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.”