Experts from the Friedrich Schiller University answer questions about vaccinating against COVID-19. What is the care like in the intensive care unit? Are there reasons not to get vaccinated? Are young people less at risk of contracting post-COVID syndrome? Or: Should pregnant women get vaccinated?
Questions like these are answered by Prof. Dr. Andreas Stallmach (Director of the Clinic for Internal Medicine IV at Jena University Hospital), Prof. Dr. Michael Bauer (Director of the Clinic for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Jena University Hospital), PD Dr. Dr. Petra Dickmann (Head of Public Health at the Clinic for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Jena University Hospital), Dr. med. Andrea Steiner (company physician at the University of Jena) and Prof. Dr. med. Ekkehard Schleußner (Director of the Clinic for Obstetrics at the University Hospital Jena) as well as Prof. Dr. med. Mathias Pletz (Director of the Institute for Infectious Medicine and Hospital Hygiene at the University of Jena).
"The vaccines available in Germany are the best-monitored vaccines in the history of medicine."
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“All of a sudden, COVID was by far the most common diagnosis and death was omnipresent.“
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"Vaccination is the way out of the pandemic"
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"There are only a few good reasons not to get vaccinated."
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»Anyone who has seen young, healthy, pregnant women fighting for their lives in intensive care, as I have, can only advise every young and old person: Get vaccinated (...)«
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"This virus will not go away and sooner or later I will suffer a natural infection if I am not vaccinated."
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Note
Students and prospective students in Jena have currently several options to get vaccinated against COVID-19. You do not have to be registered in Jena. All information on vaccines and vaccination opportunities can be found here.