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The focus is on allegations against Federal Health Minister Lauterbach and the controversial term “pandemic of the unvaccinated”. © dpa/Hendrik Schmidt/Carsten Koall (collage)
An internal whistleblower has published explosive protocols from the RKI’s Corona crisis team, which contain over 4,000 pages of explosive information. The focus is on allegations against Federal Health Minister Lauterbach and the controversial term “pandemic of the unvaccinated”.
Berlin – Now all the protocols of the Corona crisis team of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) are available: They comprise more than 4,000 pages – they were apparently published by an internal whistleblower. The accusations against Federal Health Minister Lauterbach are becoming louder and louder. The expression “pandemic of the unvaccinated”, which was also often used by then Health Minister Jens Spahn, has also come under massive criticism. But what can be read in the RKI protocols?
But no “pandemic of the unvaccinated”?
A passage in the protocols from November 2021 is causing particular excitement. The RKI files state: “The media are talking about a Pandemic of the unvaccinated spoken. Not correct from a technical point of view; the entire population contributes.”
So did Spahn lie? A spokesman for Spahn told the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, The minister at the time pointed out that 90 to 95 percent of Covid-19 patients in intensive care units had not been vaccinated.
It will continue in spring 2022, when Lauterbach will have already taken over the baton as Health Minister from Spahn. According to several meeting minutes in which the experts and the minister discussed the downgrading of the risk assessment, Lauterbach prohibited this. “The time of publication depends on the approval of the BMG (…). A Downgrading beforehand would possibly be interpreted as a de-escalation signal, therefore not politically desirable“, it is said according to the minutes. The reduction of the risk was therefore firmly rejected by Health Minister Lauterbach.
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Following the publication of unredacted documents about the meetings of the Corona crisis team at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), FDP Vice President and Vice President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Kubicki has demanded personal consequences from Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD). With regard to the documents, the FDP politician accuses Health Minister Lauterbach of having told untruths. Virologist Streeck counts in conversation with “bild.de” Karl Lauterbach to.
In his letter, Kubicki confronts the Health Minister with his statement from March that the RKI had worked independently of political instructions. “Karl Lauterbach has damaged the reputation of the Federal Government through his irresponsible attitude to the truth caused serious harm and raised doubts about the integrity of government action. He must face personal consequences.”
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Streeck warns and calls on Lauterbach to dispel the allegations, as otherwise massive damage would be caused in politics and science. The well-known virologist speaks loudly „bild.de“ of a “slap in the face of science”. A German Professor from Lower Saxony goes even further and accuses politicians of giving detailed instructions to the RKI. The files show how often political action contradicted knowledge about pandemic control and also the internal RKI position. Positions that were not scientifically based were tacitly tolerated.
However, the Robert Koch Institute has criticized the publication of the documents. “The RKI expressly disapproves of the fact that personal data and trade and business secrets of third parties are published illegally in these data sets and in particular that the rights of third parties are violated,” the institute said. The RKI has neither checked nor verified the data sets, it also said.
Lauterbach now wants to split up RKI
Like that “Handelsblatt” To top it all off, I now want to know Lauterbach now wants to split up the RKIAccording to the daily newspaper, the Minister of Health wants to create a new authority, and the Robert Koch Institute is to give up two departments for this purpose. The “Federal Institute for Prevention and Information in Medicine (BIPAM)”, which will be created in January next year, will then begin its work.
Experts criticize the fact that this new institute will work even more politically independently than the RKI does. However, as the protocols on the corona pandemic show, dependence is already commonplace. Lauterbach’s plan could further worsen the health education of the population. (vs)
