Science star Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim now changes her mind: "Vaccination is OK"

In her current video, the scientist Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim speaks out in favor of not categorically excluding compulsory vaccinations - and gives several arguments.

Berlin - The number of new infections with Covid-19 in Germany is higher than ever since the beginning of the pandemic.

The number of corona patients in intensive care units is also increasing: around 3,000 corona patients currently require intensive care, around half of whom are invasively ventilated.

At the same time, willingness to vaccinate is comparatively low in Germany.

The expert Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim is now bringing the compulsory vaccination into play and calls for a factual discussion about this option.

Corona - Nguyen-Kim demands: "Do not categorically exclude mandatory vaccination"

“I was always in favor of vaccination, but against compulsory vaccination,” the chemist introduces in her latest YouTube video, which she has given the title “Compulsory vaccination is OK”. For now, from their point of view, there are numerous factors that speak in favor of introducing mandatory vaccination across Germany. There are currently 15 million people in Germany who could be vaccinated but are not. The virologist Christian Drosten assumes that around 100,000 people could die as a result. Because vaccinated people pass the virus on less often and usually have a mild course, so they do not burden the health system as much as unvaccinated people.

Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim therefore considers the compulsory vaccination “to be categorically excluded, as the government is doing” to be wrong. From a rational point of view, compulsory vaccinations are even less blatant than compulsory seat belts in the car. Because the seat belt only protects you, but the vaccination also protects others.

A compulsory vaccination is justified in rare cases, "such as in 1959 for smallpox or since 2020 compulsory measles vaccination in daycare centers and schools," says Nguyen-Kim. Now pragmatism is required. "Dear government, I know you promised there is no compulsory vaccination." Nguyen-Kim judges that it is even worse than breaking the word in the current emergency not to break the word. The scientist does not see the danger of a further division of the population. A rift already exists in society, it runs between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. "Vaccinated people have to restrict themselves because of people who reject the vaccination and thus facts." The intensive care units are overloaded because of patients who would not have to be there if they were vaccinated.

Corona dispute: "Quite rational" - According to Nguyen-Kim, three facts speak in favor of compulsory vaccination

"Only those who have not understood the facts or who have been deceived by disinformation make a conscious decision against vaccination," says the scientist.

She specifically cites three facts that, in her opinion, speak in favor of vaccination: The vaccination is safe, the vaccination protects and the pandemic is not over yet.

In the video, Nguyen-Kim lists the most frequent doubts against vaccination opponents and refutes them.

“Never before have there been vaccines whose safety and side effects have been monitored as carefully as the corona vaccines.

Simply because never before have millions of people been vaccinated in such a short time. ”Sooner or later, citizens would encounter the virus.

The only question then is whether they are vaccinated or not.

"Please do not be irritated by vaccinated corona patients in the intensive care unit," the scientist continues.

"The vaccination protects!" The number of vaccinated corona patients in intensive care units is logical, since proportionally more people in the population are vaccinated than unvaccinated.

To say: "Goalkeepers are useless, because 99 percent of the goals had a goalkeeper" is the same logic.

In the end, she warns: It is bad "to allow deaths that are avoidable".

There may already be a rethinking in politics: The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder had called for mandatory vaccination for nursing professions, Bavaria's FDP leader Martin Hagen agreed with him.

In other countries, compulsory vaccination is common practice for certain professions, such as the USA, France, Greece, Italy and Latvia.