Robert Habeck
Greens boss was “sick for the time being” after the AstraZeneca vaccination
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Greens boss Robert Habeck has already been vaccinated with AstraZeneca. After that he was “ill for the time being,” he says in an interview.
Robert Habeck (51) has already received a vaccination against the coronavirus. The relief of the chairman of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party is not particularly great, as he said in an interview with “Deutschlandfunk”.
Robert Habeck could be vaccinated at short notice
“First I was sick afterwards and then it was a leftover can that had to be vaccinated,” he says. His name was on a waiting list, Habeck had been informed “at short notice”. Otherwise the AstraZeneca dose would have expired. As a result, he does not have a guilty conscience that he was vaccinated at the age of 51 and in good health.
Vaccination as a contribution to the welfare of society
Habeck sees vaccination “not as a way to individual freedom, but as a contribution to society as a whole becoming more resilient to the virus”. In this respect, the politician feels “no personal relief” that he has already been vaccinated. Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (40) wants to cancel the prioritization for the AstraZeneca vaccine, as he said on Wednesday (May 5) in the WDR program “Current Hour”. Habeck welcomes this plan: “The tendency is yes.”
Should the vaccination strategy be changed?
“The trend is that we should change the strategy and bring the vaccine to the people and not the people to the vaccine,” said the Greens leader. Because without prioritization there is, for example, the possibility “to vaccinate more intensely with mobile vaccination teams in the socially disadvantaged areas, in the milieus where people are particularly infected but not particularly well informed”.
Sources used: Deutschlandfunk, WDR