In the course of the broad corona vaccination campaign, the number of annual applications for benefits due to possible vaccination damage in Berlin has skyrocketed. Separate statistics have been kept for applications for Covid 19 vaccinations since 2021: According to this, 96 applications were received at the time, 425 in the past year and 88 in the current year, according to a response from the Senate published on Monday to a parliamentary question by the AfD MP Carsten Ubbelohde. “In the years 2018 to 2020 there were a total of 3 to 6 applications for vaccinations per year.” There was no differentiation according to the type of vaccination.
According to the Senate response, 13 of the applications for vaccination damage after corona vaccinations have been recognized so far. It is about different degrees of severity, on which the amount of a monthly basic pension depends. Diagnoses and age groups would not be recorded, it said. Corona vaccinations are recognized for consequences such as heart muscle inflammation, sinus vein thrombosis and the neurological disease Guillain-Barré syndrome.
8.6
million vaccine doses were injected in Berlin as part of the Corona vaccination campaign.
According to the Senate’s situation report, more than 8.6 million vaccine doses have been used in Berlin as part of the corona vaccination campaign. The Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI) emphasizes that undesirable reactions are often related to vaccination in terms of time, but not necessarily causally.
According to the Senate response, 271 applications are still being processed. Also recorded are 51 rejections, nine withdrawn applications and 265 deliveries to other responsible countries if vaccinations were not carried out in Berlin.
According to research by the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (FAZ), by mid-March 2023, 6,600 applications for benefits due to corona vaccination damage had been received in 13 of the 16 federal states. According to the research, the number of recognized corona vaccination damages was 284. “In the 13 countries, there is a recognized corona vaccine damage for almost 214,000 vaccinated citizens,” said the FAZ.
According to the Infection Protection Act, vaccination damage is defined as “the health and economic consequence of damage to health caused by the vaccination that goes beyond the usual extent of a vaccination reaction”. Vaccination reactions, on the other hand, are typical symptoms such as redness, swelling or pain at the injection site. Fever, headaches and body aches are also considered normal, they are an expression of the immune system’s desired confrontation with the vaccine. (dpa)
