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In his current podcast episode, virologist Christian Drosten addresses risk groups in the corona pandemic. Consequently, one should not focus on protecting the elderly.
Virologist Christian Drosten has spoken out clearly against the idea of concentrating only on protecting the elderly and other risk groups in the corona pandemic, while the rest of society is returning to everyday life. For one thing, it might not be possible to fully protect the elderly, said the Charité scientist in the episode of the “Coronavirus Update” published on Tuesday in NDR-Info. On the other hand, there are not so few at-risk patients in the younger age groups.
Type of patient with different social perception
If you let the virus spread in the younger age groups, there will be many infections at once and it will also hit the limits of medicine, so Drosten. But then it is about a type of patient with a different social perception: “Young families would also lose their father or mother.”
That is “a completely different consequence and you cannot let that happen like this,” the virologist emphasized. The background is an open letter from three scientists from the US and Britain speaking out against the population-wide measures; other experts have already contradicted them.
