2nd round of vaccination starts in Germany.
Targeted are day-care workers, teachers and police.
They will be vaccinated with AstraZeneca.
I wonder how will they explain sudden rise in corona cases in schools and kindergartens.
Targeted are day-care workers, teachers and police.
They will be vaccinated with AstraZeneca.
I wonder how will they explain sudden rise in corona cases in schools and kindergartens.
North Rhine-Westphalia presents vaccination plan for priority group 2
Nordrhein-Westfalen stellt Impfplan für die Priorisierungsgruppe 2 vor | Land.NRW
Gesundheitsminister Karl-Josef Laumann hat am Montag, 1. März 2021, den weiteren Impfplan für das Land Nordrhein-Westfalen vorgestellt. Demnach wird das Land nun beginnen, auch Menschen, die gemäß Coronavirus-Impfverordnung des Bundes in der Priorisierungsgruppe 2 stehen, sukzessive ein...www.land.nrw
Since last week, hospitals have been able to have their staff not named in priority group 1 vaccinated. In addition, the Ministry of Health asked the municipalities on Friday to submit a vaccination offer to the following groups of people:
- Medical staff working on an outpatient basis with regular and direct patient contact. These include, for example, (dental) doctors, their medical practice staff, medicine providers and midwives
- People who work in the public health service
- Blood and plasma donation service personnel
- Staff in SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and test centers
From March 8th, the following groups will receive a vaccination offer:
- Day care workers
- Teachers at elementary and special schools
- Police officers with direct contact with citizens - starting with the members of the Emergency service
- Personnel, residents and employees of the workshops for disabled people and in special forms of living
The Ministry of Health assumes that there are more than 750,000 people in the group of people mentioned, including 275,000 in schools and day-care centers, around 300,000 in outpatient medical care and 150,000 in integration assistance. AstraZeneca is usually given to people under 65 years of age. The country is implementing the latest medical findings and is postponing the second vaccination from the ninth to the twelfth week. The vaccination offers are coordinated by the coordinating units of the vaccination centers with the employers, employers and facility managers and take place both in vaccination centers and on site.
At the end of March, people with a previous illness within the meaning of the Coronavirus Vaccination Ordinance will receive a vaccination offer.
The start of vaccinations for people over the age of 70 depends largely on the availability of BioNTech vaccine and the progress made in vaccination for people over the age of 80. "I assume that we can start vaccinating over-70s by May at the latest," said the minister.
Minister Laumann: “The planning for the second prioritization group is far from over. Over the next few weeks, we will gradually explain when and how the other groups named in the federal vaccination ordinance will receive their vaccination offer. "
In addition, Health Minister Laumann announced that as soon as possible - in the next few weeks - the vaccinations of people in need of care will begin in their own homes. Either doctors at the vaccination center will drive down several vaccinated individuals and vaccinate them, or the statutory health insurance associations will organize a vaccination through the family doctor system. Initially, 18,000 people will be vaccinated at care level 5 in a model project.
Vaccination start for teaching staff on March 8th
Status: 01.03.2021 3:42 p.m.
The AstraZeneca vaccine keeps lying around. Now it should be quickly offered to new groups - including doctors, police officers, teachers and educators.
In the race against the further spread of the coronavirus, there is only one thing to do: vaccinate, vaccinate and vaccinate again. "We need a turbo, we need more speed, we need more groups," says NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) about the corona vaccinations with AstraZeneca.
The Prime Minister does not assume "that AstraZeneca is lying around". However, many municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia report that vaccination appointments have been canceled and not taken. This not only causes a lack of understanding at the political level - because the Paul Ehrlich Institute recently made it clear that in addition to the vaccines from Biotech / Pfizer and Moderna, AstraZeneca is also safe and effective.
111,000 Astrazeneca vaccines so far inoculated
According to the NRW Ministry of Health, the federal government has so far delivered around 310,000 vaccine doses from AstraZeneca to North Rhine-Westphalia. According to the Robert Koch Institute, 111,000 of these were vaccinated up to and including last Sunday.
The NRW state government is now pushing the pace. On Monday, Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) announced that the corona vaccination campaign with AstraZeneca will be expanded from March 8th - i.e. in one week.
Vaccination offer for around 750,000 additional people
It is a large group of people who are now being offered vaccinations, about 750,000 in total. Among others are: doctors, police officers, educators, daycare workers, contact persons for pregnant women or people with chronic illnesses. "It remains to be seen now whether AstraZeneca will really be rejected," says Laumann. Reliable figures on this are not yet available.
AstraZeneca
does not continue to be used by people over 65
Laumann made it clear that AstraZeneca will not continue to be inoculated to people over 65. He cannot say when this will be the case. Only the Robert Koch Institute can give an answer to this, not politics.
Successor model in Cologne
In the meantime, there is already a concrete successor model in Cologne: If appointments are canceled, people in the first and second priority group who have not yet been given the opportunity to get vaccinated. An ethics committee decides who will ultimately receive the vaccination dose.
An additional offer for teachers
In Krefeld, primary school teachers can be vaccinated from Tuesday, because there is still AstraZeneca vaccine left over there. "Now we hope that the staff in the Krefeld day-care centers will have a turn at the next special campaign," said city director Markus Schön
In Münster, groups of people who have not yet received a vaccination offer at the start of the AstraZeneca vaccination are now invited to vaccination appointments. This includes doctors who make home visits to inpatient care facilities, as well as dentists, otolaryngologists and pediatricians.
Two advantages of AstraZeneca
There is one advantage at AstraZeneca, as the vaccination center in Bielefeld emphasizes: For example, cans in opened ampoules can be stored for up to six days. With the vaccine from Biontech and Pfizer, these would have to be inoculated within four hours.
And another advantage of AstraZeneca: In North Rhine-Westphalia, the second vaccination with this active ingredient will only take place after three months instead of the previous nine weeks, announced Laumann. So even more people can benefit from the vaccination.
Soon a new recommendation for AstraZeneca?
The head of the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko), Thomas Mertens, had recently announced a change in the recommendation for the AstraZeneca vaccine. The Stiko consider the preparation based on recent studies for a "very good" vaccine. Because of the lack of data, it was recommended that only those under 65 be vaccinated.