Experts are calling for the vaccination rate in Germany to be significantly accelerated.
RKI boss Wieler speaks of an "emergency" - and makes specific suggestions.
Berlin / Dresden - The President of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler, wants to increase the vaccination rate through corona vaccinations in pharmacies.
"We are in an emergency, and in an emergency you have to design certain things generously," said Wieler on Wednesday evening at an online discussion event with the Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU).
Therefore, he is in favor of pharmacists, among others, to vaccinate.
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“I will now make it very clear: It must now be the end of the story that someone is not allowed to vaccinate any other professional group due to any circumstances.
We are in an emergency, ”emphasized Wieler.
“We need everyone to be vaccinated.” There are many millions of people who need to be vaccinated, even with booster vaccinations.
“Every man and mouse who can vaccinate should kindly vaccinate now.
Otherwise we won't get this crisis under control. "
At the same time, Wieler advocated the 2G rules (vaccinated and recovered).
"We really shouldn't give those who don't get vaccinated the chance to bypass the vaccination, for example by allowing themselves to be freed." At the moment, Germany is approaching a "serious emergency".
"We're really going to have a very bad Christmas if we don't take countermeasures now."
Feared twice or three times as many new infections
Wieler drew a dramatic picture of the current corona situation in Germany.
The numbers went up steeply, and they are far higher than known: “The under-reporting of the true numbers is increasing.” Behind the more than 50,000 infections that are currently registered per day, “there are at least twice or three times as many ", So the RKI boss.
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In the past few weeks, 0.8 percent of the sick died.
This means that of the more than 50,000 people per day who are currently diagnosed with new infections, 400 would die in the next few weeks.
At the federal press conference, he recently spoke cautiously of 200 deaths per day, but the number is actually much higher.
Nothing can be changed about the death of these people, no one can help them, not even with the best medical care.
"The child fell into the well."
Critical situation in the hospitals
The situation in the hospitals is also getting worse and worse, according to Wieler.
The number of seriously ill corona patients is increasing, and stroke patients and other seriously ill people have to search for a free intensive care bed for up to two hours in some places.
"The supply is already no longer in accordance with the rule in all federal states," said the RKI boss.
And that will increase.
“As you can see, the prognoses are super bleak.
They are really dark, ”said Wieler.
“There is an emergency in our country.
If you don't see that, you're making a very big mistake. ”Dpa
