The number of people who want to postpone the appointment for a second vaccination or who do not keep it is increasing significantly.
In particular, vacation plans mean that many people do without the vaccination.
Munich - In order to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus *, most vaccines require two syringes. Afterwards, the vaccinated receive privileges such as being considered negative or not having to be included in the contact restriction. Between the injections, depending on the vaccine, there is an interval of four to twelve weeks. However, the date for the second injection does not seem to suit many.
Because more and more people want to postpone their appointment * or prefer not to have a vaccine.
Both for the reason that they don't want to wait so long for the second shot and because the appointment overlaps with their vacation plans.
According to the
dpa
, Bavarian cities and districts see this as a problem and usually have no understanding of postponing appointments.
According to the Bavarian Ministry of Health, it may even be that these people do not get a new appointment offer for the second injection.
Corona vaccination: People reject Astrazeneca because the distance between the syringes is too long
There is therefore (once again) a lot of reluctance among the population, especially with the vaccine Astrazeneca *. Because with the vaccine, according to health officer Beatrix Zurek (SPD), “it is imperative not to go below the interval of nine weeks between the first and second vaccine dose in order not to impair the effectiveness of the vaccination”. So whoever is vaccinated with the vaccine counts as fully vaccinated at the end of July at the earliest and after 14 weeks at the latest at the end of August.
According to the medical professor Eva Hummers, this long time lag is one of many arguments against the vaccine, as she explained last Thursday (May 13) in the panel discussion with Markus Lanz *.
She doesn't understand: “If someone says I don't want Astra now, because then I'll get the second vaccination so late that I can't go on vacation - I've heard the argument - then I'm tempted to say: 'You're okay clear that they are just taking that away from their grandson, right? '”she ventured her displeasure in the group.
She personally has a problem with this selfish argument.
Astrazeneca first vaccinees try to shorten the time to the second injection
There are still other problems with people who have already received the first vaccination with Astrazeneca. Instead of the previous interval of nine to twelve weeks until the second injection, they would now try to shorten the interval to around four weeks. Because then they are faster than fully vaccinated. Hummers would like to say to these: “You already know that you are putting the effectiveness at risk again,” she makes clear. The protection provided by the vaccination will then "not be ineffective, but will then decrease significantly", she explains.
According to the Ministry of Health, there is currently no concrete figure as to how many do not attend the vaccination appointment * for the second injection, but according to the Munich Health Department, the total is less than one percent.
But this value will increase significantly, as can be seen in several municipalities.
Recently, the District Office of Augsburg felt obliged to point out that when booking an appointment for the first vaccination, the second vaccination should also be checked to see whether it could be used.
Erlangen warns: If vaccination appointments are postponed, several vaccine doses end up in the trash
It is similarly noticeable in the vaccination call center in Erlangen.
There, "as in all of Bavaria", more and more citizens would register for a postponement of the second vaccination, according to the city.
According to the administration, however, these inquiries are "not provided for in the appointment allocation portal for good reasons and are generally not possible even by telephone".
According to the city administration, these inquiries are now a "major logistical problem" since the vaccination appointments are linked to one another and the vaccine is scheduled accordingly.
This could lead to the vaccine being thrown in the bin: "If, with around 1,000 vaccinations a day, only five percent miss their appointment, 50 vaccine doses are left over that day, which might expire on the same day," says the Erlangen press office.
Ministry of Health: No alternative date if there is little reason for postponement
According to the authorities, there are very few reasons to postpone a vaccination, such as an illness certified by a doctor or urgent personal reasons, such as a death in close family circle.
However, the authorities would not allow vacation trips and comparable leisure-time arguments to count, as would professional appointments.
The Ministry of Health made it clear: "Vacation and leisure plans are subordinate to the vaccination." Should someone decide to skip the appointment for reasons not recognized by the authorities, this could have considerable consequences. Because the ministry explains: "The vaccination centers were advised not to offer an alternative date to vaccinees who want to postpone the appointment for such reasons".
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