Updated: 04/18/20 22:57
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Corona crisis: First successes are being achieved in the fight against the corona virus – and easing of the initial restrictions comes into force. But an infectiologist brazenly brakes the euphoria.
- In Germany and Austria occur in the Coronavirus pandemic* first Easing of the Exit restrictions in force.
- But the Corona crisis* is far from being overcome – this is illustrated by a Viennese infectiologist with a somber prognosis.
- The doctor believes in one Corona vaccine of years of efforts to contain the insidious Lung disease Covid-19*.
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Munich / Vienna – football patron Dietmar Hopp does it with his Tübingen company CureVac. And it’s not alone. The search for one Coronavirus vaccine* drives the pharmaceutical industry.
Sars-CoV-2 vaccine: Viennese infectiologist does not believe in rapid breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus
Hops, Majority owner of the German Bundesliga club 1899 Hoffenheim, had announced a breakthrough for autumn. But: The forecasts of various experts sometimes differ widely.
A medical doctor from Austria believes that even if the vaccine against the Pathogen Sars-CoV-2 found, it will take years before society can return to a regulated normality. He also believes that with that vaccine will take longer than expected.
“Covid-19 is only over when there is one vaccination gives. Seven billion people are said to be vaccinated. I see a big security issue there, and everything that is cleverly tested takes time, ”said infectiologist Christoph Wenisch, according to the news portal krone.at in the Ö1– “Visiting the Journal” series. Wenisch is head of the infection department at the Kaiser-Franz-Josef Hospital in Vienna.
Fighting the corona virus: “Normal everyday life only exists after Covid-19”
Also with a view to that Ebola drug remdesivir*, on which many hopes in the Covid-19 treatment rest, he warned of hasty euphoria.
Results of ongoing studies are expected in May or June, Wenisch says, and then it will be seen “whether it promises what we hope for”.
Infectious disease specialist Wenisch ultimately drew a rather gloomy prognosis and predicted: “It is only after a normal day Covid-19. That will be at the earliest in 2022 or in the 2023s when the vaccination is there. “
Patrick Mayer
* merkur.de and tz.de are part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network
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