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Unvaccinated people cause current corona crisis in Germany

Benjamin F. Maier, Marc Wiedermann, Angelique Burdinski, Pascal Klamser, Mirjam A. Jenny, Cornelia Betsch,Dirk Brockmann: Germany’s current COVID-19 crisis is mainly driven by the unvaccinated, in: medRxiv (26.11.2021), online in: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.24.21266831. Vaccines are the most powerful pharmaceutical tool to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. While the majority (about 65%) of the German population were fully vaccinated, incidence started growing exponentially in October 2021 with about 41% of recorded new cases aged twelve or above being symptomatic breakthrough infections, presumably also contributing to the dynamics.