Swiss Covid expert calls for caution on vaccination recommendations

Christoph Berger, former president of the Federal Commission for Vaccination Questions, would be “even more cautious today” when it comes to vaccination recommendations for Covid-19. He says in a review of the coronavirus pandemic. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox “Of course, those who want to, should be able to vaccinate. But recommendations that are primarily about protecting others and not yourself are difficult,” says Berger in an interview with the SonntagsZeitung newspaper. “That's why there was resistance during the pandemic,” Berger continues. One question that Berger would be more concerned with today than back then is: which recommendations are no longer necessary and how do we get back to normality? Berger would also “think and communicate even more clearly in scenarios today, as long as many things are still unclear”. However, Berger also says that the measures were right at the beginning of the pandemic. They prevented deaths among people at ...