Offer everyone over the age of 18 a booster vaccination against corona?
Not that easy at all.
Medical representatives criticize “desolate crisis communication” from Stiko and the Ministry of Health.
Berlin - Now it should obviously go very quickly with the boosters against Corona.
Too quickly that it can even be put into practice in an orderly manner?
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) apparently recommends offering them to all adults before the six-month period.
Stiko boss Thomas Mertens spoke on “Lanz” (ZDF) about a booster recommendation for everyone over 18 years of age in Germany.
Patient advocates and medical representatives warn of two things when it comes to the idea:
A disadvantage for particularly vulnerable people.
An overload of the family doctor's office due to a "rush of vaccinations"
The general practitioner association boss Ulrich Weigeldt rejects booster vaccinations for all interested parties at the moment.
First, the vulnerable groups such as people over 70 years of age and the chronically ill would have to receive the booster vaccination, he told the
Rheinische Post
on Wednesday.
General practitioner association chief warns of "desolate crisis communication" with booster vaccinations
"Discussions about vaccinating the whole population a third time at the same time do not help in the vaccination campaign." Because younger and healthier people are usually well protected even six months after the second vaccination and could possibly also have the later without any problems Get booster vaccination.
"The hustle and bustle caused by desolate crisis communication, which was also continued by the executive federal government, only leads to unnecessary stress in general practitioners' practices and at least does not contribute to accelerating the vaccination campaign," said Weigeldt.
The board of the German Foundation for Patient Protection, Eugen Brysch, also said that the priority of certain groups should be checked for booster vaccinations - similar to the start of the vaccination campaign.
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In view of the millions of necessary booster vaccinations, Brysch warned of a "vaccination rush" on doctors' offices, which they could not cope with on a "broad front".
"Now, with a scarce vaccination offer and few vaccination sites, it is the job of the Prime Minister's Conference to ensure an orderly booster process," said Brysch to the
Funke
newspapers on Wednesday.
The German Medical Association also called for a clear timetable for the millions of first, second and third vaccinations this autumn and winter, in a letter from Medical President Klaus Reinhardt to the Prime Minister, the Chancellery and the Federal Minister of Health, from which the
Funke
newspapers quote.
To relieve the medical practices in the pandemic, Reinhardt demanded, among other things:
the reactivation of existing vaccination centers
"Pop-up vaccination stations" in residential areas and public institutions
Vaccination mobiles especially for rural areas
(dpa / AFP / frs)
