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In the beginning, the coronavirus was like a "Neanderthal", but "the Delta variant is like a Rambo armed to the teeth" - this is how Italian virologist Professor Ilaria Capua described it. In her opinion, this fall the number of infections will be lower than in 2020.more

Currently, it has been assumed that the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine will be offered in Poland only to people with primary and secondary immunodeficiencies. In a special survey, scientists ask vaccinated Poles about their attitude towards the third dose.more

According to scientists from the EU's Copernicus Earth observation program, this year's summer in Europe was record-warm. Temperature records from 2010 and 2018 were beaten, albeit slightlymore

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday it was monitoring a worrying new variant of the coronavirus called Mu. The new strain was discovered for the first time in Colombia, where it is now responsible for nearly 40 percent. infections. According to WHO, it has so far been found in 39 countries around the world, including Poland.more

Human-caused climate change is making hurricanes more dangerous. They are producing more rainfall, moving slower once they make landfall and generating larger storm surges along the coast. Hurricane Ida was a prime example of those changes, and scientists say storms like this will become more common as the planet warms.more

A new, potentially dangerous variant of the coronavirus, described as C.1.2, has been identified in South Africa, according to a study by South African scientists. Of all the variants described, C.1.2 is the most mutated to the Wuhan SARS-CoV-2.more

Danish scientists from the University of Copenhagen reported that they discovered the world's northernmost land surface during an expedition in July. It is a tiny island north of Greenland.more

The analysis of data on over 29 million vaccinations and almost 1.8 million COVID-19 infections confirms that vaccine complications are incomparably less frequent than complications caused by the coronavirus. This research is once again fundamental for vaccination, say University of Oxford specialists in the British Medical Journal.more

The second dose of Janssen's COVID-19 vaccine resulted in a rapid and significant increase in binding antibodies levels, Johnson & Johnson said, revealing preliminary research findings in this regard.more

The U.S. and British media report that the U.S. intelligence report on the origins of the coronavirus does not provide definitive conclusions and does not explain whether the virus passed to humans from animals, or whether it came from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pandemic broke out.more

The Delta coronovirus variant is increasingly breaking immunity in vaccinated people, and in Los Angeles, every fourth infected person was fully vaccinated, reports the CDC in Atlanta. However, nearly three-quarters of COVID-19 patients were not vaccinated at all.more

A study of over 1 million British people found that the effectiveness of both Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines is declining. However, vaccinations are still the best protection against SARS-CoV-2, British specialists assure.more

India's drug regulator has approved the world's first DNA vaccine against Covid-19 for emergency use. The three-dose ZyCoV-D vaccine prevented symptomatic disease in 66% of those vaccinated, according to an interim study quoted by the vaccine maker Cadila Healthcare.more

Playing professional football matches in empty stadiums has a very negative impact on the success of the hosts; their advantage drops almost by half - research of scientists from the UK has shown. Britain. Without their fans, the hosts scored much less points and scored fewer goals.more

Double vaccinated people have been warned to be on the look out for five symptoms that might indicate a Covid infection. more

The British drug regulator MHRA yesterday approved the use of an anti-Covid-19 drug that uses laboratory-created antibodies to fight the coronavirus.more

Scientists have discovered one of the causes behind the critical course of COVID-19. Research shows that the reason may be a congenital malfunction of the immune system, reported an international team of scientists in "Science Immunology".more

The Delta variant of the coronavirus can still be transmitted by fully vaccinated people, undermining hopes that herd immunity can be achieved, according to a study published yesterday at the University of Oxford.more

Scientists indicate that it is easier to prevent a disease than to treat it. This rule also applies to COVID-19. Therefore, the primary focus was on vaccines. The galloping way the virus multiplies makes it difficult to find a cure. However, vaccines alone are not enough, the researchers say.more

Ministers are being pressed to reveal what contingency plans are in place to deal with a future Covid variant that evades current vaccines, amid warnings from scientific advisers that such an outcome could set the battle against the pandemic back a year or more.more

Achieving herd immunity to the coronavirus is not possible with the Delta variant, because the virus is spreading all the time and also infected people who are fully vaccinated, said British scientists.more

Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine may be more effective than Pfizer's preparation against the Delta variant of the coronavirus, CNBC reports on the website, citing the latest research.more

Poland, next to Hungary, Spain, Italy and Russia, is one of the top twenty most attractive locations for corporate investments of companies from the life sciences sector (i.e. biotechnology, genetics, pharmacy) - according to a report by Colliers.more

In a group of compounds that destroy tapeworms, scientists have found a substance that simultaneously prevents SARS-CoV2 from infecting cells and inhibits a dangerous inflammatory response. Drugs are urgently needed, for example due to new mutations in the virus, the discoverers say.more

The Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer / BioNTech "does not have to" yet be adapted to the new variants of the coronavirus, said BioNTech chief Ugur Sahin yesterday, in favor of administering a third dose.more