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A member of Alternative for Germany, he served in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg from 2016 to 2021. [1] Grimmer was a critic of COVID-19 vaccination mandates. He died from COVID-19 aged 71 on 18 December 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. [2] [3] [4] [5]
And as of 8 April 2023, 63.6 million people (76.4% of the total population) received the Grundimmunisierung (two doses or one dose and undergone infection) while 52.1 million people (62.6%) had received at least one additional booster dose. [4] In January 2023, the health ministry stated that the expenditure on vaccines to date was 13.1 billion ...
Media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic includes reporting on the deaths of anti-vaccine advocates from COVID-19 as a phenomenon occurring during the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] [2] [3] The media also reported on various websites documenting such deaths, with some outlets questioning whether this practice was overly unsympathetic.
Unprecedentedly high infection numbers led Germany to reintroduce free coronavirus testing in November, a month after they had been phased out, [33] and to launch a booster campaign. Booster vaccinations were declared by new Health Minister Karl Lauterbach to be central to the government strategy of combating the Omicron variant. [34]
For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [10] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [9] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022.
Booster shots were a central part of the government strategy against the Omicron variant. [14] A partial vaccine mandate for health workers took effect in mid-March 2022, but a proposal for a vaccine mandate for all aged 60 and over was rejected in the Bundestag on 7 April, in what was seen by observers as a major setback for the government. [15]
Since Germany has no routine for post-mortem tests, unlike Italy it may not have discovered all deaths. [13] [14] [15] In Spain, the first death was also discovered by a test carried out post-mortem. [18] The elderly in Germany often do not live in the same household as their extended family and this has reduced the number of infections. [13]
Ferard was a gentlewoman from a prominent Huguenot family. Her father, Daniel Ferard (1788–1839), was a solicitor. [3]Archibald Tait, then Bishop of London and later Archbishop of Canterbury, encouraged Elizabeth Ferard's religious vocation, particularly her visit to deaconess communities in Germany after the death of her invalid mother in 1858.