| Editorial staff | 22.09.2024 Approval by the European Commission is still pending, but a corresponding recommendation has now been received by the authority for review. The new vaccine is adapted to the KP.2 variant, which is particularly prevalent in early summer, but should also offer increased protection against the virus type that is currently … Read more
The pandemic seems to have happened forever ago. Quarantine, curfews, contact bans – all of that is a thing of the past. However, the virus is still here and is continuing to mutate. Covid-19 is currently causing more cases of illness again. According to the RKI, the number of cases has been rising steadily for … Read more
Did the vaccination against Corona save lives or was it disproportionately risky given the side effects that occurred in some cases? Researchers from the UN World Health Organization (WHO) have now presented an estimate based on data. According to this, around 1.6 million lives were saved in Europe by the vaccinations between December 2020 and … Read more
The Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Katalin Karikó has been appointed professor by the College of Szeged (SZTE), the upper training establishment introduced. Katalin Karikó has been a analysis professor at SZTE since 2021. He labored on the College of Pennsylvania for 24 years and was the co-founder and CEO of RNARx from 2006 to 2013. He … Read more
There is more and more evidence – and it is beginning to be publicly known three years into the pandemic – about the risk of suffering myocarditis or pericarditis after the administration of the Covid vaccine. That is, inflammation of the heart muscle or the membrane that surrounds it. An adverse effect that appears after … Read more
DThe city of Mainz, which is financially well off thanks to the tax revenue bubbling up thanks to the success of Biontech, no longer wants to take out liquidity loans in the future. “We should fundamentally avoid that,” said Mayor Nino Haase of the German Press Agency in Mainz. Municipal consumption should not be financed … Read more
One of the main innovations brought by the pandemic was the vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech against him covid-19, this not only allowed its development in record time but also its adaptation to the new variants of the virus. Now The American pharmaceutical company has the bivalent vaccine readywhich only awaits the regular health registration before the cofepris … Read more
Only older people over the age of 60 and people with risk factors for a severe course of the corona virus should continue to receive booster vaccinations, preferably in autumn, when they are also vaccinated against influenza or pneumococci. This also applies to employees of nursing homes and clinics. However, the Stiko has not yet … Read more
To start with modification: 08/27/2022 – 00:13 – Moderna thinks Pfizer and BioNTech copied two important options of their technologies, patented decades ahead of the pandemic, to produce the Covid-19 vaccine from pharmaceutical rivals. For this cause, on August 26, the allegedly influenced pharmaceutical claimed that she was suing her American counterpart and the company … Read more
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach recommends it, but do healthy adults really need a second corona booster? Some experts advise against it. What are the arguments for the fourth dose and what speaks against it? – Who recommends vaccination and who does not? Stiko, which is responsible for vaccination recommendations in Germany, has so far … Read more