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Corona summer plan: "Allow a little relaxation" - Streeck against masks and fourth vaccination for everyone

2022-03-24T16:22:11.583Z


Corona summer plan: "Allow a little relaxation" - Streeck against masks and fourth vaccination for everyone Created: 03/24/2022, 17:15 By: Jennifer Battaglia, Christina Denk Prof. Dr. Hendrik Streeck has once again spoken out in favor of a more pragmatic approach to the corona pandemic. He thinks masks in summer are mostly unnecessary. Cologne – No masks and no fourth vaccination for everyone?


Corona summer plan: "Allow a little relaxation" - Streeck against masks and fourth vaccination for everyone

Created: 03/24/2022, 17:15

By: Jennifer Battaglia, Christina Denk

Prof. Dr.

Hendrik Streeck has once again spoken out in favor of a more pragmatic approach to the corona pandemic.

He thinks masks in summer are mostly unnecessary.

Cologne – No masks and no fourth vaccination for everyone?

Once again Prof. Dr.

Hendrik Streeck for a more pragmatic approach to the corona pandemic.

Despite the currently high number of cases - as of Thursday, March 24, the Robert Koch Institute reported more than 318,000 new infections - the Bonn virologist is relaxed about summer.

Corona virus: The dynamics of the infection process are decreasing - the number of cases could soon fall

On March 24, more than 300,000 new infections with the corona virus were reported for the first time in Germany.

Many federal states have extended the current corona regulations until April 2nd.

But then they shall fall.

Virologist Hendrik Streeck already sees a relaxation despite the high incidence.

This cannot yet be seen from the absolute numbers, but according to Streeck, the dynamics in the infection process are decreasing.

The virologist uses the R value for this.

It is to be expected that the number of cases will fall again after April 2nd and that the new hotspot regulations will only be used for a short time.

Hendrik Streeck advocates a "summer tire and winter tire mode" © Screenshot ntv

In an interview with

ntv

, Streeck again emphasized the strong connection between seasonality and the high number of corona cases.

"In autumn and winter the numbers go up, in spring they slowly go down." The current phenomenon of dual leadership, i.e. two waves of infection in a row, is also completely normal for domestic corona viruses.

Corona virus: will the masks fall in summer?

- "We cannot prevent every infection"

"I think we'll have to work over the summer to omit the masks in almost all areas," said Hendrick Streeck on

ntv

.

The virologist expects the numbers to increase again in autumn and winter 2022.

That's why you have to allow "a bit of relaxation" in the summer.

I do think that over the summer we will also have to work on omitting the masks in almost all areas.

Prof. Dr.

Hendrick Streeck (Bonn virologist)

A “more pragmatic approach” to the pandemic is now the order of the day.

"We cannot prevent every infection - as much as we would like to," says Streeck, who heads the Institute for Virology at the University of Bonn. Vaccinated people have a very low risk of a severe course anyway. In the summer months, the number of cases decreases added a further relaxation, "so that in the vast majority of cases the mask should be omitted," says the Bonn virologist. The virologist is thus in line with the regulations currently passed. After April 2nd, the mask requirement could be relaxed nationwide in schools and shops will.

Coronavirus: Does everyone need a fourth vaccination?

- Streeck on the recommendations for the summer

The Stiko is currently recommending the fourth corona vaccination for high-risk patients and employees in the health sector "with direct patient contact who are particularly exposed due to work." Hendrick Streeck does not consider an extension of this rule to be necessary.

"The immune responses are exhausted at some point" and the immune system gets used to it, explains the virologist.

People over 60 who are at risk may have a poorer immune response.

At some point, the immune responses are exhausted.

Prof. Dr.

Hendrick Streeck (Bonn virologist)

According to Streeck, the vaccination should primarily be offered to people who have either not been vaccinated at all or who are over 60 years old.

For the summer, a similar behavior as with the flu could follow: It is “offered to everyone, but especially to those who are over 60 years old and therefore have a higher risk of a severe course,” explains the virologist in an interview.

Corona virus: Virologist Streeck pleads for more personal responsibility in the pandemic

In the past, the virologist has repeatedly campaigned for a more pragmatic approach to the corona pandemic.

He pleads for more personal responsibility on the part of citizens and advocates that people with antibodies be given the same treatment as those who have been vaccinated.

According to Streeck himself, he has been vaccinated three times.

He compared vaccination to a "bulletproof vest" against the virus.

However, the virologist is not an advocate of compulsory vaccination - neither general nor partial compulsory vaccination in the healthcare sector.

"With our vaccination, there will be no eradication of the virus, let alone sterile immunity," Streeck said in an interview with Merkur.de in February.

"The virus continues to mutate and we can neither predict the protective effect nor the duration of protection of the vaccinations." 

(jb / chd)

Source: merkur

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