According to various experts, the Netherlands hesitated with the booster shot, which makes the Delta variant even more aggressive. The GGDs waited for a formal starting signal from the Health Council, after which it took weeks before they started. “You should be able to start a day after an advice.” That is what experts say in a reconstruction of the AD about the booster shot, which shows good results in many other countries.
The wave of contamination is now also affecting many nursing homes here, and one or more corona cases have been identified in around 900 locations in the last month.
It is precisely there that a quick booster shot could have made the difference, say experts, including Jos van de Sande, head of infectious diseases for the GGD Hart voor Brabant for many years. “It’s ridiculous that boosting takes so long, a debacle.” The infections in nursing homes have been rising since October. “There are extra deaths because we started so late.”
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