A generationIntensive care doctors called for an independent and representative demographic survey of German vaccination levels. “Vaccination is a key success factor for the pandemic. We must do everything we can to increase confidence in the vaccination campaign,” Gernot Marx, chairman of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI), said in the Funke Media Group newspaper on Thursday .Therefore, it is important Robert Koch Institute The (RKI) report stated that an independent, representative survey was used to quickly check the difference between official registration numbers and survey information on vaccination rates for people under 60.
“Reliable data is the basis for accepting corona measures,” Marx said. “If the vaccination quota for the 18 to 59-year-old population is actually much higher than reported, then our situation will be more relaxed in the fall.”
FDP laments “another trouble”
According to a survey by RKI It seems that more adults in Germany have been vaccinated at least once than the official record. According to a survey report by RKI, the difference from the so-called digital vaccination rate monitoring (DIM), which is based on the vaccination dashboard, is particularly noticeable in the 18-59 age group. In a survey called Covimo (abbreviation: Covid-19 vaccination rate monitoring), 79% of adults under the age of 60 said they had received the vaccine at least once, compared with 59% according to the official system.
General Secretary of the Liberal Democratic Party Volkwissing Tell the Funke newspaper that the uncertainty of the actual vaccination rate is “another problem in managing this crisis.” Morbidity and vaccination rates will have specific impacts on people’s daily lives. “There is a problem with the vaccination quota, which is very important for herd immunity of the population, because the federal government does not have a reliable figure.”
The RKI report provides various explanations for the possible underestimation of official vaccination quotas. One point is that Johnson & Johnson’s vaccination record, unlike other manufacturers, only provides one dose of vaccine to provide comprehensive protection. RKI explained that contract doctors only report these immunizations as second vaccinations, and it is impossible to assign vaccines and age groups. In the DIM data, there are now signs that the vaccination rate (by age group) of adults who have been vaccinated at least once is “systemally reported too low.”
The report also pointed out that so far, only about half of the company doctors registered in the reporting system have reported vaccination status through a web application. “This may indicate that DIM is under-reporting vaccination rates.”
