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A vaccine to protect against the coronavirus will not be long in coming. Experts expect the first available vaccine doses to be available in December, but no later than next year. However, initially too little vaccine can be produced to vaccinate all citizens in Germany and meet demand. So who should be given the medicine first?
The Standing Commission on Vaccination (Stiko) of the Robert Koch Institute has now presented a first draft for a recommendation. It was sent to the federal states and medical societies.
So be the first Nursing home residents and retirees vaccinated. To get this People over 80 years old the vaccine, announced the Federal Ministry of Health. too People in health professions you will preferably receive the vaccine. According to Stiko’s list, this includes hospital staff with a high risk of exposure, for example people who work in an emergency room.
Health workers who are in close contact with risk groups should also be vaccinated first, for example Transplantsmediziner, Nursing staff in ambulatory care for the elderly or Staff in Heimen with contact with residents. In total, Stiko assumes that approximately 8.6 million people will receive the vaccine first.
The prerequisite for a recommendation is a vaccine approved in Germany, he said. The experts’ draft is now followed by a three-day process in which federal states and experts can submit comments. This process will end on Thursday. Then the final recommendation will be published. On this basis, the Federal Ministry of Health is drawing up a legal ordinance that will be published in December.
Associations warn of conflicts
In relation to vaccines, charities warn of social conflict and growing inequality. “As soon as there is an approved vaccine, we will experience a distribution debate,” the CEO of the German Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband, Ulrich Schneider, told the newspapers of the Funke media group on Monday. The president of the German Social Association (SoVD), Adolf Bauer, also warned of the injustice in the distribution of the vaccine. Only during the weekend was it debated whether mandatory vaccination was useful at least for certain professional groups or areas of activity. Attorney Steffen Augsberg had said that whether you really need something like that depends on voluntary compliance. He is a jurist and member of the Ethics Council.
Health risk groups and medical personnel would be vaccinated first, followed by those that keep the economy going and are considered systemically important, Schneider said. Those who are seen as less important from the social and economic point of view “will have to go into the background,” said the association representative. “That, of course, will lead to conflict.” Furthermore, the distribution of the vaccine will become a conflict between rich and poor as soon as more doses of vaccine become available worldwide.
