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Ethics Council professor wants teachers and educators to be vaccinated - the demand is clearly rejected

2021-07-13T15:17:46.869Z


Compulsory vaccination in Germany: yes or no? A member of the ethics council demands vaccination for staff in daycare centers and schools. The rejection is great.


Compulsory vaccination in Germany: yes or no?

A member of the ethics council demands vaccination for staff in daycare centers and schools.

The rejection is great.

Munich - "We need a compulsory vaccination for the staff in daycare centers and schools," said Wolfram Henn from the German Ethics Council to the

Rheinische Post

on Monday

.

Teachers should especially protect children under the age of twelve who cannot get a corona vaccination.

Demand for corona vaccination for employees in schools and daycare centers is rejected

"Anyone who joins a group of vulnerable people by choosing a profession has a special job-related responsibility", so the words of the Professor of Human Genetics. Although children have a low risk of getting seriously ill with Covid-19, one must however expect "that they will carry the virus into their families and infect people from risk groups".

According

to the

Rheinische Post

, he named cancer patients in families

as an example who

could not yet be vaccinated due to acute therapies. However, the demand has met with clear criticism.

The education union GEW rejects this idea, according to an official communication.

Vaccination is the best option, as GEW chairman Maike Finnern quotes in it, but it remains: "It is the decision of each individual."

We are against compulsory vaccination.

According to our feedback, the vaccination rate among the employees is already very high.

GEW chairman Maike Finnern

Teacher President Meidinger also did not speak out in favor of compulsory vaccination.

Compared with the Augsburger Allgemeine he argued: "To our knowledge, the vaccinations of teachers is very high, the rate of already erstgeimpften teachers is in some states with close to 90 percent." The main risk of infection


for the children and young people so not threatened by adults and already not from teachers at all, but from peers.

Corona: Federal government against any compulsory vaccination in Germany

France announced on Monday that health care workers were required to be vaccinated.

The federal government around Chancellor Angela Merkel continued to speak out against any compulsory vaccination and wants to promote the campaign for corona immunization through advertising.

"We do not intend to take the path that France has now proposed," said Merkel at the press conference during her visit to the Robert Koch Institute.

SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach also positioned himself on Tuesday.

He told the

Rheinische Post

: “A vaccination against Covid-19 must be a voluntary decision for every individual.

Politicians must and will keep their word here.

This also applies to teachers and educators. "

(Mbr / dpa)

Source: merkur

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