Christian Drosten was the Corona statement par excellence in German-speaking countries. The virologist polarized with his reviews during Pandemie. In a committee of inquiry, he now looked back on mistakes and laughed.
In the Saxon State Parliament, Drosten was invited as an expert. He used his speech time to define his role as an omnipresent Corona statement. The virologist fiercely defended himself against the story that he was the “architect of the Corona strategy”.
The AfD politician Thomas Prantl had previously entitled him on the committee. According to his own statements, Drosten participated in government meetings “only in a small minority”. However, his daily presence in the media would have given a different impression.
“Was the biggest wrong estimate!”
The expert also came to confuse when he appeared. He regretted an assessment by the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina from November 2021. This requires a vaccination obligation for nurses. However: before infection with the then unbridled Omikron variant, the vaccination protected considerably less.
Drasts: “That was the biggest wrong estimate in which I was involved.” However, this should not hide the fact that vaccination has considerably reduced disease and mortality. “Countries in which vaccination were better accepted benefited clearer than Germany.”
He would still be behind his reviews from then. Drosten emphasized that this was difficult at the start of Pandemie. The data situation was often “shaky”. In May 2020 it was necessary to assume that the hospitalization in children was five to 20 percent. “This data turned out to be too high later – luckily,” said Drosten. Nevertheless, it had to be done on the basis of his extensive recommendations.
A fear of serious complications in children, as you know from BOF, has influenced the hardness of the reviews: “However, these concerns have hardly been discussed in the general public because people did not want to scare people.”
Drosten laughs
In between, the virologist also caused laughter over the full spectator of the parliament of the Saxon State. According to “T-Online”, he explained his permanent presence in the NDR podcast with a wink: “I operated for 20 years with tax-financed investigation-on a certain moment you have to give something back to the taxpayers!”
The Corona Investigation Committee in Saxony was used in the appointment of the AfD. The focus is on whether measures such as school closures, test obligations or vaccination campaigns were “suitable, necessary and proportionate”. Dry answering that with a “yes” – covered …
Source: Krone
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