Apart from Covid-19 vaccinations and AHA rules, what protects against the coronavirus?
Vaccination against the flu can help, more and more scientific analyzes suggest.
Munich / Michigan / Nijmegen - Tehran in Iran, Nijmegen in the Netherlands, Cagliari on the Italian island of Sardinia and Michigan in the USA are geographically far apart, sometimes very far apart.
However, all of these cities, regions and residents alike are grappling with the coronavirus pandemic.
Like the rest of the world.
What offers protection against corona in this tricky situation?
The vaccinations with the specially developed vaccines such as Biontech, the medical experts such as the epidemiologist and SPD member of the Bundestag Karl Lauterbach agree in unison.
But the vaccination campaigns are running slowly in many places because there is (still) a lack of sufficient amounts of vaccine.
Flu vaccinations as protection against corona?
Studies from the USA, Italy and the Netherlands indicate this
Is there nothing that - apart from the AHA rules - increases protection against Covid 19 disease in one's own body?
Yes, that's what more and more studies suggest.
And point to flu vaccinations.
Two new studies have just been published.
On the one hand, a research team led by the University of Michigan scientist Carmel Shmuel Ashur examined data from 27,201 patients from the US state.
To classify: It is not about corona patients, but existing data from citizens.
Ashur and colleagues published their results in the
American Journal of Infection Control
.
Some of the patients were therefore vaccinated against flu.
And: According to the study, your likelihood of contracting the coronavirus was 24 percent lower.
Those patients who were vaccinated against the flu and still infected were less likely to have severe courses.
Flu vaccinations as protection against corona?
Apparently fewer coronavirus infections and severe Covid-19 courses
There are also indications from Italy that flu vaccinations increase protection against corona infections and severe Covid-19 courses.
A research group from the University of Cagliari led by scientist Sara De Matteis published their results in the medical journal
Preventive Medicine
.
Data from all 20 Italian regions were evaluated.
Here it was shown that people infected with corona over 65 with flu vaccinations were less likely to get seriously ill with Covid-19.
Ultimately, both studies lack clear evidence that vaccination is crucial for better protection.
A causal relationship is assumed.
And that the immunization of the body is trained more.
Flu vaccinations as protection against corona?
According to studies, vaccinated people are less likely to develop Covid-19
This is the conclusion of a study published in October by Radboud University in Nijmegen and Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.
Die Zeitschrift der Deutschen Apotheker (Pharmazeutische Zeitung)
writes about it
.
This study analyzed data from approximately 10,600 employees at the Radboud University Medical Center.
It is believed that the tuberculosis vaccine Bacillus-Calmette-Guérin (BCG) also increases protection against the coronavirus.
"Training the immune system is considered to be the reason for the effect," the results say.
If there was still a study (January 2021) on the effect of flu vaccinations against Corona from Tehran in Iran.
The medical online portal
Gesundheitstadt Berlin
relies on the results of the research team led by Nilofar Massoudi from the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran
.
The main finding: "80 employees (of
the university, d. Red
.) Fell ill with Covid-19.
Three of them had received the flu vaccination, 77 were not vaccinated against the flu. ”Does flu vaccination against the coronavirus help - the scientific evidence is at least increasing.
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