Covid19-related research by the Max Planck Society
Max Planck researchers are working on vaccines and drugs against the corona virus and are making forecasts on how the pandemic will develop
The current corona crisis poses enormous challenges to our society and to states worldwide. What contribution can science make to overcome this crisis? On this topic page we collect contributions from various research fields at Max Planck Institutes, all of which are related to the corona pandemic.
The focus of interest is, of course, on medical efforts to develop a vaccine, but also on currently available drugs that may be able to alleviate the severe disease progression of Covid19. However, valuable contributions also come from other scientific disciplines. These include, for example, those working on simulations of the outbreak, social science studies and, last but not least, economic analyses of how we can counteract the inevitable economic distortions.
Research
In endemic settings, behavioral adjustments can fully compensate increasing infection risk
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A model weighs individual costs and social benefits of interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Delta and Omicron mutants of the virus bind more tightly and longer to host cells than early Wuhan variants
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Study on the impact of different risk communication formats on the vaccine intentions of 1255 unvaccinated, vaccine-hesitant adults in Germany
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Study on the effectiveness of restrictions takes citizens’ behavioral changes into account
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A comprehensive analysis on particle exhalation in adults and children
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Absence of evidence for neurotropism and neuroinvasion of several SARS-CoV-2 variants including Omicron
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Shift in deaths from the very old to people in middle age
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Playing wind instruments spreads more viruses than breathing, but less than speaking or singing
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ESA’s Solar Orbiter has observed an interesting phenomenon
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Informing people about the strong positive consensus among doctors persistently leads to increases in Covid-19 vaccinations
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Coronavirus not only infects the human retina, but can also replicate in it
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