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Pandemic: hospital association calls for end to mandatory mask use in hospitals: With the end of the free Corona tests, the DKG chairman believes that the mask ...
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Is the pandemic over in Germany?: As much of Germany lifts - or prepares to lift - the last remaining Covid-19 measures, intensive care units say Covid-19 ...
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Is the pandemic over in Germany?
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Pandemic: hospital association calls for end to mandatory mask use in hospitals: With the end of the free Corona tests, the DKG chairman believes that the mask ...
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Is the pandemic over in Germany?: As much of Germany lifts - or prepares to lift - the last remaining Covid-19 measures, intensive care units say Covid-19 ...
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Is the pandemic over in Germany?
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RKI protocols: “Most far-reaching” de-blackening: The RKI protocols from the corona pandemic were only partially blacked out. Now Health Minister Lauterbach has ...
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RKI protocols: “Most far-reaching” de-blackening
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Explosive RKI protocols published - now the Minister of Health is reacting: After a lawsuit from the online magazine “Multipolar”, internal meetings of the ...
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Explosive RKI protocols published - now the Minister of Health is reacting
Quick Glance: RKI: Journalists Successfully Sue for Release of Corona Protocols
  • After a legal battle, the RKI has released the protocols of its Corona crisis team.

  • The documents revealed the decision to change the risk assessment.

  • The RKI has not commented on the protocols and some sections are redacted.

  • Journalists plan to return to court to seek unredacted access to the protocols.
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RKI files: Green politician suspects secret service operation: The Green Party politician Janosch Dahmen warns that “foreign intelligence services” would be ...
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RKI files: Green politician suspects secret service operation
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Corona policy: Government politicians admit mistakes: Too strict with children, too tough with measures: The (former) ministers Lauterbach ...
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Corona policy: Government politicians admit mistakes
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Corona: The RKI protocols and how politicians ignored science: For years, restrictions on fundamental rights in the coronavirus pandemic were justified with ...
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Corona: The RKI protocols and how politicians ignored science
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GCorona protocols of the RKI: What is hidden under the redacted passages: Excitement about the corona protocols: Numerous passages of the RKI documents have been ...
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GCorona protocols of the RKI: What is hidden under the redacted passages
Quick Glance: RKI's Corona Protocols: Hidden Information Behind Blackouts
  • The RKI's Corona protocols contain redacted passages that are sparking discussions.

  • Some redacted sections concern vaccinations and are not disclosed due to confidentiality interests.

  • FDP politician Kubicki demands unredacted protocols for transparency.

  • Redactions in the protocols serve to protect employees but do not necessarily imply concealment.
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RKI protocols: Göring-Eckardt warns against “misuse” of Corona processing: “Not everything was wrong, not everything was right,” says Bundestag Vice President ...
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RKI protocols: Göring-Eckardt warns against “misuse” of Corona processing
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RKI protocols: Politicians argue about proper corona review: The publication of earlier RKI coronavirus protocols is alarming politicians ...
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RKI protocols: Politicians argue about proper corona review
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Berlin: Karl Lauterbach wants to prepare the healthcare system for 'military conflicts'
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Berlin: Karl Lauterbach wants to prepare the healthcare system for ...
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Corona protective measures: Government politicians admit mistakes in the corona pandemic
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Corona protective measures: Government politicians admit mistakes in the ...
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Clinic, doctors, cannabis: The many construction sites of Karl Lauterbach: Expectations were high when a doctor became a minister. But Karl Lauterbach has now ...
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Clinic, doctors, cannabis: The many construction sites of Karl Lauterbach
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Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wants to remove homeopathy from health insurance benefits: Homeopathic services will probably soon no longer be covered by health insurance ...
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Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wants to remove homeopathy from health insurance ...
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Karl Lauterbach: Standing Vaccination Commission will be largely replaced: It is often said that after the pandemic is before the pandemic. Minister Karl ...
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Karl Lauterbach: Standing Vaccination Commission will be largely replaced
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Lauterbach open to corona reappraisal: Everyday restrictions to contain the pandemic were sometimes highly controversial. Is a profound debate still underway?
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Lauterbach open to corona reappraisal
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Karl Lauterbach has a new partner - how you know her: Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) is apparently newly taken. The father of five has fallen in love with ...
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Karl Lauterbach has a new partner - how you know her
Quick Glance: Karl Lauterbach Publicizes Relationship with Elisabeth Niejahr
  • SPD Minister Karl Lauterbach confirms relationship with journalist Elisabeth Niejahr

  • Lauterbach and Niejahr have known each other professionally since 2005

  • Elisabeth Niejahr was born in Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein in 1965 and her father was a pastor

  • Niejahr has a child from a previous marriage, Lauterbach has five children from two women
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Corona variant Pirola is "extremely insidious": New symptoms known: The coronavirus variant JN.1 (Pirola) is already responsible for every second Covid infection ...
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Corona variant Pirola is
Quick Glance: Experts Warn of Covid Resurgence
  • Experts recommend increased mask usage and vaccination rates.

