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Sunday, January 03, 2021
Söder attacks the EU Commission
Drosten thinks the vaccination dispute is wrong
The dispute over responsibility for the vaccine shortage in Germany continues. Bavarian Prime Minister Söder believes that Brussels is seriously neglecting Brussels. Virologist Drosten, on the other hand, finds it impossible to even assess ordering policy in hindsight.
In the debate over whether the vaccine was ordered too late and too little, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder also attacked the EU Commission, which was responsible for the procurement across Europe. The Commission ordered too few and trusted the wrong manufacturers. “It is difficult to explain that a very good vaccine is developed in Germany, but vaccinated more quickly elsewhere,” he said, referring to the Mainz company Biontech. “All procedures need to be sped up dramatically – vaccine ordering and production, even with national capacities. Plus faster and more comprehensive approval of new vaccines, similar to that in the UK.”
Virologist Christian Drosten, however, considers it “practically impossible to assess this in retrospect,” as he told the Berliner Morgenpost. “It’s such a complex issue. You had to order the vaccine months in advance, and at that point you didn’t even know if the vaccine in question would work.” But he also recommends a quick follow-up with the Astrazeneca vaccine, which already has emergency approval in the UK, because this vaccine does not need to be cooled down as much and therefore can be vaccinated in normal doctor’s offices and therefore Therefore, it is much easier.
CDU presidential candidate Norbert Röttgen also rejected criticism that Germany had failed to secure EU vaccines on its own. “I think it is correct that German politics have clearly rejected vaccination nationalism,” he told the Funke media group newspapers.
The federal Minister of Health, Jens Spahn, had once again rejected the accusations against the government due to the lack of vaccine. “It is going exactly as planned,” said CDU politician “RTL Aktuell”. 1.3 million doses of vaccine had been delivered to the federal states at the end of the year, by the end of January there would be a total of 4 million – as it had been announcing for weeks “with the indication that at the beginning it would be scarce and that that’s why you have to prioritize “. . Spahn promised that all nursing home residents could get vaccinated in January.
