Die @Leopoldina hat gerade eine Stellungnahme veröffentlicht. Sie fordert:
- die Einführung einer Impfpflicht
- neue Maßnahmen, um Kontakte zu reduzieren (eine Art Lockdown light oder strikte, sanktionierte 2G-Regelung)
- Maskenpflicht und Tests an Schulen
leopoldina.org/publikationen/…
@Leopoldina Die Stellungnahme ist kurz und ich würde mir wünschen, dass jeder (besonders jeder Politiker) sie liest.

Geht schon bei der Vorbemerkung los:
"Es ist zu befürchten, dass Teile der Politik und Öffentlichkeit die Dramatik der Situation nicht in ihrem vollen Ausmaß erfassen.”
@Leopoldina Zum Impfen:
- Mehr Berufsgruppen mit impfen lassen
- Impfzentren wieder auf (mit langen Öffnungszeiten)
- mehr “aufsuchende Impfangebote”
- Impfpflicht für Ärzte, Pfleger, etc
- Vorbereitung einer allgemeinen Impfpflicht
@Leopoldina Zur Kontaktreduktion:
Die Autoren machen zwei Vorschläge
1. Kontakte für alle jetzt sofort für wenige Wochen stark reduzieren
Das "würde bei stringenter Umsetzung den exponentiellen Anstieg der Neuinfektionen in der 4. Welle beenden”
@Leopoldina 2. 2G-Regeln konsequent durchsetzen
"Dies wird allerdings weniger effektiv als Option 1 sein, weshalb mit einem längeren Verlauf der 4. Welle und einer erhöhten Zahl von Todesopfern gerechnet werden muss”
@Leopoldina Zu Kindern/Jugendlichen:
"Unter Berücksichtigung der aufgeführten direkten und indirekten Folgen ist eine Impfung von Kindern und Jugendlichen ab fünf Jahren mit einem geeigneten Impfstoff zu empfehlen”
Außerdem:
- Maskenpflicht und Tests an Schulen
- Weihnachtsferien vorziehen
@Leopoldina Die Stellungnahme kritisiert dann noch die Änderung des Infektionsschutzgesetzes und endet mit einem interessanten Abschnitt zu “Wertfragen”:
@Leopoldina "Auch die Einführung einer allgemeinen Impfpflicht ist unter den aktuellen, vor einem Jahr so nicht vorhersehbaren Umständen ethisch und rechtlich gerechtfertigt: als letzte Maßnahme, um eine Impflücke zu schließen, die sich augenscheinlich anders nicht beheben lässt."

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I think what many people do not appreciate is just how uncertain even scientists are right now. I’ve talked to more than a dozen researchers in the last 24 hours about #omicron, many of them several times.
And their assessment is shifting too as new bits of information come in.
Imagine you’re doing a puzzle not knowing what the final picture will be and all you have are a few pieces. In the beginning every new piece can change your mind: It’s a picture of the sky. No, wait the sea. Oh, a ship…
And some pieces may not even belong to this puzzle...
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But one reason we have so little to go on, is that this variant was identified very early. The earlier we find new variants, the less time they have had to show us what they do in the real world - and that’s good.
This is why we need to make sure that the tools for early detection and sequencing of variants are available everywhere around the globe.
And it is why we should be thankful for the stellar work scientists in South Africa have done in the last days, weeks and months.
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risk assessment of #Omicron.

It’s here:
ecdc.europa.eu/en/publication…
@ECDC_EU "There is considerable uncertainty related to the transmissibility, vaccine effectiveness, risk for reinfections and other properties of the Omicron variant...
@ECDC_EU "However, given its immune escape potential and potentially increased transmissibility advantage compared to Delta, we assess the probability of further introduction and community spread in the EU/EEA as HIGH..
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For instance, researchers in SA are growing the virus now for experiments but that can take a week or two (and different variants differ in how well they grow)
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Episode in German is here and long thread (sorry, not sorry) in English to come:
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Was immer noch viel zu wenig Leute (auch Ärzte) wissen:

Wir haben hier in Deutschland Antikörper-Medikamente verfügbar, die vielen #Covid19-Patienten bei früher Gabe das Leben retten könnten.

Kurzer Thread mit ein paar Basics, bitte RT
Was?

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