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Karl Lauterbach warns of two corona risks in Germany

2021-08-25T05:48:37.251Z


Karl Lauterbach suspects that the number of infections in fully vaccinated people will go up. Even so, corona vaccines are good protection.


Karl Lauterbach suspects that the number of infections in fully vaccinated people will go up.

Even so, corona vaccines are good protection.

Berlin - Vaccinated against Corona * and still contracted Covid-19: According to experts, this is possible.

The SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach * assumes that the number of so-called vaccination breakthroughs will continue to increase.

"Breakthrough infections occur in people whose corona vaccination was more than six months ago," Lauterbach told the newspapers of the Funke media group.

With all vaccines against the coronavirus, the risk of a vaccination breakthrough increases after six months.

This would be shown by studies, explained the doctor and added: "So we will probably soon see more cases as soon as the vaccination of a number of people who have been vaccinated in Germany is more than six months ago."

Vaccinated and still got Corona?

Karl Lauterbach: Vaccine breakthrough dangers greater for the elderly

Karl Lauterbach believes that if the vaccination breakthrough, older people will have more problems than younger people.

"I also suspect that 70-year-olds are more likely to have a vaccination breakthrough than 40-year-olds," said the health politician.

As a rule, Covid 19 disease is then not as dangerous as in unvaccinated people.

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Karl Lauterbach warns of corona vaccination breakthroughs.

He believes that older people face more problems than younger people.

© Michael Kappeler / dpa

In this context, Lauterbach praised the recommendation of the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) for booster vaccinations for particularly old people and people with a weakened immune system.

"Because it is simply plausible that the probability of a serious illness is higher in these groups in the event of a vaccination breakthrough."

Corona vaccination breakthroughs: Karl Lauterbach warns of two risks in particular

In connection with the vaccination breakthroughs, Lauterbach warned of two dangers.

On the one hand, unvaccinated people are just as contagious as fully vaccinated people for a period of time.

On the other hand, there is a risk of long-term consequences of an infection with the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus.

"According to a new study, 19 percent of people with breakthrough vaccinations have a long-covid problem *," warned the social democratic member of the Bundestag.

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The probability that someone will become infected with the coronavirus and develop symptoms despite a full vaccination is "low, but not zero," emphasizes the Robert Koch Institute.

The RKI's weekly corona status report of August 19, 2021 states: "A total of 13,360 probable vaccine breakthroughs were identified (...)." 9251 such cases occurred with the mRNA vaccine from Biontech / Pfizer, 525 with the mRNA vaccine from Moderna, Astrazeneca's product accounted for 896, and Johnson & Johnson's in 1936.

Reinhold Förster, professor at the Institute for Immunology at the Hannover Medical School, sees no cause for concern when looking at the numbers.

“Such a number of vaccination breakthroughs had to be expected at least.

We already knew from the large vaccination studies that the vaccines do not offer one hundred percent protection, ”he told the SWR.

Vaccinated and still infected with Corona: Most people in the hospital do not have a vaccination

According to the Cologne intensive care doctor Christian Karagiannidis, most of the Covid patients currently being treated in German clinics do not have a vaccination. He told Funke that there were also cases of vaccinated people in inpatient treatment. “We currently have 12 to 13 percent of Covid patients in clinics with vaccination protection in North Rhine-Westphalia. This quota should also correspond to the nationwide quota. "

In his experience, the inpatiently treated people with breakthroughs in the vaccination are, for example, people with a restricted immune response, for example as a result of drug dampening of the immune system.

It is important that a third vaccination is now offered as a booster to those patients who have a subdued immune system, said Karagiannidis.

(tvd / dpa)

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Source: merkur

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