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It was the first political scandal in the grand coalition in 2021: On the evening of January 2nd, the SPD Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) sent a catalog of questions about the “vaccination disaster”.
The next day, Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) also addressed the questions to Spahn in the Corona cabinet.
He acts on behalf of the SPD-led federal states.
This was followed by a debate about Germany and Spahn's role in vaccination, promoted by the SPD and its Secretary General Lars Klingbeil.
Some SPD members of the Bundestag are even calling for an investigative committee.
Spahn started to flee forward and promised in a Union parliamentary group meeting a vaccination offer "to all interested parties" in the "second quarter of 2021".
Now the Spahns Ministry of Health has responded to the questions of the SPD-led federal states about the vaccination campaign with a 30-page paper.
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Among other things, it emphasizes that it was clear from the start that the vaccine would be scarce at the beginning of the vaccination campaign.
The limited availability was therefore "not due to an insufficient total amount of vaccine doses ordered".
This is due on the one hand to the globally limited amount of production capacities "and on the other hand to the different pace of further promising vaccine developments by other companies".
On a total of 30 pages there is an answer to each of the 24 questions and 48 sub-items.
In addition, at the end there is a tabular overview showing the dispatch of information on the subject of vaccination.
For example, the national vaccination strategy was presented to the Corona cabinet (which also includes SPD ministers) on October 26, 2020.
The Ministry of Health wants to make it clear that the coalition partner was also informed.
Incidentally, this is not mentioned in the entire paper.
Documentation: You can find all of the paper here