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Schuitemaker is thus responding to the high wave of infection that arose after young people fully went into the nightlife last summer after they immediately received a vaccination certificate after a first shot with the Janssen vaccine. “It’s not that I thought, something is going wrong now, I have to call someone. I also read that in the newspaper, it is not that we have a hotline with Hugo de Jonge,” said Schuitemaker. “I said to my own son, how strange that you immediately have a vaccination certificate. And then it was already clear that things were not going well.”

At the end of June, Minister Hugo de Jonge announced the Janssen vaccine as “an ideal vaccine if you really want to be ready with that one shot, ready for the summer, ready for a summer full of festivals, dancing with Janssen.” After the relaxation, young people in particular sought out the nightlife en masse for the first time in months. Some did so with government approval immediately after a shot with the Janssen vaccine. In practice, they were not well protected at all, because vaccines need at least two weeks to work optimally.

When the number of corona infections started to rise rapidly in early July, the interval between the jab and the green tick in the CoronaCheck app was increased to two weeks. In August, it was decided that anyone who has been shot with Janssen’s corona vaccine must wait four weeks for a vaccination certificate. According to the Outbreak Management Team (OMT), the vaccine needs more exposure time than two weeks.

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