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When the WHO declared at the end of May that it would henceforth name corona mutations with Greek letters instead of after the countries in which they were discovered, the British variant (beta) was still predominant in Austria and India was hit by a fierce covid wave, for which the delta mutant was eventually blamed. In the meantime, the delta variant, which has been proven to be more contagious, is also predominant in Austria. And the next virus development is already at the starting line: consequently named “Lambda”. It bears…

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The lambda variant is spreading in South America. How well does the Corona vaccination actually protect against the virus variant? The Delta variant is spreading in Austria and is highly contagious, which is why only a complete vaccination offers sufficient protection. In laboratory tests, the delta variant seemed to partially escape antibodies of first vaccinated and unvaccinated recovered persons. Researchers agree: the coronavirus will mutate even further. But Ralf Bartenschlager, president of the German Society for Virology, believes the number of variants will remain “manageable.” However, U.S. immunologist Anthony Fauci…

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) once again warns of the devastating effects of unchecked climate change.The extent to which global warming has also reached Austria is shown by the comprehensive statistics of the ZAMG. According to these statistics, the temperature in Austria has risen by around two degrees since the beginning of industrialization. If the trend is not reversed, the warming will be at least five degrees by the year 2100. The extent to which these two degrees are already having an impact in Austria can be seen…

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According to Statistics Austria, Marie and Jakob topped the hit list of first names for newborns in 2020.This is shown by an analysis of the first names (in original spelling, without special characters) of all 40,669 girls and 42,934 boys born that year. For girls, parents chose 734 times (1.8 percent) the name Marie, for boys 794 times (1.8 percent) the name Jakob, reported Statistics Austria in a release on Monday. In 2019, Emma and Maximilian still won. “Marie is the top climber among the most popular baby names of…

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Biopharma company BioNTech advocates for a possible booster vaccination with its existing vaccine. Antibody levels would have been significantly higher after a third vaccination. Initial data on third Corona vaccination“We think right now it’s best to proceed with a booster dose for the existing strain of the virus to get the situation under control,” company CEO Ugur Sahin said Monday. Patients who received a third dose of the same Corona vaccine showed significantly higher antibody levels than after the second dose, he said. Corona vaccine not to be adapted for…

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Unvaccinated people are more than twice as likely to become reinfected with Covid-19, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) currently recommends that all persons eligible for Corona vaccination receive a shot – regardless of whether or not they have already survived an infection with the pathogen. In evaluating recent data, the CDC now sees this as reinforced. A new study examined 246 Kentucky adults who were re-infected with SARS-CoV-2 in May and June of this year, having previously contracted it in…

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The lambda variant of coronavirus was initially discovered in Peru last year and subsequently spread across the South American continent. Lambda is among the variants under surveillance by the World Health Organization (WHO), and the variant has not yet been classified as a concern. According to data from the Robert Koch Institute, it has been found several times in Germany, but most recently only in isolated cases. According to a study, Lambda is highly infectious and more resistant to vaccines than the original variant of the virus, as reported by…

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Researchers examined nearly 100,000 samples from English study participants and determined that the risk of infection is three times lower in fully vaccinated individuals than in unvaccinated individuals. The risk of infection is also lower. People fully vaccinated against Covid-19 have a significantly lower risk of contracting the coronavirus than unvaccinated people, according to a British study. According to the study published Wednesday, the likelihood of a vaccinated person testing positive for the coronavirus is one-third compared with unvaccinated people. A corona-infected person with full vaccine protection was also less…

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Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the number of infections detected worldwide has risen to more than 200 million. This was revealed yesterday by data from the US University Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. The number of known infections has thus risen by 100 million in just over six months, since January 26. The number of confirmed deaths worldwide following CoV infection now stands at 4.25 million – twice as many as at the end of January. Experts believe both infections and deaths worldwide are higher than that. The university’s…

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