Will the Biontech vaccination against the coronavirus lose its effect earlier than expected?
Karl Lauterbach comments on observations in Israel.
Munich / Berlin - World Vaccination Champion.
As if the vaccinations against the insidious corona virus were a competition between states.
Many observers used this term to refer to Israel, which has a population of around 8.9 million.
The Israelis vaccinated their population in a hurry in early 2021.
The West watched this mammoth task with envy.
Is the effect of the Biontech corona vaccine waning?
Israel draws attention
At the time, Israel also vaccinated with the vaccine from the German-American pharmaceutical association Biontech / Pfizer.
As
rtl.de
reports, more than 80 percent of all over 12-year-olds are now vaccinated - and according to
zdf.de
62.3 percent of the total population.
For comparison: As of August 30, 60.4 percent of the total population in the Federal Republic of Germany had received complete immunization against the virus.
What is suspicious: At the end of August, the incidence in Israel suddenly rose again to 695, and hospitalizations for an infection with the coronavirus are also increasing again significantly.
Because the vaccination doesn't protect everyone (sufficiently)?
SPD health expert and corona expert Karl Lauterbach immediately commented on the Israeli observation.
“Israel vaccinated earlier and reduced the interval at BionTech to 3 weeks.
If the high number of cases there now goes back to the 3-week gap, we're in luck, "wrote Lauterbach in a post on Twitter.
And continued: "If it is the loss of effectiveness of BionTech, we are unlucky."
Will the corona vaccine from Biontech wear off earlier?
Karl Lauterbach comments
Lauterbach had shared a tweet by the American cardiologist Eric Topol, who accordingly supports the thesis that the increasing corona infections in Israel have to do with the short vaccination interval.
Or speak for a diminishing effect of the Biontech vaccine after a few months.
Israel vaccinated earlier and reduced the interval at BionTech to 3 weeks.
If the high number of cases there now goes back to the 3-week gap, we're lucky.
If it is the loss of the effect of BionTech, we are unlucky.
https://t.co/2yITM4QnDU
- Karl Lauterbach (@Karl_Lauterbach) August 29, 2021
"We now always have to look at the number of infections differently according to age group," explains the doctor and medical journalist Dr.
Christoph Specht the news portal
rtl.de
.
He points out that the vaccinations do not necessarily protect against infection with the virus, but against a serious course of the disease.
He assumes that vaccination protection wears off faster in older people.
Specht: "An old person has an old immune system that is no longer as efficient."
Does the Biontech vaccine wear off earlier?
Increasing numbers of infections despite vaccination campaign
What are the reasons for the increasing number of infections despite the vaccination campaign?
The scientific debate about it is ongoing in the Corona crisis and knowledge is being collected.
It will take some time before binding statements are made.
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