If family doctors help with the corona vaccinations, everything could go much faster.
But more vaccine is needed for that.
The decision on the start date was postponed.
The federal and state governments want family doctors to help with vaccination
(see first report).
Chancellor Merkel * and the country chiefs should now determine an exact start date
(see update from March 10, 1:16 p.m.)
The General Practitioner Association criticizes the delay
(see update from March 11, 6:28 a.m.)
.
This news ticker is updated regularly.
Update from March 12th, 11.30
a.m.: There were great hopes for breakthroughs in the field of corona vaccinations in Germany on Wednesday: The health ministers of the federal states held a kind of mini-summit on the start of vaccination with family doctors - but Chancellor Angela Merkel ( CDU) once again made the matter a top priority.
So the trust in Minister Jens Spahn and his counterparts in the federal states does not seem too great.
Now there is at least a date for the final deliberations on the big government floor: Merkel and the prime ministers of the federal states want to deal with the issue on March 17th.
The dpa learned on Friday from groups of participants that they wanted to vote on current vaccination issues from 7 p.m. on this Wednesday.
The health ministers agreed on Wednesday on the 16th calendar week (April 19 to 25) or earlier as the start date for the routine vaccinations in medical practices - should the delivery quantities allow this.
There are already doubts about this (
see previous update
).
On March 22nd, as planned, Merkel wants to coordinate with the ministerial presidents on how to proceed in the corona lockdown.
Corona vaccination misery in Germany: Gassen does not expect a family doctor to start in April
Update from March 11, 8.25 a.m.:
The head of the
National Association of Statutory
Health Insurance Physicians (KBV), Andreas Gassen, does not see the general practitioners and specialists starting the corona vaccinations in April as planned by the federal government.
The vaccination resources could “probably only be used in doctors' offices in May,” said Gassen in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin”.
There is a lack of vaccine.
In addition, the government decided to continue immunizing people in vaccination centers as a priority for the time being.
"Five million vaccinations per week can be done in a doctor's office without much effort," said the KBV CEO.
The prerequisite is that these vaccine quantities are available.
“Then 50,000 or 100,000 practices would be involved in the vaccination process.
That could even be more, ”said Gassen.
After consultations in the Federal Ministry of Health on Wednesday, it was said that the corona vaccinations in the family doctor's practices could routinely only start in mid-April
(see previous update)
.
Corona vaccinations: General practitioners' association criticizes delay
Update from March 11, 6:28 a.m.:
A date could have been set on Wednesday, now Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of government of the countries should decide on the start date for corona vaccinations for general practitioners
(see update from March 10, 1:16 p.m.)
.
The head of the general practitioner association, Ulrich Weigeldt, criticized the delay that has now arisen.
"We are not only ready, we have been scratching our feet impatiently for weeks," he told
Deutschlandfunk
.
He could not understand that "the people are kept in lockdown, so to speak," instead of vaccinating them.
The vaccination centers were certainly necessary at the beginning.
In the practices, however, can be vaccinated faster and better.
The federal and state health ministers agreed on Wednesday on the recommendation to start routine corona vaccinations in general practitioners' practices in mid-April.
This was justified by the fact that there was not yet enough vaccine available for an earlier start.
Previously, a vaccination start in the practices at the beginning of April was targeted
(see first report).
Meanwhile, the dentists also offered to help with the corona vaccinations.
Dentists, as licensed doctors, are basically qualified to carry out vaccinations, said the chairman of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Dentists (KZBV), Wolfgang Eßer, the
editorial network Germany
.
“With their expertise and professionalism, the dental profession offered their support with test and vaccination measures at an early stage.
The offer is still valid. "
Corona vaccination in general practitioners' practices: According to Prime Minister Dreyer, more vaccine is required
Update from March 10, 4:25 p.m.:
Will the general practitioners soon bring Germany the big breakthrough in corona vaccinations?
A country chief warns of expectations that are too high: In the opinion of the Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD), the inclusion of the doctor's practices in the corona vaccination campaign requires that significantly more vaccine be available.
