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New Corona Expert Council: Arguing Drosten and Streeck will advise the federal government in the future
Christian Drosten, chief virologist at the Berlin Charité
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A council of experts is to advise the traffic light coalition under Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz on combating the corona crisis in the future. Proven corona experts sit on the committee.
According to a media report, the new Corona Expert Council of the Federal Government will include virologists Christian Drosten and Hendrik Streeck. The list of the council was completed on Friday, reported the “Welt am Sonntag”. Drosten, chief virologist at the Berlin Charité, and Streeck, head of the virological institute at the University Clinic Bonn, had expressed very different opinions in the past about the necessary measures in the corona crisis.
Expert council for traffic light coalition
In addition to the two virologists, according to the report, Thomas Mertens, head of the Standing Vaccination Commission, Lothar Wieler, President of the Robert Koch Institute, the virologist Melanie Brinkmann from the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, the physicist Viola Priesemann from the Max Planck Institute and the intensive care physician Christian Karagiannidis from the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine belong to the committee.
The expert council, which is supposed to advise the traffic light coalition under Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) on combating the corona crisis, will meet for the first time on Tuesday, according to “Welt am Sonntag”.