“Grossly wrong” was an evaluation from November 16 last year that unvaccinated people account for 90 percent of new corona infections in Hamburg, said Peter Tschentscher (SPD) on Tuesday in a state press conference. Accordingly, infected people with an unclear vaccination status were initially counted as unvaccinated.
“If one had been very precise, one should have said: 90 percent of the infections relate to people who we do not yet clearly know that they have been vaccinated,” explained Hamburg’s First Mayor. The “raw data have been misinterpreted,” said Tschentscher. In fact, “there were a large number of people who had been vaccinated”.
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Tschentscher says to those who take the correction of the numbers as proof that all previous Corona measures have been wrong: “This conclusion is not correct.” The misinterpretation was a “data breach” – “no deception, no fraud”.
Because of the incorrect data, “no wrong decisions were made”, assures Tschentscher. The overall picture of all nationwide data is clear: “The vaccination protects against serious illnesses.”
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Tschentscher, however, promises improvement for future data evaluations: “I will be even more careful personally,” said the head of government. At the time, it was not clear that the numbers had to be separated so explicitly.
The Hanseatic city is not the first federal state to attract attention with an error-prone evaluation of corona data. At the beginning of December, the Bavarian FDP member of the state parliament, Martin Hagen, attacked the state government there, accusing it of “manipulation”.
The Free State also counted all infected people without a clear vaccination status among the unvaccinated, reported “Welt” and “Süddeutsche”. At the beginning of December, Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) justified tougher corona rules with an “incidence in unvaccinated people.” […] in Bavaria at 1600 “. Almost at the same time, the state introduced 2G in retail – Bundesliga clubs had to play in front of empty grandstands again.
Bavarian State Office: Corona infected people mostly unvaccinated
But the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL) had determined this incidence on the basis of incorrect assumptions, revealed a “world” research. Accordingly, the LGL calculated the seven-day incidence for unvaccinated people on November 24 based on 72,141 corona cases with the vaccination status “not vaccinated” or “unknown”. When asked by “Welt”, the LGL press office wrote: The vaccination status was unknown in 57,489 cases.
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The State Office justified the procedure: “We decided to initially count the cases without information on the vaccination status among the unvaccinated. Because it turned out that these – according to the data available later – were unvaccinated in the vast majority of cases.”
