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Double BioNTech-vaccinated from DE. It's like buying a new car in the 1950s - you had to run it in and the same applies to getting a vaccination program up and running. You'll find all sorts of tiny things that'll trip up what you thought was going to be a smooth-running process (and federal Germany doesn't have the advantage of centralisation - 16 states split into multiple admin districts (our small-ish state has 36, broken down into a further 170 municipalities, each doing their own variation on a theme). First jab mid-April was utterly headless-chicken-shambolic stuff, 2nd a month later (with military medics playing a larger role) was smooth as silk. Under 15 minutes from check-in to check-out. Vaccine logistics are now more or less stable. Which is what you'd expect with BioNTech being on my bike path into town...

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Listened to Lisa Owen tonight for the first time in at least a year. So bad, sneering insinuating they must be hiding something etc.

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"It's hard to write good copy with bitter fingers, so much to prove, so few to tell you why" Or something like that eh, Lisa?

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Another great Diary. Cheers!

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So, so good

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Re Paul Brislen's suggestion - I thought the constraint was the supply of the vaccine doses not the number of vaccinators.

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