Category: General Interest

The number of Corona deaths in the U.S. is now higher than those of U.S. soldiers killed in action or otherwise killed during World War II. Johns Hopkins University recorded about 406,000 deaths related to coronavirus infections since the pandemic began through late Wednesday night. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, a total of 405,399 soldiers in the U.S. armed forces had died during World War II. The symbolic mark was passed the day new U.S. President Joe Biden took office. He has made fighting the pandemic, which…

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Starting Monday, anyone using public transportation or going shopping in Austria will have to hang up their cloth masks and switch to the more effective FFP2 masks. The futurezone has already explained how these can be reused under certain circumstances. However, many who have already become accustomed to the fabric mask wonder if FFP2 really makes that much of a difference, especially since it is much more strenuous to wear than the less protective mask alternatives. FFP2 also beats medical maskAccording to aerosol researcher Bernadett Weinzierl of the University of…

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A study has investigated whether the Corona mutation affects the protective efficacy of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. The good news right off the bat: BioNTech and Pfizer’s Corona vaccine appears to be effective against the more contagious British variant, too, according to the study. For the study, blood samples from 16 vaccinated participants from previous clinical trials were exposed to a synthetic, so-called pseudovirus. This was constructed in such a way that it had the same genetic changes in the so-called spike protein that characterize both the British B.1.1.7 variant and…

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Just two weeks ago, a right-wing mob stormed the US Capitol. In the same place, Joe Biden has now been sworn in as the 46th president. The leitmotif of his speech: “Unity is the way forward.”Joe Biden has taken office as the 46th president of the United States with a call for unity and reconciliation. The 78-year-old took the oath of office Wednesday in a solemn ceremony outside the U.S. Capitol in the nation’s capital, Washington. “I will be a president for all Americans,” Biden promised. He said he would…

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The Ministry of Health warns against dubious vaccine offers from the Internet. The coronavirus crisis does not stop at online fraud. Currently, attempts are being made to sell vaccine on the Internet via dubious e-mails, the ministry said. Back in December, the international police organization Interpol published a global warning against fake counterfeit coronavirus vaccines and test kits. Vaccine is offered via dubious emailsNow the Ministry of Health is also drawing attention to the fact that only vaccines that have also been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) may…

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Every Austrian throws an average of 60 kilograms of perfectly good food in the trash. That’s the equivalent of 500 curd cheese golaches ending up in the trash. On Wednesday Too Good To Go, an initiative against food waste, drew attention to this. In austria, about one million tons of surplus food per year land in the garbage. For half of the avoidable food waste (521,000 tons), households are responsible, Too Good To Go referred to the result of a study by WWF from the previous year. “Most of the…

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Online survey: half of Austrians think about changes in standard of living and plan savingsSobering result of a recent survey: the corona-induced crisis makes Austrians rather pessimistic about the future. Corona: Life value index remains the same. Crisis is a major concern67 percent assume a general deterioration of economic conditions and people’s quality of life, according to an online survey of 1,000 people by IMAS. About half (46 percent) have already thought about changing their standard of living and making savings in the area of daily life. Partly forcing savingsSavings…

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Whether RNA vaccines can prevent transmission of coronavirus in addition to Covid-19 lung disease was long unclear. Now there are positive signs from pharmaceutical company Pfizer – but no proof yet. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla spoke to the Irish newspaper “The Journal” of “encouraging” data. In animal studies, he said, it has already been possible to prove the prevention of infection, but in humans it is not yet fixed. Bourla expects more concrete data in February. Proof still pendingThe British tabloid formats “The Sun” and “Mirror” have already reacted to…

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Vaccination campaigns are taking off around the world. Will we only be able to see the world with a Corona vaccination? Initial signals point in a different direction. Will the Covid 19 vaccination soon catapult us back to normality, or is it not as harmless as people assume? Will we only be able to travel with proof of vaccination in the future? Many questions are currently being hotly debated on the subject of vaccination. Not everyone is happy about the fact that there could even be a vaccination obligation for…

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