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AGI – The German government has been responsible for a “serious failure” in relation to methods and timing of vaccine procurement anti-Covid. Word of the scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of the Leopoldina, a body among the main and most authorized consultants on the issues of the pandemic of the executive headed by Angela Merkel.
In an interview with Welt, neurologist Frauke Zipp – a prominent member of Leopoldina – harshly attacked the federal government: “I believe that the current situation represents a serious failure of those responsible. Why didn’t you reserve a larger number of doses last summer? ”. And again: “There were offers, now we would have them available”, says Professor Zipp (director of the neurology clinic at Gutenberg University Mainz), according to which BioNTech, the German company that together with the American giant Pfizer developed the The first anti-Covid drug approved in Europe, at that time it had offered a much higher number of doses.
Yesterday the founder of BioNTech, Ugur Sahin, told the German media that he intends to distribute a much higher number of doses than previously planned and having started “very advanced talks on whether additional doses of the vaccine can be made available to Europe this year.” Based on current reserves, Germany in 2021 will be able to count on 55.8 million doses through the agreement within the EU, plus the 30 million“bilateral agreement with BioNTech-Pfizer (an agreement that has caused a lot of controversy in recent days) and the 50.5 million doses that will come from modern society.
If we add them up, they are insured 1.3 billion doses, which in theory would be enough to achieve herd immunity in Germany, that is, 68.2 million citizens out of a total population of 83 million. In addition, there would be the part derived from the option of the 100 million additional doses announced by the EU.
the the problem is the moment: the doses that arrive during the first trimester are ‘only’ 13 million. Too few, according to critics, are taking it out on both German Health Minister Jens Spahn and the dynamics of the deal within the EU. In fact, the various Laender are denounced delays and slowdowns in the delivery and administration of the vaccine. According to data from the Robert Koch Institut, the German epidemiological center, 165,000 people have been vaccinated in Germany as of yesterday, of which about half (71,000) in nursing homes.
In addition to the health director of the SPD, Karl Lauterbach, according to whom Germany “has the worst three months ahead” in terms of infections and victims, and calls for a “Quick authorization” the AstraZeneca vaccine, failing that “it could even be argued a unilateral initiative from Germany “- the general secretary of the Liberals, Volker Wissing is also perplexed:” Criticism of the methods of purchasing vaccines – he observed – must be taken very seriously. “
For the exponent of the FDP, “as seen in Israel and other countries, you can proceed much faster to vaccines. “The Greens’ health expert in the Bundestag, Kordula Schulz-Asche also thinks the same way:” It would certainly have been better to reserve a larger number of different vaccines from the many producers in the field. ”
