Even before the weather report, the announcement of the daily incidence figures has been an integral part of their news consumption for most Germans for more than a Corona year. Political decisions about lockdown and easing are also mainly based on this fever curve of new corona infections per 100,000 people within seven days. Many business representatives, some virologists and opposition politicians have been criticizing this "staring" at incidence as the most important criterion for corona measures as being wrong for months. But at a time when the vaccine was not available and later became scarce, the incidence values provided the federal and state governments with a useful early warning system.An overload of the health system due to an uncontrollable wave of serious illnesses could be realistically assessed and prevented.
But now the situation is happily different, even if the more aggressive Delta variant of the virus dominates. The risk group of the most endangered, older citizens is largely protected by a double vaccination. And millions of people between the ages of 18 and 59 have also been vaccinated twice or just before the second spade. The intensive care units have also emptied as a result of the advanced vaccination campaign. Therefore, the number of cases should no longer be the sole guide for political decisions. The number of corona patients in hospitals must be an equally important factor. This is probably how the Robert Koch Institute and the Ministry of Health also see it. There they also want to look at "hospitalization" in order to assess the pandemic.
However, the British risk model of a complete abolition of all corona rules even for unvaccinated and thus unprotected, contagious people is prohibited. It would be herd immunity that would have been bought with another ten thousand dead and seriously ill.