to 10 basic tastes such as salty, sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy. the machine is programmed with recipes that allows it to create the taste of 20 food samples. mccormack of in the pony the beginning. and when we stay home because of covert 19, we can watch videos taken from places far away and talk to people who are far away with your voice and devices such as telephones and televisions. sad. however, we couldn't toast the food in restaurants far away. i wanted to somehow make toasting through the reality so that people can experience various toes a small staying at home. i feel that was my motivation to develop this little class . ah, a reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera, the u. k. government's health security agency says people with on the corner of 50 to 70 percent less likely to be admitted the hospital than with delta. but the

agency has warned the protection from a booster vaccine may begin to wayne after just 10 weeks. the u. k. report of nearly 820000 cove in 19 cases on thursday, just the day after recording more than a 100000 for the 1st time. we do know we don't require that it does a spread a lot more quickly. it's a lot more infectious than delta. so any advantage gained from reduce risk of hospitalization needs to be set against that. and when we know, for example, if her, if a much smaller percentage of people are at the risk of hospitalization, is that a smaller percentage of a much larger number? there could be still significant hospitalization. kona virus cases in new york, meanwhile have risen 60 percent in the past week 12000 new infections were reported on wednesday. health officials say more testing sites have been opened while hospitals and jails have introduced restrictions for visitors. gabriel elizondo has

more from new york, one of the senators from new york state. chuck schumer is calling this a crisis right now. the issue is, is that right now? new york city has become the us epicenter of the crone of virus pandemic, particularly with the armory chron variant. the numbers have been reach, skyrocketing, and it's just been the last week or so they've been going up exponentially. right during this busy holiday travel time. more than 13000000 people have been ordered to stay home in the eastern chinese city of shyanne. 200 cove in 1000 infections have been recorded since the beginning of the month. the country is on. high alert has a gears up to host the winter olympics in february. those at the top stories are coming up next the it's the stream and i'll have more news for you in half an hour. ah

ah. hi, anthony ok. on this episode of the stream, we're looking at what we learned living through the corona virus pandemic this year, and how it might help us as we hide it into 2022. we have a team of medical professionals standing by to answer your questions. we start with doctor, my dad. the coven, 900 pandemic, has had a significant impact on all of our life. disruption to daily life from the mental health impact to seeing illness and our community and our own families to the economic and international impact of travel has been so significant. we also have

good public health policy. this includes putting on a mass when community transmission is high, physical distance inc, having testing available at all times really important that we have these resources to everybody that needs it. and then 3rd, we to have good risk in science communication on an ongoing basis. we need to inform people what is happening and how they need to change their behavior as things continue to have all the big question we're asking on this episode is, can we beat corona virus in 2022. what do we need to do that? we need thought to margaret dot ahmed and thought a night, i guess for today, nice to see all 3 of you thought to margaret, will you introduced yourself to our international audience? tell them who you are, what you do? good evening, i'm a doctor, but i've also been a journalist and i work for the world health organization. and my job really is to inform you about what you can do to protect yourself from all kinds of health threats. but in the last 2 years, it's really been coded, coded coded mom. thought to ahmed is always good to have you here on the screen.

thanks for making time. remind our audience who you are, what you day? i'm sorry me. i so my name's alma, are mary dr. janice based on it to have you and daughter, an aunt always get to see you as well. please. we went out audience. he was what you day. thanks for me. good to be on the show. hi everyone i'm. i'm a medical doctor, recent ball in central india, and i'm an associate biometrics, global help them have policy. all right, so any pre 8 the string for the string that i use them. okay, we have so many great resources for you, right here. you on you cheap, you've got concerns, you have questions, popped them right hand to the comment section. i will do my best to put them right into today's show. i'm actually going to start with a question that came via twitter margaret. we're going to make you work straight away. this one came from her doctor. doctor douglas says, as the former is me tates when transmitted, is there a possibility that

