According to a recent study by the National Covidation Crisis Coordination (GECKO), the corona protection of the local population will decrease and thus the infection dynamics will accelerate in the medium term. “The protective effect of the vaccine decreases continuously after about three months, but the protection against hospitalization remains high,” said GECKO member and virologist Andreas Bergthaler.
According to research results, a fourth Covid 19 vaccination should halve the number of hospital admissions and reduce mortality. According to Bergthaler, currently available vaccines still exhibit excellent properties for enhancing vaccination protection and providing solid protection against severe disease progression.
Virologist recommends early booster vaccination
In addition, the virologist argued in favor of a vaccination booster as soon as possible, especially because it is unclear when vaccines adapted to the variants (eg Omikron, nut) will become available. Therefore, according to GECKO information, a fourth vaccination for all people from the age of twelve makes sense, at the latest when the infection activity increases in the fall.
According to data from the Ministry of Health and the Interior, a total of 19,390 people have died from or with a corona infection since the start of the pandemic. On Friday, six deaths were recorded in one day with a seven-day average of 9.7 a day – the day before that there were twice as many with 12 deaths.
The number of reproductions is increasing again
The effective reproduction number, which indicates how many more people an infected person currently infects, rose slightly to 0.97. This is apparent from the estimate published on Friday by experts from AGES and TU Graz. A week ago it was 0.96.
Source: Krone
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