Since this week at the latest, the dead vaccine has been on everyone’s lips: Tennis professional Dominic Thiem had announced that he would prefer to be vaccinated with it. No individual opinion, as a Forsa survey among vaccine skeptics in Germany has shown. According to this, the willingness to vaccinate would increase in 56 percent if a vaccine with classic mechanisms of action were available. Converted to Austria, that would mean a vaccination rate of around 80 percent – a real game changer, with one catch: the approval will take place in 2022 at the earliest. Health Minister Wolfgang Mückstein therefore appeals to everyone who is still waiting to choose a classic vaccine. Any side effects are comparable according to him. There would therefore be no discernible benefit.
Infectiologist Robert Krause from the Medical University of Graz also considers it “not a good strategy” to focus on a “Totimpfstoff”To wait because the risk of getting Covid by then is far too great.
