Continued concern about infection numbers in USA

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Rising CoV numbers continue to worry authorities in the US. Over the past few days, the U.S. has averaged just over 137,000 new infections per day, up nearly 12 percent from the previous week, U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) chief Rochelle Walensky said yesterday. The number of people hospitalized with Covid-19 was about the same as the previous week, she said, while the number of deaths rose 23 percent. Progress on vaccinationsAt the same time, however, there has been progress in the vaccination campaign, said White House CoV Coordinator…

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U.S. expert on Delta: Almost as if we had a new pandemic

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Concern is growing among senior health officials in the U.S. about the Delta variant of the coronavirus. “Everything we thought we knew about coronavirus needs to be revised. It’s almost as if we have a new pandemic,” U.S. National Institutes of Health research agency director Francis Collins said in Tuesday’s Washington Post. For the next few months, he said, we need to be prepared for some difficulties. Due to the spread of the delta variant, the number of new corona infections in the U.S. has recently risen sharply again. The…

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Next mutation puts researchers on alert

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A new mutation is currently keeping researchers busy. It is a subtype of the delta variant that dominates in Austria. Corona has had a firm grip on the world for over a year and a half. Currently, a renewed increase in the number of new infections can be observed in many places. The fourth wave of Corona has now also arrived in this country. The reason for the increase in numbers is the much more infectious delta variant of the Corona virus, which has been dominant in Austria and also…

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Ministries report 1,002 new infections in Austria

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The Ministries of Health and Interior have reported 1,002 newly registered coronavirus cases within the last 24 hours (as of 9:30 a.m. today). The states reported these numbers to the national crisis team. 10,768 people have died as a result of coronavirus so far. Currently, 398 people are receiving hospital treatment for coronavirus, 84 of whom are in intensive care units. 7-day incidence at 91.1According to the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), the 7-day incidence, i.e. the number of new infections with the coronavirus in the past seven…

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Starting tomorrow, Wednesday, vaccination in supermarkets

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The fourth wave is just piling up in Austria. And it’s rolling in earlier than last year, as complexity researcher Peter Klimek noted a few days ago. The number of new infections is rising sharply, also in hospitals more patients have to be treated against Covid-19 again. The trend is upward. As epidemiologist Gerald Gartlehner notes, along with other experts, the fourth wave will be one of the unvaccinated. The solution: get more people to vaccinate. But therein lies the main problem. Fewer and fewer people are motivated to free…

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Coronavirus worldwide: some 267,000 babies died as a result of economic downturn, anti-vaccination activists occupy news stations in London

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More than 211 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 4.4 million infected people have died. About 4.9 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. The economic downturn in the wake of the Corona crisis may have resulted in the deaths of more than 260,000 babies last year alone, mainly in poorer countries around the world. This is the conclusion reached by experts from the World Bank in a modeling study presented in the journal BMJ Open. According to the study,…

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Corona vaccination without registration went over almost 64,000 times in Vienna.

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A Corona vaccination without registration is available in various parts of Vienna. By Sunday, 63,969 such vaccinations had gone over the stage. One place stands out.Most people have been immunized at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV), with 45,989 stings so far. Because the campaign is “going very well” according to the office of City Health Councillor Peter Hacker (SPÖ), it has been extended by a week. Up to 800 people were vaccinated daily at the ACV last week. Corona vaccine can be chosenThe vaccine can be freely chosen at the…

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Vaccination buses now stop in front of Vienna schools

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In order to increase the vaccination rate among young people, the vaccination buses of the City of Vienna will make more stops at schools in the coming weeks. In two summer schools the first stop will start on Tuesday, followed by vocational schools at the beginning of September.In the age group of twelve to 24-year-olds, only 41 percent have received a first dose so far throughout Austria, 47 percent are fully immunized. Those under 18 are vaccinated with the vaccine from Biontech/Pfizer. Registration for vaccination buses not requiredRegistration is not…

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United Kingdom: Valneva launches accelerated trial for vaccine

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Vaccine maker Valneva has initiated an accelerated process in the United Kingdom for its vaccine. The Austro-French company believes approval is possible this year.The Austrian-French vaccine manufacturer Valneva on Monday initiated a so-called rolling approval procedure (“rolling review”) in the UK for the approval of its Corona vaccine candidate VLA2001. If the initial data from the currently ongoing Phase III trial are positive, the company believes initial approval will be granted before the end of 2021, the company said. Valneva is pursuing a classical approach with its Covid-19 vaccine using…

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