Dachau - well meant, badly communicated: The press release sent by the district office on Tuesday on the current corona situation in the district contained a passage that was apparently intended to reassure citizens, but ultimately had the opposite effect.
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Vaccinations are currently in great demand
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The District Office had emphasized that “there are currently no resource bottlenecks with the vaccines available”. Nevertheless, “according to the current recommendations”, the following “combination options” would arise: Anyone who received the vaccine from Biontech for the first and second vaccination will now receive the mRNA vaccine from Moderna as a third vaccination. If you are double vaccinated with Biontech the other way around, the district office “recommends” the vaccine from Moderna. Whoever was vaccinated with Johnson & Johnson first should also get Moderna.
This recommendation caused confusion for some citizens.
Where do these recommendations come from?
On what basis did they come about?
So far, the recommendation of the Standing Vaccination Commission, Stiko for short, has been that so-called cross-vaccinations are explicitly not considered sensible.
An initial answer from the district administration provided little clarification.
"Local medical advisors" had recommended this "variant" to those responsible in the district office after "a possible shortage of the Biontech vaccine had become known over the weekend".
In fact, the still acting Minister of Health, Jens Spahn, caused a stir with his announcement that he would be supplying doctors' practices with fewer Biontech vaccines.
After an outcry from the doctors 'representatives that rationing the most popular corona vaccine would not necessarily increase Germans' willingness to vaccinate, Spahn quickly rowed back.
But then the cross-vaccination plan that those responsible for Dachau had hatched in the immediate aftermath of Spahn's announcement was already in the world.
“That was of course communicated in an unfortunate way, we missed the target,” said District Office Spokeswoman Sina Török yesterday when asked a second time.
The idea was simply to show people: "No matter what happens: everyone gets an appointment with us, everyone gets their vaccination."
Since there was no case of the case, i.e. rationing of the Biontech vaccine, the cross-vaccination variant recommended on Tuesday is also obsolete.
Basically, according to Török, the people to be vaccinated and their doctors should continue to decide for themselves which vaccine they want to use.
This decision should be based on the decision of Stiko, according to which it is best to use the vaccine that has already been used.
It remains to be hoped whether the uncertainty caused by the district office will be captured again.
In any case, a reader of the Dachauer Nachrichten thinks: "At the present time, when it is important to build trust and also to pick up the last 20 to 30 percent of those who have not been vaccinated, this behavior seems a bit negligent to me."
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