Experts have been warning of the third wave for a long time.
Nevertheless, easing was announced in early March.
Now the number of infections is rising rapidly again.
Did politics make mistakes?
Berlin - At the beginning of March, the CDU chairman Armin Laschet (CDU) named three key points for successfully fighting pandemics: testing, vaccination and digitization.
The federal and state governments decided to gradually open the country at their last Corona summit.
But in those three areas there is a problem, as the ARD political magazine
Kontraste
outlines.
The number of infections is picking up speed again in Germany.
According to the pandemic researcher Thorsten Lehr, an incidence of 200 could be threatened as early as the beginning of April.
“There are two reasons for this: On the one hand, we have relaxations that have been in effect since March 8th.
Second, of course, we also have the mutants that are currently spreading relatively strongly.
And of course we have a very explosive mixture that comes together here and will really let the increase take place very quickly, "says Lehr." This third wave that is coming now could be more violent than anything we have seen up to now. "
Corona crisis: Expert predicts an incidence of 200 at Easter
Error number one in politics is too few self-tests, claims
Kontraste
in their error analysis.
These were first announced by Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU), but he had failed to buy enough tests.
The strategy of the federal government called for self-tests in schools, but if none arrive there or too few, this is problematic.
"With two tests, and the models say this very clearly, you can detect infections early and prevent further transmission," says Claudia Denkinger,
the head of tropical medicine at Heidelberg University Hospital in an interview with
Kontraste
.
However, the national test strategy only provides for one test per week for students.
According to Denkinger, this is of little use.
Corona crisis: Vaccination is too slow and digitization is failing
Another omission is vaccination that is too slow.
Just half of the over-80-year-olds are vaccinated and many of the vaccination doses delivered are withheld for second vaccinations, according to the program
Kontraste from the RBB
.
The biggest problem is that there is not enough vaccine.
2.5 million doses of vaccine is there, but it has not yet been vaccinated.
“We'd have to vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate, all the time.
And it would be a good and correct signal if we said: All the vaccines are inoculated, there is nothing left and we are waiting.
It is absolutely unacceptable that vaccine is lying around while at the same time more than 2000 people die a week, ”says emergency doctor and politician Janosch Dahmen (Greens).
The last problem is the digital failure of the health authorities.
They should actually work with the Sormas program, but according to
Kontraste
research, only a quarter of the around 400 health authorities work with the software.
“Basically we are medical professionals.
We are not IT experts who can plan and implement software implementation.
And we do that as a side business.
You need support there.
We need people who take us by the hand, who tell us how to do it, ”says Peter Tinnemann, the head of the health department in North Friesland.
Digitization to fight the corona virus remains wishful thinking in politics.
(Dana Popp)