Covid-19: Majority of Germans no longer trust official infection figures -survey
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – This is the result of an INSA survey for Germany’s BILD newspaper, one of the largest in the country. When asked whether they still trust the official infection figures, 57% answered no. Only 32% believe that the figures are correct.
In other words, the majority no longer trust the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) statistics, the German federal government agency, and the research institute responsible for disease control and prevention.
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Even Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (Socialist party SPD) admitted that the current incidence of infection “is not accurately reflected in the official figures”.
According to the survey, only a small part of the infections is currently known. This is because tests and reports by the health offices drop off sharply during vacations.
And more and more counties are giving up contact tracing. The current incidence of infection, the spread of the Omikron variant, is said to be unknown.
Economic expert Dieter Janecek (Green Party) criticizes in BILD: “We have unfortunately gone through two years of the pandemic in Germany in a Data blind.”
Janecek points to countries such as Great Britain or Denmark, which have a better basis through representative surveys.
Even the official vaccination rate is unreliable (under 82% of adults have been vaccinated twice). The accurate figure is probably higher because not all vaccinations were reported. Therefore, health politician Erwin Rüddel (Christian Democrats) is calling for a central vaccination register.
The frequency of hospitalizations is also wrong! Many who are counted as covid patients are not hospitalized for this disease. They are nevertheless included in the hospitalization rate to enlarge the case numbers artificially.
The RKI sees the responsibility with health offices, which do not report the data everywhere in time. “None of this is the responsibility of the RKI,” the authority informed BILD in response to a question.
The federal, state, and local governments also have many excuses (staff shortages during the holidays).
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