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Analysis
Status: March 31, 2021 12:10
AstraZeneca is only recommended to a limited extent for people under the age of 60. Confidence in the vaccine is waning. Chancellor Merkel and Health Minister Spahn are trying to save what can be saved.
Von Daniel Pokraka,
ARD capital study
The chancellor was missing another problem with vaccination. With your urgent appeal Anne Will Many Prime Ministers did not achieve greater toughness in the fight against Corona. The number of infections is increasing, as is the number of occupied intensive care beds in hospitals, and good weather is once again allowing more people to flow outside in groups.
The last thing Angela Merkel needed in this situation was another loss of image for the AstraZeneca vaccine. His reputation has been abused for weeks; first due to a possible unsuitability for the elderly, then due to possible deaths from blood clots (thrombosis) in the cerebral veins in connection with the vaccine.
Many potential vaccinates in Germany prefer to be vaccinated later than immediately with AstraZeneca. STIKO’s recommendation yesterday that the vaccine should only be used in people over 60 is another blow to the vaccination campaign.
Press conference: Merkel and Spahn on the suspension of vaccines against AstraZeneca for those under 60 years
tagesschau24 9:00 pm, March 30, 2021
Merkel cannot “speak of uncertainty”
Merkel knows this and also that “she cannot hide the uncertainty,” she said the night after her conversation with Prime Minister and Health Minister Spahn. He had agreed with his ministerial colleagues in the countries new rules for vaccination with AstraZeneca.
Merkel – that seems to be one of the messages of the joint appearance with Spahn – and the prime ministers support the innovations.
Armin Laschet, CDU, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, on the suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine
Topics of the day 22: 20h, March 30, 2021
People aged 60 to 69 are preferred in the order of vaccination
The federal and state governments make a virtue of necessity. As of today, the federal states can have a group vaccinated with AstraZeneca that, according to the vaccination sequence, has not yet been administered: 60-69 years. A “pragmatic approach,” says Health Minister Spahn. Corona also poses “higher risk” for people in this age group, and AstraZeneca’s vaccine is even better than BioNTech’s in some respects.
In return, those under the age of 60 who are eligible to be vaccinated will only receive the AstraZeneca vaccine under certain conditions: An individual risk analysis must be performed and, unlike before, generally not at a vaccination center, but in consultation of a doctor. .
Second dose: see your doctor or wait
If you are under the age of 60 and have already received a first vaccination with AstraZeneca, you have two options. You can vaccinate the second dose after an individual risk analysis in the doctor’s office or wait until the Standing Committee on Immunization has made a recommendation. Spahn: “The initial vaccination with its efficacy will last at least until the beginning of May.”
Karl Lauterbach, SPD, on the importance of the suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine for the German vaccination campaign
Topics of the day 22: 25h, March 30, 2021
New rules for vaccination with AstraZeneca, decided in a few hours: is that enough to restore confidence? The Chancellor hopes that clarity, information and transparency will guarantee this. It has to do with new vaccines, it must not “sweep new knowledge under the rug”, it must listen to the experts and, as before and now, change the rules if necessary.
Is that convincing? How many people ages 60 to 69 will get the AstraZeneca vaccine? The answer should come soon. Starting today, the federal states can put the new vaccination rules into effect.
