Is the third wave breaking now?

1.

Table salt is not a solution

In Friesland, state

security is

now investigating the employee of the

Schortens

vaccination center

, who had filled six syringes with ineffective saline solution instead of the Biontech preparation.

The police still assume that the nurse only wanted to cover up a mishap - she had dropped an ampoule.

However, the woman spread some messages and a cartoon on Facebook and WhatsApp that one would expect from vegan conspiracy chefs in "lateral thinkers" demos or Telegram channels.

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Wieler, Spahn: Epidemiological duo

Photo: ANNEGRET HILSE / REUTERS

Otherwise, there is also Corona news today that gives

rise to hope: "The third wave seems broken," says Health Minister Jens Spahn. It sounds like he wants to lead the teams with precaution and confidence at the same time. It is true: the numbers are falling, not equally everywhere, but they are falling.

Hamburg is lifting the curfew

, the daycare centers should open again soon. The most dramatic scenarios that science and many media, including us, have warned against did not occur - fortunately (a detailed explanation can be found here: Why the Corona calculations are better than their reputation).

However, the situation in the intensive care units remains tense.

»We can't fully breathe a sigh of relief yet«, says my colleague Julia Merlot from our science department.

Only about ten percent of people are fully vaccinated.

"If we were to lift all restrictions at once, the numbers would soar again," warns Julia.

Experts say that around 50 percent of adults would have to be vaccinated in order for testing, contact tracing and isolating to work again, in order to keep the numbers low, even if they are relaxed.

To do this, adhere to the AHA rules and avoid parties, concerts and full stadiums for a while.

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Curves lead to discussions

Photo: Andriy Onufriyenko / Getty Images

Spahn also made a suggestion that was "practical in life" but unfortunately made little sense: He suggested

shortening

the interval between two

AstraZeneca vaccinations

to four weeks.

This should make vacation planning easier.

"That could increase the reputation of the remedy, but at the expense of its effectiveness," warns Julia.

The study situation is not extensive, but previous data show that protection could drop from around 80 percent to 55 percent.

"No question about it, the value is still good, but it can be significantly increased by a longer distance with very little effort," says Julia.

It always brings more than saline solution.

• Read more here: If the second vaccination appointment comes sooner, the protection drops significantly

• And here's an overview: What now applies to those who have been vaccinated and who have recovered - and how this is proven

2.

Children in crisis

Sorry, but not in a good mood again: It's about the

children in the Corona crisis

- and what consequences the pandemic will have for many.

A team led by my colleague Susanne Beyer interviewed experts from medicine, psychology, psychiatry, education and social work for the new SPIEGEL cover story.

And of course they also met children, young people and their parents.

There are children who suffer from headaches and stomach aches, who are down, or even depressed.

Those who cut themselves or cannot sleep.

Some gain weight because they exercise less and because their parents comfort them with sweets.

Others suffer from anorexia because they have the feeling that no one is in control during the pandemic: "You are therefore forced to at least control your food and weight," says a chief doctor.

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Read the new issue here, then tomorrow at the kiosk

"It's serious, the adolescents need our help,"

says Susanne's impression: "They feel abandoned by politics and are angry that they keep hearing that it's just about being able to celebrate again." Children have not been to school for almost five months, especially children and young people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds are hit hard by the pandemic, for them it will be an act of strength to make up for learning backlogs.

But there are ways out, not only through the newly developed vaccine for children and adolescents, but also on a small scale, in everyday life and on a large scale, in politics.

Parents and teachers can do a lot to take the pressure off the children; politicians have to make it clear that they have to act.

The cover story describes both: the problems and the ways out.

• Read the full story here: What our children can hope for now

3.

Puberty tool

The

contents of the pencil case are

a reliable indicator of the

end of childhood

and the beginning of adolescence: If Lamy learning fountain pens or Pelikan ink cartridges are replaced by

permanent

marker pens

, it won't be long before the first drunkenness (but be careful: the pens bend quickly if they are used for other purposes as a bottle opener).

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Maurizio Gambarini / dpa

Edding, in combination with Witboy and Nike Air, sounded like the wild, dangerous life, at least at the beginning of the nineties. Thanks to these pens, whole cohorts of young people left lasting impressions on toilet doors and doorbell signs, subway seats and denim jackets. Now the man who made all of this possible has died: Carl-Wilhelm Edding.

In 1960 he founded the company named after him together with a school friend, with start-up capital of 500 D-Marks.

The duo's products were well received.

After a short time, Eddings were being used in warehouse management, shipping companies, offices and advertising agencies;

at some point in schools too, not always to the delight of the caretaker.

A look at the archive shows: In the year before the company was founded, Carl-Wilhelm Edding wrote a letter to the editor.

He had "been linked to SPIEGEL for a long time in a love-hate relationship."

What kind of pen can no longer be reconstructed.

