There is an information gap in Germany – and it relates to vaccination complications, explains the star-Science journalist Bernhard Albrecht on “important today”. Appropriated by people who are skeptical about vaccination, this gap must not remain as it is. In the podcast we clarify.
The corona vaccines are the most widely administered vaccines in the world. In Europe alone, 735 million doses were vaccinated by the beginning of January 2022 – the EMA, the European Medicines Agency, has so far recorded side effects in around 0.12 percent. The vaccination is safe and undoubtedly does what it is supposed to do: it protects against the serious consequences of a corona infection. Bernhard Albrecht criticizes that this fact must not lead to the debate about possible side effects of vaccinations and the critical examination of them being left solely to those who are skeptical about vaccinations. He is a medical doctor and science editor at star and worked intensively on the subject for months, spoke to those suspected to be affected, reviewed studies and checked with medical staff.
In the 219th episode of “Today Important”, Albrecht explains: “If you look at it from a legal point of view, there are the so-called vaccination reactions, which also do not have to be reported, and then there are the vaccination complications.” Vaccination reactions occur immediately after the vaccination and are expressed, for example, in malaise, headaches, nausea or fever. In most cases, however, they subside after a day or two. That’s because the vaccine is “very reactogenic,” says Albrecht. The term vaccination complications, on the other hand, refers to actual side effects. The best known are, for example, heart muscle inflammation or sinus vein thrombosis. Both are due to a very rare autoimmune reaction that is currently being researched. STERN PAID 9_22 Vaccination side effects 12.00
Corona: “Our handling of vaccination side effects in Germany is stuck”
As rare as vaccination complications actually occur, Bernhard Albrecht still criticizes how they are looked at in the podcast: “Our handling of vaccination side effects in Germany is stuck.” What could help, says Albrecht in an interview with Michel Abdollahi, would be, for example, better recording by a vaccination register that has already been introduced in other countries. In addition, he also demands that actual patients are taken seriously by fellow human beings and family doctors: “Depending on how severe they are, they can be frightening. And if they are frightening, the doctor has to take them seriously .”
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