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Coronavirus in Germany: Lauterbach rejects mandatory vaccination for nurses – knowledge

Medical President calls for lockdown measures only for unvaccinated people

In view of the increasing burden on hospitals with Covid-19 patients, calls Medical President Klaus Reinhardt stricter measures for the unvaccinated. “If the number of cases continues to increase, we may have to conduct a social discussion as to whether lockdown measures only apply to unvaccinated people,” Reinhardt told the “Spiegel”. “I would find that justified if the aim was to secure inpatient care,” said the President of the German Medical Association.

It is currently mainly the unvaccinated who have to be treated with severe Covid-19 courses in the clinics. Children or other people who cannot be vaccinated for health reasons should “of course be exempted from stricter requirements,” says Reinhardt. “After 18 months of the pandemic, the staff burned out, many nurses have left the service, so the clinics can no longer occupy all beds,” said Reinhardt. “We have to watch closely how the hospitalization rate is developing and how old the sick are. Nobody can predict how this will turn out. “

Reinhardt does not rule out that predictable operations would have to be postponed “in the worst case” in the future. “That’s why I think it’s a question of solidarity to protect yourself and others. It cannot be that there are more than ten million adults who are still not vaccinated, ”said Reinhardt.

The medical president expressed criticism of the vaccination campaign. “It doesn’t penetrate fully,” said Reinhardt. Many people would sit on fake news. “It is high time that the Federal Center for Health Education started a real awareness campaign – with spots on social media and on television and in all the languages ​​we speak. We finally have to put an end to the misinformation about alleged infertility or other long-term effects of vaccination, ”said Reinhardt.

Also at the Doctors’ Day, which starts on Monday in Berlin, the lessons from the pandemic for the health system will be discussed. At the moment, the economic pressure in the hospitals is so great that doctors are working there with a high degree of frustration and nurses leave the clinics right away, says Reinhardt. “It’s a ticking time bomb.”

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