Status: 10/08/2022 08:48
It’s not just the federal states that are unhappy with the federal government’s plans for corona measures. The head of the hospital company considers the new rules for clinics “unfeasible”. Pediatricians reject mandatory masks in schools.
Criticism of the federal government’s corona protection plans for the cold season continues. The head of the German Hospital Society (DKG), Gerald Gass, called for improvements to the planned Infection Protection Act. “We welcome the fact that it should still be possible to wear masks indoors,” he told the Rheinische Post. “But exceptions for vaccinated people are completely impractical and therefore contradict the goal of good protection against infection.”
The rules provided for clinics cannot be implemented either. “It is envisaged that, in the future, all hospital staff and visitors will only be able to enter a hospital with a current test or a vaccination certificate that is not older than three months (after triple vaccination) and in both cases a mask. FFP2,” explained Gass.
“Against mandatory masks in schools”
Meanwhile, the Professional Association of Pediatricians (BVKJ) has spoken out against mandatory masks for schoolchildren in autumn and winter. “BVKJ is fundamentally against mandatory masks in schools,” said Jakob Maske, a federal spokesman for BVKJ, Germany’s editorial network. “It is also important that there are no more random tests, the sensitivity here is only 40%”, says the pediatrician. There are many false negative results, but also false positives.
Ullmann: Practical Suitability Exam
FDP health politician Andrew Ullmann has warned federal states against untying the red-green-yellow federal government bill again. “Federal state health ministers are on the wrong track if they demand more tightening,” he told the Augsburger Allgemeine. “We are giving countries enough tools to fight the pandemic in a decentralized way.”
According to the newspaper, Ullmann announced that the proposals of the Minister of Health, Karl Lauterbach, and the Minister of Justice, Marco Buschmann, will be examined for their practicality in the legislative process in the Bundestag.
A spokesperson for Bavarian Health Minister Klaus Holetschek demanded in newspapers from Bayern’s media group: “We need clear indicators and threshold values to determine when which measure should come into force.” The federal government must do this. “If each country decides for itself, we will never arrive at uniform and understandable rules, but we will only increase the legal risks.”
Vaccination every three months “medically meaningless”
The draft of the new Infection Protection Act includes, for example, that federal states can again impose mask requirements starting in October. The mask requirement on buses, trains and planes should continue to apply across the country, as well as a new requirement for masks and testing in hospitals and healthcare facilities.
Among other things, there is criticism that people should be exempted from the obligation to wear masks in restaurants or at cultural and sporting events if the vaccination does not last longer than three months. There were also disagreements about the exceptions provided by the federal government for newly vaccinated people yesterday at a conference of federal and state health ministers.
In the face of criticism in recent days, Lauterbach made it clear that the possibility of an exception to the mask requirement should in no way be understood as a recommendation for a booster shot every three months. This is absurd and would also be “medically absurd,” Lauterbach said in the daily threads.