The chairman of the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko), Thomas Mertens, sees “no real mistakes” in the decisions made by the committee in the wake of the corona pandemic. "I'm going to say provocatively: I would make all the decisions we made as Stiko again today," said Mertens on Wednesday at the Bodensee Business Forum of the "Schwäbische Zeitung" in Friedrichshafen.
Friedrichshafen - "I don't see any real mistakes that we would have made, in the sense that we would have wrongly assessed or assessed something somewhere," said the virologist.
As soon as enough scientific data was available, the committee made weighing decisions.
The vaccination commission had been criticized in recent months, especially with regard to its initial reluctance to recommend corona vaccinations for children and adolescents.
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As an independent body, Stiko develops vaccination recommendations and looks at the benefits for individuals and the entire population.
For this purpose, the experts evaluate international data and studies.
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