Virology scandal: Drosten counters Stöhr's corona tweet with a simple image
Created: 06/29/2022, 09:12
By: Ines Baur
Christian Drosten always has a different opinion than his successor Klaus Stöhr.
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Corona and no end.
Virologist Christian Drosten criticizes epidemiologist Klaus Stöhr for a post on Twitter.
Federal Minister of Health Lauterbach is involved.
Berlin – The corona virus is not interested in holidays or vacations and is not taking a break for the third summer.
The number of infections is at a high level and holiday countries such as Italy, Greece and Co. are bringing 3G back.
There is also concern about another wave in the fall.
Virologist Christian Drosten left the Advisory Council in the spring.
His successor is the epidemiologist Klaus Stöhr, whose expertise has differed from that of his predecessor in recent years.
Corona in Germany: How high is the R value?
The fact that the two experts still have quite different opinions was recently shown in a scandal on the Twitter platform.
Stöhr posted a tweet that referred to a comment in the
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
.
"Citizens, obey!" The next harsh winter is looming in Germany, but bondage must not return, according to the author.
Drosten responded to the tweet two days later and quoted an excerpt from the article: "... the formerly famous R value remains at a low level.
It indicates how many people an infected person infects on average and is around 1.” Drosten publishes a graphic on the development of the reproductive value in Germany and comments “Excerpt from reality: R>1 since June 2nd, three weeks before Article."
The R value indicates how many other people an already infected person infects with the corona virus on average.
If the value is above one, the number of infected people increases overall.
If it is below that, infections decrease.
Stöhr vs. Drosten: Lauterbach also tweets
As the editorial network Germany reports, Karl Lauterbach (SPD) also got involved in the Twitter debate.
"If we had a high number of cases and overwork in autumn, many deaths, loss of work in the infrastructure: the NZZ would criticize us sharply, and rightly so," writes the Federal Minister of Health.
And: “Politics need data and studies.”