COVID-19 vaccinations in Germany will take over a year: Expert panel head

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It will take until 2022 to vaccinate the whole population of Germany against COVID-19 due to capacity limits, according to the head of an expert ...

FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a"Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken Apr 10, 2020. BERLIN: It will take until 2022 to vaccinate the whole population of Germany against COVID-19 due to capacity limits, according to the head of an expert panel that will help decide in which order people should receive the vaccine.

"If you can administer shots on 150,000 to 200,000 people a day, so on five or six days a week - assuming vaccines are available and people are willing to be vaccinated - then you can calculate how long it will take," Thomas Mertens, head of STIKO, Germany's expert panel on vaccine use, told Rheinische Post."Then you would need 100 days to vaccinate 15 million people," he said, according to a summary of an interview to be published by the daily paper on Thursday.

Germany is rushing to prepare vaccination centres across the country so it can start offering shots quickly once a vaccine has been approved in Europe.

 

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Damn, that's a very long time. Flu vaccine takes like five seconds.

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