Wednesday May 26, 2021
“And fast”
Lambrecht urges regular school operations
In view of the falling corona incidences in Germany, it is high time, according to Federal Family Minister Lambrecht, to return to normal at schools and daycare centers. She points out the psychological stress and insists on vaccinations for children as soon as possible.
According to Federal Family Minister Christine Lambrecht, schools and daycare centers in Germany should quickly return to normal operations. Current studies have shown how much the corona pandemic puts school children under psychological stress, said the SPD politician of the “Rheinische Post”. “For this reason alone, when the incidence is low, everything must be done to enable day-care centers and schools to run fully again, and quickly.”
After the resignation of Franziska Giffey, Lambrecht took over the justice department as well as the family department. The minister spoke before another top meeting of the federal and state governments on the subject of vaccination on Thursday.
From Lambrecht’s point of view, children should not be left behind in the current easing of the state corona restrictions. “We are all happy about the openings and enjoy the first steps towards normality. It is important to me that children and young people can also participate in this. Swimming pool visits, training in sports clubs – all of this must be made possible again quickly if the incidence numbers continue to fall,” emphasized you. She is also betting that a vaccine for children and adolescents will be approved in the summer and that a vaccination offer can be made to them very quickly.
Doctors’ Association against vaccinations in schools
The Federal Association of Pediatricians (BVKJ) opposed vaccinations in schools. First of all, the pediatrician practices are in demand. “We still have to organize educational talks with parents. In addition, one would like to experience an incident such as a shock, even if it only occurs very rarely, in school,” said Axel Gerschlauer, pediatrician from Bonn and BVKJ spokesman, the “Rheinische Post “. He also opposed a kind of vaccination requirement through the back door. “Attending school must not be linked to a corona vaccination. Politicians have to keep their word here.” Incidentally, there is no need for children to be vaccinated.
The virologist Alexander Kekulé also does not consider it necessary to vaccinate all children and adolescents from the age of twelve against corona nationwide. In the MDR current podcast, he said that parents should be able to decide for themselves. If the risk groups and the rest of society are immune in the summer, which is the goal of the vaccination campaign, he thinks the pressure to vaccinate the students is no longer so high. He also believes that a complete elimination of the current coronavirus and its variants is an illusion. In his estimation, only a “control state” can be achieved, in which one simply accepts a certain number of infections.
Criticism of Spahn’s proposal
The Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance (ZI) was critical of Health Minister Jens Spahn’s proposal to reserve Biontech vaccination doses for schoolchildren. “The advance is not understandable at the moment,” said institute director Dominik Stillfried the “Handelsblatt”. “Withholding the Biontech vaccine for younger people would mathematically set the vaccination campaign back by around two weeks.”
The federal and state health ministers are striving to offer children and adolescents from the age of twelve a vaccination offer by the end of August – Chancellor Angela Merkel and the prime ministers will also discuss the implementation on Thursday. The manufacturer Biontech / Pfizer has applied to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for approval of its preparation from the age of twelve.
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