Month: January 2022

Almost 1,000 Dutch tested positive after Austrian vacation

admin

Nearly 1,000 Dutch tourists who previously spent their winter vacations in Austria have tested positive for the coronavirus back home. To be exact, according to a report by the NL Times news portal, 964 people tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 last week between Dec. 27 and Jan. 3 who had previously visited Austria over a 14-day period. According to the report, infections attributed to Austria account for 15.8 percent of all CoV cases attributed to foreign countries, despite the fact that the Netherlands was declared a virus variant area by Austria…

Read More

Accelaration of COVID 19 infection numbers expected

admin

According to the experts of the Covid forecasting consortium, the fifth wave has begun. Due to the dominance of the Omicron virus variant, which has now also reached Austria, the panel assumes in its current calculation that there will be a strong acceleration in the number of infections, which will lead to an increase in the number of Covid 19 patients in normal wards in hospitals. Up to 17,000 new infections are expected in the coming week. Next Wednesday (January 12), according to the experts’ calculations, there will certainly be…

Read More

The U.S. government will double its order of the promising Covid 19 drug paxlovid

admin

Pills will be ordered from pharmaceutical company Pfizer to treat up to 20 million patients, President Joe Biden said Tuesday (Jan. 4) at the White House. “We may even need more,” Biden said, looking ahead to the coming months. The drug will prevent many hospitalizations and deaths, he added. Pfizer, along with German company Biontech, already markets a widely used vaccine against the corona virus. The number of new corona infections recorded daily in the U.S. has exceeded one million for the first time since the pandemic began. With about…

Read More

About 80 percent of Corona intensive care patients not fully vaccinated

admin

Current figures provided by the Ministry of Health clearly show that booster vaccinations against Covid-19 work. Two out of three patients who had to be hospitalized with Covid-19 in a normal ward on Tuesday were not vaccinated or not sufficiently vaccinated. In intensive care units, an average of more than four out of every five affected are not fully immunized, or about 80 percent. Proportion of vaccinated Covid patients in hospitals decliningThe proportion of vaccinated Covid 19 patients in hospitals has declined since late November, when third sticks against coronavirus…

Read More

Pope laments corona vaccine shortage in poorer countries

admin

Pope Francis has lamented the lack of vaccines in poorer countries. “There is still much to be done and in some countries adequate treatment remains a luxury. This can be seen, for example, in the scarcity of vaccines against covid-19 in the poorest countries, but even more so in the inability to treat diseases that require much simpler medicines,” the pope said in his message for the 30th World Day of the Sick. “We bless the Lord for the advances that medical science has made, especially in recent times; new…

Read More

More than 200,000 new infections in the UK for the first time

admin

In Great Britain, driven by the Omicron variant, more than 200,000 new Corona infections have been recorded within one day for the first time. Within 24 hours, 218,724 cases were reported, the government said Tuesday. In addition, 48 deaths were recorded, it said. The national health service NHS warned of an overload of hospitals because of the many quarantined employees. At least six hospitals reported “critical incidents” Tuesday, meaning the situation could affect priority care. Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to take action to fill staffing gaps in the hardest-hit…

Read More

Study: Antibodies significantly increased after fourth vaccination

admin

The fourth vaccination dose with the preparation from Biontech and Pfizer increases the number of antibodies against the new CoV variant Omicron fivefold within one week, according to an Israeli study. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett presented this finding today during a visit to Shiba Hospital near Tel Aviv, along with study leader Gili Regev. “The fourth vaccination is safe and effective,” Bennett said. However, the amount of increase in antibodies does not automatically indicate the extent to which actual protection against infection or disease improves. Already 10,000 vaccinated four…

Read More

40 percent of confirmed Corona-infected people symptom-free

admin

The proportion of those testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 who are symptom-free is 40 percent. That’s the conclusion of a meta-analysis of international studies involving nearly 30 million people. Origin of corona transmissionQiuyue Ma and co-authors from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Peking University recently published their findings in JAMA Open, an online publication of the American Medical Association. “Asymptomatic infections are potential sources of covid-19 transmission, and the aim was to determine the percentage of asymptomatic infections among those tested and those with confirmed covid-19 disease,” the researchers…

Read More

Omicron: Only 40 percent of Austrians are protected

admin

According to a model calculation by the Complexity Science Hub, only four out of ten people in Austria are protected from Omicron by vaccination or recovery. This is equivalent to the immune protection of the population at the end of June. Evidence of mild symptomsOmicron has significantly reduced the immune protection of the population. According to a model calculation published on Tuesday by the Complexity Science Hub, only four out of ten people in Austria are protected from Omicron disease by vaccination or recovery. By comparison, a good seven out…

Read More