Corona chaos in Munich: City completely overwhelmed by child vaccination - "Totally opaque"
Created: 12/14/2021 Updated: 12/14/2021, 5:41 PM
From: Andreas Thieme
Munich parents have been waiting for their young children to be vaccinated against Corona for weeks.
What they are experiencing so far is chaos.
Vaccines are delivered too late, recently the booking system broke down.
The Gasteig only starts on Thursday.
The city of Munich has problems with child vaccinations.
The designated center on Gasteig will not open until Thursday.
The reasons are problems with the delivery of the vaccine and overloaded servers.
Munich - How would the state capital be in the pandemic if children had been vaccinated for weeks? You will not find out an answer to this - you have to come to terms with reality. And for many Munich parents that means: anger about frequently postponed vaccination promises,
The latest annoyance: The child vaccination center on Gasteig for under twelve does not open until Thursday (December 16).
Reason to shake their heads for many parents.
Because, based on the previous information from the city, they had actually set themselves to today's Wednesday as the start date.
Now the health department announces: "Appointments can be made from December 16, 2021." The reason is probably the delay in delivery of the vaccine.
According to the health department, the vaccine can "only be picked up on the 15th in the evening at the delivering pharmacy".
For background information you have to contact the Bavarian Ministry of Health ...
Corona-News Munich: Huge interest made the registration server "on its knees"
The appointment booking does not go smoothly either.
The huge interest in child vaccination at the Gasteig caused the server to "bend its knees" for registration, said health officer Beatrix Zurek (SPD) in a digital city council meeting on Tuesday.
The server capacity is now being improved, everything should work again "shortly".
The Aicher ambulance had set up the website
wir-impfen-muenchen.de
together with the city
, because children from five to eleven years of
age can
currently be registered
at
www.impfzentren.bayern
, but not entered for an appointment.
It is the latest nuisance in a long chain.
A helper prepares a syringe with the vaccine against the coronavirus (Biontech / Pfizer).
© Sven Hoppe / dpa
In between, the city had already announced that the child vaccination would start at the end of November, then rowed back.
Later it was planned for December 20th or 21st, which became the 15th, now the 16th of December.
Corona vaccinations in Munich: Many paediatricians have not yet received the vaccine
But there is also trouble with the paediatricians.
“I should have received the vaccine yesterday, but I did not receive anything,” says Philipp Schoof.
"As a precaution, we have already made the first appointments - for previously ill children - for the last week of December." Fortunately, as she now turns out.
“We doctors don't know how to distribute.
That is totally opaque! ”Says Schoof.
He receives hundreds of emails and calls from parents every day.
“Some also react aggressively if they don't get an appointment straight away,” says the pediatrician.
His colleague Johanna Harris received 150 cans yesterday.
"We could vaccinate three times as much - with all the inquiries ..." On Thursday the vaccination will finally take place at the Gasteig (foyer of the Philharmonie, Rosenheimer Str. 5).
The BioN-Tech vaccine is administered on site for children between the ages of five and eleven.
