You can hardly find anyone who wants or needs the injection: That is why many doctors in the district stop vaccinating.
But these individual cases hide the positive overall development in the region, says the medical coordinator in the pandemic, Dr.
Bernhard Junge-Hülsing.
District - The Starnberg orthopedic surgeon Dr. Helmut Weinhart stopped vaccinating a few weeks ago. "Two employees talked together for six hours to find six people so that we could get rid of a single bottle of Biontech," he reports. His impression: "You hardly find anyone who wants to be vaccinated anymore." Many of his colleagues feel the same way, says Weinhart. The doctor drew the consequences and hung a note on the group practice: from now on, no more first vaccinations. The vaccine fatigue, the vaccine opponents, the ignorance, the media and the Astrazeneca dead-talk - that is not how it becomes with the herd immunity. He even had to throw away the vaccine. That is also on the note. Weinhart's ulterior motive: “With the somewhat provocative text I wanted to convince one or the other.“The effect was little. And the frustration is huge with Weinhart, who complains about unvaccinated Croatia vacationers from his environment. He and his colleagues would have "worked their asses off" - but now the numerous comfortable and egoistic people would prevent the return to normality.
There is talk of vaccination fatigue throughout Germany.
That committed doctors like Weinhart quit, that the BRK canceled a vaccination campaign in Seefeld on Saturday due to a lack of interest, are clear evidence of this, right?
Dr.
Bernhard Junge-Hülsing, medical coordinator for the district in the pandemic, puts this understandable reflex into perspective.
He points out that currently 150 to 200 first vaccinations and 1000 to 1500 second vaccinations are distributed daily in the practices.
In his own ENT practice in Starnberg, he presses 30 to 60 syringes per day into the upper arms.
“Some ophthalmologists, dermatologists or rheumatologists are stopping now.
But above all, the general practitioners continue to vaccinate, ”said Junge-Hülsing.
Seven to eight out of ten citizens over the age of 18 vaccinated at least once
During the month of May, the number of first vaccinations rose by around 25,000, in June by around 12,000 and in July only by around 6,500. Things are more sluggish because the pool of those who could still be vaccinated is getting smaller and smaller . This is estimated to be between 20,000 and 25,000 people. Conversely, this means: out of ten district residents over the age of 18, seven to eight are vaccinated at least once. The Starnberg Vaccination Center specifies 64.2 percent as the official initial vaccination rate. It relates to the size of the population. If you subtract children under the age of twelve, for whom there is still no offer, and the approximately 5000 recovered, the quota of immunized approaches 80 percent. “I'm pleasantly surprised,” says Junge-Hülsing.From the point of view of the medical coordinator, the overall development in the district is clearly positive - even among 12 to 17 year olds. About a third of this group has now been vaccinated.
For the orthopedic surgeon Weinhart, vaccination is a medical, not just a general practitioner joint task, as he emphasizes. He injected vaccines into more than 1,000 patients. It was tough for a long time. And of all things, when the 62-year-old was finally able to order as much vaccine as he wanted, he couldn't get rid of it. Junge-Hülsing notes that orthopedists tend to have older patients, many of whom have already been vaccinated.
Also with Dr. Markus von Rebay's demand has decreased significantly in the past few weeks. The Gilching internist still asks every patient, but the answers often sound similar: "The majority of people have already been vaccinated or belong to the group that does not want to be vaccinated anyway." Rebay's practice is now a little more quiet again returned. In the meantime, in addition to normal operation, vaccination has brought the practice to the edge of bearable. “If the phone rings 90 times in one afternoon, it gets violent.” Meanwhile, von Rebay mainly deals with second vaccinations, but he still distributes first vaccinations as well. Despite the circumstances: as soon as he opens a Biontech ampoule, he only has a few hours before the vaccine becomes unusable.Most of the time he does not find enough people who want to be vaccinated, i.e. six or seven. Anyway, he thinks: “Then I just have to throw away the vaccine. The bottom line is that three more people would rather be vaccinated - that counts for me. "
