Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that ignorance or political influence of scientifically grounded health policies does not pay off.1 Germany's COVID-19 response is evaluated as reasoned and scientifically grounded; however, it has exposed undue political influence on national scientific guidelines due to migration policy concerns. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Germany's national public health institute, has rapidly published an abundance of guidelines and recommendations on COVID-19. Repeated large-scale outbreaks in refugee centres since the...
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