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Corona disaster: Millions of vaccine doses are lying around unused in Germany

2021-03-26T09:49:40.007Z


The vaccination rate in Germany stutters. There is a backlog of vaccinations. Millions of corona vaccination doses are still lying around unused. Over 80-year-olds are still waiting for a vaccination appointment.


The vaccination rate in Germany stutters.

There is a backlog of vaccinations.

Millions of corona vaccination doses are still lying around unused.

Over 80-year-olds are still waiting for a vaccination appointment.

Berlin - Certainly, the corona vaccine is scarce - for reasons that are now well known.

Then the Astrazeneca * stop.

All factors that slow you down.

But there is already an effective corona vaccine a year after the start of the corona pandemic.

It's only arriving too slowly.

The vaccination campaign is hardly picking up speed in Germany - and that in the middle of the third wave.

Not enough corona vaccinations in Germany?

The vaccination centers are currently only using almost 70 percent of their capacity.

According to the decision of the federal-state summit, the 433 vaccination centers are to carry out the majority of the vaccinations by Easter.

On Wednesday, 285,947 vaccine doses were inoculated, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute * (RKI) and the Ministry of Health.

On Tuesday it was 268,000 and on Monday only about 220,000.

The vaccination centers could do 342,000 vaccinations a day with the currently available vaccination doses.

On Wednesday that would have been 56,053 vaccine doses that would actually have found their way into the arm.

Now the vaccine is lying around unused in the refrigerator.

The inventory grows.

And the next deliveries are just around the corner.

70.5 to 73.5 million corona vaccination doses are to be delivered in the upcoming second quarter.

There were 19.8 million cans in the first quarter.

Is the next vaccination chaos threatened?

The Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance (ZI) in Germany warned of a vaccination jam * at the end of February.

At that time, it already called for doctors' practices to be involved in vaccination in order to increase the rate of vaccination.

Since then, the ZI has been summarizing the effect and the current status of the vaccination campaign in Germany in an online tool.

Now the time has come.

Doctors' practices in North Rhine-Westphalia are now allowed to vaccinate.

In Bavaria, general practitioners start in April.

3.5 million corona vaccination doses already unused

According to the “Tagesschau”, there are now 3.5 million vaccine doses lying around unvaccinated in the federal states.

NRW Minister of Health Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) spoke on Wednesday of "false reports about 'vaccination doses on stockpile'".

The vaccination doses in the warehouse should be available for appointments or second vaccinations that have already been agreed.

The Ministry of Health's vaccination dashboard provides an overview of the vaccination doses that have been delivered.

According to the RKI vaccination monitor, 11,753,895 vaccine doses (data as of March 24) were administered, but these numbers are updated irregularly.

In addition, the state of Hesse will not transmit any data from March 22nd to 25th due to a software change.

Because then it would be 3.9 million unvaccinated vaccination doses.

Vaccine in Germany

Cans shipped by March 24th

Vaccination doses administered according to RKI (data status March 25, 8 a.m.)

BioNTech / Pfizer

10,912,395 cans

5,611,264 / 3,489,123 / total 9,100,387

AstraZeneca

3,631,200 cans

2,181,260 / 527 / total: 2,181,787

Moderna

1,111,200 cans

357,732 / 113,989 / total: 471,721

Total vaccine doses

15,654,795 cans

11,753,895

Corona vaccinations in Germany - many 80-year-olds are still waiting

It works differently in the federal states.

In some countries, people over 80 are still waiting for a vaccination appointment.

This age group has a high risk of developing serious Covid-19.

They belong to the first priority group in the vaccination ordinance and should actually be vaccinated by the end of the first quarter, said Health Minister Jens Spahn (CSU) at the beginning of February.

According to the RKI, more than 73 percent of people over the age of 80 in Saarland were vaccinated at least once on Wednesday - in Baden-Württemberg and the North Rhine-Westphalia-Lippe region, on the other hand, only around 59 percent and in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania just under 50 percent.

The head of the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko), Thomas Mertens, had repeatedly warned that those most at risk for severe Covid-19 courses would be disadvantaged.

Mertens saw the reason that teachers, educators and police officers, for example, were given priority vaccinations, even if they were young and healthy.

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Source: merkur

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