After his inventory, the new Minister of Health, Karl Lauterbach, apparently sounds the alarm. There is not enough corona vaccine for the booster campaign.
Berlin – Germany apparently threatened with big problems in terms of the Corona * vaccination campaign. After his inventory in the Ministry of Health, the new Minister Karl Lauterbach mirror-Information informs the health ministers of the federal states about a serious vaccine shortage in the coming year.
“The situation is extremely difficult,” Lauterbach is quoted as saying. He always praised his predecessor Jens Spahn. But his inventory showed that there was “a serious shortage of vaccines in the coming year”. Lauterbach gave this information to the report according to the health ministers of the federal states at today’s video conference *.
Karl Lauterbach raises the alarm after vaccine inventory – “bought far too little”
“Far too little vaccine was bought for the entire first quarter. The quantities are not enough to drive the booster vaccination campaign, “the Minister of Health * is quoted further. In the “most important month” of the booster campaign, the vaccine is missing. The situation in February and March was not any better, it said.
According to mirror Lauterbach met on Friday with all specialist departments of his new ministry as well as with Bundeswehr General Carsten Breuer to get an overview of the quantities of vaccine in stock. It should have been checked which vaccination doses are stored where and which deliveries can be expected for the first quarter of 2022 according to the existing contracts.
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The result of the inventory: 2 million cans of Biontech * are still in stock for the last two weeks of the year. At the beginning of the new year there would be another 1.2 million. This makes the number of vaccine doses loud mirror however “to one sixth compared to before”.
The Moderna portfolio is better off. Its manufacturer can deliver 10 million booster doses per week, according to the report. Taking all manufacturers together, you would have a total of 3.6 million doses for the booster vaccination in the third and fourth weeks. The participants in the health ministers’ video conference are said to have been shocked by these numbers. Even in advance there were doubts whether the vaccination promises made by Chancellor Olaf Scholz * could be kept.
Lauterbach promised the participants of the meeting after the report that he would personally seek more vaccine from the manufacturers Biontech and Moderna as well as from other countries. (rjs / jo) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
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