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FINALLY!
Tuesday morning BILD exclusively announced: Next Monday, December 21, but no later than December 23, the EU approval authority EMA will approve the German corona vaccine from the company Biontech (Mainz) for Germany and the rest of Europe.
Less than 20 minutes later, Health Minister Jens Spahn (40, CDU) confirmed: “This is good news for the whole EU!” After approval, you want to start getting vaccinated as soon as possible. “Earlier every day helps reduce suffering and prevent deaths.”
Spahn himself had previously lobbied the Amsterdam authorities behind the scenes to accelerate their testing of the substance, to the extent that safety requirements allow.
Obviously successful: vaccination can start on December 27! If the commission responsible for the EMA authority, as announced yesterday, approves the approval on December 21, things could go even faster.
BILD says what you need to know now!
► What else happens between EU approval and the start of vaccination?
The EU Commission has to issue a regulation (it takes a few hours). The Robert Koch Institute must officially issue its vaccination recommendation.
And: The Paul Ehrlich Institute must randomly test the vaccination doses to be administered before administering them (“batch test”). That takes a maximum of two to four days, Minister Spahn said yesterday. In other countries, too, vaccination is not started immediately after EU approval. Take Austria as an example: the pharmaceutical agency has to certify the vaccine; the process should also take a few days at most.
► Who will get vaccinated first?
1st group: retirees (from 80 years), residents of the home, seriously ill; 2nd group: elderly (from 70), doctors, nurses; 3rd group: Elderly (from 60), policemen, firemen, educators, TSC.
► Where do you get vaccinated?
Initially in geriatric and geriatric (residents, caregivers) by mobile vaccination teams and in clinics. Only then will senior citizens (also in their own homes) and their carers – if possible in 440 planned vaccination centers nationwide.
► What do I have to present for the vaccination?
Identity card (age verification), certificate (for previous illnesses), proof of activity (as doctor, nurse, caregiver).
► How do I get an appointment for the vaccination?
It is not yet clear. The National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) will establish and operate an appointment service (call center, doctor’s call number 116117, Internet website is planned) with the federal states. This is what it says in a draft vaccination ordinance (discussed today in the Bundestag). However, a KBV spokesperson informed BILD upon request that KBV would, at best, provide “software.” Everything else is a matter of the country.
► Are those who have the right to vaccinate also notified?
“Totally uncertain,” says SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach (57): “Resident offices could at least write to the elderly and ask them to get vaccinated.
Until now, most countries assume that those affected (or their relatives) inform themselves and register those vaccinated, through the hotline or on the Internet. Currently there is no corresponding vaccination application.
► How much does vaccination cost?
Nothing for citizens – Federal, state and health insurance companies share the costs. The state also pays for the family doctor’s certificate (5.90 euros).
► Why can vaccination start at Christmas?
The EMA announced yesterday that the central meeting of the committee that was supposed to seal approval would be brought forward to December 29-21. The pressure of politics has apparently worked!
► When do other countries start?
Switzerland wants to start at Christmas, Italy only at the end of January.
