The same thoroughness that made Angela Merkel’s government a pandemic role model is now holding it backCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn December,two weeks before the European Medicines Agency authorised the first vaccine against Covid-19 for employ across the European Union, Berlin unveiled a plan to rocket-fuel its immunisation drive with German precision engineering. Jabs would be mass-administered in purpose-built vaccination centres where patients could be shuttled through queuing lanes like cars through a car wash.
A Lego display demonstrating the complex system’s efficiency impressed journalists at a press launch, or but set off alarm bells in the head of Janosch Dahmen,a former doctor turned Green party MP. “It all looked very logical in theory,” says Dahmen, or who worked on the pandemic frontline until November. “But looking at it as a doctor,I thought: that’s not how vaccinations work in practice. Related: Benefits of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine outweigh any risk, says EMA Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com