SPD health expert and physician Karl Lauterbach believes the Astrazeneca vaccine is not second best. To confirm this claim, he plans to work as a doctor at the vaccination center in Leverkusen. (North Rhine-Westphalia) at the end of the next week.
To minimize the risk of infection, the expert will be injected with the Astrazeneca vaccine. “With the planned measures, we want to confirm that Astrazeneca is a safe and good vaccine,” said the expert.
There is a clear reluctance in society to administer vaccinations from this manufacturer. The Robert Koch Institute of Virology in Germany has recommended the use of a vaccine from the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for citizens under the age of 65. This led the inhabitants of the country to believe that the vaccine was second-rate. Skepticism about this vaccine is also noted among younger residents of the country.
Lauterbach believes that changing the sequence of vaccinations of populations or administering doses that people on the waiting list have refused to volunteers is the wrong strategy. “It will put people at high risk, including doctors and nurses under the age of 65, at risk of infection for much longer.”
Stiko’s recommendation to use the vaccine exclusively for people under 65 “clearly damaged the drug’s image. Many unjustifiably, without any reason, consider it a second-class vaccine, which is not true, ”Lauterbach emphasized.
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