Berlin – There will be no compulsory vaccination, said Chancellor Angela Merkel. Jens Spahn had also made a commitment and said: “I gave my word in the Bundestag: In this pandemic there will be no compulsory vaccination. And that applies. ”The new President of the Bundestag Bärbel Bas, on the other hand, is apparently considering such an obligation. She told the Tagesspiegel now: “As long as we do not have a compulsory vaccination, we should at least expand the 2G and 3G rules.”
The human geneticist Wolfram Henn from the German Ethics Council calls for mandatory vaccination for nursing staff. “It is completely unacceptable and unprofessional if people who work with vulnerable groups on a daily basis are not vaccinated. Anyone who takes on a job in this highly sensitive area makes a conscious decision to take on special responsibility, ”he told the Rheinische Post. A compulsory test does not replace the compulsory vaccination. “Because tests do not protect against infections, only vaccinations protect against them.”
Medical association for job-related vaccination requirements
The President of the German District Assembly, Reinhard Sager, is also in favor of compulsory vaccination for certain professional groups. He said on Saturday that this compulsory vaccination was necessary because appeals and arguments had not yet succeeded in achieving a sufficient vaccination quota. The Medical Association of the Marburger Bund also spoke out in favor of a job-related vaccination requirement in Germany at its general meeting.
The obligation to vaccinate against the coronavirus should therefore apply to people who work in medical facilities, old people’s and nursing homes as well as schools and day-care centers. The introduction of a compulsory vaccination should be based on the current measles vaccination requirement.
For the legal scholar Christian Pestalozza, even a general vaccination requirement is overdue. Pestalozza is a member of the Ethics Committee of the State of Berlin. He sees the basic rights requirements met. That’s what Pestalozza told the RND. The constitutional lawyer: “The measure pursues a legitimate goal, is suitable, necessary and reasonable.” The fact that a corona vaccination does not completely protect against infection is not a reason for legal concerns, according to Pestalozza.
He calls for a nationwide legal regulation in the Infection Protection Act, so that individual countries do not get “in need of decision-making”. “Who is subject to vaccination must also be clear on the basis of the Infection Protection Act,” said Pestalozza.