youIt was almost nine o’clock, and people from the front hall curled up down the stairs, entered the foyer, then into the courtyard, and walked around the house across the square to the street. The Saxon region of Switzerland announced that it “can be vaccinated without making an appointment for a mobile vaccination team.” There are about 300 people here who hope to receive the new crown vaccine on Thursday morning. “I’m here at seven o’clock,” said an older lady, who grabbed one of the few chairs in the waiting room. The man next to her reported that his family doctor was on vacation, and this was his third attempt to vaccinate. He has been sent to other places twice, “because the vaccine has been used up.” Several people who were waiting shared their experiences when there was a sudden movement in the queue.An employee of the company Red crossThe person coordinating the mobile vaccination team in Saxony rushed up the stairs in blue surgical gowns, opened the vaccination room and distributed information sheets. She said that she intervened as a substitute in a short period of time. Now you must see.
It was already clear in the morning: at most half of the population is enough, this is not the reason for the vaccine, said Kai Kranich from the United States. DRK“Our team only takes the number of vaccines that existing employees can get in a day.” Around 100 times is the norm, and now it can reach 150 times. DRK in Saxony has had two teams in each district since the end of September. The vaccination center was closed due to insufficient demand. Kranich said there is almost no need for vaccination in October. However, since the beginning of November, people began to flock to their booths. It is not so much not vaccinated, as it is all people who want to be vaccinated for the third time, that is, “boosters”. Since then, DRK statistics show that more than two-thirds of booster vaccinations and only one-sixth of first vaccinations. In Heidenau, almost everyone in the waiting room raised their hands when asked about boosters.
There are 245,000 inhabitants in the Ore Mountains in eastern Saxony Switzerland. About half of them are vaccinated, which is 10% lower than the already low Saxony average and 20% lower than the German average. “A lot of people have this attitude: it won’t affect me,” said a mother who was waiting for the second vaccination with her 12-year-old son in Heidenau. He is an exception in the class. In the waiting room full of vaccine advocates, this encountered the greatest incomprehension. Due to the violent spread of the virus in the region, the region has been one of the ten regions most severely affected by the pandemic in Germany for several weeks, with approximately 1,400 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in 7 days, sometimes even among Top of the list. Hospitals are overcrowded and most people who have not been vaccinated are affected. They occupy 90% of the corona positions in the intensive care unit. Steffen Schön, the medical director of the Pirna Town Hospital, said that there are also vaccinated patients in the general ward. “But we have a group of people who have not been vaccinated, and their disease course is always worse.”
In Bavaria, which is also severely affected, the Traunstein region has one of the highest incidences. Finally 1117. Traunstein is located in the southern part of Upper Bavaria. The highest altitude is Sonntagshorn, which is nearly 2000 meters above sea level, and the secondary inoculation rate is 56%. Therefore, the region is fully in line with Prime Minister Markus Söder’s recent determination of shared responsibility for the high incidence of corona: it is located in the south, close to the mountains, and is skeptical of vaccination. Siegfried Walch, a young district administrator born in nearby Bad Reichenhall in 1984, said he “has no knowledge of sociology,” but he did give possible reasons for the high numbers. travel. Or near Austria, the impact is more severe.
