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Opinion: Germany and Bavaria must not mandate COVID vaccine
Bavarian State Premier Markus Söder is pushing for mandatory coronavirus vaccination — in particular for nursing staff. The idea is ill-timed, DW's Jens Thurau writes.
Markus Söder, Bavaria's state premier and the chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party, has worked for his reputation as a particularly strong leader during the coronavirus pandemic. It hardly comes as a surprise, then, that he has become the most prominent German politician to push for the mandatory vaccination of health and care workers. 
Alarmed by reports that people's willingness — and that includes nurses and doctors — to be vaccinated is not as high as expected, Söder is breaking a taboo that German politicians have kept since the beginning of the pandemic: They have been saying for months that, even when vaccines are available, inoculation would be voluntary.

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