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Düsseldorf / Cologne (dpa) - An increasing number of people apparently prefer to be vaccinated by their family doctor than in the vaccination center.
The North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Health announced on Monday that due to the increasing number of vaccinations in medical practices, the demand for vaccination appointments in vaccination centers among people over 70 was sometimes lower than expected.
Sometimes agreed appointments in the vaccination centers are not kept.
Therefore, the vaccination centers were asked to allow overbooking of ten percent.
In the event that the overbooking should result in an additional requirement, the vaccination centers were allocated a reserve of Moderna vaccine.
The head of Cologne's health department, Johannes Nießen, told the German Press Agency that just under one percent of those who had made an appointment were not coming at the moment.
“But what worries us even more is that we have more over-70s than reports.
We then schedule 2500 Biontech vaccinations per day, for example, but only 1000 or 1500 reports are received - but the Biontech vaccine comes anyway. "
The response is therefore not as high as expected.
"Either there is a certain amount of vaccination fatigue or one is hoping for the family doctor."
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The city is responding by making other groups an offer from the excess doses of vaccine, currently for example teachers in secondary schools.
"They are really happy," said Nießen.
The phenomenon has not yet been observed anywhere else.
The occupancy rate is still high in the vaccination center of the Oberbergischer Kreis.
With 1,400 to 1,500 vaccinations per day you have to do well, said a spokesman.
A similar picture emerges for the Hochsauerlandkreis.
"There are relatively few cancellations, toi toi toi," says a spokesman.
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