Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s brother sharply criticized Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach’s corona policy in an interview. Anesthetist Prof. Jens Scholz says that comprehensive tests and the “foreclosure policy have failed”.
In France, the parliament has passed a law that stipulates the end of all corona measures from August 1st. In Austria, too, the government in Vienna wants to abolish the obligation to isolate people infected with corona from August 1st. In Germany, there are still five days of domestic isolation in the event of an infection.
Now Prof. Jens Scholz, anesthesiologist, CEO of the Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital and brother of Olaf Scholz, has criticized the Corona measures of Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach in a “Bild” interview: “The comprehensive testing does not help. We tested in the beginning to isolate infected people. You have to honestly say that this policy of isolation has failed. There are also no mass tests for influenza. We have to treat patients in a symptom-oriented manner and medically indicate testing. The principle of free testing is useless.”
The Chancellor’s younger brother is calling on all people over 60 to have their fourth vaccination in order to “hopefully get through the winter well”. “A lot of people are vaccinated. They can get sick, but they rarely end up in an intensive care unit,” says Prof. Jens Scholz.
He doesn’t think much of the current quarantine regulation in Germany: “I’m glad that Mr. Gassen, the head of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, now also says: If you’re sick, stay at home. That’s how we do it with the flu. Doctors and nurses should stay at home if they feel sick. When they feel fit again, they should go back to work with an FFP2 mask.”
According to Lauterbach, the current virus variant BA.5 should not be underestimated. Prof. Jens Scholz points to the rethinking in countries such as Spain, Great Britain, Austria and Switzerland and says: “We have a different variant, a vaccine and antiviral drugs. If we have evolved so much, then we have to change our behavior as well.”
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