“Only three options”: Lauterbach warns against unprepared opening of schools in autumn

SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach warns of a wave of new infections with corona in schools if normal operations start too early.

Berlin – The coming school year is planned in the federal states. Various state governments want to reopen the educational institutions – ideally in normal operation. Karl Lauterbach * warns of this. On Twitter, the health politician of the SPD * parliamentary group in the Bundestag affirmed that schools should not start “unprepared” again in autumn.

There are only three ways that schools would open, according to Lauterbach. First variant: the schools will reopen normally. In this case, according to Lauterbach, “very many children” would become infected. Second variant: A continuation of the alternation instruction and the mask requirement. Third variant: vaccinated children. In his opinion, the medical professor tweeted, the possibility of an infection with the coronavirus * is more dangerous than a vaccination.

Karl Lauterbach refers to Drosten: “Maximum attention” for school operations

With his tweet, Karl Lauterbach refers to the virologist Christian Drosten, who had previously called for “maximum attention” for school operations in the fall. So far there is no general vaccination recommendation for children and adolescents *. Vaccination is permitted for twelve to 17-year-olds; the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) only gives a clear recommendation for minors who have previously suffered from obesity or those with a heart defect.

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Corona: Karl Lauterbach calls for vaccine exports to Africa

In addition, Karl Lauterbach also spoke about the infection rate of the pandemic worldwide. It is a “very depressing development” that more and more people in Africa are suffering from Corona. And that, according to Lauterbach, although the average age of the local population in some regions, for example in Namibia, is just 18 years.

“The Delta variant hits poorer countries very hard,” confirms Lauterbach. His appeal: “We owe these countries vaccine, they can’t do it alone.” (Mirko Schmid) * fr.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

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