Status: 01/13/2021 7:36 a.m.
This debate is likely to be wind in the sails of vaccination opponents: Markus Söder (CSU) calls for a corona vaccination for care workers. The Bavarian Prime Minister is also opposing the federal government – it had repeatedly emphasized that the whole thing is and remains voluntary.
At first glance, the numbers seem sobering: In Hamburg’s nursing homes, just 54 percent of all nursing staff have been vaccinated so far. But this is also due to the fact that only those employees who are there can be vaccinated. Anyone who is on vacation or sick does not get the vaccination at first.
Would a mandatory vaccination increase the rejection?
Martin Sielaff (archive photo), the managing director of the Hamburgische Pflegeegesellschaft, points out a possible negative effect of a mandatory vaccination for carers.
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The social authority estimates that the actual willingness to vaccinate is two thirds. And initial feedback from the mobile vaccination teams shows that it is increasing rather than decreasing. This is one of the reasons why Martin Sielaff, the managing director of the Hamburg Care Society, fears that the debate will have the opposite effect.
FFP2 mask requirement: Hamburg pharmacists skeptical
Another advance from Bavaria also causes astonishment in Hamburg: From Monday you have to wear an FFP2 mask there when you go shopping. The Hamburg Chamber of Pharmacists says: In principle, it is possible to organize these professional masks for everyone. But you need one to two months in advance.
The Hamburg social authority does not even want to participate in the debates – neither on a possible vaccination requirement, nor on the FFP2 masks.
AUDIO: The debate about mandatory vaccinations from a Hamburg perspective (1 min)
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