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In Germany only 2/3rds of the population want to get vaccinated. So they'd better be vaccinated with a vaccine with very high efficiency.

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70% efficacy in that case wouldn’t prevent an epidemic, but since it prevents hospitalisations and severe effects of the disease it’s still worth it.

It’s interesting how the vaccination speed affects epidemic. What’s the effect of vaccinating everyone within a month vs within half a year.

I wouldn't call 2/3rds as "only", this is quite high. In Poland we have only ~40% that want to be vaccinated (but maybe this a result of Germany having much older population).

I'm a bit reluctant to vaccinating until I see some more tests on wider population and we could test for long term complications (e.g. reduced fertility which couldn't be tested earlier) and I'm a person that vaccinated my children (and myself) for all kinds of diseases.

So I assume there are more people like me (aside from the usual "anti-vaccination" crowd).

The 2/3rds already include people who in principle want to get vaccinated but would like to wait a bit more, like you. Only 1/3rd wants to get vaccinated as quickly as possible.

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