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Spahn is puzzled by the early start – this is how the manager explains the early start of vaccination
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This is how corona vaccination begins in Germany
It’s finally starting: mobile vaccination teams are reaching homes for the elderly and elderly. Residents over the age of 80, their caregivers, and hospital staff who are particularly at risk should get vaccinated first.
Residents of a senior center in Saxony-Anhalt had already been vaccinated on Saturday. Health Minister Spahn was irritated by the early start. The head of the vaccination center defended the action.
rehe technical director of the vaccination center in Harz district defended the early start of vaccination on Saturday. “It’s always been said: every day counts in Corona,” Immo Kramer of the “Bild” newspaper said on Monday. “We got the vaccine on Saturday and we were ready, why should we wait until Sunday? Nobody understands it “.
Vaccination doses had gradually reached the federal states on Saturday. The start of vaccination at the national level was scheduled for Sunday, along with the other EU countries. At a retirement home in Halberstadt, however, several dozen residents and staff were vaccinated on Saturday. The first patient there was a 101-year-old resident.
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn was surprised by the vaccines in Halberstadt. The minister is happy about the first corona vaccine in Germany, said his “Bild am Sonntag” spokesman. “However, we had agreed with all the EU partner countries and with the 16 federal states to deliver everyone on Saturday and start vaccinations together from Sunday.”
Vaccines should begin Sunday in all federal states, several tens of thousands of doses of vaccines were delivered on Saturday. They are distributed to vaccination centers and mobile teams by the responsible state authorities. First, people over 80 years of age should be vaccinated, as well as nurses and hospital staff who are at special risk.
Two-thirds of residents get vaccinated
The operator of the Halberstadt nursing home, Tobias Krüger, obviously did not want to waste time. “Every day we wait is one day too many,” he said. The district office had previously asked if everything was ready at home.
At the Halberstadt senior center in the Harz Mountains, two-thirds of the 59 residents opted for the vaccination and a quarter of the 40 employees. The local administrator Krüger was also among them. He thinks vaccination makes sense. “But I also understand the concerns.”
The vaccination did not cause any problems for residents or employees, Krüger said Sunday. “Everyone is fine.” The home manager also emphasized: “Everyone who wanted to have been vaccinated.” The willingness to vaccinate varies greatly from region to region and, ultimately, vaccination is voluntary. In any case, vaccines were not lacking.
On January 15, that is, in just under three weeks, residents will receive the second vaccine. Only then will the full effect of the vaccine from Mainz-based Biontech and its US partner Pfizer be guaranteed.
Under the slogan “Sleeves up”, the federal government specifically promotes participation in the vaccination campaign. To stop the pandemic, experts estimate that around 60 to 70 percent of the German population would have to be vaccinated. “We want to vaccinate so many people that the virus no longer has a chance, in Germany and in Europe,” said Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU). Every more vaccination means fewer infections and fewer deaths. “If you participate, you save lives.”
1.3 million doses of vaccine will be delivered before the end of the year. By the end of March it should exceed ten million. And by the middle of the year, Spahn wants to be able to make an offer to everyone who wants to get vaccinated. The Minister of Health also prepared the population for the fact that, given the magnitude of the campaign, things might not go well immediately. “It will shake at one point or another, that’s completely normal.”
