“No argument for the obligation to vaccinate”
Virologist Kekulé criticizes Corona policy in the state parliament
04/15/2025 – 07:09 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
A well-known virologist exposes Corona defect: Alexander Kekulé speaks of a dramatized omicron variant in the Saxon state parliament.
The renowned virologist Alexander Kekulé, director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, named fundamental misjudgments in pandemic control during his hearing in the Corona investigation committee of the Saxon state parliament in Dresden. “As soon as the Delta variant of the virus appeared, there was no longer an argument for an obligation to vaccinate,” the MDR quotes the scientist.
Kekulé mainly criticized the Federal Government’s vaccination strategy. A herdism was unrealistic, he emphasized. Vucked also contributed significantly to the infection. The communication of the authorities was often contradictory, which had cost basic confidence in the population.
According to the Saxon newspaper, Kekulé warned that it was “a long way to rebuild lost trust”. The virus initially underestimated the pandemic policy and later dramatized. The omikron variant of Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach was described as a “monster mutant”, although data from other countries already indicated milder courses.
In his statement, the virologist Detlev Krüger called for more independence from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The RKI was subordinate to the political will of the Federal Ministry of Health. Although the quickly developed vaccines were a great achievement, they should not have been represented as a panacea without side effects, said Krüger. It was also wrong to describe unvaccinated as “evil people”.
During the Corona pandemic, official orders such as bans, at times closed restaurants and schools, mask obligation and canceled cultural events had severely restricted public life in Saxony. The committee of inquiry was used in autumn 2024 at the operating of the AfD and BSW factions. It is intended to critically examine the work of the Saxon government during pandemic in the period from 2020 to 2024.
