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Desperate teacher with previous illnesses: healthy people are vaccinated, sick people are not always

2021-03-01T10:13:37.744Z


Time and again, people who are actually high-risk patients fall through with the ongoing corona vaccination campaigns. Neither the Tölzer District Office nor the Bavarian Ministry of Health can explain why this is so.


Time and again, people who are actually high-risk patients fall through with the ongoing corona vaccination campaigns.

Neither the Tölzer District Office nor the Bavarian Ministry of Health can explain why this is so.

Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen

- At the end of January, the Tölzer Kurier reported on the 46-year-old physics teacher Ruprecht Steinhübl, who is 80 percent severely disabled after two strokes and is considered a high-risk patient with seven previous illnesses.

Steinhübl even hired a lawyer to get the highest vaccination priority.

On February 4th, the Miesbacher Merkur reports, he was finally vaccinated.

Vaccination appointment for 19-year-old daughter makes the teacher doubt whether the appointment will be made

How is vaccination priority decided?

The Tölzer Kurier also submitted this question to the district office and the Bavarian Ministry of Health on the basis of a current case.

A teacher (51) from the district, who does not want to be named, already had cancer and suffers from pulmonary hypertension, a lung disease.

She signed up for the vaccination on January 11th with her risk factors.

She accepted without complaint that nothing had followed since then until her 19-year-old, healthy daughter, who works in retail, registered on February 21, received an invitation to be vaccinated the next day, and the redeeming anti-coronavirus on February 23. Got syringe.

“How can that be?” Asks the mother.

As a result, she made two phone calls to the vaccination center.

She was recorded, they had confirmed there.

"But nobody could tell me why I wasn't vaccinated."

The software is responsible for scheduling appointments

The Tölzer Kurier also described the case to the district office's press office.

The answer from spokeswoman Marlis Peischer: The software, i.e. the computer, “selects who is invited from the registered people”.

“The system” is responsible for assigning vaccination appointments.

You couldn't say more.

You should ask the Bavarian Ministry of Health.

There, spokesman André Preuschoff replied to the written request with the dry sentence: "Unfortunately, we have to inform you that, due to a lack of knowledge of the individual case, we cannot provide any information as to why the daughter was vaccinated before the mother."

Ministry of Health is "no known case in which software made wrong decisions"

When asked again what the knowledge of the individual case has to do with the supposedly objective criteria according to which “the system and the software” select the vaccinated patients, Preuschoff replied that “we are not aware of any case in which the Bavaria-wide software incorrectly assigned or would have made prioritization decisions ".

The criteria are personal details (age, occupation and previous illnesses).

The ministry spokesman explains why the daughter was preferred by stating that she might work for the mountain rescue service, for example, and was thus automatically prioritized over the mother.

"But she is not with the mountain rescue service," said the mother on Friday.

Christoph Schnitzer

Also read: Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen: Corona vaccinations soon at home or at the family doctor

Corona in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district: 1000 instead of 300 vaccinations per day is the goal

Source: merkur

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