Despite the emergency brake from Health Minister Rauch, Mayor Ludwig made it clear that the strict mask requirement still applies in Vienna. He shoots at the government via Twitter and calls on it to reintroduce the FFP2 mask at the federal level. And at a press conference he followed up, urging people to be told that vaccination is the only “real protection” against infection. However, scientific studies do not prove this
A new study from the University of Oxford caused a stir a few weeks ago: The results show that people who had been vaccinated against Corona were 13 times better protected against reinfection with the Delta variant than those who had tested positive for Covid -19 vaccinated – the eXXpress reported.
“The study confirms what we have known for a long time,” commented Carsten Watzl, Secretary General of the German Society for Immunology, months ago on a similar study by the US disease control agency CDC. Vaccination protects against severe courses, but not so well against pure infection or the transmission of the virus. For Watzl, this means: “We should say goodbye to the concept of herd immunity. Vaccination is for self-protection.” You can imagine the vaccination like an umbrella, says Waztl. “It protects against normal rain, but not in a storm.”
