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Union nominates Drosten successor in the Corona Expert Council: Lauterbach resorted to a football comparison because of him

2022-06-02T17:39:03.320Z


Union nominates Drosten successor in the Corona Expert Council: Lauterbach resorted to a football comparison because of him Created: 2022-06-02 19:27 By: Marcus Giebel What does he say about this personality? Christian Drosten could be replaced by Klaus Stöhr in the Corona Expert Council. © IMAGO / NurPhoto A few weeks ago, Christian Drosten left the Expert Committee on Infection Protection Ac


Union nominates Drosten successor in the Corona Expert Council: Lauterbach resorted to a football comparison because of him

Created: 2022-06-02 19:27

By: Marcus Giebel

What does he say about this personality?

Christian Drosten could be replaced by Klaus Stöhr in the Corona Expert Council.

© IMAGO / NurPhoto

A few weeks ago, Christian Drosten left the Expert Committee on Infection Protection Act.

Now the Union is nominating his successor.

Munich – The gap left by Christian Drosten in the Expert Committee on Infection Protection Act may have been closed.

With Klaus Stöhr, the CDU/CSU parliamentary group has nominated another virologist who has had a high public profile during the corona pandemic for the committee, which is also known as the Corona Expert Council.

Tino Sorge announced this personnel on Twitter.

The health policy spokesman for the Union calls the 63-year-old a “recognized expert” who “stands for a pragmatic and calm corona course and for a transparent, data-based evaluation of the measures of the last 2.5 years”.

And further: "You can rely on his advice as a virologist, epidemiologist and long-standing WHO practitioner."

Corona Expert Council without Drosten: Foundation laid down in the Infection Protection Act

In addition to Hendrik Streeck, Stöhr would be the second virologist on the 18-strong panel of experts from various disciplines, which is intended to push for a review of the corona policy.

The foundation is laid down in the Infection Protection Act.

The legal scholar Stefan Huster, chair of public law, social and health law and legal philosophy at the law faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum, acts as chairman.

Drosten left the committee at the end of April.

On

Deutschlandfunk

, he explained this step at the time by saying that the committee was not sufficiently equipped and that a scientifically high-quality evaluation was not guaranteed in its composition.

In addition, the popular chair holder and institute director of the Charité Berlin criticized that confidential contents of the consultations had found their way into the media several times and that misleading and false reporting had resulted.

Video: Lauterbach is on the alert when it comes to the Corona strategy

Drosten successor in the Corona Expert Council: Stöhr criticizes warnings about a new wave in an interview

Especially between Drosten and Streeck, who advocates a much more relaxed corona policy, it was speculated that there would be a crunch again and again because of the different views.

Even with Stöhr, Drosten does not necessarily swim on the same wavelength.

In a world

interview, the designated new member of the Expert

Council criticized the warnings of a possible violent wave: "I can no longer hear these semantics: 'Even more contagious' - 'dramatically more contagious'."

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A statement by Karl Lauterbach about Stöhr is also interesting.

In the

ARD program

“Konfrontation”, the Minister of Health teased: “So, for example, in the Bild newspaper there is top virologist Stöhr and, if you like, top virologist Christian Drosten.

But in science itself, nobody would think of saying that Mr. Stöhr is a top virologist and could be compared to Mr. Dorsten.”

The SPD politician even made a comparison to sport: "Of course, FC St. Pauli and FC Bayern Munich are both football teams, but you would be able to tell the difference and that's how it is in science." Already after Drosten's resignation, Lauterbach had expressed his respect for the native of Emsland and tweeted: "Nobody could do it better."

New member of the Corona Expert Council?

Klaus Stöhr is the Union's candidate to succeed Christian Drosten.

© IMAGO / teutopress

Corona expert council: Federal government should have results by the end of June

The

Tagesspiegel

speculated at the time that the parting of the face of the expert council could have "impact on the authority of the recommendations".

Officially, the results “are to be presented to the federal government by June 30, 2022,” the Ministry of Health announced.

Within three months, the government would then deliver “the result of the evaluation and a statement by the federal government on this result” to the Bundestag.

Building on this, the Infection Protection Act is to be reformed, which will apply in its current form until September 23, 2022.

Drosten was primarily responsible for evaluating the effectiveness of the measures, but this point had to be omitted due to a lack of data.

Stöhr now recommended a "gradual plan" for the months from autumn to politicians via

Welt

- Interview, at the same time criticizing "all the threat scenarios that the Ministry of Health is building up again".

A nice greeting to Lauterbach, for whom he will most likely be able to work in the coming weeks.

(mg)

Source: merkur

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