The yellow and blue bus with chairs, benches and two pavilions in front of it cannot be overlooked.

He stands in front of the entrance to the “Globus” shopping center in Rüsselsheim on Wednesday morning.

Three helpers are waiting a few meters away.

The way from the car to the mall is your chance.

But things are going slowly at the moment.

Jannik Waidner

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Christian Geinitz

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“Sometime different,” shouts a craftsman who immediately knows what is going on when a helper rushes to him.

"I've already been vaccinated twice," an elderly man with a shopping cart.

139 people are vaccinated on this day in the ambulance bus, spontaneously, without an appointment, with a free choice of vaccine.

In the fight against Covid-19, politicians, doctors and aid organizations are increasingly relying on such "low-threshold" vaccination offers.

The idea: if people don't go to the vaccine, the vaccine has to come to the people.

Vaccination doctors drive to socially disadvantaged areas, look for the homeless, rely on vaccination vehicles, on small, flexible centers in pedestrian zones or, as in Rüsselsheim, at shopping centers.

The number of mobile vaccinations is still low.

In Cologne, for example, there were around 15,600 in total by the middle of the week, in Dresden just under 1000.

The German vaccination campaign has caught up with other countries, but is currently stalling.

The big question: How can the vaccination rate be increased?

Almost 45 million citizens are fully vaccinated, around 53 percent of the population, but the increase is decreasing every day.

According to the Robert Koch Institute, not even 380,000 syringes are used every day; at the beginning of June it was up to 1.4 million.

"We don't calculate whether it is worth it"

“Many people are deterred by the online scheduling of appointments, or they don't want to hang on to the telephone hotline,” says Monika Ochsner, pediatric nurse and helper on the “Globus” car park.

Often only a small impetus is missing.

They would have said to a craftsman who did not want to be absent due to the after-effects of the vaccination: "Then just come on Friday, then we'll be here too." He came - and brought eight colleagues with him.

People who spontaneously get on the vaccination bus often do not need to be convinced at all.

Like Oliver Hoffmann, carpenter, 55 years old: “I would have made an appointment anyway, but thought it was not my turn yet.

I had September in the back of my mind. ”Or Armin Hammer, who sells products on Amazon.

“If necessary,” he would have made an appointment, but he wrestled with himself because of the short approval period for the vaccines.

The teams at the Groß-Gerau vaccination center receive the vaccine. Will they make up for the fact that fewer and fewer people are going there? "We don't get the masses like this, that is only possible in the vaccination center with several vaccination lines," says its director Andreas Franz. "But we don't calculate whether it is worth it."

If only the adults are taken into account, almost 75 percent in Germany have been vaccinated at least once, which means that there is a certain degree of protection. "That is good, but it is not enough for a safe autumn and winter", worries Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU). The RKI intends to completely immunize 90 percent of all over sixty-year-olds so that the health system is not excessively burdened in the upcoming “fourth wave”. That seems halfway feasible, only 10 percentage points are missing. The situation is much more gloomy in the age group between 12 and 59 years, where there is a gap of 27 points between the claim to protect more than 75 percent and reality.