"Including new vaccination stations depends on whether the vaccine actually comes," said Dreyer on Wednesday of the dpa.
"Anything else makes no sense, we just distribute the existing vaccine again to all possible instances without us speeding up."
Dreyer continues: “At the moment the impression is being spread that we don't have the infrastructure, but that we have vaccine lying around.
But that is not the case.
We have no vaccine lying around at all.
We inoculate everything that is there. ”She is optimistic that the vaccine amounts will now increase.
Biontech announced that too.
There will be no decision on how to proceed for the time being: The health ministers of the federal states wanted to work out a joint recommendation on this matter on Wednesday, but the final decision should only be made in a top round by Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the prime ministers. President of the countries fall, said government spokesman Steffen Seibert in Berlin.
So the matter becomes a “top priority”.
This round should take place "promptly" before the Prime Minister's Conference planned for March 22nd.
The aim is to start vaccinating family doctors as early as possible, but no later than the week of April 19, the ministers decided after deliberations.
Corona vaccinations in Germany: Bavaria and Saxony set course for the "bar vaccination"
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Health Minister Jens Spahn (r.) And his Bavarian counterpart Klaus Holetschek (l.) At the federal press conference.
© Kay Nietfeld / dpa
Update from March 10th, 1.40 p.m.:
In the future, a change in the vaccination ordinance should enable so-called bar or ring vaccinations in particularly affected border regions with a high infection rate.
That said government spokesman Steffen Seibert.
After this became known about a region in Saxony
(see update from March 10th, 1 p.m.)
, Bavaria's Minister of Health Klaus Holetschek (CSU) also announced that the specified vaccination sequence can be deviated from in future in corona hotspots.
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) had promised him to change the federal vaccination regulations accordingly, Holetschek told the German Press Agency.
"The point is to get this outbreak under control," said Holetschek.
As an example, he cited possible series vaccinations in companies in which there are increased corona infections.
Theoretically, everyone over the age of 18 could then be vaccinated where it makes sense, said Holetschek.
The local authorities would have to decide on the procedure.
Corona vaccination: Merkel should decide on the start date with the countries
Update from March 10, 1:16 p.m.:
The doctor's offices are waiting for an appointment from when they can vaccinate their patients against corona.
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the prime ministers of the federal states are now to decide on the exact starting point.
This should happen "promptly" before the upcoming next federal-state consultations on March 22nd, as government spokesman Steffen Seibert announced according to dpa.
As a basis for this, the federal and state health ministers should submit a recommendation.
Federal Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) had previously advertised such an approach in the cabinet, as a spokeswoman for the department said
(see update from March 10, 1 p.m.)
.
Apparently there are also different assessments among the countries.
Corona vaccination for general practitioners: Health Minister Spahn wants a nationwide approach
Update from March 10th, 1 p.m.:
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) has spoken out in favor of a joint decision with the Prime Minister to include the doctor's practices in the corona vaccinations.
This was reported on Wednesday from government circles, as the dpa reported.
According to the
Bild,
Spahn also campaigned for it in the cabinet in view of different assessments among the countries.
Working together is all the more important.
At the request of the dpa, the Ministry of Health stated that the goal was still to start vaccinations in practices at the beginning of April.
There should be a nationwide procedure to also use distribution channels via wholesalers and pharmacies.
The regional vaccination centers of the countries should continue to work, appointments should remain.
The federal and state health ministers will discuss the details on Wednesday
(see first report)
.
In addition, positive news reached the EU: The vaccine manufacturers Biontech and Pfizer want to deliver an additional four million doses to the European Union in the next two weeks, as Commission head Ursula von der Leyen * said.
The additional package was negotiated so that EU countries could vaccinate in corona hotspots and slow down more contagious virus variants.
According to the internal EU distribution key, Germany could get 18.6 percent of the additional quota, i.e. 740,000 cans.
The federal government must decide whether to make use of this option and how the quantities would be distributed among the federal states.
Corona vaccination: More doses for hotspots in the border region - deviation from vaccination priority possible
The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) announced after the communication from the EU that the Bavarian corona hotspots on the border with the Czech Republic should receive another 100,000 additional doses of vaccine in the short term.
