Head of statutory health insurance physicians, Andreas Gassen, expects the corona pandemic to end in six to nine months.
"I assume that Corona will end in spring 2022," said the head of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) of the newspaper Rheinische Post.
“Until then, the vaccination rate will be a little higher, but above all the number of people who have recovered with antibodies will also increase.
Restrictions will then probably become completely unnecessary. "
The Secretary General of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) expects vaccines for infants from 2022 as well.
"We firmly assume that from next year there will be vaccines for all age groups, even approved up to newborns," said pediatrician Florian Hoffmann to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
Studies with infants are already ongoing
Various studies by Biontech and Moderna are currently running, some even with babies.
He expects a vaccine for children under the age of twelve by the end of this year, says Hoffmann.
This group is expected to receive a reduced vaccine dose.
In mid-August, the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) spoke out in favor of general corona vaccinations for all children from the age of twelve.
The vaccines from Biontech and Moderna are approved for this.
But Gassen also said that the number of infections would rise again in autumn.
The number of serious illnesses will remain well below that of last winter.