As well as a fairly high vaccine hesitancy in Germany, there is a lack of health staff, as many have recently left their jobs, possibly burn-out.
“A cocktail of particularly explosive elements explains why the fourth wave of Covid-19 in Germany appears to be, in many ways, the worst. The most obvious is “the one-third of adults who are not yet vaccinated, which represents millions of Germans, some of whom have comorbidities that make them more likely to develop severe forms of the disease,” Till Koch, an infectious disease specialist at the University Hospital of Hamburg, told FRANCE 24.”
The curves on many European countries are going up steeply.
In my ambulance area South Central, they are calling in the Army
South Central Ambulance Service has declared a Critical Incident due to extreme pressures across our services.
“South Central Ambulance Service pleaded for people to only dial 999 in a life-threatening emergency”