Corona: fuss about Söder’s demand for “hospital traffic lights” – domestic politics

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Another new Söder push to Corona.

This time, Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (55, CSU) is calling for a new, nationwide warning system “which should be based on the occupancy of hospital beds” due to the high rate of corona infection dynamics and the scarce PCR test capacities. said Söder of the “Welt am Sonntag”.

A new hospital warning value? How come?

Söder demands what already exists. In addition to the incidence value (shows the infection process), there is the so-called hospitalization rate (shows the number of admissions to the hospital in relation to the number of inhabitants). The intensive care bed occupancy and the utilization of each individual clinic is also recorded daily.

The federal and state governments even linked measures in three stages to the incidence of hospitalization that ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel (67) pushed through at her last prime ministerial conference. Söder also approved the decision at the end of November 2021.

Which: In Bavaria, too, this decision is expressly shown online as a “Corona traffic light” and can be viewed by everyone! The key figures mentioned can be found at www.corona-ampel-bayern.de.

What is really new in Söder’s demand is that it should be recorded “how many people come to the hospital exclusively because of Corona and how many only with Corona,” said the Bavarian head of government.

So the warning value required by Söder already exists. Only other resolutions of the Prime Ministers’ Conference have that in mind coupled measures are long outdated. Many federal states deviate significantly from the resolutions and have introduced measures across the board.

Saxony tightened despite the hospital incidence value

▶︎ Example Saxony. The hospital incidence here is 3.70, i.e. BELOW the value of 6, from which 2G plus should apply, especially in discotheques, clubs and bars. Nevertheless, proof of 2G plus (meaning: vaccinated, recovered AND tested or boosted) is generally required indoors in the federal state, and 2G (vaccinated and recovered, no proof of test necessary) outdoors. Unvaccinated people generally have no access to 2G plus.

Even in the current Bavarian Corona Ordinance, the hospitalization incidence does not play a role as a key figure, it is only cited as a reason for individual changes as one of many factors.

Is called: Some of the federal states do not take the hospital incidence seriously themselves, so it does not have the claimed effect on specific measures. So why another traffic light?


Strong headwind for Söder’s advance

︎ Hamburg’s First Mayor Peter Tschentscher (56, SPD) rejected the proposal: The Hanseatic city has “always based its decisions on the specific regional pandemic situation, which results from numerous different factors as an overall picture,” said the SPD politician. “The interaction of the factors is complex, so that the necessary decisions cannot be derived schematically from nationally uniform threshold values.”

Hamburgs Erster Bürgermeister Peter Tschentscher (56, SPD)Foto: Christian Charisius/dpa

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Hamburg’s First Mayor Peter Tschentscher (56, SPD)Foto: Christian Charisius/dpa

︎ Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil (63, SPD) also rejects the introduction of a new corona warning system: “Corona policy should strive for reliability and not unsettle citizens with changing standards.”

Niedersachsens Regierungschef Stephan Weil (63, SPD)Photo: Julian Stratenschulte/dpa

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Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil (63, SPD)Photo: Julian Stratenschulte/dpa

It’s not the first time that Markus Söder (who likes to refer to himself as a supporter of “Team Caution”) has come forward with suggestions.

► On December 21, he even called on the federal traffic light government to return to the “epidemic situation of particular importance”, which makes it easier to impose serious lockdowns.

But recently, just four weeks after the call for a return, the Bavarian cabinet around Markus Söder suddenly decided to allow up to 10,000 spectators in stadiums at football games again…

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