  • Covid infection rates are rising similarly to previous winters.

  • The low number of masks and low vaccination rate among vulnerable individuals are concerning.

  • Dr. Rivers notes that weekly hospitalizations are increasing more slowly than in previous years.
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Masks are being discussed again in Europe - one country is introducing them: Spain is the first EU country to reintroduce the mask requirement after the end of ...
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Masks are being discussed again in Europe - one country is introducing ...
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COVID-19 'pandemic babies' developed 'fascinating' protection against common condition, study finds
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COVID-19 'pandemic babies' developed 'fascinating' ...
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Popular holiday destination reintroduces mask requirement - Emergency departments under pressure
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Popular holiday destination reintroduces mask requirement - Emergency ...
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Red alert level in MV - Clinics at the limit: Things are not looking good for the clinics in MV. Susanne Schulz spoke to Uwe Borchmann ...
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Red alert level in MV - Clinics at the limit
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FDNY orders all first-responders to mask up amid spike in contagious diseases: The FDNY has ordered all firetruck and ambulance personnel to mask up while ...
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FDNY orders all first-responders to mask up amid spike in contagious ...
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Corona decisions: Michael Müller makes a confession: Michael Müller (SPD), then governing mayor in Berlin, takes stock of Corona (archive photo).
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Corona decisions: Michael Müller makes a confession
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Nuremberg doctor convicted: Certificates issued during the pandemic without examining patients
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Nuremberg doctor convicted: Certificates issued during the pandemic ...
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Siegen: Corona reporting began four years ago today - Close schools: Mask requirement, curfew, lockdown: the corona pandemic feels like an eternity ago ...
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Siegen: Corona reporting began four years ago today - Close schools
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Doncaster Jobcentre to close as Government earmarks more than 40 to shut: A Doncaster Jobcentre will close its doors as part of a Government drive which will see ...
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Doncaster Jobcentre to close as Government earmarks more than 40 to shut
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“Our heads can’t do it”: Giessen doctor on sick leave at record levels: The number of sick people in Germany is increasing. Which diseases are responsible for ...
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“Our heads can’t do it”: Giessen doctor on sick leave at record levels
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Braunschweig researcher becomes a member of the new Stiko: Epidemiologist at the HZI
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Braunschweig researcher becomes a member of the new Stiko
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Like in Corona times: mask requirement in hospitals: Hospitals are reintroducing the general mask requirement. But Corona is not the only one to blame for this ...
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Like in Corona times: mask requirement in hospitals
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Four years of Corona: Montgomery warns of the next pandemic: On the fourth anniversary of the first Corona case in Germany, doctors warn of new pandemics and ...
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Four years of Corona: Montgomery warns of the next pandemic
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Mask requirement in Spain 2024: What applies?: Because the number of respiratory diseases is rising sharply in Spain, the Ministry of Health has decided on a ...
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Mask requirement in Spain 2024: What applies?
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Düsseldorf: Is the mask requirement coming back in clinics?: The number of patients who need to be treated for flu or corona is increasing in doctors' practices ...
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Düsseldorf: Is the mask requirement coming back in clinics?
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Corona: The route from Sweden was much better for one reason: The first German Corona case is celebrating its fourth anniversary. A look at Sweden shows: One ...
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Corona: The route from Sweden was much better for one reason
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Mask deals: Lauterbach keeps costs for settlements with plaintiffs secret: Mask suppliers have filed new lawsuits with a dispute amounting to 450 million euros ...
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Mask deals: Lauterbach keeps costs for settlements with plaintiffs secret
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Spain reintroduces mask requirement in healthcare: Masks are back in Spain, at least in health facilities such as doctors' offices and hospitals ...
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Spain reintroduces mask requirement in healthcare
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Editorial: Fauci socially distances from responsibility for lockdown fallout: Though Fauci kept calling for social distancing, masking and lockdowns ...
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Editorial: Fauci socially distances from responsibility for lockdown ...
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Wave of infections: Why German health politicians reject a mask requirement: The Spanish government is making it compulsory to wear masks in health facilities ...
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Wave of infections: Why German health politicians reject a mask ...
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Mask mandate reinstated in New York City hospitals as COVID-19 cases rise: Mask mandate reinstated in New York City hospitals as COVID-19 cases rise
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Mask mandate reinstated in New York City hospitals as COVID-19 cases rise
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Bamberg Clinic describes the Corona situation - Wave of infections after Christmas and New Year's Eve?
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Bamberg Clinic describes the Corona situation - Wave of infections after ...