When will Corona be over? | Newsletters | Monday 21 November 2022

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Useful for whom? From when? Recommendation & Vaccines

Vaccination is likely to come back into focus in the fall. For some people a 5th vaccination could be useful. Everything you should know about a 5th corona vaccination. After summer comes autumn – and with the change of seasons comes the fear of another corona wave, which has followed the hot months in […]

Coronavirus – Why STIKO has updated its vaccination recommendation for children over the age of five

The Stiko now recommends the corona vaccination for children from five to eleven years (picture alliance/dpa) STIKO has updated its COVID-19 vaccination recommendation “after careful consideration of all available scientific data”. Children with previous illnesses should continue to receive basic immunization with two vaccinations and a booster vaccination. Healthy children should receive basic immunization with […]

Corona in Germany: Stiko recommends vaccination for all children between the ages of 5 and 11

According to Stiko, children between the ages of 5 and 11 should have at least one corona vaccination. Photo: imago images/Fotostand/Fotostand / Wundrig via www.imago-images.de So far, Stiko had only recommended immunization for children with previous illnesses. The committee has now expanded its recommendations for the corona vaccination. The Standing Vaccination Committee (Stiko) has recommended […]

Lung doctor Cihan Celik on Corona: There is no breathing deeply

Doctor Çelik, you are senior physician in the isolation ward for Covid-19 patients at the Darmstadt Clinic; we have been talking regularly about the current state of affairs since May 2020. There seems to be a new scientific tenor right now: In the long run, no one will be able to escape such an infectious […]

Corona vaccination for company doctors on a huge scale

IIn the company, he reaches people who rarely go to the family doctor privately, says Christoph Oberlinner. Mostly men, between 30 and 60 years old, who otherwise avoided check-ups. But if the employer asks for an “occupational medical check-up”, they are there too. The employer, in the case of the occupational physician Oberlinner, is BASF. […]

Stiko boss Mertens thinks pressure is absurd

Dhe seven-day incidence in Germany has increased slightly. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Thursday morning as 63.0. For comparison: the previous day the value was 61, but a week ago it was 63.1. The health authorities in Germany reported 12,150 new corona infections […]