An intensive care doctor describes booster vaccinations as a "very important part in combating the pandemic".
The left boss calls for a rethink.
Berlin - Intensive care physicians expect a renewed increase in Corona * patients in hospitals in the coming weeks.
Corona in Germany: Intensive care physicians expect increasing numbers of patients in clinics
This is seasonal and with a view to increasing incidences of new corona infections to be expected, said the President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (Divi), Gernot Marx, the newspapers of the Funke media group (Tuesday editions).
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Gernot Marx expects plenty of Covid patients in German clinics.
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In this context, the booster vaccinations could play "a very important part in combating the pandemic," said Marx.
More speed with third vaccinations: Left boss speaks of "terrifying" corona numbers
The third vaccination stimulates the immune system to produce new and additional antibodies, the doctor told the newspapers.
This means that "the high-risk group of the elderly and the immunosuppressed are better protected".
The medical staff in the clinics was also vaccinated for the third time "or called upon to do so," emphasized the doctor.
The left leader Susanne Hennig-Wellsow called for more speed with the third vaccinations.
These "must now be launched as quickly as possible, the current corona numbers (Bavaria is also in focus) are terrifying," Hennig-Wellsow told the newspapers.
“The third vaccination must be advertised in exactly the same way as the first and second”.
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