FFor those who have not been vaccinated, autumn and winter will be a dangerous period.There is hardly any measure to prevent you from being infected with the dangerous Delta variant coronavirus Can be protected. This is the calculation result of Kai Nagel, a physicist at the Technical University of Berlin. “In order to stop the growth of infections, according to simulations, it is not enough to take measures against people who have not been vaccinated,” Nagel told the Frankfurt Report (FAS).
At best, daily large-scale testing before all “school activities, work activities, and some leisure activities” can “significantly reduce” the growth of infections. However, this does not mean a quick test, but a more reliable PCR test. And: everyone, including those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered, can be tested frequently. It is questionable whether these measures are politically and legally feasible. Experts predict that within 7 days of autumn and winter, there will be an incidence of hundreds of people for every 100,000 unvaccinated people. More than 90% of Covid patients in the hospital have not been vaccinated.
SPD criticizes Spahn’s plan
Jens Spahn, the Minister of Health from the CDU, plans to assess future epidemics based on hospital occupancy. This plan has been criticized by the alliance partner SPD. According to Spann’s draft law, the hospitalization rate should become the “basic benchmark” of the new crown policy. Sabine Dittmar, the health policy spokesperson for the Social Democrats’ parliamentary organization, said: “We should not rush to increase the hospitalization rate. I disagree.”
The opposition also criticized Spann’s approach. For the FDP, health policy spokesperson Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus said that “only focusing on the degree of hospitalization” is “too short-sighted”. “We need to integrate multiple factors to accurately assess the pandemic. Therefore, hospitalization rates, intensive care unit occupancy rates, and vaccination rates should be considered. FAS’s Aschenberg-Dugnus said that the most important thing is that this combination must be nationwide. Binding to avoid another piece of legislation.
Green Party: The coalition is “annoyingly casual”
Marie Klein-Schmeink, a spokesperson for the Green Party’s health policy, said that the trade unions and the Social Democratic Party’s behavior in the new crown virus policy was “annoyingly random.” “For several months, it has become clear that in terms of vaccination rates, morbidity alone is no longer sufficient as a standard, or at least the morbidity value must be adjusted. Spahn’s job is to change the Infection Protection Act. Nothing happened. ,” said Klein-Schmeink of FAS. “We are in favor of a step-by-step plan based on morbidity and other criteria (such as hospitalization rates). It is also conceivable that the situation in the intensive care unit will also be included. “In the area of hospitalization, there are still problems.”
Generally speaking, “the federal government must ensure that all federal states use the same indicators. Otherwise there will be considerable confusion, which will jeopardize the public’s acceptance of these measures,” Klein-Schmek said. The first draft of a law in the province of Span stipulates that the federal states can decide whether to use indicators other than hospitalization rates.
