The criticism of Jens Spahn (CDU) is getting louder.
After the AstraZeneca stop, many politicians are dissatisfied with the work of the health minister.
He now speaks up.
Update from March 17, 10:50 p.m.:
CDU boss Armin Laschet
defended the precautionary stop of corona vaccinations with the Astrazeneca product
on Wednesday evening on
ARD
.
Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) had no other option than to follow the recommendations of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, said Laschet on Wednesday evening on the
maischberger
broadcast
.
the week
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“Politics can't help but follow science,” said Laschet.
Spahn has "the hardest job ever".
Update from March 17th, 4:30 p.m .:
"We're paying attention.
We take reported incidents seriously.
And if there is something to check, then we check it, "said Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn on Wednesday in a Facebook video.
In it he defended the precautionary stop of the AstraZeneca vaccinations.
This shows that the control of the vaccination campaign works, so Spahn - and should actually strengthen confidence in the vaccinations.
As a precautionary measure, the use of the vaccine had been paused for a few days until more was known.
He assumes that the European Medicines Agency EMA will give an assessment this Thursday.
Criticism of AstraZeneca's vaccination ban - Spahn is coming under increasing pressure
First report from March 17th, 3:45 p.m .:
Berlin - Satisfaction with Health Minister Jens Spahn is falling.
According to the ARD Germany trend, which the opinion research institute infratest dimap recorded at the beginning of March, only 39 percent of those questioned are satisfied with the work of the health minister.
That is a full twelve percentage points loss compared to February - and the figures were collected before the AstraZeneca vaccination was stopped.
The crisis management of the federal government comes under increasing criticism.
Too little vaccine, the bad organization of the federal government, the mask affair and now the AstraZeneca stop and the subsequent postponement of the vaccination summit are causing annoyance.
Criticism of Jens Spahn: politicians and experts think AstraZeneca's vaccination ban is wrong
After the Paul Ehrlich Institute (German Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedical Medicines) recommended suspending vaccinations with AstraZeneca, the Minister of Health followed up on this recommendation.
This behavior caused a lot of criticism in politics.
According to Spahn, the reason for the decision are seven cases in which thromboses of the cerebral veins were temporally related to the vaccination.
"It has happened very rarely," he said on Monday.
In Germany, over 1.6 million people have already been vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The risk is low, but above average if there is a connection with the vaccination.
"It is a professional decision and not a political one," assured Spahn.
That is precisely what the Green parliamentary group leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt finds problematic.
She is of the opinion that Spahn should have weighed the decision politically.
“On the other hand, I ask myself, was there actually the weighing up of how many people get sick, get seriously sick, or die if they are not vaccinated?
That is a failure of the Federal Minister of Health. "The left-wing parliamentary group leader Dietmar Bartsch also finds the decision of the Minister of Health wrong:" I demand that the AstraZeneca vaccine can continue to be vaccinated to those who want to be vaccinated.
That would be urgently needed. "
Criticism of Jens Spahn: The risk of dying from Covid-19 is a thousand times higher than the risk of being vaccinated
Dirk Brockmann, physicist at the Robert Koch Institute, has calculated that the risk of dying from the coronavirus is a thousand times higher than a possible fatal thrombosis after a vaccination.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is examining the links between thrombosis and vaccination with AstraZeneca.
A result should be available by Thursday.
Until then, the EMA is convinced that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the disadvantages.
Because of this decision by the EMA on Thursday, the federal and state vaccination summit was postponed to Friday.
At the summit, it would be clear whether AstraZeneca can still be inoculated or not, said SPD Prime Minister Malu Dreyer.
But not all experts criticize the Minister of Health's approach.
"Mr. Spahn cannot decide otherwise when the experts from the Paul Ehrlich Institute put such a message on the table for him," said Janssens, who was formerly President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) , on Wednesday on
Deutschlandfunk
.
(Dana Popp / dpa)
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