• Read more here: felt pen entrepreneur Carl-Wilhelm Edding is dead

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What else is important today

• Great Britain classifies the mutant from India as "worrying":

  Great Britain is registering more and more infections with the mutant B.1.617 known from India - even among those who have been vaccinated.

  What does that mean for Germany?

• Police arrest Pussy Riot member Nikulschina:

  The punk band Pussy Riot is under constant surveillance by Russia's security authorities.

  Now the activist Veronika Nikulschina has been arrested.

  She sees a connection with a major military parade in Moscow.

• Laschet definitely wants to go to Berlin:

  will Armin Laschet keep a back door open to North Rhine-Westphalia if he does not become Chancellor in September?

  It looked like it, but now the CDU candidate for chancellor denies: "My place is in Berlin."

On our own behalf: Yikes, what does SPIEGEL look like?

The printed SPIEGEL, which you will find at the kiosk tomorrow, has a new design.

Such a reform begins with many questions: How much design can a magazine that is defined by its content tolerate?

What does a printed magazine have to do at a time when many people consume the news digitally?

A design draft by the designer Frances Uckermann was the basis on which my colleagues Alexandra Grünig, Annika Loebel, Judith Mohr and my colleagues Nils Küppers and Jens Kuppi then developed the new layout - everything from the home office, of course.

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SPIEGEL's creative team

The best reforms are known to be those that don't need to be explained, because they feel right and because they emphasize the character of a brand instead of changing it.

For SPIEGEL this means: more modern yes, more contemporary no.

More creative, but not at the expense of the information density.

Visually stronger without the text length suffering.

It's a modernization that doesn't make everything new, but makes a lot of things better.

See for yourself.

• You can read more about this here: How we subtly rethought the printed SPIEGEL

What we recommend today at SPIEGEL +

• Why is Annalena Baerbock so much more popular than Armin Laschet, Mr. Dobrindt?

  The Union has lost a lot of sympathy recently.

  Nevertheless, CSU politician Alexander Dobrindt believes in an election success - and accounts with the Greens.

• "It won't work with Scholz alone":

  There is panic in the SPD before the party conference.

  The polls are not getting any better, the chairpersons are invisible, the Secretary General is counted, and Olaf Scholz is not a good workhorse.

  Is there hope?

• As the suspect in the "NSU 2.0" case mocked the investigators:

  Alexander M. is said to have terrorized numerous people with anonymous letters.

  The police were on the heels of the convicted cheater years ago - but a loophole in the law allowed him to escape.

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Simon Koy / DER SPIEGEL

• »You are finally human and not a machine!«

  Fashion collection, advice, cookbooks: Sophia Thiel accompanied hundreds of thousands of fans in their fight for the dream figure.

  Then she announced that she had had an eating disorder for years.

  Can a role model give up?

Which is not so important today

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Operation completed

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AdMedia / Starface / imago images

• Cosmetic detachment:

  US actor

  Jesse Williams

  , 39, better known as plastic surgeon Dr.

  Avery from "Grey's Anatomy," leaves the doctor series after twelve years, as several US media unanimously report.

  His contract ends at the end of the current 17th season.

  The plastic surgeon actor is quoted as saying: "The experience after almost 300 hours of television that is known all over the world is a gift that I will always carry with me."

Typo of the day

, now corrected: "On September 26, 2017, Philadelphia's Mayor Jim Kennedey unveiled a statue of Octavius ​​Catto in front of City Hall"

Cartoon of the day:

Driven

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plassmann / Thomas Plaßmann

And on the weekend?

WarnerMedia Entertainment / Cinema Publishers Collection / imago images;

Private;

Martin Hossbach

Could you fight your wanderlust by reading, as my colleague Andreas Borcholte does.

Like all of us, he lacks travel;

he especially misses

New York

, where he used to like to go for walks.

Now, for months, he has been fond of his residential area in Prenzlauer Berg, and has explored the neighboring districts on foot and by bike.

"But then, with all the love, northeast Berlin is not quite as exciting as Manhattan's Lower and Upper East Side," he says.

(He probably doesn't know the southwest of Berlin, where I'm from - who strives for Orchard Street when the Red Island is so close?)

In any case, Andreas advises: The book "New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City", first published in 2012 and written by the former sociology professor William B. Helmreich, helps against wanderlust and longing for Manhattan.

"He has literally wandered his city," writes Andreas.

“In four years he walked 6,000 miles through just about every street in the five boroughs, nearly 121,000 blocks, including the remote and dangerous.

He chatted with local residents, absorbed the atmosphere, used nine pairs of tough San Antonio shoes - and created an entertaining and instructive sociogram of his city. «(More culture tips from Andreas here - including a mixtape and a series.)

Whether Juhnke or Sinatra - you have a nice weekend.

Sincerely

yours, Oliver Trenkamp

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