Health: Warken sharply rejects allegations from US ministers | EUROtoday

Federal Health Minister Nina Warken has firmly rejected allegations made by her American counterpart Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about authorized proceedings in Germany in reference to the corona pandemic. “The statements made by the US Secretary of Health have no basis whatsoever, they are factually incorrect and should be rejected. I would be happy to explain this to him personally,” stated Warken within the night.

US Health Secretary Kennedy Jr. had accused the German authorities of disregarding the autonomy of sufferers. For this purpose, he despatched a letter to the German Health Minister Nina Warken (CDU) on Friday, he stated on Platform X on Saturday. He incorrectly gave the minister’s final title as “Workin”.

In a video hooked up to the publish, he stated he had discovered that “more than 1,000 German doctors and thousands of their patients” had been presently being prosecuted and punished for granting exemptions from carrying masks and vaccinations in opposition to Covid-19 throughout the coronavirus pandemic. “The reports from Germany show that the government is pushing aside patients’ autonomy and restricting people’s ability to act on their own beliefs when making medical decisions.”

Warken: Doctors weren’t obliged to vaccinate in opposition to Covid

Federal Minister Warken replied: “During the corona pandemic, there was never an obligation on the part of the medical profession to carry out vaccinations against Covid-19. Anyone who did not want to offer vaccinations for medical, ethical or personal reasons was neither committing a criminal offense nor did they have to fear sanctions.” There was no skilled ban or fantastic for not being vaccinated. “Criminal prosecution only occurred in cases of fraud and forgery of documents, for example when issuing false vaccination certificates or false mask certificates.”

Warken additional defined that the constitutionally protected freedom of medical remedy typically applies in Germany. “Doctors decide independently and responsibly about the treatment of patients.” The scope of providers offered by statutory medical health insurance is predicated on confirmed scientific proof and isn’t decided by politics. “Patients are also free to decide which therapy they want.”

Controversial Trump minister

Kennedy Jr. is taken into account a very controversial determine in US President Donald Trump’s cupboard. In latest years, the nephew of the previous US President John F. Kennedy has typically solid doubts about vaccinations, unfold conspiracy theories and made a reputation for himself with shrill statements.

With regard to the federal authorities, Kennedy additional criticized that when a authorities criminalizes docs for advising their sufferers, “it crosses a line that free societies have always viewed as inviolable.” He accused the German authorities of violating the “sacred relationship between doctor and patient” and warned that in such a system docs would develop into “enforcers of state policy.”

Kennedy Jr. warned that he was “urgently calling on the German government to change course.” Specifically, he referred to as for an finish to prison prosecutions, which he described within the publish as “politically motivated.” In his view, licenses for docs that had been wrongly revoked ought to be restored. The US Secretary of Health additionally referred to as for “letting the German people make their own informed medical decisions.”

Proceedings for forging vaccination certificates and false certificates

In Germany, quite a lot of circumstances have ended up in court docket in numerous federal states, involving, for instance, allegations of falsifying vaccination certificates or false certificates for exemption from the masks requirement. However, his publish didn’t reveal precisely which studies the US minister was basing his accusations on and the place he acquired the numbers quoted from.