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Berlin (dpa) - The Berlin virologist Christian Drosten warns of an early end to the corona measures.
"When the elderly and perhaps some of the risk groups are vaccinated, there will be enormous economic, social, political and perhaps also legal pressure to end the corona measures," he told the "Spiegel".
“And then, within a short period of time, many more people will be infected than we can even imagine now.
Then we no longer have case numbers of 20,000 or 30,000, but in the worst case 100,000 per day. "
These are then more likely to be younger people, but if a large number of them become infected, the intensive care units are still full again and there are still many dead.
"We could cushion this bad scenario a little if we now push the numbers very low."
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Drosten also does not assume that the coming summer will be similar to the previous one with regard to Corona.
“The fact that we had such a relaxed summer in 2020 probably had to do with the fact that our case numbers remained below a critical threshold in the spring.
But that is no longer the case ».
He fears that it will be more like Spain, where the number of cases rose quickly in the summer after the lockdown was over, even though it was very hot.
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