How the Netherlands missed the booster boat: ‘There are extra deaths while we started so late’ | healthy
ReconstructionOther countries have started a booster vaccination, the Netherlands are waiting for and started too late, experts carried out. About long months in which the penny did not fall and personnel problems at the GGD.
According to various experts, the Netherlands hesitated with the booster jab, and consistently grabs the delta variant even more aggressively. The GGD waited for a formal starting signal from the Health Council, then started weeks before it started. “You should be able to start a day after an advice.”
That is what experts say in a reconstruction of this site about the booster shot, which shows good results in many other countries. In the past month, one of several corona cases has been used at about nine hundred locations.
‘debacle’
a quick booster shot could have made a difference there, say experts, including Jos van de Sande, head of infectious diseases for the GGD Hart voor Brabant. “It is ridiculous that boosting takes so long, a debacle.” The infections in nursing homes have been rising since October. “There are extra deaths because we started so late.”
Former RIVM CEO Roel Coutinho, the guardian of Jaap van Dissel, also does not understand that the implementation took so long to receive the green light from the Health Council on 2 November. ,,You should be able to start a day after an advice. Such a ministry knows what is coming. The minister even anticipated the advice in October,” Coutinho said. “There was time. Now it takes weeks, and it only happens little by little.”
Last week the booster campaign started in the Netherlands. Other countries are already ahead. The GGD has mainly waited for the formal go-ahead from the Health Council. Now 11,000 employees still need to be recruited.
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