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Lauterbach: “I warn against the thought that we in Germany can accept an infection.”
(NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS WITHOUT SPEAKER TEXT.) Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) on Friday in Berlin: “So I believe that we are proceeding moderately at the moment, but if the number of cases actually increases significantly and we get into a situation where we also have to expect medical care to be overloaded, for example. And we will also see that we have more seriously ill people. At the moment the number of people who have to be treated in intensive care units for Covid is falling. If that should change, then of course it has to be counteracted with other measures. But I don’t think we’re at that point at the moment.” // “And I warn against the thought that we in Germany can accept an infection. The number of victims that we would then have to mourn is uncertain, is certainly too high. And it would not lead to us having a would have protection against other variants, because that cannot be derived from the omicron infection and is rather unlikely.” // “Nevertheless, as a Member of Parliament, I want to state my position very clearly: I am in favor of compulsory vaccinations without any ifs or buts. I am in favor of compulsory vaccinations from the age of 18. I believe that otherwise we will be faced with a situation again in the autumn that we don’t want to. I don’t think the Omicron variant will be the last variant. I think that’s almost impossible.”
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) emphasized in Berlin on Friday that the number of victims that we would then have to complain about would certainly be too high.