He is a highly decorated doctor: Chancellor Scholz's brother dissects Lauterbach's corona policy
Created: 07/13/2022, 05:12
By: Patrick Mayer
Federal Health Minister: Karl Lauterbach from the SPD.
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Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach is vehemently committed to continuing the tests because of Corona.
Criticism now comes from Chancellor Olaf Scholz's brother, of all people.
And clearly.
Munich/Berlin/Kiel – Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) has severely criticized the corona policy.
The brother of Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has called for an end to the nationwide tests and warned against scaremongering in view of the current summer wave.
Jens Scholz is a doctor himself and is the CEO of the Schleswig-Holstein University Clinic based in Kiel and Lübeck.
Corona tests in Germany: Scholz brother calls for the tests to end
"We are testing ourselves to death in Germany," he told the daily newspaper
Welt
and demanded: "This panic must come to an end." .
“We have to quarantine too many employees who have tested positive but feel good, are no longer infectious and could actually go to work.
This endangers the care of our patients, for example in the case of a heart attack, stroke or cancer,” he explained.
We should deal with Corona like with the flu.
Jens Scholz, brother of Chancellor Scholz and doctor
Jens Scholz therefore suggested in an interview with Die
Welt
: “We should deal with Corona like with the flu: If you are sick, stay at home.
We don’t need rapid tests or quarantine regulations for this.” To protect patients, wearing FFP2 masks would be enough, he said.
At the weekend, around 600 employees were missing at the Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital alone due to isolation.
A few weeks ago, Andreas Gassen, the chairman of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV), called for the corona citizen tests to be stopped completely.
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“These nonsensical tests must be abolished.
They are far too expensive, the bureaucracy is huge and the epidemiological significance is zero," Gassen told the
Bild newspaper
.
It was a "completely pointless event to test healthy people with questionable quality without cause," he explained.
The KBV and the associations of statutory health insurance physicians nationwide sent a letter directly to Lauterbach on June 30th and explained that they “will no longer be able to bill and pay out citizen tests in the future”.
Corona policy in Germany: Karl Lauterbach wants to continue to enforce tests
Lauterbach then spoke a word of power and explained on Twitter: “We are already in constructive talks with the KBV and Mr. Gassen about the billing of the citizen tests.
The tests will remain and will be billed correctly from today.
They are not pointless, but help that infected people do not infect others. ”Since the beginning of July, the new regulations in Germany have stipulated that free tests are only available for risk groups and other exceptional cases.
Previously, the Corona citizen tests were free everywhere and for everyone.
While many citizens in Germany's subways and buses no longer even comply with the mask requirement despite the high number of infections, the next criticism of Lauterbach's corona policy follows.
And with a prominent last name.
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