Status: 02/20/2021 12:17 p.m.
If it were up to Lower Saxony’s Health Minister Carola Reimann (SPD), teachers and educators should be vaccinated earlier than planned. To do this, the federal government must change the vaccination ordinance.
“All opening scenarios rightly provide a high priority for the education sector,” said Reimann of the “Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung” (HAZ). Accordingly, teachers and educators should be regrouped. “The state government has already presented this several times at federal level, and I very much hope that the federal vaccination ordinance will be adapted in this way,” said Reimann. Other countries such as Brandenburg and Bavaria could join in.
AstraZeneca serum remains
Another reason for the advance is that a large part of the AstraZeneca vaccine is not inoculated. Affected people apparently renounced their appointments again and again, presumably out of concern about side effects. The Lower Saxony Ministry of Health stated that by Thursday, of the 73,000 vaccine doses supplied by the manufacturer AstraZeneca, it had only consumed around a third. The serum is intended for people who are younger than 65 years.
School management association calls for earlier vaccinations for teachers
That is not going fast enough for the Lower Saxony school management association. He complains about a lack of support from the Ministry of Culture. “The big hit is missing,” said the managing director Rene Mounajed. “We only ever have tippy steps.” The risk of infection is permanently high. Therefore, teachers should have a higher priority in vaccination. First, the staff at primary and special schools should be vaccinated, then everyone else, according to Mounajed, who is the headmaster of a comprehensive school. In addition, the school management association demands the cancellation of final exams in secondary levels I and II. “The hygiene concepts are not sufficient to guarantee a safe examination. There are masses that have to come into the house. We would do well to check these things” said Mounajed. Average grades could be formed and voluntary replacement exams could be used.
Do practice doctors also move up in priority?
In addition to teachers, doctors in private practice and their medical staff could also be vaccinated earlier. “We are almost the only European country where doctors still have to wait,” criticized Thomas Buck, chairman of the Lower Saxony Medical Association (ÄKN) during the week. The ÄKN demands that doctors in private practice are soon allowed to vaccinate. The pilot project could start in March, provided that the Lower Saxony Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and the Ministry agree.
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