The South Africa mutant B.1351 of the corona virus is very worrisome.
Karl Lauterbach expresses concerns about the effect of the corona vaccines.
Contradiction follows promptly.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: The number of
Covid 19 cases will
remain high at the end of January 2021.
And: The
corona mutations
are
causing
great concern
with a view to
spring
and
summer
.
Karl Lauterbach
now provides a worrying assessment of the
South African mutant B.1351
.
Munich / Berlin - How long do the
vaccines
protect
against the
coronavirus
?
And do they withstand the
Corona mutants
?
SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach
, whose assessments were
often confirmed
in the
corona pandemic
, shared
several bad news in this context
via the short message service
.
Coronavirus mutations: Karl Lauterbach has bad news because of South Africa variant B.1351
"Good and bad news:
Novavax vaccine
very strong in the early phases, shows 90% effectiveness in the standard variant and UK variant in an interim
analysis
,
" he said of the expected further vaccine from
Novavax
- and then relativized his assessment of effectiveness: "This drops
to 50%
with
South Africa variant B1351
!
Many with
B1351 also
had
Covid
before
. "
(2) It shows how extremely dangerous the South African variant is.
At Moderna and BionTech, too, the effect there fell very sharply.
If instead of the 95% effect only 50% remains, you will not get herd immunity through vaccination.
Because the R value of B1351 is too high, vaccination too weak
- Karl Lauterbach (@Karl_Lauterbach) January 28, 2021
According to Lauterbach, this shows “how extremely dangerous the
South Africa variant
is.
At
Moderna
and
BionTech
,
too
, the effect there fell very sharply.
If, instead of the 95% effect, only 50% remains, you will not get
herd immunity
through vaccination.
Because the R value of B1351 is too high, vaccination too weak. "
The misspellings and missing words can
be explained
by the limited number of characters on
.
Lauterbach gave further assessments - accordingly,
a higher vaccination rate is
needed because of the
mutants
.
Karl Lauterbach on Corona mutant: "In B.1351 South Africa, herd immunity of 80 percent will probably be necessary"
“With the R-value of
B1351
South Africa
,
herd immunity
of 80%
is likely to be
required.
No vaccination with 50% effectiveness does this.
There is only one solution:
adjust
vaccinations
and avoid the spread of this mutation until then, ”the 57-year-old continued.
Findings about the corona mutant B.1351 from South Africa - according to Karl Lauterbach:
Effect of the coronavirus vaccines (allegedly) sometimes only 50 percent.
Many people infected with variant B.1351 had previously contracted another corona variant.
"With the R-value of B.1351-South Africa, herd immunity of 80 percent will probably be necessary."
Apparently not every expert shares the
fact that the
vaccines
allegedly have a lower effect
on the
South Africa variant of the corona virus
.
Coronavirus mutations: Hamburg-based infection specialist Marylyn Addo reports vaccine resistance
Infectiologist Marylyn Addo from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
said
this Friday (January 29) at the federal press
conference
in Berlin that laboratory tests from the USA would show that previous vaccines were resistant to corona mutations.
Addo even went one step further: “I hope that in six months we will be able to report on completely different things.
What we need is patience and perseverance. "
Meanwhile,
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU)
affirmed
at the same press conference
that the
coronavirus
and its mutants will possibly accompany people for years
.
It could be that immunity needs to be renewed after five years, "or after twelve months," said Spahn.
Or that the vaccines would have to be modified because of the mutations - Spahn: "Nobody knows that today."
(Pm)