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Two and a half million doses of corona vaccines were stored in Germany on Friday, another million doses were announced for the weekend, and more than 900,000 doses are expected for Monday and Tuesday.

In other words, Germany is currently facing a glut of vaccines.

You can already guess what is coming: A situation that was actually foreseeable caught politics and administration on the wrong foot.

The German community has already shown itself to be tolerably overwhelmed: Even with moderate delivery quantities, millions of vaccine doses were left lying around for far too long, no trace of the “just in time” logistics principle that is common in the private sector.

This may be due to a smaller extent to the fact that frightened citizens refuse the (undoubtedly effective) vaccine from Astrazeneca - but only to a lesser extent.

It is now all the more important to quickly rethink the whole vaccination campaign.

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Because at the possible beginning of a third, this time mutation-driven wave of infections, priority cannot, in case of doubt, have priority - only the full exhaustion of the vaccination potential.

In other words, under the real conditions that unfortunately exist: Better disordered, but fast, than ordered in a dangerous slow motion pace.

Nobody benefits from a vaccine bottle that in theory would go to the right person, but in practice is left to waste in the refrigerated shelf.

That is why we now need a taboo-free debate.

Releasing unused AstraZeneca cans for everyone, as Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg want, is a real possibility.

But only a first step.

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The Biontech Vazkin, for example, will deliver five million cans in the course of March, without a rapid relaxation of the rules, the backlog threatens to become even greater here too.

Quickly involving family and company doctors in the vaccination campaign would also push capacities into new dimensions.

Then there would also be the chance with the vaccines from Biontech and Moderna to distance themselves from the unfortunate idea of ​​giving a few people with two vaccinations rather than many with at least one (which alone offers considerable protection).

March can ideally be the month in which Germany takes almost ten million more of its citizens out of the pandemic race with a pinprick - and politics regains much of the trust that has been lost over months.

But it can also turn out quite differently.

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