The chairman of the Upper Austrian Medical Association Peter Niedermoser is no friend of large-scale corona tests. Only symptomatic people should be tested, and only by doctors, Niedermoser said. 66 tests per thousand inhabitants per day make Austria the “test world champion”, “but they have not contributed to any improvement of the situation”, says the pathologist-anatomist. He is no longer privately tested.
He doesn’t want to blame anyone, because “afterwards you are always smarter”. But it is important to learn from the mistakes. Countries like Germany or Sweden have tested significantly less with four or two tests per day per thousand inhabitants, but the death rate in those countries is better than in Austria. “The wave motion did not change as a result of the tests, and the large number of tests also did not affect the number of deaths,” said Niedermoser, citing a paper by the Upper Austrian state crisis team.
Test only with the doctor
Large-scale mass tests or the “Alles gurgelt” project in Vienna would only contribute to a false sense of security. More than two billion euros spent on public testing to date is no longer accounted for. According to Niedermoser, testing should only be done at the doctor’s office. He sees no danger that symptomatic people – others should abstain from testing in the future – would infect someone in the doctor’s office. “First of all, you have to call the doctor anyway, wear a mask on site and wait in the waiting rooms of operations and hospitals in separate areas.”
Wear a mask wherever and whenever you want
Common hygiene measures and masks are still a tried and true way to protect yourself from infection, but he also understands people who would do without. “With the current infection process, everyone has to decide for themselves where and when to wear a mask,” says Niedermoser.
Source: Krone
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