a new variant will be more transportable than our micron. more deadly than delta and resistant to current immune response is, is that possible? that is unfortunately possible, and that is the worst case scenario. so that's exactly why we have been begging the world to be fair about distribution of vaccines because we need to get the people who are likely to get be sickest protected. because when somebody is sick for a long time, that's when there's the opportunity for these mutations. to occur, i'm going to play a small report from one of our correspondence, courtney barker, who was reporting from london a day or so ago. this is what he shared with us ahmed. love you to come of the back of that report as my concerns are really about an h s staff and burn out his knee festival with cases doubling every 2 days. health experts warn the

vaccination effort needs to reach people who haven't had a single dose. that's an estimated 1300000 in london. many millions more across the country. analysis shows poor younger, more, ethnically diverse communities. our lease protected, the more people to get sick. the more critical services could soon be in trouble. there currently so many staff at this one london hospital for us through a down we covered and away from work. they've had to drop in extra help from elsewhere. just a mom, the hospital accident and emergency unit. and so that's a possible risk of a certain number of people ending up in hospital suffering with the on the chrome variant and the country's national health service could soon be overwhelmed. yes it's just been is quite difficult because when you do catch cobra, you know, you might not feel that bad yourself as maybe a young doctor. you start to take the time at work which put strain on your colleagues because they're not having to work almost extra hours, like one on

a one doctor who finished the shift i think for him and was called back and straightway to get back and find there just because there was no senior doctor around to, you know, supervisor junior doctors. so it becomes unsafe when you have to work in situations like that where you're physically tired, making life saving decisions. and it becomes almost a strain where you have to pick up other people's other people's work. so it's not actually the code itself that's making you sick and being able to work that well. it's just the fact that you have to take time offering extra strain on already strained and understaffed health service. and i'm just thinking of those images that we saw from india 2nd wave earlier on this year that was deeply distressing. and shocking out of that 2nd way. what did india learn? what are you going into the new year? with what tools do you have now?

me yes. so i was, you know, very troubling time as you were actually saying, you know, a lot of distress, lot of failure of the health system to be able to cope with the increasing number of cases. fortunately since then, i think we've been able to ramp up our health services to a fat extend our testing levels have gone up. our testing infrastructure has gone up in the us. i'm fairly well on the vaccination side as well though, you know, there's a lot of ground to cover. but that having being said, you know, new radians bring their own challenges and i think the new one would hope that be better prepared to be able to handle any kind of a b now, so far has been okay. you're not seeing the kind of, you know, that increase that you're seeing in other parts of the world. but the festive season ahead could actually be given. a lot of people are traveling around and meeting each other and mosque usage. public health measures seem not to be added to the extend one would like. so, you know, it's, it's going to be tough times ahead, but hopefully we will be able to cope and you know, and as well, because he's saying the most important issue here is to ensure vaccines critique

not just in india, but across the world. the more people we get back to natives, the more vulnerable individuals we are able to protect. so i think we will all be in a much better state. i'm so putting mates and vaccine inequity, margaret, you can definitely jump in here. i really want to hear your thoughts. there is something that i saw recently, and i was truly, truly shot. it was astrazeneca in a tape, in nigeria because he had expired. and there was a plan for this. there was kovak, so even if he was the richest nation, there was a plan, so that some vaccines could go to countries. he might not have the purchasing power . margot, i'm going to say what went wrong. you can challenge me if you want to know it's heartbreaking and wrong was nigeria was sent doses by don't countries that were just about to expire. and thank you. it's not the only country. i just come back from afghanistan. i spent a month there and they were racing to,

to vaccinate people with, again, it was johnson and johnson, and it was about to expire. when they receive doses in august september that were about to expire in november. they managed to vaccinate their mesh to do it, which is incredible, given, particularly the circumstances they're struggling with, with all the other things. but there are so many countries in there. so 1st of all, they're waiting. they don't know when they're gonna get the vaccines. they don't know what they're going to get and they don't know what the expiry date is. and then suddenly, of course it comes to us suddenly we've got these doses and here they are. and you know, quickly quickly, quickly we rest. i'm in there and and nigeria phone, i don't think it was oh codecs. donations. they had, i had, they managed to get through the ones i got from kovacs. but the problem is they received vaccines at the senshi were within a week. oh,

