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Kimmich enlivened the fairy tale of good dead vaccine: a brief explanation of the vaccine species
Joshua Kimmich has sparked a new debate about compulsory vaccination
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Football pro Joshua Kimmich is said to be waiting for “dead vaccine” against Covid-19. Is the “classic” method effective against the corona virus? And what are dead vaccines?
Anyone who is waiting for the so-called “dead vaccine” should first find out more, because there are also many myths surrounding this topic. What we know: In contrast to the currently common vector or mRNA vaccines, the dead vaccine contains killed pathogens that can no longer multiply in the body. In the body, they stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies without the disease breaking out. Inactivated vaccines are used against diphtheria, hepatitis B and flu, for example. Their big advantage: they are easy to digest, easier to store, for example at refrigerator temperature, and they can be produced quickly in large quantities. The major disadvantage, however, is that they do worse in terms of their effectiveness against the corona virus than the mRNA vaccines, for example from BioNTech. This is especially true for new virus variants. Four of these vaccines are currently approved worldwide, but when it will happen here in Germany is still unclear.
Climate Conference in Glasgow
In addition, the big world climate summit, the COP26, will take place from Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland, with many researchers, activists and representatives from all over the world. Also there: Dr. Friederike Otto. Friederike Otto is a climate researcher at Oxford University and deputy head of the Environmental Change Institute. The physicist calculates climate models and is an absolute luminary in her field of attribution research or assignment science – she even co-founded it. This makes her one of the first to manage to calculate whether specific weather events are a regular occurrence or whether they can be traced back to climate change.
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Podcast “important today”
Sure, strong opinion, on the 12: “Today important” is not just a news podcast. We set topics and initiate debates – with poise and sometimes uncomfortably. This is what host Michel Abdollahi and his team speak out for star– and RTL reporters: inside with the most exciting people from politics, society and entertainment. They let all voices have their say, the quiet and the loud. Anyone who hears “important today” starts the day informed and can have a sound say.
“We absolutely have to adapt better to the heat”
As an example: According to Dr. Otto can clearly be traced back to climate change. Conversely, however, the ever hotter summers, which are already affecting us: “Heat waves, including those we have experienced in Germany in recent years, would have been events of the century without climate change. But with climate change, these are actually normal summers now.” That is why she appeals: We have to take weather phenomena seriously and adapt better. Because the global temperature of 1.2 degrees, which we have already reached since the beginning of the industrial revolution, is already having a drastic effect and is costing lives even in Germany.
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