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Sebastian Reuter

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    1. Vaccinations for young people from June


    2. The Greens and the guns


    3. German-Russian relations at rock bottom


    4. Doubts about the many billions of caregivers


    5. France acknowledges responsibility


    6. The DFB team starts the EM adventure


    7 . Foretaste of the restaurant of the future

    1. Vaccinations for young people from June

    With the discontinuation of prioritization on June 7, adolescents from the age of twelve can also be vaccinated against the coronavirus in Germany. However, there will be no additional vaccination doses for this age group.

    Reservation:

    As early as this Friday, the European Medicines Agency EMA could approve the vaccine from BioNTech / Pfizer for twelve to fifteen year olds. However, vaccination will by no means become a prerequisite for school attendance or vacation for young people either, declared the federal and state governments at their vaccination summit. The decision to be vaccinated rests with the children and adolescents, their parents and the doctors. According to Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU), however, the Standing Vaccination Commission is “very reserved” about child vaccination. Presumably, she will initially only recommend immunization for risk groups.

    Irritation:

    Overall, the group of potential vaccinees is growing by several million people as the vaccination campaign is expanded to include young people. There will be no additional vaccine, which caused irritation at the conference with the prime ministers. Chancellor Angela Merkel stated that the vaccine deliveries that had been ordered came “by and large” as agreed. For this reason, too, the Federal Schoolchildren's Conference calls for young people to have the right to pre-empt the BioNTech vaccine. With this preparation, there will be only one vaccine in the foreseeable future that will be approved for under 16-year-olds.

    Warning:

    The head of virology at the Berlin Charité, meanwhile, pleads for more caution in view of the increasingly difficult interpretation of the pandemic development: "This is actually one of the most difficult phases for politics to navigate the whole thing," said Christian Drosten in view of the decline Infection and increasing vaccination numbers.

    If the incidence values ​​rise again, the question arises in the future what this means for the burden of disease.

    Relaxation is appropriate, but it should not be withdrawn too much at once.

    Drosten: "Otherwise it could strike back."

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    2. The Greens and the Guns

    The Greens chairman Robert Habeck described Ukraine's desire for “defensive weapons” as “justified”.

    In doing so, he has caused quite a stir in his party.

    Precision:

    The former party chairman Jürgen Trittin objected immediately. And also the green spokeswoman for disarmament policy, Katja Keul, distanced herself. Habeck then spoke up again and no longer spoke of “defensive weapons”, but of night vision and reconnaissance equipment. Afterwards, many of the Greens were happy that Habeck had “clarified”, “clarified”, “corrected” his statements. Including Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock.