After a third vaccination: Two seniors have to be resuscitated - connection not confirmed

In Oberhausen, nine residents of a retirement home had to seek medical treatment after the third vaccination.

A specific connection is being checked.

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report unanimously, there were health problems among residents in a senior citizens' home in Oberhausen after third-party vaccinations against the corona virus.

Nine of the 90 vaccinated seniors sought medical treatment after the vaccination, two seniors had to be resuscitated three days after the vaccination.

It will now be checked whether there is a connection between the administration of the vaccine and the health complications.

As the

writes, the head of the Oberhausen health department is currently assuming that various circumstances would have led to the complications.

These include, for example, long-term medication, increasing heat and dehydration.

Complications after third vaccination: doctor warns in internal letter

The incident in Oberhausen moved the board of directors of the district office of the North Rhine Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians to send an internal letter to its colleagues, which is available to the

.

"I would ask you to make a medical decision yourself whether you are waiting for a recommendation from the Stiko or EMA or whether the third vaccinations are now so urgent for your own patients that you have to do them without a recommendation," it says.

The Oberhausen family doctor Peter Kaup decided not to give his patients any further third-party vaccinations due to the incident.

A third vaccination "to be carried out quickly without a vaccination recommendation is not understandable from a medical point of view".

He wanted to wait for a decision by the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko), he reported to the

.

Also in the Mühlheim vaccination center there will be no third vaccinations for over 80 year olds in the near future if the second vaccination was less than six months ago.

Booster vaccination: Paul Ehrlich Institute investigates incidents

The incidents in Oberhausen were reported to the Paul Ehrlich Institute. A connection between third-party vaccination and cardiovascular, respiratory and neurological disorders in the residents of the senior citizens' home in Oberhausen is the subject of the investigation. Dr. Henning Karbach, head of the Oberhausen health department, pointed out to the

that the incidents involved “multimorbid” and severely “previously ill” people on long-term medication. "Presumably, different circumstances, which were temporally related to the vaccination, led to this situation," clarifies the doctor.

The Dortmund virologist Carsten Watzl also warned

not to jump to conclusions. One cannot deduce the majority from individual cases. KV Westfalen-Lippe referred to studies from Israel that showed no problems with third-party vaccinations.