It is a big problem: The need for the corona vaccine has now subsided so much that a Nuremberg doctor's practice has to throw away cans every day.
Nuremberg - The garbage - this is currently the end of the line for many unused vaccine doses that should actually help in the fight against the corona virus *.
The example of a Nuremberg * practice shows that the demand for the prick, which was very popular at the beginning, has meanwhile subsided.
According to a report by
Bayerischer Rundfunk
, the
medical practice "Renard & Kollegen"
has been throwing away up to 20 doses of the vaccine from Biontech and Pfizer * every day for about two weeks.
Dr.
Christian Renard is committed to previous capacities and actual needs.
“So far we have had the chance to vaccinate between 2000 and 3000 vaccine doses per week.
Now I would say we are still at 200 to 400 first vaccination doses. "
Nuremberg doctor's practice has to throw away vaccination doses: only ten to 20 percent first vaccinations
The consumption is just as high as before, especially with the second vaccinations.
The problem is the first vaccinations.
"We slipped down to ten to 20 percent," Renard explained.
But not only does he carry out significantly fewer vaccinations, the refrigerators at the Nuremberg vaccination center are also full.
This can at least counteract vaccination fatigue by carrying out special vaccination campaigns - most recently after a home game of 1. FC Nürnberg or yesterday, Tuesday (July 27th) on the main market.
Due to a lack of demand: 2,220 cans of Moderna and 234 cans of Biontech have already expired
The
BR
reports that there are currently almost 2200 cans of Moderna * and 234 cans of Biontech, which have already expired. Instead of throwing them into the trash, they then go into quarantine, as the head of the Nuremberg vaccination center coordination office, Ulrike Goeken-Haidl, calls it. "In Nuremberg we do it in such a way that we put a sticker on those who put them in 'quarantine' and then put them in the refrigerator in the hope that the manufacturers will later extend the shelf life and we can use it again later," she said.
With the vaccine from Astrazeneca *, however, it looks very different. In Bavaria around 15,300 doses of the vaccine could expire. This has increased particularly dramatically since the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) issued the recommendation to cross-vaccinate with an mRNA vaccine instead of a second vaccination with Astrazeneca.
"The last update of the vaccination recommendation by Stiko on the heterologous vaccination scheme has contributed to the fact that the federal states had to reschedule fixed vaccination appointments with Astrazeneca to mRNA vaccines and that remaining stocks of Astrazeneca are now likely to be unable to vaccinate", the
BR
quotes
the Federal
Ministry of
Health.
It goes on to explain that solutions are being worked on to keep the amount of expired vaccines as low as possible.
In the video: More than half of Germans are vaccinated
Nuremberg vaccination center gives leftover doses to other central Franconian vaccination centers
One solution of the Nuremberg vaccination center is to pass the doses on to other vaccination centers in Central Franconia or even a little further, explains Ulrike Goeken-Haidl.
In the case of planned special campaigns, there would be the possibility of helping out immediately with vaccines.
"We are in constant contact with one another."
Christian Renard's practice approaches the whole thing a little differently: "Today would have been order day, we just didn't order anything, no vaccination at all and hope that we will simply reduce the stock as much as possible in the next two weeks." (Ly)
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