by the time they're on the comic. yeah. yeah. let me, let me, let me just a little donation, but yeah, let me just let me just play a little bit of this because i am sure of you is when you say your b as, as aggrieved as, as i was when i saw uniform boxes of vaccine just put on to the tape. let's take a look. modified health officials and john alyssa watched as more than the 1000000 doses of expired extract. the big vaccine were crushed, destroyed vaccines were part of the massive shipment of more than $2000000.00 received in october admission from developed nations. by november, many of them had expired. we accepted the vaccine in an environment where, despite the interest, despite consorted air force by the federal government to procure the vaccine vaccines were not available in the open market if you want civil because they had

largely be mob topped by the wealthy nation. and we had no choice to accept this vaccine, which short staffed life, not just things that we felt the ethics past. there was a world like supporting our fellow countries. we failed that. we got an f thought. absolutely. you know, in this kind of a situation where everybody is going to make a now close to 2 years that we have to depend on vaccine charity. not maxine justice vaccine equity, deeply troubling. you know, if we don't understand that sorted out, it is the, at the heart of any response to a band to make that we are all protected when everyone is protected. it is not by being nationalistic about us. about being narrow minded about your response that you're going to protect your citizens because we've seen radiance travel, the vidas has traveled, you know, there's, there's just no way of stopping the spread unless everyone is protected. so actually it isn't everyone's interest,

including countries themselves to be able to work with other countries to ensure that everyone is protected. and you know, margaret emma would agree with me on this to be actually field as a world in this. and if i have one for you to it is that we would have looked on this and we would do better. i think what we need to remember about, well this is dawn. unfortunately, we live in this, i guess it's a capitalistic society where money kind of controls the rules that we go. busy around and you know, a couple of years ago there was a famous ceo of a pharmaceutical company who raise the price of life stating drug by 6000 percent in america. and when he was to trial response, he gave was, this is a capitalistic society. i want to make money, this is why i did it. and that's the same thing we're seeing with these vaccines again. so the 5 vaccine is on course to be the most lucrative drug of 2022. and it's already been the most lucrative of 2021. or i think they were predicted to receive around $26000000000.00 just the pfizer. despite that,

they decided to do a price hike a couple months ago for the 5 devices. so we turn around and say, you know, we should have a district a be a charity vaccine charity. the problem is that we live in a society which promotes not promotes people who do money holding wealth. and yes, what we have to remember is 5 vaccine was actually developed through public funds. so trump, when he was president, he actually provided funds a with with, with couple of government money to be able to develop diversity. so it's unfortunate that despite this money coming from public funds, it's not being returned to the public, all dwelt we have, and i think it's important to, oh, sorry. yeah. you know, you guys that my record gone. it's really important to also say we never intended it to be a charity and it's very, very wrong. i keep pianists are rich countries giving to poor countries. the whole point of the kodak system and system we set up with many rich nations. but with

basically nations around the world was to have a system by which we could roll out vaccines in an orderly way to the highest priority groups at exactly the same time. that was the agreement, that was the understanding and it wasn't about charity. it was purely about margaret. is that something to start doing better now? because everyone's been talking about vaccine in equity for a year. right? almost a year now. album doing better now. where city no vaccine is coming out, so we've managed to reach the 800000 dos, rolled out, but world wide. 8 no half 1000000000 doses have been rolled out. and there are 16 times more doses given i think, 16 times more boosters. i haven't got the numbers in front of me very well based has been given in wealthy countries, that primary doses getting into the country still failing to vaccinate. so, and those are decisions as a programmatic decisions being made by wealthier countries. yeah,

