Category: Health
Corona pandemic: ‘Freedom Day’ at the end of March?
(GermanPolicy.com) – At the beginning of the spring season in the new year, the containment measures against the Corona pandemic are to expire. According to media reports, this is the intention of the SPD, the Greens, and the FDP. First of all, a special federal…
Söder for keeping up the the epidemic situation framework
(GermanPolicy.com) – Bavaria’s Prime Minister Söder (CSU) has spoken out against an end to the law on the epidemic situation at the federal level. Should this happen anyway, there will be “no more legal basis” – neither for tests, for masks or the 3D rules….
Clinics could serve as outpatient providers, SPD
(GermanPolicy.com) – According to a draft paper leaked before the beginning of the soon-to-begin coalition negotiations, the SPD wants to turn hospitals into outpatient providers, thus diversifying the sovereignty of resident doctors. This way, gaps are to be closed and cooperation with general practitioners possible,…
Greens: guaranteeing three months’ nursing leave
(GermanPolicy.com) – The Greens want to enforce a ‘care period plus.’ Employees who looked after relatives or confidants might in the future be allowed to take leave of absence for up to three months. SPD health expert Lauterbach said that one had to take action…
No lockdown during the fourth Corona wave expected
(GermanPolicy.com) – Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier assumes that in the course of the fourth wave of the Corona pandemic, a new lockdown, for those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered, can be avoided. According to media reports, Altmaier expects restaurants…
Employers and trade unions call for vaccinations
(GermanPolicy.com) – Employers and trade unions have appealed to the population to get vaccinated against the Coronavirus considering that the pace of vaccination has slowed. One had to be careful that what has been achieved is not gambled away, employer president Rainer Dulger and Reiner…
Laschet wants to adapt the Infection Protection Act
The candidate for Chancellor of the Union parties, Armin Laschet (CDU), wants to change the Infection Protection Act before the Federal Election in September. The incidence of 50 should be deleted. The incidence in and of itself is “no longer meaningful,” Laschet justified his point…
Baerbock does not exclude compulsory vaccination for professional groups
(GermanPolicy.com) – Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock (Green Party) has not ruled out that in the event of a significant worsening of the Corona situation, compulsory vaccination should apply to some population groups. Compulsory vaccination is legally “not that easy” to implement in Germany, she said….
The majority of hospital patients with Covid-19 do not have any vaccination protection
(GermanPolicy.com) – According to the intensive care doctor Christian Karagiannidis, the majority of Covid patients in Germany’s clinics are those have not received any Corona vaccination. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the proportion of Covid patients in hospitals is 12 to 13 percent. “This quota may also…
Vaccinations to protect against Covid-19 make sense from the age of twelve
(GermanPolicy.com) – The German Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine has spoken out in favor of looking at the psychosocial problems of twelve to 17 year olds. The Standing Vaccination Commission, which advises the Federal Government, must protect children and adolescents from the possible consequences,…
Long Covid: a new widespread disease?
(GermanPolicy.com) – The Minister of Health of the Free State of Bavaria and Chairman of the Conference of Health Ministers, Klaus Holetschek (CSU), has commented on the consequences of the post-Covid syndrome. “I see the risk that this so-called post-Covid syndrome will give us aftershocks.”…
Unvaccinated persons to pay for rapid tests from 11 October
By Thorsten Koch GermanPolicy.com The Federal Government and representatives of the Federal States decided this week that persons not vaccinated against Covid-19 will have to pay for rapid concerning the disease out of their own pocket from October 11. Only this way will they be…
