Coronavirus: Increased flu vaccination, the risk of developing?

While the world waits for a vaccine against the new Coronavirus, try opponents, to beat out of the crisis of capital.

The latest example: the German doctor and author Ruediger Dahlke.

Statement

When it comes to the risk of Corona pulmonary disease Covid-19, were flu-Vaccinated and over the age of 65, according to the British government on the same level as “freshly Transplanted” and “hard Cancer,” says Dahlke.

Rating

This evaluation is wrong.

Facts

The Influenza expert Jonathan Van-Tam, dressed in England, the office of the “Deputy Chief Medical Officer”. 17. March, he was interviewed in the programme, ‘BBC Breakfast’.

On the question of which parts of the society should see themselves as at-risk groups for Covid-19, replied Van-Tam: It is primarily the, which will offered the government a flu vaccination, with the exception of children.

In the UK flu vaccination for certain at-risk groups are free of charge. Including people aged 65 years and over or with certain pre-existing conditions for example.

Van-Tam, described his assignment so simplified ones, the also apply for Covid-19-risk groups.

Van-Tam said in the Interview, explicitly, that you have due to a previous flu vaccination have a higher risk of developing Covid-19.

He claimed that people are classified because of their flu vaccination in the same high-risk group such as patients, which was recently an Organ transplant.

A spokeswoman for the British Ministry of health confirmed to the German press Agency that the Van-Tam said this nor meant to be.

Health authorities in several countries recommend to be vaccinated against influenza. In his Podcast in the NDR, the virologist Christian Drosten said in March: “It is never harmful to have a flu shot.”

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)

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