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Is the omicron lockdown coming? Lauterbach, Drosten and Streeck are positioning themselves

2022-01-10T15:15:24.083Z


Is the omicron lockdown coming? Lauterbach, Drosten and Streeck are positioning themselves Created: 01/10/2022, 4:02 pm By: Patrick Mayer Federal Minister of Health: Karl Lauterbach from the SPD. © IMAGO / Chris Emil Janßen According to the experts, Omikron will increase the number of corona infections in Germany. Is a lockdown a new scenario? Munich / Berlin - The lockdown. According to the


Is the omicron lockdown coming?

Lauterbach, Drosten and Streeck are positioning themselves

Created: 01/10/2022, 4:02 pm

By: Patrick Mayer

Federal Minister of Health: Karl Lauterbach from the SPD.

© IMAGO / Chris Emil Janßen

According to the experts, Omikron will increase the number of corona infections in Germany.

Is a lockdown a new scenario?

Munich / Berlin - The lockdown.

According to the

Cambridge Dictionary

, this is an "emergency situation in which hazards prevent people from freely entering, exiting, or moving freely around a building or area".

In the first waves of the omnipresent coronavirus pandemic, the maximum contact restriction fell below this, applied to at least halfway down the high number of corona infections.

Omikron lockdown in Germany?

Karl Lauterbach (SPD) expresses himself cautious

Karl Lauterbach (SPD) was an advocate of this drastic measure at the time. At that time, the trained epidemiologist was still considered an external expert on Corona, including a mandate in the German Bundestag. Today, as Federal Health Minister in the Ampel government of Olaf Scholz (SPD), the Rhinelander is largely responsible for the corona policy. He assessed the resolutions of the most recent Corona summit (Bund-Länder-Round) as consistently positive.

“I do believe that this will help us,” said Lauterbach on Sunday (January 9th) in the ARD's “Report from Berlin”.

As a warning, he added that the new rules would probably not be enough to decisively contain the expected omicron wave.

“I think the number of cases will increase.

Therefore further measures will be necessary in due course, "he said:" But that is now a very important step forward. "

Omikron lockdown in Germany?

Karl Lauterbach (SPD) is initially relying on 2Gplus

Further measures?

Is there another lockdown looming?

Lauterbach did not mention the "L" word with any syllable.

The term contact restrictions did not appear in what felt like the umpteenth interview on the pandemic.

As a reminder: the federal and state governments adopted the 2G-plus rule for restaurants, cafés and pubs last Friday (January 7th).

According to this, only those who have been vaccinated and who have recovered with a negative corona test and people with a booster vaccination have access to the catering trade.

Contamination would be far too risky.

Karl Lauterbach (SPD) on the Omikron variant

To implement this, Lauterbach announced a “model ordinance” for the federal states.

He believes it is first important to "give the measures that we have now taken a chance to have an effect," he continued.

Again, he wasn't talking about a lockdown.

Nevertheless, the health expert warned: "An infection would be far too risky."

Omikron lockdown in Germany?

Hendrik Streeck advises "pragmatic handling"

A comparison: Virologist Hendrik Streeck campaigned for a future “pragmatic handling” of the corona pandemic, “in order to learn to live with the virus”.

In an interview with

Bild

, the Bonn scientist said: "On the other hand, the permanent alarm condition is tiring and unsuccessful." Streeck did not mention the word lockdown either, instead demanding that "the hospitalization incidence be validly recorded".

But how will the rules continue to be interpreted?

Will 2Gplus or the access via booster vaccination become the new formula?

The Green health politician Janosch Dahmen said in the ZDF program "Berlin direkt": "We may have to decide on other interior areas beyond the catering trade with 2Gplus measures as additional protection."

In the video: Virologist Hendrik Streeck calls for pandemic rethinking

One of the top experts remains Christian Drosten.

So far, the virologist at the Berlin Charité had supported all lockdowns.

“The admission rates to the intensive care units are now dragging along slowly, but rather slowly.

Really so slowly that at the moment you get the impression: Maybe there isn't such a big problem building up, ”said Drosten last week in his podcast for the NDR.

Even more: He pointed out that, for example, the situation in the intensive care units in Great Britain is moderate, despite up to 200,000 new corona infections per day and hardly any contact restrictions.

An indication of a trend reversal in pandemic management on his part?

Omikron lockdown in Germany?

Christian Drosten is cautiously optimistic

"We have to differentiate: In the recordings we see that more than half were not admitted because of Corona, but because of other things (...) and in the admission screening (...) as corona patients.

Corona is not the leading diagnosis ", explained Drosten with a view of the island:" At the same time, however, you do not necessarily see this direct marching through to the intensive care units at the moment.

That is of course relatively reassuring at first. "

On top of that.

Finally, the 49-year-old from Lower Saxony said: "We will not tear open the gate completely, but we have to open the door to the virus in some places." That did not sound like the suggestion of another lockdown in Germany either.

(pm)

Source: merkur

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