A fourth dose of vaccine will not be necessary “In the event of a mandatory vaccination in Germany, we will introduce three doses as a precautionary measure against the pandemic,” said German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach in an interview with the Rheinische Post.
“Anyone who has already received three doses of mRNA vaccine or similar, effective vaccine will have adequate immunization in the future,” said the Minister of Health and epidemiologist. He even underlined that a current vaccination regimen with three doses “would satisfy every condition in the context of a mandatory vaccination”.
Karl Lauterbach clarified, however, that the discussion on compulsory vaccination was essentially about the “obligation to prove vaccination” and that under no circumstances would doctors be obliged to “persuade or force patients to be vaccinated. “There will be no compulsion to be vaccinated.”
In the red hospitals – Doctors and nurses are sick
At the same time, the German Medical Association Marburger Bund warns that based on the current picture of the pandemic, in early February German hospitals could reach an extremely difficult situation. The president of the Medical Association, Susanne Yona, is sounding the alarm, warning that many hospitals may reach their limits, this time not because of lack of equipment or ventilators but because of the mass absences of doctors and nurses. are in quarantine.
Of interest, finally, is an interview on German DLF radio by the famous professor of Epidemiology at the Charité University Clinic in Berlin, Christian Dosten, in which, among other things, he warns that the Omicron mutation it is possible to become more aggressive in the future.
As he characteristically states, it should not be taken for granted that the Omicron mutation will continue to show a mild picture, while a new hybrid mutation as contagious as the Omicron mutation and as deadly as the Delta could possibly appear.
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