The Freiburg infection epidemiologist Hajo Grundmann urges caution in view of increased demands for a lockdown.
Freiburg – The Freiburg infection epidemiologist Hajo Grundmann urges caution in view of increased demands for a lockdown. “Neither a lockdown nor contact restrictions will help us in the long term, only vaccination can do that,” said the medical director of the Institute for Infection Prevention and Hospital Hygiene at the Freiburg University Medical Center in an interview with the “Badische Zeitung” (BZ / Friday). A lockdown would cause the numbers to collapse quickly and there would be more space in the clinics. But there would be people on short-time work and unemployed again and bankruptcies threatened.
With the 2G regulation, there is already a quasi-lockdown for unvaccinated people. “You have to give these existing measures some time and see how they develop. I would still consider such a cautious approach to be sensible at the moment. ” According to him, the vaccination cannot be rated highly enough. «It is the only thing that can lead us out of this catastrophe. Otherwise it will be a horror without end and we will work our way from one lockdown to the next, it could go on for years. “
According to Grundmann, the preliminary climax of the fourth wave has been reached. “The reason for this seems to me that the concern has reached the population.” The decided contact reductions would help to lower the corona numbers. “If we don’t get a new variant, the recovery in the number of infections will soon become noticeable,” said the epidemiologist. In the intensive care units, however, he expects an increasing escalation until the third or fourth week of December. (dpa)
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