Hamburg pharmacy flu shots Staff seek easier protection

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Hiller cites RKI figures of more than 2,100 deaths from flu in the previous winter, almost all over sixty, and a vaccination-rate decline in that age group from around fifty percent in 2008 to 34.5 percent most recently. Maya Rollberg follows daycare worker Christine Deppe, who describes severe flu the previous year and more than six months of aftereffects, as she and colleagues receive vaccinations at a nearby Hamburg pharmacy at the start of the flu season. The pharmacy reportedly vaccinates twenty to thirty people daily. Pharmacist Jenny Liu says easy pharmacy access reaches people who rarely visit a doctor. Rollberg says nearly all health insurers cover willing recipients, describes higher uptake in eastern Germany than the south and west, and names Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria as particularly low. Stefan Schmiedel attributes low uptake partly to science skepticism and poor personal risk awareness. The report relays STIKO's recommendation for older and at-risk groups. It gives no exact filming date, new STIKO decision or completed nationwide reversal of uptake.

At the beginning of the flu season, Tagesschau follows daycare worker Christine Deppe and colleagues receiving vaccinations at a nearby Hamburg pharmacy after she experienced severe flu and prolonged aftereffects the previous year. The pharmacy reportedly vaccinates twenty to thirty people daily. Jenny Liu describes easier access for people who seldom visit doctors; the report sets this against declining older-person uptake, regional differences and Schmiedel's risk-awareness assessment. The footage's exact date is not established, and no new national recommendation or uptake turnaround is announced.