Vaccine skeptics and deniers must be persuaded to achieve herd immunity. The unvaccinated will be infected with the coronavirus-delta variant strain, warned World Medical Association President Frank-Ulrich Montgomery.
“If we do not convince a group of skeptics and deniers of the meaning of vaccination, we will not achieve herd immunity. “Anyone who is not vaccinated will sooner or later be infected with the coronavirus, due to the greater transmissibility of the delta strain,” said today the president of the World Medical Association in the German Network of Authors (Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland).
“Extensive vaccination coverage of the adult population is required. Children make up 17 to 18% of the population. For them, the variant Delta strain is largely harmless, so it is likely that the assessment that vaccination may not be recommended for children is still valid. “We can not vaccinate children just to protect society.”
Health Fund doctors are calling for more speed in vaccinations. “We are in a battle with time. The more people are vaccinated twice in the next few days and weeks, the smaller the effect of the Delta variant. In order for vaccinations to be faster, more vaccines should also be delivered. But there is still a long delay in mass delivery. “This is at the expense of planning,” Andreas Gassen, head of the Federal Association of Physicians of Funds (KBV), told the Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung.
