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Berlin (dpa) - Unlike countless critics of the vaccination strategy of the EU and the federal government, the virologist Christian Drosten does not consider it possible to retrospectively assess the procedure when ordering vaccines.
“It's such a complex matter.
You had to order the vaccine months in advance - and at the time you didn't even know whether the vaccine in question would work, ”he told the“ Berliner Morgenpost ”(Sunday).
"It is now practically impossible to assess that in retrospect."
The EU should, however, quickly catch up with the vaccine from Astrazeneca, which is already approved in Great Britain.
“Because this vaccine can also be used in normal medical practices.
With this vaccine you don't have the special refrigeration requirement, ”he explained.
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For the next six months, the chief virologist at the Berlin University Hospital Charité predicted very controversial discussions about the right approach.
“We will get into a situation where we have vaccinated large parts of the risk groups and there will then be forces who say that there is no longer any reason for restrictions.
The latter, however, will be a miscalculation, because we must not allow very high incidences in principle.
Not even with the younger ones. "
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