Medical expertise in infectious diseases
In webinars, articles and correspondence, the Medical Section at the Goetheanum makes its expertise in the field of infectious diseases widely available.
In early March, the Medical Section at the Goetheanum provided concrete proposals for the therapy and prevention of Covid-19 and sent this information out to all medical associations worldwide. Since then the Section has been in lively contact with colleagues sharing experiences of relevant therapies and therapeutic concepts. These concepts are continually adapted and refined. In addition, the Section leaders Matthias Girke and Georg Soldner are involved in a comprehensive correspondence on the topic.
They both are also active in their roles as experts: Matthias Girke for instance in a Covid-19 webinar of the Society of Anthroposophical Physicians in Germany on 24 and 25 April that focused on the question of infection. In addition, he and Georg Soldner have written articles, providing foundations for an understanding of viruses in general and of Sars-CoV-2 in particular. Their contributions to the weekly journal Das Goetheanum have been made available online. Georg Soldner’s article The Coronavirus can be read in Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish and was viewed more than 160,000 times.
Reorganizing events that need to be postponed takes up much time. Events affected by the crisis are the congress on the Dignity of the Young Child (postponed to 19 to 22 May 2021) and a mistletoe therapy training for Indian and Thai colleagues. Preparations for this year’s annual medical conference on 12 to 20 September at the Goetheanum continue as before so that this conference can go ahead as planned.
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