and we're not saying hoarding yet, but we're very concerned. but those sort of decisions are still going to continue to ski, skid, the supply. so we're still struggle to get those primary doses into people's arms. one more thought, i think that the yeah, can't go on and then, and then i move on in terms of the boosters largely the by the c o 2 weeks ago said to combo mac one, we're going to try before to stop. so that's also promoting growth your nation's company, trying to purchase more of the boxes, which i think we don't have the resource to tell us. how about on those 5 to work with? i haven't had that data, but just him saying that increase the shows off eyes are increases your price wise or unwelcome or purchases in well dimensions. so it is a difficult thing to navigate. all right, so one more thing on less than i am pushing us on because you have to look ahead to 2022 as well. hands. he's watching right now says it's shame for that. so much of the world is on vaccinated considering this is me adding on to considering how much

science has been done, which is why i want to go to next. which is the science that has been done so quickly. i mean, ringing derek low. he's a drug discovery researcher, who basically flags. what's happened this year? what's going to be exciting next year when we look at the pandemic? he's one part of the good news is that vaccine production is continuing to go up. another part is that this coming year, we should have at least 2 more vaccines, new ones coming all we have to distribute those around the world, deep into a lot of countries and get our distribution networks up to speed. one other thing is that there's a new pill or protease inhibitor, which is much easier to make than the vaccines and it's already being licensed to generic companies around the world. so i hope that helps to we're in a completely new era with on mcgraw but vaccines i think are still the way that the

world gets out of this pandemic. and i just hope that 2022 is the year that we say that we got out of it. oh wow. takes us into a puzzle territory. and india is often known as the pharmacy of the well, you make so many of things like seen so many drugs. how are you feeling looking tied into 2022 other scientists really doing extraordinary? well, that is going to help us out of where we are right now. absolutely. you know, they've done stella work. i mean, there's no doubt at all that the kind of science we've seen over the last 2 years has really shown that when you know, when you get to it, when there is a conducive environment and support from garment from the stakeholders from regulators, you can actually make things happen. the fact that we have seen the fact that we managed to do multinational clinical trials with literally thousands of patients in bel under the year just shows the progress as possible. and you know,

countries like india 30, which of the manufacturing capacity can help support a larger availability of drugs data predicts maxine, but for that i think globally, we have to agree that the priority should not be profits. the parity should not be intellectual property. the party has to be sorted attitude. the parity has to be, you know, just global helps and ensuring that as a world we call better with this plan to make. and if we can get that sorted out at various levels than i think there is a lot of hope for 2022. and what i'm hopeful for is that this experience teaches us that for many other diseases that still need solutions. we can get a scientist together, focus on those problems in the same urgency as you've seen for would moga, i'm going to share a couple of headlines with our audience. you can see them here on my laptop. i want to ask you what you and the w h o are seeing in terms of science advancement and how fast it's happening. us army, create single vaccine against all covered and solved variance. research is say,

the f d a, the food and drug administration that's in the us authorizes antiviral pill as 1st approved at home treatment for cove. it as a game changer potentially. pfizer agrees to allow generic versions of its po vid pill. one more headline here, research is developing process to store code, 19 vaccines at room temperature. that is really gonna help with developing nations . margaret, what are you seeing that gives you hope in terms of science and the padlock. are seen tremendous things, right? actually from the beginning, we only knew the fire existed for a few weeks before the scientists all came together already with ideas about how we were going to solve this problem. i remember being in a room with scientists from all around all zooming in because they are in other countries not good at the dime. and they were talking about what i knew so far

about the sa viruses, what vaccines were possibly in the making. howard earth, you would structure the studies and are sharing it, didn't matter what country they were from. they were all determined to get on top of it and fast forward 10 months later, we had vaccines. we had vaccines going into people's arms. that's never happened. it's unprecedented. we also had huge observe trial as scientists studying all the different drugs that were available ready to see if there was something we already had that could work. not much did work, but we found that steroids did. and, and of course, as you've mentioned, we now have a whole range of different treatments. antivirals we've got in, in a lot, logical treatments, whole range of treatments that did not exist. we're not there that we now have so well the scientific world has stood up together in solidarity. i would just like other parts of the human race to, to, to said that kind of solidarity. i mean,

