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The vaccination campaign is already running, but Christian Drosten warns of the rapid relaxation of the corona rules. He has little hope for the vaccinations until Easter.
- Before the Corona summit in a week, the question arises: Relaxations or Extension of the lockdown?
- Virologe Christian Drosten sees rapid easing in Germany skeptical.
- He does not expect any major vaccination effects until Easter.
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Berlin – In a week the time has come: The federal-state consultations are going into the next round. When the country’s decision-makers are under the Chancellor Angela Merkel if he Corona-Pandemie to come together again, it was now, probably more like one Extension of the lockdown currently valid until February 14th expected. The new corona infections are currently on a slight descent, warns of easing Virologe Christian Drosten but still.
In the “NDR” podcast “Coronavirus Update” he emphasized: “For the period up to Easter we cannot expect much civil protection through vaccination.” The Charité scientist said that reducing the number of cases was still a priority.
Relaxation until Easter? Virologist Christian Drosten has “great cause for concern”
Merkel as well as some prime ministers had already indicated in advance how they were on the subject Easing from February stand: rejecting. Rather, Merkel defended the vaccination strategy on the ARD program “Color confess” and appealed to all people in Germany to “hold out for a while”.
“We can’t expect much civil protection through vaccination in the period up to Easter,” says Christian Drosten.
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The question about Easings at Easter left the Chancellor unanswered. Instead, she referred to summer. “If we keep doing this for a while, it will get better,” said Merkel.
With that it is in the same notch as Drosten. You have to check exactly where and how to loosen up. Even more: there is “Big cause for concern”. If loosened too early, there could be numerous serious disease courses in the more than 23 million people group of 40 to 60-year-olds, should these not yet come through sufficiently Vaccinations be protected. The consequences would be fatal due to an overload of the health system and high sickness rates in companies.
Virologist Christian Drosten “positively surprised” by corona vaccination, but …
That the number of vaccine doses should increase in the course of the year has Drosten “very positively surprised”. “The situation is much better than I thought days ago.” And yet one must consider the imponderables and challenges of vaccination in general.
The current vaccination of nursing home residents and the over-80s serves primarily as protection for the risk groups. Although this lowers mortality, it hardly reduces the number of new infections. “This means: Until Easter, the vaccinations have no effect on new infections“, Continued the Charité virologist.
Drosten explains: Corona vaccines are all “totally effective” against severe Covid-19 courses
The different Vaccines himself explained Drosten, are all “totally effective” against severe ones Covid-19 courses. The differences in the percentages would rather relate to courses with weak symptoms. By the summer, the delivery quantities of the vaccines should also increase significantly.
Hope draws Drosten from data from Israel. These suggest that the hospital admission rate in an age group already falls when around 50 percent of this age group are vaccinated. “That is extremely encouraging,” emphasized the virologist in the NDR podcast. But until then, easing should only be issued to a limited extent. (Nico check / dpa)
Drosten also received approval from numerous colleagues. Virologist Hendrik Streeck had dampened hopes for a life without Corona. Like many other virologists, the corona mutant worries him very much.
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