michelle, but your leg hold on member states to issue in immediate moratorium on artificial systems until researchers fully assess what she called the catastrophic risks they pose rob reynolds alger 0. ah la again, i'm fully batty boy. with the headlines on al jazeera south, korea's government has bought into former president. thank you, and he has been serving a 22 year prison sentence for corruption shows the country's 1st democratically elected leader to be thrown out of office and ferry in bangladesh has caught fire killing at least 30 people. dozens of others are injured. rescue teams managed to save a number of passengers, but local sources say the death toll is likely to rise. a former u. s. police woman has been found guilty of manslaughter for killing a black man during a traffic stop in minnesota. kimberly potter short,

20 old dante right. last april. she said she had mistakenly fired her gun instead of her taste. the moment that we heard guilty of manslaughter, one emotions every single emotion that you could imagine just running through your body at that moment i, i kind of let out a yelp because it was built up in the anticipation of what was the calm when, while we were waiting for the last few days and now we've been able to process it. we want to thank the entire prosecution team. we wanna thank community support. everybody has been out there that has supported us in this, this long fight for accountability. the u. case health agency has found the omi con variant is milder than the delta strain early day to suggest it's up to 70 percent less likely to cause hospital admissions. the study found that protection from a booster shot begins to drop after 10 weeks,

although it's still likely to protect against severe disease. new york is scaling down new year's eve celebrations in response to a surgeon corona virus cases. the annual event in time square will limit numbers and people will have to show proof of vaccination and wear masks. infections have risen 60 percent in the last week. and italy has bands, public celebrations for new year's eve, as it reported a record number of infections. the government says masks must now be worn outdoors and high quality mass will be required in cinemas, c, it is and on public transport, your update with headlines on al jazeera. i'll be back with more news after the street to stay with us and talk to al jessie. oh, are you? well, the one is listen, design is are making serious efforts in order to in p. i'm to solve to turn the windows here. we meet with baby years maintenance to stay missed on

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 had it into 2022. we have a team of medical professionals standing by to answer your questions. we start with dr. mcdonald. the coven, 19 pandemic, has had a significant impact on all of our life. disruption to daily life from the mental health impact to seeing illness in 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 math when community transmission is high, physical distancing, 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 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 that's a night i guess for today. nice to see all 3 of you don't to margaret, will you introduce 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 cove it cove. it 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. thanks for having me for my name's alma, are married doctor, i'm

a journalist. it to have you and daughter, an aunt, always get to see you as well. please. we want our audience. he you all of what you day. thanks. i mean good to be on the so hi everyone i'm, i'm a medical doctor, recent ball in central india. and i'm an associate biometrics, global hold them policy. all right, so any p a c string for the stream that they use them. okay, we have so many great resources for you right here. you on you cheap, you've got concerns, you have questions, pop them, right hand, 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 a doctor. doctor douglas says, as the 5 is me, tates when transmitted, is there a possibility that a new variance will be more transmissible than other chron more deadly than delta and resistant to current immune response says, 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. he'd come off the back of that report cuz my concerns are really about n h s stuff and burn out his knee festival. with cases doubling every 2 days. health experts warn the vaccination effort. nice 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 a 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 trough through a down we covered and away from work that they've had to drop in extra help from elsewhere. just a mom, the hospital's accident, an emergency unit. and so that's a possible risk of a certain number of people ending up in hospital suffering with the omicron 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 co video and you might not feel bad yourself as maybe a young doctor, you still have to take the time of work which constrain on your colleagues because they're not having to work almost extra hours like one on a one daughter who finished, it's just a thing for him and was called back in straight way to get back in touch with them to find them just because there was no senior doctor around you know,

supervisor junior doctors. so it becomes unsafe when you having to work in situations like that where your projected time 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 well. it's just the fact that you have to take extra strain on of course, the strength and understaffed health service. 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 schools do you have now? thanks. i me as a place, you know, a very troubling time as you were actually saying, you know, lot of distress, lot of failure of the health system to be able to cope with the increasing number of cases. fortunately since them i think we've been able to ramp up our health

