The own institute does not coordinate with each other and publishes contradicting recommendations: Health Minister Lauterbach is now being criticized from everywhere. The ticker.
- The RKI surprised the MPK on Tuesday with radical demands.
- Karl Lauterbach sharply criticized the approach.
- On Wednesday, RKI bosses Wieler and Lauterbach will hold a joint press conference at 12.30 p.m.
Update from December 22nd, 12:39 pm: The Moderna vaccine is an important resource in the booster vaccination campaign. Karl Lauterbach emphasized the high effectiveness of the Moderna vaccine. The minister asked the vaccinating doctors to use the Biontech vaccine for those under 30 and the Moderna vaccine for older people. The Standing Vaccination Commission (STIKO) currently does not recommend the Moderna vaccine for children under 30.
Update from December 22nd, 12:36 p.m.: Karl Lauterbach starts the press conference. “We are in a situation in which we are able to get the Delta variant under control,” said Lauterbach. The Minister of Health expects a fifth wave from the Omikron variant. This can no longer be prevented. Preparations for this wave have begun. Lauterbach justifies the newly decided rules of the federal government with the impending Omikron wave. In order to prevent “a lot of people from getting seriously ill”, Lauterbach wants to follow the booster vaccination campaign more closely. Lauterbach expects more than 90 percent protection against serious illness: studies show that the booster vaccination protects against symptomatic illness with 70 to 80 percent.
Update from December 22nd, 12.26 p.m.: The blue wall in the federal press conference is still empty. But in a few minutes Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach and Lothar Wieler (RKI) will speak together. After the conflict, due to a publication by the RKI that was not agreed, the situation is considered tense. Lauterbach and Wieler could explain the dispute and how they want to work together in the future.
RKI boss trending on Twitter after conflict with the federal government
Update from December 22nd, 9.43 a.m.: The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) saw itself in criticism yesterday (December 21): Because the institute had proposed much more radical corona measures shortly before the federal-state summit, when Olaf Scholz then announced, a contradicting picture emerged.
On Twitter, some are now defending RKI President Lothar Wieler: the hashtag #DankeWieler is trending on Wednesday morning. Numerous people praise the fact that the RKI boss does not allow himself to be influenced and – if necessary – also makes recommendations that deviate from those of politics.
Criticism of the Robert Koch Institute: Lauterbach shoots sharply
First report from December 21st, 10.55 p.m .:
Berlin – The fact that the days of the Corona summit also get on the nerves of politicians is neither surprising nor new. But the recommendation published shortly before the meeting by the Robert Koch Institute * under the direction of Lothar Wieler seems to take it to extremes. The public is confused, the politicians asks Health Minister Lauterbach for clarification.
The problem: Shortly before the official start of the summit meeting of the country leaders on Tuesday with Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the RKI published a whole list of radical measures to restrict the coronavirus *. The “consistent and comprehensive contact restrictions” contained in it, among other things, met with displeasure among the public and politicians. “If the ministry and the most important authority contradict each other, it leaves more question marks than exclamation marks,” said Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder on Tuesday afternoon.
Health Minister Lauterbach categorically ruled out a lockdown at the weekend. The question that many are now asking: Why does the institute under his authority publish such a recommendation a little later? Lauterbach himself says, according to the picture , the publication was “not coordinated”, something should not happen.
“Contradictory and inconsistent”: Politics calls for a declaration from Lauterbach
Tino Sorge, the health spokesman for the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag, demands : “The minister has come into opposition to his own expert advisory board. It was only on Sunday that the committee warned that contact restrictions would have to follow quickly – the talk was of ‘utmost urgency’. But the minister categorically ruled out a lockdown on the same day. That is contradicting and inconsistent. “
But now Lauterbach and Wieler have to speak out as quickly as possible, after all, a joint Corona press conference is due on Wednesday. It could also pop.
So far, things have gone so well for the new Minister of Health: In the last polls, he even managed a pleasant coup *. * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
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