RKI reports a new high with 92,223 new infections – Omikron now predominates in Germany

the Position of the German Ethics Council for the possible introduction of a general compulsory vaccination also depends on which corona variant is currently dominating the infection process. That’s what she said Council President Alena Buyx the “mirror”. When the majority of the committee recommended extending the vaccination requirement from certain professional groups to “essential parts of the population” in December, this statement was “essentially written under the conditions of the Delta variant”. If the facts of the pandemic change significantly – for example due to the highly infectious omicron variant – you also have to “review the normative assessments of how they were made,” she emphasized. “Anything else would be irresponsible.”

The members of the Ethics Council stand for “openness to revision”, and she also recommends it to politicians, Buyx told the news magazine. “It’s possible that important things will change again, for example that our previous vaccination rate for future, more harmless mutations will be sufficient to achieve a controlled endemic situation.” Of course, the opposite could also happen.

Buyx pointed out that from the perspective of the Ethics Council numerous conditions for the introduction of a general obligation to vaccinate not yet fulfilled be. “We wrote the politicians in the task book what would have to be done before vaccination could become compulsory: for example, there would have to be many more low-threshold, nationwide vaccination offers. So far, however, there has been no real target group-specific strategy.” One would also be needed permanent vaccination infrastructure and lots of good advice. “So there is a whole range of conditions or accompanying measures that are mandatory before we think vaccination could become mandatory.”

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