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Corona: Linke considers Karl Lauterbach's plans to fight Long Covid to be insufficient

2022-05-19T15:58:00.421Z


Late effects after a corona disease have been known for two years. The federal government has so far paid little attention to the issue. The left considers a push by Health Minister Lauterbach to be insufficient.


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Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach

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According to studies, around ten percent of corona sufferers suffer from long-term effects of their infection.

Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) is negotiating to make more money available for research on Long Covid - and wants to put an information website online at the end of May.

That's not enough for the opposition.

"Sending a page online is not an educational campaign," says Kathrin Vogler, health policy spokeswoman for the left-wing parliamentary group in the Bundestag, the SPIEGEL.

But this would be urgently needed.

The problems are similar to those of the vaccination campaign.

There, too, the education was not target group-specific enough.

The left is not alone in its criticism.

Those affected by long-Covid are demanding a large-scale information campaign from the federal government and a coordination center for dealing with the disease.

There have also been similar voices from within the Union.

"The knowledge about Long Covid should have been incorporated much more into the vaccination campaign," says Vogler.

Lauterbach had repeatedly mentioned Long Covid in speeches in the Bundestag - but the traffic light coalition partner FDP rejected the secondary disease as a reason for protective measures, for example.

Vogler says that Lauterbach "came into office as a reminder and now it's noticeable that reminding is his core competence, but not really implementing it".

Lauterbach let himself be driven too much by the FDP.

The topic of long Covid is still not high on the federal government’s agenda.

Even the chronic fatigue syndrome ME/CFS, from which many patients suffer even after a corona disease, has hardly been researched in the past.

Experts complain that this is also due to the fact that it occurs more frequently in women.

»We have a different perception according to gender: there is considerably more research into men's diseases than for women«, criticizes Vogler.

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Source: spiegel

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