with
market-ready development
, according to the dpa.
Production of the vaccine is therefore not part of the current cooperation agreement.
CureVac and @Bayer join forces and signed a collaboration and services agreement.
Bayer will support the further development, supply and key territory operations of CureVac's # COVID19 #vaccine candidate #CVnCoV.
➡️https: //t.co/wEkb5yNvm6 pic.twitter.com/ObNzsKuDNF
- CureVac (@CureVacRNA) January 7, 2021
First report from January 7th, 4:35 p.m .:
The syringes are already
pulled out
all over Germany.
According to the Robert Koch Institute,
44,332 vaccinations
had already been reported
in Germany by Thursday
.
This increases the proportion of Germans vaccinated against the coronavirus to 0.5 percent.
Health Minister Jens Spahn warned in a
ZDF
interview on Thursday morning to be patient: “At the beginning it is now tight.
That was clear, and that's the way it is. ”The
Moderna vaccine
will also be scarce in the first few weeks, said
Spahn
.
"And then from the second quarter on, things will get better step by step."
The
Biontech vaccine
* has been approved in the EU
since December 27th
.
The
vaccination strategy of the federal and state governments
does not seem to have been under a lucky star since day one.
Again and again there is criticism of the pan-European distribution strategy * and numerous
mishaps
and organizational failures.
The
vaccine
* delivery
is one of the big problems.
The around
50 district vaccination centers (KIZ)
in
Baden-Württemberg
have to postpone their vaccinations again by a week - due to delivery delays.
"The reason for this is the vaccine deliveries by the federal government," said the Ministry of Health, according to dpa, on Thursday in Stuttgart.
The country has received almost 170,000 vaccine doses so far, all of which have already been raised or planned.
New vaccine delivery on Friday: is the distribution too slow?
According to dpa
, the
Federal
Ministry
of
Health
announced
another delivery of
667,875 vaccine doses
for
Friday
.
The delivery is to take place via Biontech * directly to the 27
delivery centers of
the countries.
In Baden-Württemberg, the corresponding vaccine doses go to the waiting
central vaccination centers
.
Only part of the next corona vaccine delivery from the federal government on January 18 will then be
made available
proportionally to the district
vaccination centers
.
Until then you have to wait.
There is simply not enough vaccine yet to bring the centers up to the county level.
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This is how the transport for the coronavirus vaccine in Germany works
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The slow start has other reasons as well.
For example, some of the corona vaccinations will be
withheld
for the
second vaccination previously classified as necessary
.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health in
Baden-Württemberg also
emphasizes the different
distribution strategies of
the federal states: “A federal state that primarily relies on
mobile vaccination teams in nursing homes
will end up having a lower vaccination rate than a state that is already strong at the beginning vaccinates in centers. ”Vaccinations by mobile teams in nursing homes would have to be planned and journeys organized.
Moderna is approved in the EU: does the new corona vaccine give rise to hope?
Many hopes are placed on new
vaccines
* against the
coronavirus
that could improve this situation.
On Wednesday, the European Medicines Agency
EMA
recommended
the corona vaccine from the manufacturer
Moderna
.
However, some vaccination centers doubt that new, approved vaccines can quickly improve the situation.
"It is good that another vaccine has now been approved," said a spokesman for the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Health of the German Press Agency.
This will relax the situation in the longer term.
"From one day to the next, however, the Moderna vaccine does not
allow
any notable
increase in vaccinations
in the state, since deliveries to Baden-Württemberg - as in all other federal states - will probably remain at a low level," he continued.
Good news for our efforts to bring more # COVID19 vaccines to Europeans!
@EMA_News assessed that the @moderna_tx vaccine is safe & effective.
Now we are working at full speed to approve it & make it available in the EU.
- Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) January 6, 2021
One advantage of the
Moderna vaccine
, however, could be the
simpler delivery conditions
.
In contrast to the variant of the Mainz company
Biontech
, the
Moderna agent
does not have to be
cooled
to below
-70 degrees
during transport
.
Nevertheless, it will probably take a while before the distribution and delivery in Germany starts.
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