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Astrazeneca trouble in Munich: Thousands of vaccine doses untouched for days - "At 30 km / h for emergency use"

2021-03-03T05:10:27.125Z


Will the vaccination turbo be started in April? Munich should then receive a multiple of the previous amount. In addition to the Riem exhibition grounds, other vaccination sites are therefore planned in the city area.


Will the vaccination turbo be started in April?

Munich should then receive a multiple of the previous amount.

In addition to the Riem exhibition grounds, other vaccination sites are therefore planned in the city area.

Munich - It looks like a race against time: The increasing number of mutations * worries politics, the vaccination rate should therefore be accelerated.

There is now justified hope for that.

According to information from our newspaper, Munich could receive around 13,000 vaccination doses per day from the second quarter, i.e. almost 400,000 per month.

This emerges from a resolution proposed by health officer Beatrix Zurek (SPD) for the general assembly of the city council on Wednesday.

The city should not only expand the vaccination center in Riem as quickly as possible, but also create more vaccination sites, it says.

For this, Zurek wants to obtain approval from the city council on Wednesday.

As of Monday, Munich had received around 124,000 vaccine doses since the vaccination started at the end of December: 90,500 from Biontech, 24,600 from AstraZeneca and 8800 from Moderna.

Munich is behind schedule with corona vaccinations - most of the population is without a possibility

The center in Riem is designed for a maximum of 7000 vaccinations per day.

3000 people are currently immunized there every day.

Therefore, a significant expansion of the currently existing capacities is necessary, writes Zurek.

It is therefore important to create the personnel and spatial requirements in good time.

As before, not even the first prioritization group is completely vaccinated in Munich *.

This includes around 120,000 of the total of 1.55 million inhabitants: residents and employees of retirement and nursing homes, medical staff and citizens over 80 who live in their own home.

According to the city, only 52,000 people have been vaccinated so far.

Astrazeneca problems in Munich: Vaccine is stored unused - "At 30 km / h for emergency use"

Meanwhile, there is criticism because the city left the drug Astrazeneca for some time and only injected around ten days after delivery.

For example, the former emergency doctor Dieter Gebauer believes that precious time has passed.

The doctor from Sendling has now retired.

But the 69-year-old knows from his professional life: “Time also means saving lives and maintaining health.

I don't drive to emergency operations at 30 km / h. ”Gebauer wrote an email to Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) * and expressed his displeasure with the health department.

Most of all, he is annoyed that the city has had 12,700 doses of the Astrazeneca vaccine since February 16.

The preparation has only been used since Saturday.

"So you could have vaccinated many people under 65 years of age with Astrazeneca," says Gebauer.

This in turn would have meant that several thousand senior citizens of Group 1 could have been immunized earlier with Biontech or Moderna.

In Munich over-80s still wait a long time for an appointment.

A couple reported to our newspaper on Monday that they registered online seven weeks ago.

There has been no response so far, and when a request was made on the Corona service phone, the answer was: "Please be patient."

The Bavarian State Seniors' Representation (LSVB) is now calling for the Astrazeneca vaccine to be approved for older people as well.

In view of the upcoming third wave in the pandemic, politicians must act immediately, emphasized chairman Franz Wölfl on Monday in Munich.

Politicians should no longer hide behind the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko).

Stiko recommends Astrazeneca only for people between the ages of 18 and 64.

To assess the effectiveness of the vaccine from 65 years, there is not yet sufficient data, so the reasoning.

The EU Medicines Agency, EMA, on the other hand, is in favor of approval for all adults.

Munich: This is how the city justifies the problems with the corona vaccine distribution

The health department justifies the late start of vaccination with Astrazeneca with organizational changes: The registration portal for the allocation of vaccination appointments (BayIMCO) had to be changed so that only under-65s received a vaccination offer for Astrazeneca.

In addition, modifications had to be made in the vaccination center in Riem because a separate vaccination line had now been set up for each of the three vaccines Biontech, Moderna and Astrazeneca.

The registration system has also been adapted, as Astrazeneca vaccinees receive a different information sheet.

According to the city's current figures, only 800 of the 24,600 cans of Astrazeneca have so far been inoculated.

Even with Moderna there are only 650 out of 8800.

* tz.de is an offer from the Ippen Digital Network.

On Wednesday, the federal and state governments will discuss the anti-corona course in lockdown at the Merkel summit.

Much has long depended on the seven-day incidences.

Source: merkur

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