Is Karl Lauterbach right to warn of easing?

Covid-19 patient

The number of new admissions to the intensive care units is a kind of harbinger of the development of deaths from or in connection with the corona virus.

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Karl Lauterbach warns of 400 to 500 deaths a day if the government decides to relax again. Is he spreading fear, as critics say, or is he just sharing his epidemiological expertise with the German population?

What Lauterbach is addressing with his warning: Israel, where the abolished measures have resulted in a significantly higher death rate, despite a comparatively high vaccination rate.

The question is whether the situation in Germany is at all comparable to that in Israel. And: whether the number of seriously ill and corona deaths, which is currently increasing again, is the harbinger of worse things to come. An overview of the most important questions and answers:

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