Day: November 30, 2020

Tomorrow there will be the first snow showers in some parts of Austria, followed by a short dry phase and then a onset of winter. Just in time for the meteorological beginning of winter the first snow is coming. On Tuesday, December 1, the offshoot of a cold front moves from the northwest over Upper Austria. ZAMG meteorologist Christian Ortner predicts “only a few weak snow showers”. But they can also reach the lower altitudes. This is because the snowfall line drops to 200 to 300 meters on Tuesday. But…

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In the race for Covid-19 vaccines, the biotech company Valneva, which maintains a large research site in Vienna, chose a special path. Behind the candidate name “VLA2001” is a vaccine containing inactivated viruses. With inactivated vaccines, the body is confronted with harmless viruses. As a result, the body’s own defense system deals with the pathogen and develops the necessary protective immune response. This approach has been tried and tested for many decades. “We knew from the beginning that we would be late with this approach because it takes longer to…

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