By RYAN HEATH
11/24/2021 09:30 AM EST
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Please note: We’ll be off for Thanksgiving this Friday, Nov. 26, but back to our normal schedule on Monday, Nov. 29.
MUST VIEW CHART — COVID IN EUROPE
Chart reading notes: The chart makes clear that there’s a strong correlation between vaccination rates and reduced Covid-19 death rates in European countries. It is important to note that the European countries with the best functioning health care systems and lowest ratio of residents with underlying health conditions tend to be the ones with low Covid-19 death rates: Those factors reinforce any vaccination benefits.
“By the end of this winter, everyone in Germany will either be vaccinated, recovered or dead," German Health Minister Jens Spahn told a news conference in Berlin.
NEW GERMAN COALITION GOVERNMENT AGREED: We’re in the last couple of weeks of the chancellorship of Angela Merkel. A deal is now agreed between the leaders of Germany’s Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals. Provided the members of the three parties endorse it — the deal will install Olaf Scholz, the Social Democrat candidate, as Chancellor, with Liberal leader Christian Lindner as finance minister, and top posts for the Green Party’s co-leaders: Annalena Baerbock (foreign minister) and Robert Habeck (economy).
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