Merkel’s Hand Prints Are All Over Germany’s Vaccine Failings

  • Early edge in securing Covid-19 vaccines was squandered
  • Chancellor’s European focus hampered Germany’s rollout
Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg
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Angela Merkel is starting to crack under the pressure of Germany’s faltering coronavirus vaccine program.

With the chancellor under fire publicly for a lack of Covid-19 shots and her strategy of delegating responsibility to the European Union looking misguided, she snapped when pressed for answers by German state premiers during a closed-door meeting in early January.