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reThe announcement by the Federal Minister of Health, Jens Spahn (CDU), was unmistakable. “At the same time, a big wave of flu and the pandemic can hardly cope with the healthcare system,” Spahn said in late August on WELT AM SONNTAG. “That is why this time we got an additional flu vaccine. Anyone who wants to vaccinate themselves and their children should and can do so. “
Today, six weeks later, the minister sounds different. Before the press in the Berlin capital, he appealed to those “for whom the Permanent Commission on Vaccination recommends a vaccine” to get vaccinated. According to the expert committee that is based at the Robert Koch Institute, this includes people over the age of 60, people with previous illnesses, pregnant women and residents of the elderly and nursing homes. Risk groups.
Spahn’s withdrawal from the once nationwide vaccination recommendation is apparently related to the currently unusually high vaccination interest of Germans:
