According to Drosten's statement: Buschmann calls for the end of all corona measures - Lauterbach contradicts
Created: 12/27/2022, 1:21 p.m
By: Klaus-Maria Mehr
Not always of the same opinion: Karl Lauterbach (left) and Marco Buschmann.
© Wolfgang Kumm/dpa/picture alliance
Marco Buschmann wants to end all existing corona protection measures.
Karl Lauterbach quickly disagrees – he sees Christian Drosten misunderstood.
Update from December 27, 1:18 p.m .:
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach rejects a quick lifting of the corona measures that still exist.
"An immediate end to all measures would be reckless and is not demanded by Christian Drosten either," the SPD politician told the dpa on Tuesday.
Drosten, head of virology at the Berlin University Hospital Charité, told the
Tagesspiegel
: "We are experiencing the first endemic wave of Sars-Cov-2 this winter, and in my opinion the pandemic is over".
In response, Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) called for “the last corona protection measures” to be ended.
"Christian Drosten is right that we have entered the endemic state of the corona waves, the waves only affect parts of the population," said Lauterbach.
Nevertheless, it is now still important to protect the people who are particularly at risk, for example by using masks in care facilities or by isolating at work.
"The clinics are full, the staff is overwhelmed, the excess mortality rate is high and the winter is not over yet."
Christian Drosten declares the corona pandemic over and defends previous measures
First report from December 27th:
Berlin – Christian Drosten is considered one of the most cautious virologists in the corona pandemic.
When many others were already calling for openings, the expert from the first hour from the Berlin Charité usually warned of caution.
But now Drosten has also declared the pandemic over.
"This winter we are experiencing the first endemic wave with Sars-CoV-2, in my opinion the corona pandemic is over," he told the
Tagesspiegel
.
Drosten also almost completely rules out the danger of a new, more dangerous variant.
Drosten defended the corona measures of the past few years as life-saving.
"If nothing had been done, there would have been a million deaths or more in Germany up to Delta." And Drosten also recalls the decisive step from the pandemic for him: the nationwide vaccination strategy in Europe.
That distinguishes us from China, where the virus is spreading uncontrollably and is believed to have claimed many lives.
Exact figures from China are notoriously difficult to obtain.
Buschmann takes up Drosten's statement in a tweet: "End protective measures"
Drosten's statement on the pandemic, the conversation was published around Monday morning (December 26), has now been taken up by Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP).
In a tweet he sent on Monday afternoon, he called for the last corona protection measures to be ended.
Bushman literally:
“Christian Drosten was one of the most cautious scientists during the pandemic. Now his conclusion is: The pandemic is over. We are in the endemic state. As a political consequence, we should end the last corona protection measures.”
Criticism of Bushman's demand on Twitter - and from the coalition partner
The fact that an FDP politician, of all people, listens to the “most cautious scientist” causes a lot of ridicule on Twitter.
As is well known, the liberals have been among the loudest critics of the corona measures since the beginning of the pandemic.
Another point of criticism from many is that Buschmann suggests that Drosten would also be in favor of the immediate abolition of all measures.
However , the virologist says
nothing about this in an interview with the
Tagesspiegel .
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And the coalition partner is also reacting cautiously.
The Green health politician Janosch Dahmen urges caution for the winter.
"At the moment there is much to suggest that the corona virus is hardly changing and that its currently widespread distribution will finally decrease significantly at the end of this winter," he says in the Tuesday edition of the
Tagesspiegel.
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