Vaccination breakdown: the person affected describes the Moderna scandal - "Am I now boosted?"

Created: 2022-01-14Updated: 2022-01-14 05:38

From: Jakob Koch

In Germany, 780,000 vaccine doses were administered on Wednesday.

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Berthold Bronisz will not soon forget this day: He was given an expired corona vaccine.

Now he is making serious allegations against the city of Cologne.

Cologne - Bronisz is one of a good 2000 cases in the city of Cologne.

According to earlier information from the city, two service providers had vaccinated against the coronavirus * with a vaccine at the end of the year, which was considered to have expired.

The breakdown was noticed during a routine review of the mobile vaccination offers, which were taken over by various service providers in Cologne on behalf of the city. 

Corona vaccination: those affected describe the Moderna scandal in Cologne

According to the information, the vaccine was the preparation of the manufacturer Moderna *.

Employees of the vaccination service provider had missed the fact that, according to the handover protocol, it would expire on December 26th, as it had already been thawed.

The best-before date of the batch printed on the ampoules was June 2022 - but this only applied to the frozen state.

In December, the vaccines were no longer administered in full - as before - due to falling demand, the city announced in a statement.

Therefore, they sometimes had to be stored.

Together with the professional fire brigade, the service providers should now once again check all processes to ensure quality.

But actually there is "an explicit control notice".

The case brings back memories of a corona breakdown with children's vaccinations * in the Hanover region.

Several boys and girls there had received too high a dose of the corona vaccine.

They were injected with the higher concentration for adults.

Corona breakdown with Moderna: those affected describe fears

For 59-year-old Berthold Bronisz, worries are now great.

“Does that have any health disadvantages for me?

And am I now boosted, so do I have a vaccination or not? ”He told the

.

The city has not yet contacted him.

A scandal for him: "Do I really have to find out from the media first?"

Moderna: How boosters help against Corona variant Omikron

A booster dose with the vaccine from Moderna significantly increases the body's immune defense against the new Corona variant Omikron *, according to the manufacturer. Compared to a double vaccination, the neutralizing antibody level increased by around 37 times after a booster with the approved dosage, said the US company. The researchers had analyzed the antibody level in the laboratory 29 days after the booster vaccination. There are still no data on how long the effects last after booster with the Moderna vaccine mRNA-1273. The company is already working on the development of an Omikron-specific booster candidate.

The city of Cologne had already publicly stated that it did not pose a health risk.

They want to offer those affected now possible follow-up vaccinations and faster booster vaccinations *.

In a statement, the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) could not rule out the possibility that vaccines that were stored in a way that deviated from the prescribed storage conditions could suffer certain losses in terms of effectiveness, according to the city of Cologne.

However, the institute does not assume a complete loss of the active ingredient.

The city now wants to write to those affected like Berthold Bronisz and make them a short-term vaccination offer in the recommended time windows.