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About 54 percent of the Austrians would be vaccinated against COVID-19, should there be a vaccine. This is the result of a representative online survey conducted by GfK among 1,005 participants between the end of September and the beginning of October. Almost half of the respondents stated that they had been psychologically stressed by the initial restrictions. However, this situation had improved after the end of the lockdown, the results were presented. “2020 is a very challenging year. None of us would have known in January how the following ten…

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An effective corona vaccine in Europe and the USA is within reach: On Monday, the Mainz-based company Biontech and the pharmaceutical company Pfizer were the first Western manufacturers to publish promising results of a study that is crucial for approval.For the first time, interim results from the study phase, which is crucial for approval, have been published for a corona vaccine that is crucial for Europe. According to these data, the Mainz-based pharmaceutical company Biontech announced on Monday that its vaccine offers more than 90 percent protection against the disease…

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Frankfurt/New York, Nov 09 (Reuters) – The Mainz-based biotech company BioNTech is close to a breakthrough with its potential corona vaccine. BioNTech and its US partner Pfizer presented positive efficacy data from the pivotal study with the vaccine on Monday. According to these data, the risk of contracting Covid-19 was more than 90 percent lower for study participants who received the vaccine than without the vaccination. BioNTech and Pfizer are thus the first companies worldwide to present successful data from the study with a corona vaccine, which is crucial for…

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According to Johns Hopkins University, there are now more than 50 million confirmed coronavirus infections worldwide. The number of deaths associated with the virus since the beginning of the pandemic is 1.25 million, according to data from the University of Baltimore in the USA yesterday. On Saturday alone, the total number of reported infections had increased by more than half a million. The pandemic is spreading rapidly, probably also due to the cooler weather, especially in countries in the northern hemisphere, including Europe and North America. In the USA, almost…

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Are you a true wine fan? And not just since the Corona pandemic? Then we have good news for you, because wine is even good for our health. Namely this daily amount. A nice glass of wine relaxes and goes great with various dishes. No matter which variety you choose, you are not alone. Since the Corona pandemic, wine consumption has increased throughout Austria. Due to the restaurant closures at the beginning of the year, four percent more households have bought regional wine than in the previous year. In addition,…

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Pope Francis considers corruption a “deep problem” for the Church, whose roots lie in the past. Clergymen and many lay people, whom the Pope called “false friends of the Church”, had squandered the assets of the Church. These assets do not belong to the Vatican, but to the faithful, the Pope said in an interview with the Italian news agency ADNKronos on Friday. Already in the Gospel Jesus had given people the choice: “Either you follow God or money. This is what Jesus said. You cannot follow both,” said the…

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Swiss researchers have identified a new SARS-CoV-2 variant that has spread throughout Europe in recent months. Among other things, the relaxation of travel restrictions made it easy for the new variant to spread. “20A.EU1” is currently one of the most widespread variants of the new corona virus in Europe, as the University of Basel announced today. At present, there are hundreds of variants that differ from each other by small mutations in the genetic material. In Switzerland, between 30 and 40 percent of the virus genome sequences studied belong to…

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The coronavirus vaccine from the German biotech company BioNTech and its U.S. partner Pfizer could be available even before the competing vaccine from AstraZeneca, according to a media report. This was reported yesterday by the newspaper “The Times” with reference to British government circles. The government in London assumes that the vaccine could be distributed before Christmas, the report said. BioNTech and Pfizer had previously announced that if the study results were positive, they would submit the application for approval of their coronavirus vaccine at the end of November. Pfizer…

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According to recent studies, the coronavirus is a major cause of strokes. Conversely, severe courses of infection in stroke patients are twice as frequent as in vascularly healthy people, the Medical University of Innsbruck announced. An infection with the corona virus can cause neurological symptoms in addition to fever, cough and breathing difficulties. All bacteria and viruses could also trigger strokes, explained Innsbruck-based epidemiologist and stroke expert Stefan Kiechl. “We now know that the new SARS virus has a higher potency to trigger strokes than the flu virus, although the…

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