Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) defends the approach taken during the corona pandemic and warns against trivializing the events. He emphasizes that a different approach would have led to significantly higher death rates and stresses the need to learn from the experience in order to be able to respond to future pandemics.
Lauterbach’s assessment of Corona policy
In an interview with the newspapers of the “Neue Berliner Redaktionsgesellschaft”, Karl Lauterbach to deal with the corona pandemic in Germany. He warned against trivializing the situation retrospectively and emphasized: “If we had handled things differently, significantly more people would have died.” Despite the cautious policy, according to Lauterbach, 135,000 people still died.
Looking at the risk assessment
Lauterbach made it clear that the decision of the Robert Koch Institute and its ministry not to lower the risk level at the beginning of 2022 was still correct. In the third year of the pandemic, more than 50,000 people had died from Corona.
No evidence of deceiving the population
In response to criticism of his policies, Lauterbach decided: “If it is now claimed that it was about compulsory vaccination or something similar, that belongs in the realm of fairy tales.” From his point of view, there are no signs that the population has been deceived. “We have nothing to hide, there are no ‘smoking guns’ there,” said Lauterbach, referring to the protocols of the Robert Koch Institute.
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