With the special allocations already promised, there will be a total of 150,000 additional doses for the border regions particularly affected by the British virus variant.
In the meantime, Spahn also approved the plan of the Saxon state government to deviate from the vaccination priority in the Vogtland district.
After a conversation with Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU), it was agreed that there would be a "protection bar" through vaccinations, as he said on ZDF.
This is to prevent many people from getting infected in the severely affected border area with the Czech Republic and carrying the disease further inland.
This means that everyone over the age of 18 could soon be vaccinated in the region.
Corona vaccination: General practitioners are to support vaccinations from the beginning of April
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Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) is looking with the state ministers for a solution for corona vaccinations at the family doctor.
© Frederic Kern / Future Image / Imago
First report from March 10th:
Berlin - It could be the breakthrough: In the future, general practitioners in Germany are to vaccinate against Corona.
Then those who want to be vaccinated can be piqued directly from their trusted doctor and no longer have to go to a vaccination center.
But Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) * does not want arbitrary vaccination without orientation to the existing priority list *.
"I have a very high level of trust in the doctors that they want to first vaccinate those patients who are also most at risk," he said in the ZDF "Morgenmagazin".
But everything has not yet been clarified for the corona vaccinations at the family doctor.
When should it start?
The doctors are waiting for the starting shot and further rules of politics.
That is why the federal and state health ministers want to sit down again and set the exact time for the start on Wednesday.
At least an initial agreement has already been reached: The date should be in the beginning of April.
Now it should be a question of how the expected vaccine doses are distributed to the vaccination centers and practices.
Corona vaccination at the family doctor: Spahn's suggestion is said to have caused anger among state ministers
How good the mood is remains to be seen, because: According to a report by
Business Insider,
a switch between the ministers on Monday
led to a scandal.
According to this, Spahn is said to have surprised the federal states with a draft resolution according to which the vaccination centers and mobile vaccination teams - which are currently in use - should receive significantly fewer vaccine doses per week from April than the general practitioners' practices.
The news portal also gives figures: a maximum of 1.25 million vaccine doses per week for vaccination centers and mobile teams in the federal states, an average of around 2.7 million vaccine doses per week gradually for the approximately 75,000 general practitioners' practices.
This would give the federal states significantly less leeway and responsibility.
A lesson from Spahn's guiding principle that the federal states are responsible for vaccinating all available vaccine doses as quickly as possible - and the poor results that follow?
In any case, the proposal is said to have caused annoyance.
“Spahn could first have asked how the plans are, and then we could have found a solution together.
He's literally looking for trouble, ”said
Business Insider
, an apparently pissed off participant of the conference
.
Too little vaccine is the problem.
In the end, the proposal was rejected.
Negotiations will continue on Wednesday.
So far, in some federal states only model projects for vaccinations in medical practices are running.
The federal and state governments hope that the vaccination of general practitioners will make everything go faster.
According to the Robert Koch Institute * (as of March 9), 6.7 percent of people in Germany received a first vaccination, and 3.1 percent also received a second vaccination.
With the help of corona vaccinations at the family doctor, civil protection could go much faster
The chairman of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Andreas Gassen, believes it is possible that 20 million people in Germany will be vaccinated against the corona virus every month from April.
An initial vaccination for the adult population could already be completed in the first half of June, the extensive immunization in early August, he told
the
world.
A prerequisite for this, however, is a rapid replenishment of vaccine doses.
In terms of time, this would be earlier than previously formulated by Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) as a goal: She wants to offer all citizens a vaccination offer by the end of summer on September 21 - if everything goes as planned.
After the family doctors, the company doctors also come into play.
The nationwide around 12,000 in-house doctors could “vaccinate around five million employees per month,” said the vice-president of the Association of German Company and Company Doctors, Anette Wahl-Wachendorf, to the newspapers of the
Funke media group
.
In contrast to general practitioners, who also have to deal with acute illnesses, company doctors are primarily concerned with preventive medical checkups.
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