i've got a couple of thoughts for you from the new chip, which i really love you to engage with. have yes, as many people wait until that dest or to demand the medical community, do everything to save them. this is about prevention, listening, demand for health care, thoughts on that one? yeah, i think it's a really difficult question to be honest because obviously we respect everyone's freedoms and things like that. but when it comes to something as simple as put on a face mask, and it's quite literally a cloth on your face, just for a few minutes that you're on public transport with someone or going to a public venue. why is it so difficult for people to understand that and you are right people to suddenly, to madison is about to die. they want to be integrated, they want to go to the emergency medications. some people are going off of the vaccine was on the bed to what is an apartment? i mean, i mean, is that have you ever heard? yeah, no, i didn't. i remember one time this is i ended up being on a, on

a bus once. and there was a guy wearing a fake, not wearing the face was, and i just told you mind just just lifting up anytime dropped me. and this was in the us with the turn around me and said you liberals like you're supported by that and all the stuff. and then also this is under discussion related to politics, the science or anything like that. it's purely to do with even even if for example, somebody was using a word. so i didn't like, and they told me to stop using that word of respect. i would simply respect, you know, someone's uncomfortable this to myself. it's not that difficult, mr. short period. so that kind of stuff, i don't understand fully and i do think that needs to be more done to be able to support our selves in terms of being able to do that. i've never seen myself, somebody off the vaccine, but i've seen i've read articles, they're just wanting to fist who was awesome, who she wrote an article, i think it was on the chicago truck idea. who was, she said, a number of patients i, she was going to intimate them walking for the vaccine. and unfortunately, it's way too late. one wants to stick to vaccines and going to do anything to help

. so jamie says, politics of ruin, people getting faxed in the united states politics lead to the population here. and i believe in other countries as well. capital letters, shameful. so we've had an incredible leadership from scientists and policy makers there, probably somewhere behind that. i'm saying diplomatically here, i'm it. the 1st time that we all she to be on the stream. you had lines on your face from the mouth that you've been wearing you it was crisis mode. how are you treating people who now has covered in hospital? what advances have be made in treatment that going into 20 to 20 to your not necessarily in crisis mode or are you still? i think it's a few different aspects to that question. number one, i don't think we're on crisis moved as much as we were before,

even though we're recording record numbers of either the vaccines was almost one is not bad or various other things. it's an issue where we're not actually seeing that many come into a to be on. well, the other thing is we haven't really made that many treatment advances. the treatment still is to provide oxygen. if they need ventilation, each bad mentally, it's just a lot more streamlined. we kind of know the numbers of oxygen levels with touch your targeting, that kind of stuff. so that from that perspective it's a lot more streamlined. and then, you know, giving the steroids, the recommended doses and things like that happens. you know, what's happening before before is kind of guessing go. whereas now it's almost like we kind of know the basics as to what's going to work. there are some new drugs are coming on medications, possibly my work, we're not still using them yet. and the acute phase, we're using them and patients i being treated at home. but whether or not that will improve in the acute phase later might be a potential for us to benefit from show. i'm reading your face and your face seems

more hopeful for 2022 from the previous faces that we have when we talked about corona virus and that you as well, you're looking much more helpful than on previous conversations. there's something that we've got a hold on now, but how we fix biggest challenges in 2020 to that is still to be determined. dr. margaret dot net dot net. thank you so much for your conversation and for your advice and your guidance, really appreciate it. gonna go to youtube one more time. i had some question was, can we be corona virus in 2022. and had a sham on youtube says it's going to be 5 years. i guess 5 more years a stream shows about crowd a virus brace yourself. thank you very much. guess really appreciate you. i will see you next time. thanks for watching. ah

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is forbidden, and the population has dwindled even further because thousands of taken refuge elsewhere for safety. ah, you hello, i'm barbara sarah london. these are the top stories on al jazeera, the u. k. government's health security agency says people with all micro on our 50 to 70 percent less likely to be admitted to the hospital than with delta. but the agency has warned the protection from a booster vaccine may begin to wayne after just 10 weeks. the u. k reported nearly 820000 cove in 1000 cases on thursday just a day after recording more than a 100000 for the 1st time. need barker reports.