Vaccination Centers to Come Back?

 Back in the November/December period of 2020....a whole lot of effort started up to build 400 Covid vaccination centers in Germany.  Every major district had one.  

N-TV (commercial German news) told this story here in the AM.

Around three months ago.....the numbers were peaking out, and cost to run this complex system was hefty....so the districts started closing them.  Some stayed around longer than others, but at this point....all of them are shut down.  The idea was....regular clinics or your local doctor would handle this from this point on.

Well....the 'boss' of the federal Health Ministry (Spahn, CDU) has talked about this idea in the past two weeks....reopening the centers to some degree.

The idea of reopening these....agreeable to everyone?  NO.  A number of major cities are putting up a fuss.

As some say....they've already reverted the buildings used....to their original purpose.  An example in Frankfurt....they used the old opera hall (normally used for concerts.  Once the job was wrapped up....they transformed it back to the original concert business. Here in Wiesbaden....they used the new event center (center of town)....it's now transformed back into the event center.

Why to bring the centers back?  It appears to go onto the logic of the booster-shot program.  They are stressing it for senior citizens, and there's some chatter (social media channels) that at some point toward the end of 2022....some folks think if you got vaccinated in mid-2021....you (a regular non-senior citizen) would need a booster.  I should hint this....no factual statement from any government source talks of the 2022 booster idea for regular people.  

Can't they just let regular clinics/local doctors handle this from this point on?  Their schedules were mostly filled before this came along.  They might be able to line up ten people in a morning hour every other day, but I seriously doubt they want to take on massive man-hours for the booster-shot deal.

Who are the people being suggested for the booster shots currently in Germany?  Anyone over age 70.  

The chief problem I see....going back to the whole first month of effort in Germany on vaccinations....you ended up with teams going out to retirement homes.  So you really don't need a central vaccination facility that much....just teams that make the all-day run at some retirement facility.