Corona virus: Lauterbach urges caution in care facilities (video)

STORY: KARL LAUTERBACH (SPD), FEDERAL MINISTER OF HEALTH “We are at the start of an autumn and winter wave. The pandemic is not over yet and we have made it clear that we want to be better prepared this winter and also in autumn, much better prepared want to be like last year and also the year before. And we have good prerequisites for this, we have highly effective vaccines, adapted vaccines. We have medicines that significantly reduce the mortality rate among infected people, especially in care facilities. And we also have very good hygiene concepts, for example much better masks it has had in the past.” “Yes, you first have to take an epidemiological view: if we are 20, 30 older people, 80 years old, in need of care and upwards, sit together and the room is not sufficiently ventilated and they sit there without a mask, if one is infected and has a high Viral load, then that’s very bad news for the entire facility. You have to say: So this is an extremely dangerous situation, where you can only be lucky. Or you counteract the whole thing with medicines where it’s still possible “But that’s what happened very often in the past, that people sat together in the common rooms and infected each other. And then there were some outbreaks, where 20, 30 to 40 people died are. That happened. And that didn’t happen by going from room to room, it happened in the common rooms. That is, if I really e If I want to achieve something, then I have to be honest and I have to say, especially now that not everyone has been vaccinated yet, when the fourth vaccination has by no means been reached everywhere, that I have to be careful and the masks are very protective .”