The big interview

Virologist Krammer: “Corona is not over”

Florian Krammer looks anxiously to the future.(Bild: Klemens Groh)

Drastic increase in coronavirus cases on the vacation island of Mallorca. Is a new wave rolling over us? Are we better prepared this time? Should we test and vaccinate again? In an interview with Conny Bischofberger, Prof. Florian Krammer, Austria's leading infection expert, appeals to common sense.

There is a party atmosphere on the MedUni Vienna campus this early afternoon. Hundreds of cheerful young doctors are celebrating their final exams. In the middle of it all, a man in a black linen shirt with a black rucksack stands out from the crowd. It is the virologist and vaccination expert Prof. Florian Krammer, an unmissable 1.98 meters tall and, since March, responsible for therapies against corona & co.

Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel has arrived from New York to visit the Kandel Institute, a center for precision medicine named after him. A construction pit for the Semmelweis Institute, which Krammer will build here, is soon to follow. The "Krone" interview takes place in the open air on a blue Enzi-Hofmöbel and with the participation of numerous Gelsen.

Party atmosphere on the MedUni Vienna campus: Prof. Krammer stands out from the crowd at 1.98 meters tall. Next to him Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel and Rector Prof. Markus Müller).(Bild: Robert Harson)

"Krone": Professor, a new corona wave is currently causing a stir in Mallorca. How seriously do you take it?