Deadly Corona "experiment" - Lauterbach warns: "Think that is wrong"

Created: 01/11/2022, 11:29 AM

From: Tobias Utz

Karl Lauterbach in 2019. (archive photo) © Christian Thiel / Imago Images

For Health Minister Lauterbach, a British corona strategy would be a serious mistake.

Instead, he insists on new measures.

Berlin - Karl Lauterbach * has again warned against a "contamination" as a strategy in the corona pandemic *. On Monday evening (January 10th, 2022), the Federal Minister of Health said on “Hard but fair” *: “From my point of view, it is an unethical bet.” Looser corona rules were the result in Great Britain, for example. For Lauterbach fatal: "So far we have done well with the course that we have protected the people," said the SPD politician * in the ARD Talk *.

"If we had had the mortality of the British, more than twice as many people would have died in Germany as we had to complain," emphasized Lauterbach in "Hard but fair". * The British "experiment", as Lauterbach called the strategy, on Applying the example of Germany would have fatal consequences: "The vaccination rate for people over 65 is significantly higher than for us." In other words, there are four to five times as many people in Germany who have not yet been vaccinated against the coronavirus and are therefore unprotected , so Lauterbach.

According to data from the Robert Koch Institute, this affects 21.1 million people in Germany, which is 25.3 percent of the population.

Many of them belong to the risk groups.

Corona: Lauterbach warns of "experiment"

Lauterbach also referred to this: Studies from the USA * have shown that "older people who have not been vaccinated" in particular are threatened by the various virus variants.

He named the Omikron variant * as a specific danger.

Many would have to be ventilated in hospitals.

If you let the corona wave run in Germany, you would have such conditions, emphasized the Federal Minister of Health.

Instead, new corona measures are necessary, 2G-Plus is not enough against the Omikron wave.

"I would never recommend a strategy like the one in England, which amounts to contamination - without being called that -."

Karl Lauterbach on "Hart aber fair", ARD

In Great Britain * the aspect of the "weak" Astrazeneca vaccine * played a major role: "Because the Astrazeneca vaccine was weak, the English - born of necessity - started boosting early."

In the meantime, new record number of cases are reported in Great Britain: one in ten employees in the health sector is already absent. * The country must now "try to live with Covid-19," said Health Minister Sajid Javid at the turn of the year.

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