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Experts consider the vaccination law necessary
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Pfizer and Biontech only supply half of the vaccine doses
Chancellor Angela Merkel sees the light at the end of the Corona tunnel. Hope is based primarily on vaccine development, but there is a setback. Biontech and Pfizer cut their delivery target in half for this year.
Vaccines against the coronavirus should also start soon in Germany. This raises ethical questions because who should receive them first? The federal government wants to regulate this in an ordinance. However, experts recommend a law.
AAs a coronavirus vaccination will soon be possible, the federal government is currently working on a vaccination strategy. Specifically, this will be regulated in a regulation. According to an elaboration of the Scientific Services of the Bundestag, this is not the correct approach.
The document available to the German Press Agency states: “The prevailing opinion that prioritizing certain population groups for access to vaccines requires a formal law that regulates at least the essential criteria for the distribution of a vaccine must be approved. scarce vaccine. . “
The Bundestag should vote
Finally, the Federal Constitutional Court held that, in particular, the relevance of a measure for fundamental rights was decisive for it to be regulated by a formal law. The possibility of being vaccinated against the cause of the Covid-19 disease is of enormous relevance for the entire population, since everyone is affected equally by the risk of contagion and the consequent restrictions in daily life. The decision on which population groups to initially prefer for distribution thus shows “a high level of overall relevance to fundamental rights,” according to the elaboration requested by FDP MP Stephan Thomae.
Thomae warned that the Bundestag should not “again be demoted to a mere spectator.” In a democracy, the parliament has to decide on the essential questions. “With the vaccine allocation, we literally distribute the chances of life,” Thomae said. It is therefore unacceptable that the government and, above all, the Minister of Justice, Christine Lambrecht (SPD), shunned the debate in the Bundestag.
After a corona vaccine has been approved, the first population groups to be vaccinated in Germany are those with a significantly higher risk of serious or fatal disease. Because the number of cans will not immediately be sufficient for the entire population due to production bottlenecks. The German Ethics Council, the Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences and the Standing Commission on Immunization of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) issued recommendations on behalf of the Federal Government in early November on who should be immunized immediately.
People in systemically important professions, but also the homeless
They must be older people, especially in nursing homes, in addition to people with previous illnesses and employed in hospitals and nursing homes. Likewise, people who occupy key positions in society and for public order should receive preferential vaccination, for example, employees of health and safety authorities, police, firefighters, teachers and educators.
People housed in very small homes for the homeless or asylum seekers should also be included. No distinction should be made between those with private and legal insurance. People without insurance should also be entitled to vaccinations.
However, precise statements on prioritization have not yet been made – that is, not all preferred groups have been precisely identified, he said. Because data was still missing. Recommendations must be specific by the end of the year at the latest. The draft of the Federal Ministry of Health for an “Ordinance on the right to vaccination against the coronavirus Sars-CoV-2” is currently being voted on in the government.
