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Lauterbach calls the new corona limit value "anything but optimal" - and sees two systematic errors

2021-11-21T05:33:56.731Z


It actually serves as a new indicator for the corona measures: the hospitalization rate. SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach is now critical of this and warns of a further worsening of the situation.


It actually serves as a new indicator for the corona measures: the hospitalization rate.

SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach is now critical of this and warns of a further worsening of the situation.

Berlin - The seven-day incidence in Germany is at a peak, the intensive care units are filling up, a new infection protection law has been passed and strict measures can now be expected in many regions of Germany. Epidemiologist and SPD member of the Bundestag Karl Lauterbach is now expressing, among other things, sharp criticism of the innovations in dealing with the corona pandemic.

In an interview with

t-online

Lauterbach described the current phase of the pandemic as “the worst crisis to date” and criticized the attitude that vaccination is the all-round solution for the corona crisis.

As before in the pandemic, Lauterbach emphasized that action should have been taken earlier.

According to Lauterbach, an unvaccinated population, the worse weather in autumn and the more contagious delta variant are driving up the number of infections.

Lauterbach describes the current situation as "the worst crisis so far"

This development was predicted early on. Germany has gotten through the pandemic well so far, but in the current situation politicians should have implemented stricter measures four to five weeks earlier. It is "frustrating" that the advisors and politicians who warned of the current situation "could not prevail".

However, the SPD health expert considers the hospitalization rate as a new key indicator for measures to be particularly problematic.

Despite the critical situation, the hospitalization rate has been falling for a few days, according to the RKI.

The reason: This is systematically too low due to two errors in the measurement, according to Lauterbach.

For one, only cases from the past seven days would be included.

“This course is too short,” says Lauterbach.

It would often take longer from infection to admission to hospital.

On the other hand, the reports would often only be reported to the RKI with a long delay, which falsified the values.

Lauterbach warns to implement the measures: "Otherwise we will not succeed"

“The hospitalization rate is anything but an optimal parameter,” concludes Lauterbach in his interview with

t-online

. It is therefore important to pay additional attention to the incidence. Otherwise, “the federal states will find it difficult to take countermeasures in good time.” Lauterbach assumes that, with the measures that have now been adopted, a general vaccination requirement, as will be introduced in Austria from February 2022, will not be necessary in Germany. In this context, however, it is particularly important that more unvaccinated people get vaccinated and those who have already been vaccinated get immunized a third time.

According to Lauterbach, it is currently not possible to predict whether further restrictions will come in the course of the winter.

The key is now to implement the measures in a targeted manner: "If we do not consistently comply with 2G and 2G plus, we will have a very big problem - with corresponding tightening as a result." He hopes that drastic measures such as in Austria can still be prevented and emphasizes: “But that also means: We really have to get really serious now.

Otherwise we will not succeed. ”

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Source: merkur

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