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Corona update: Patient advocates reject compulsory vaccination for nurses

2021-11-12T06:08:34.203Z


What to do if the staff resigns if a vaccination is compulsory? Patient advocates see care in jeopardy. The Association of Officials warns: Corona checks can only be carried out at random. The overview.


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Nurses: inside a Covid intensive care unit in Leipzig

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Gladbach coach Hütter against compulsory vaccination in professional football

6:02 a.m.:

Coach Adi Hütter from Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach does not

believe in

compulsory vaccinations in professional football.

“We have to be careful about that.

Of course, we footballers serve as role models, but it's also about being able to make decisions for yourself, "said Hütter in an interview with the Westdeutsche Zeitung and added:" Of course, I see the situation in the hospitals, but we should give everyone freedom of choice. «

However, the Austrian also referred to "the consequences that may exist in the future with 2G".

Unvaccinated footballers are not "all opponents of vaccinations per se, but people who are waiting for empirical values."

Willingness to vaccinate in Austria increased significantly

6:01 a.m.:

In the first ten days after the introduction of the 3G rule at work, a total of more than 420,000 vaccinations were recorded in Austria, according to figures from the ministries.

In the ten days before that, there were around 157,000.

On top of that, a 2G rule has been in effect since November 8th, which excludes unvaccinated people from large parts of public life.

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Most of the vaccinations (235,000) have been booster vaccinations since November 1st.

For the first time, 123,000 people were protected against the coronavirus by injection.

According to the figures, 64,000 citizens got a second dose.

The vaccination quota in Austria is currently around 65 percent of the total population, which is slightly worse than the German value.

Expert: Many people are tired of pandemics

5:58 a.m.:

According to the Rostock infectiologist Emil Reisinger, the enormous increase in the number of corona infections is also due to an increasing pandemic fatigue among people.

"The AHA rules and the wearing of protective masks are being observed less and less despite the acute threat," he told the German press agency.

It is known that the most important protection against infection after vaccination is wearing masks.

That is why the virus is particularly rampant among the unvaccinated.

Official Association: For corona checks, only random samples are possible

4:00 a.m.:

The head of the dbb civil servants' association, Ulrich Silberbach, has dampened expectations of comprehensive state controls of strict corona rules in autumn and winter. "It will come down to random checks, more is simply not possible," said Silberbach of the German Press Agency in Berlin. "Now the crisis teams are being started up again, and I hear from many administrations that they don't even know where to get people from to control 3G or 2G." In many federal states, stricter rules have recently come into force For example, only vaccinated or convalescents should have access to many public rooms.

The colleagues felt once again let down by politics, said the union chairman.

"The public service employees have to unload that again." Health, public order and trade supervisory authorities, police, emergency services, health and care workers have been working at their limit for more than a year and a half.

The situation in schools is also permanently tense.

"Everyone is driving mentally and physically on the last groove," said the dbb boss.

For most of them there was no breather in between.

The public sector currently has a shortage of more than 300,000 employees.

Trade unions complain of growing aggression towards hospital staff

02.09 a.m.: Unions complain of increasing aggressiveness towards doctors and nurses in the corona pandemic. "In the pandemic, doctors are increasingly reporting hostility and threats," said the chairwoman of the Marburger Bund doctors' union, Susanne Johna, to the newspapers of the Funke media group (Friday edition). In particular, those who promote vaccination have often faced direct threats. "Verbal violence in particular has increased in frequency and severity," said Johna. You have already received many threatening emails yourself.

Representatives of the nursing staff also warn of increasing aggressiveness towards clinic employees.

"We observe that patients react more aggressively and angrily than we have known before," said the head of health policy at Verdi, Grit Genster.

This is particularly the case when implementing corona-related hygiene measures such as isolation, contact restrictions, mask requirements or PCR tests.

This often leads to conflicts between nurses and patients, but also to disputes with relatives who refuse certain measures.

Intensive care physicians fear overload from Covid sufferers

The German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (Divi) warns of an overload of the intensive care units with Covid-19 patients.

“If this dynamic continues, we will very soon only be able to treat emergency and Covid patients.

We urgently need to prevent that, «said Divi President Gernot Marx to the editorial network in Germany.

He immediately calls for significant improvements for the employees in the intensive care units.

"The teams, especially the nurses, finally need serious support," said Marx.

»For example: Night and weekend work are now tax-free.

We need improvements that can be felt now and immediately. "

Marx, however, is critical of compulsory vaccination.

"As a Divi, we are against it, because we have to convince people, not oblige them," he said, referring to calls for mandatory vaccinations for the health system.

“Otherwise the doubters will withdraw even further from society.

Big campaigns would be desirable now. "

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Source: spiegel

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