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My hope, even more, my firm expectation is that the corona crisis will be overcome with vaccinations.
The vaccine is there.
It comes from a spin-off of the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz with the English name Biontech.
In the Anglo-Saxon countries of the world, the Mainz vaccine has been vaccinated since mid-December, and the EU Commission has also approved it.
American President-elect Joe Biden has promised to vaccinate a hundred million people in the first hundred days.
The hopes for a huge success are justified because the vaccine is of an unexpectedly high quality.
New process arouses high expectations
That is because it is of a completely new design.
No real viruses are killed, nor are any parts of the virus attached to a monkey cold virus, both of which do not work well and are not always entirely safe.
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Rather, on the piece of paper on which the DNA tells the cell factories which molecules to make, the instruction is now written that they should produce a part of the corona virus that is not viable on its own so that the body can then exercise an immune reaction.
With this procedure, the dangers of traditional vaccines do not exist.
And in fact, among more than 20,000 vaccinated people, there was not a single problematic vaccination reaction, while 95 percent less developed corona compared to a control group who received placebos.
Of the few who showed symptoms anyway, not a single one was seriously ill.
A vaccination test couldn't be better.
Another good news is: You can also fight cancer with this method, because you can control the production of specific endogenous antibodies for each individual type of cancer - and almost every cancer is different.
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The annual flu vaccinations with only halfway accurate vaccines can probably be improved dramatically.
Around 25,000 people in Germany died of the flu in winter 2017/2018.
Joschka Fischer: trump card in Hesse lost
Economically, success means two things.
First, in the course of the coming year, the western world will overcome the severest economic crisis of the post-war period.
A brilliant, admittedly only economic, upswing will begin as early as autumn 2021.
After the big Asian countries, which defeated the virus early through discipline and controls, have long enjoyed an economic boom again, the western world can follow suit.
The rest of the world should follow a year later.
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Second, we are now at the cradle of a new pharmaceutical industry around the world that is causing the body to make the drugs it needs to fight many types of diseases.
Germany was once the world's pharmacy.
The Greens in the Hessian state government, led by Joschka Fischer, gambled away one of the last trump cards in the 1980s when they prohibited Hoechst from producing human insulin using genetic engineering in the facilities that had already been approved.
Let us hope that the Greens have now learned something new and that the unfortunate and anti-progressive spirit that gripped this party at the time will disappear again.
Then our country may be able to build on its old successes again.
After all, other German companies are also active in the sector and there could be more and more if more researchers from universities dare to market their findings themselves in the form of start-ups.
Shakespeare once wrote that when the night is at its blackest, morning is already near.
This is the motto with which we can now get through the next weeks and months, which will certainly be very difficult.
Hans-Werner Sinn is still four years after leaving Munich
ifo institute
continues to be one of the most famous economists in Germany.
In the general public, Sinn is best known as the author of numerous business non-fiction books, including bestsellers on the “bazaar economy” or the “Target trap”.