Angela Merkel invites you to the Corona Vaccination Summit on Monday (February 1st).
The expectations are high.
The anger potential even higher.
And the next chaos is looming.
Our news ticker on the topic.
Tomorrow, Monday (February 1), Chancellor Merkel and the prime ministers will meet for a corona vaccination summit.
The expectations are high, the risk of failure all the greater - especially since the federal and state governments cannot really decide anything on the subject anyway.
Nevertheless, the list of demands before the summit from politics and business is long.
An
overview
of the previous vaccination failure in Germany (first report from January 31, 10:33 a.m.) and all the latest news about tomorrow's summit always live here in our news ticker.
Berlin (January 31, 10:33 am)
- Create clarity, agree on reliable schedules, speed up.
The Corona *
vaccination summit
with Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) * and the prime ministers of the federal states should be a liberation across the
board
.
It would be urgently needed.
The start of the corona vaccination at the turn of the year has a messed up on all levels.
An overview:
Pure chaos with corona vaccinations: delivery stops, questionable effect, too few ordered
The allegations are harsh and so far no one has really been able or willing to clear them from the table: The
EU
has ordered
too few vaccine doses
and that is apparently also contractually vague.
At Biontech there is a sudden delivery stop.
Also
Moderna
significantly reduced its commitments to bottom.
And
the
Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
denies that Astrazeneca
has
a reasonable effect on people over 65.
But above all: In Germany, it seems that far too little vaccine arrives.
Which may also have something to do with the well-known German small-state government.
Each federal state distributes its vaccination doses differently.
In Bavaria, each district even organizes the distribution a little differently.
At least from the little vaccine that gets there.
It is not much.
Chaos with corona vaccinations: Every federal state vaccinates differently, in Bavaria even every region
While in Lower Saxony, Hesse and Rhineland Palatinate, for example, people over 80 years of age are already being vaccinated, in Bavaria the focus has so far been on herd immunity at the state's largest clinics.
In terms of width, therefore, little is received, even if hardly anyone dares to say it.
Markus Söder's current suggestion, which he made in the
ZDF morning
magazine, that Astrazeneca should be used to vaccinate clinic staff and doctors and not old people,
sounds
very nice.
Only in his federal state are the large clinics reasonably well supplied, but not the elderly.
Corona vaccination chaos in Germany: Spahn appeases and promises
Meanwhile, Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) * is doing what he has been doing for weeks, he appeases and promises improvement: "There are vaccines every week, and there are also more, step by step." One year after the start of the pandemic, three were approved effective vaccines.
His ministry calculates that 3.5 million cans have already been delivered, with five more to come by
February 22
.
The Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD) * no longer really believes in it.
She said to
BamS
:
“The quantities of the vaccine from Moderna have been cut by 20 percent, the announcements from Astrazeneca are subject to change. On this basis, we still cannot reliably assign vaccination appointments. "
Vaccination summit with Merkel: the question remains, what can Germany solve alone
The hopes at the
vaccination summit on Monday (February 1) in the Chancellery
are therefore high.
But what he can achieve is very much an open question.
As is well known, orders, contracts and delivery are with the EU, neither with the federal government nor with the states.
Please also read the current
Merkur.de
* comment *.
Franziska Brantner, European spokeswoman for the Greens in the Bundestag, agrees: “A national vaccination summit alone does not help.
Pharmaceutical companies are usually set up multinational.
This is where the EU has to act, ”she told the editorial network Germany (RND).
Before the corona vaccination summit with Merkel: Politicians are calling for binding statements
Nevertheless:
SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich
demands from the summit "more precise and binding statements about how the pharmaceutical industry wants to meet its delivery obligations and how it can increase the production of vaccines so that the inoculation can function smoothly on site".
The managing director of the
German Association of Cities
, Helmut Dedy
, also found clear words
.
“The cities no longer expect vague promises, but rather clear answers to the two essential questions: When will there be enough vaccines?
When will which vaccine be delivered to the vaccination center? ”Said Dedy of the
German press agency
.
Before the corona vaccination summit in the Chancellery: Habeck calls for "emergency vaccination"
Green leader Robert Habeck * called in the newspapers of the
Funke media group
an "emergency vaccine industry" in order to produce more vaccine.
All pharmaceutical companies are to be "immediately involved in production according to their capabilities," demanded Habeck.
Corona vaccination summit in the Chancellery: Altmaier warns of Lockdwon extension
And the list of good ideas and demands goes on and on.
So it is hardly surprising that Economics Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) * is
warning the economy
in the
Welt am Sonntag
: There, he did not rule out that even if Germany's
incidence falls below 50
, the
lockdown must
still be extended.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.