A look at Austria shows what threatens Germany in the second Corona winter.
It is the preliminary stage of the apocalypse in the health care system that Markus Söder invoked that the state clinics in the Corona hotspot Salzburg are now preparing for the worst with a triage team: to decide soon which patient can still receive intensive care and who cannot.
A few seconds to twelve, a number of federal states reacted to the seriousness of the corona situation even before the Prime Minister's Conference. After days of whining that the not yet ruling traffic light coalition was emptying their instrument box, they are finally introducing the 2G rule in public life. Bavaria, for example, with its apparently toughest pandemic fighter, could have done that long ago.
A broad-based booster campaign should have started long ago.
As in Israel, millions of booster vaccinations are necessary in a short time in order to give many second vaccinated people, not just the 60Plus generation, a third injection in order to break the wave by January.
After all, Bavaria is leading the way here by pragmatically shortening the interval between the second vaccination set by Stiko from six to five months.
Because here, too, the most important rule in the fight against the virus applies: speed is decisive.