Could the virus come from a laboratory? Nonsense, say many researchers. But it is obviously not impossible. This is shown by controversial experiments in recent years. – If a virus appears to appear out of nowhere, you can almost certainly count on speculation about an origin from the laboratory. This has been the case with … Read more
Some lessons can be learned from the experience of the Spanish flu for the current corona crisis. Perhaps the most important of these: political tactics must not determine action. – In many places, the clinics could no longer catch the patients, gyms became hospital rooms, and bed after bed stretched for many meters. The coffins … Read more
Severe courses of Covid-19 affect almost all organs and parts of the body. The reason is a common molecule that uses the corona virus. – If doctors get an overview of the courses of Covid-19, they see an astonishingly diverse picture. The lungs are usually affected first. If the immune system fails to remove the … Read more
Doctors are examining a surprising candidate for the treatment of Covid-19: a remedy for heartburn. But it is still a glimmer of hope. – Chinese farmers may have given the decisive indication of therapy against Covid-19. It sounds unlikely, but in medical history it has often happened that a drug successfully treats a condition for … Read more
After a strange phase of darkness, the giant star Betelgeuse found its way back to normal brightness. Some had hoped for a stellar spectacle. – One of the achievements of modernity is that you can not only follow people on social networks, but also stars. A particularly prominent celestial body has the Twitter name @betelbot. … Read more
Developed over many years of bacterial culture, without modern laboratory methods or basic knowledge of genetics and genetics: the BCG tuberculosis vaccine – short for Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, old-fashioned after its French discoverers – has been an old-school drug for more than a hundred years old. Could this active ingredient play a decisive role in the … Read more
Developed over many years of bacterial culture, without modern laboratory methods or basic knowledge of genetics and genetics: the BCG tuberculosis vaccine – short for Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, old-fashioned after its French discoverers – has been an old-school drug for more than a hundred years old. Could this active ingredient play a decisive role in the … Read more
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 6500 children have already died from a virus. But it wasn’t the new Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus that killed the children, but a well-known pathogen: the children fell victim to measles. Now measles and Covid-19 – apart from the fact that both are viral diseases – have nothing to do … Read more
People have got used to consulting the statistics every day. What’s next for Covid-19? How much are the numbers increasing in Germany, in the world? It is important to interpret the data with caution. Because the columns of numbers by no means offer an exact picture of the currently ill or infected. It is fairly … Read more
Primary case? Latency? What the scientific terms of epidemiologists mean. – Epidemiologists occasionally say: You can drown in data and still thirst for information. This applies particularly to the current Covid 19 pandemic. Even those who only rely on reputable, scientific sources can easily lose track of the confusion of numbers and terms. A guide … Read more