Status: 03/13/2023 04:04
The Ministry of Health wants to set up a program to investigate possible long-term consequences after a corona infection or vaccination. The care of those affected must be improved, said Minister Lauterbach.
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has promised help for people with long-term consequences after a corona infection or vaccination. He will launch a program with the ministry in which the consequences of Long Covid and Post Vac will be examined and the care of those affected will be improved, said the SPD politician in ZDF’s “heute journal”.
“This is a program that I want to launch as soon as possible. I’m sort of in the budget negotiations for this money,” said Lauterbach. It is also about networking the experts in this area in such a way that the probability of good therapy increases.
Lauterbach: Vaccination damage is very rare
Lauterbach said the long-term consequences of a corona vaccination must be recognized more quickly. At the same time, he emphasized that severe vaccination damage is very rare – according to data from the responsible Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) and the European approval authority, less than one in 10,000 vaccinations leads to such damage.
Because the clinical picture is becoming clearer and clearer, it must be possible to identify and help those affected more quickly in the future. On the basis of the EU contracts with the vaccine manufacturers, the state is liable for vaccine damage, Lauterbach emphasized. It is nevertheless “valuable” if companies participate in it. “Because the profits were exorbitant. And so that would actually be more than a good gesture, you could expect that,” said Lauterbach.
