Germany's fourth COVID-19 wave was mainly driven by the unvaccinated.
Benjamin F MaierMarc WiedermannAngelique BurdinskiPascal P KlamserMirjam A JennyCornelia BetschDirk BrockmannPublished in: Communications medicine (2022)
A minority of the German population-the unvaccinated-is assumed to have caused the majority of new infections in the fall of 2021 in Germany. Our results highlight the importance of combined measures, such as vaccination campaigns and targeted contact reductions to achieve temporary epidemic control.