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Germany’s Fourth Covid Wave: ‘A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’

By Katrin Bennhold

11 Nov 2021 · 5 min read

BERLIN — The University Hospital of Giessen, one of Germany’s foremost clinics for pulmonary disease, is at capacity. The number of Covid-19 patients has tripled in recent weeks. Nearly half of them are on ventilators.

And every single one is unvaccinated.

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