services to 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 we are better prepared to be able to handle any kind of so be now. so finding that has been ok, you're not seeing the kind of rapid increase that we are seeing in other parts of the world. but the festive season ahead could actually be given a lot of people are traveling on meeting each other. and matthew said, sir, public health, missouri seems not to be adhered to. the extent one would like. so it's, it's going to be tough times ahead, but hopefully i'll be able to call you more. and then as well, because lately saying, the most important issue here is to ensure works me quickly, not just in india, but across the world. the more people we get vaccinated, the more vulnerable individuals we are able to protect. so i think we will all be

in a much better state. i'm so i might send that saying inequity. i'm margaret, you can definitely jump in here. i really want to hear your thoughts. there was something that i saw recently, and i was truly, truly shot. it was astrazeneca in a tape, in nigeria because it had expired. and there was a plan for this. there was kovacs or even if he were the richest nation, there was a plan, so that some vaccines could go to countries. he might not have the purchasing power . mago, i'm going to saying what went wrong. you can challenge me if you want to know it's heartbreaking and robot wrong was nigeria was sent doses by donor countries that were just about to expire and ban here is not the only country i've 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 we're 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 a certain, 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 about the expiry date is and then suddenly and it comes to us suddenly we've got these doses and here they are and you know it quickly, quickly, quickly we restroom in there and, and i do reassign, 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 make it a donation, but yeah, let me just let me just play a little bit of this because i am sure of humans when you say your b as,

as aggrieved as, as i was when i, i saw beautiful boxes of vaccine, just put on to the tape. lets take a look. now, grandmother, health officials and journalists watched us more than a 1000000 doses of expired astrazeneca vaccine were crushed. it destroyed vaccines, were part of the massive shipment of more than $2000000.00 doses received in october if to mission from developed nations. by november, many of them had expired. we accepted vaccine in an environment where despite the interest, despite consorted air force by the federal government to procure these vaccines disruptions were not available in the open market. if you want to go, because they had largely be mobbed by the wealthier nations and we had no choice to accept this vaccine, which short staffed life and at atheist things that we felt the ethics task. there

was a world like supporting our, our fellow countries. we failed that we got an f thoughts. absolutely, you know, i mean in this kind of a situation where everybody's going to make a now close to 2 years that we have to depend on vaccine charity and not maxine justice vaccine equity, deeply troubling. you know, if we don't understand that sorted out, it is the that the heart of need responds to abandon me, that we are all protected when everyone is protected. it is not by being nationalistic about us, about being narrow minded about your response. if you're going to protect your citizens, because we've seen radiance traveled, the widest that's i wanted, 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 would agree with me on this to be actually field is

a world in this. and if i have, i'm for you to it is that we would have on this and we would do better. i think what we need to remember about this is unfortunately we live in this, i guess it's a capitalistic society where money kind of controls the rules that we go 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 on 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 defies vaccine is on cost to be the most lucrative drug of 2022. and it's already been the most lucrative of 2021. well, 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 to be a charity box in charge of. the problem is that we live in

a society which promotes not promotes people who do money hoarding 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 with, with, with government 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 for the world we have and i think it's important to, oh sorry. yeah, i know you guys as monica, it's really important to also say we never intended it to be a charity and it's very, very wrong. i keep pianos on rich countries given to poor countries. the whole point of the kovak, 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. it wasn't about charity. it was purely about margaret in. so and something to start doing better now because everyone's been talking about vaccine inequity for a year. right? almost a year. now, are we doing better now? where city no vaccine is coming out, so we've managed to reach the 800000 dose, rolled out. but worldwide 8. no half 1000000000 doses have been rolled out. and there are 16 times more doses given i think 16 times more. boost is i haven't got the numbers in front of me. well, boost has been given in wealthy countries than primary doses getting into the country, still failing to vaccinate. so, and those are decisions as a program at a decision being made by wealthier countries. yeah, and we're not seeing hoarding yet, but we're very, very concern. 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 that the yeah, can't go on it and then i'm moving on one 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 nations from punch, trying to purchase more of the boxes, which i think we don't have the resource to tell us. how about on does pfizer work with our data? but just him saying that increased the shows up as i increase the share price wise, are unwelcome, more purchases in water emissions. so it is difficult to navigate. all right, so one more thing on this and i'm pushing us on because you have to look ahead to 2022 as well. hands, he's watching right now says it's shameful 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 and we'd ringing derek low.

he's a drug discovery researcher who basically flags. what's happened this year, and what's going to be exciting next year when we look at the pandemic? yes. 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 all micron, 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. take something to

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 tag into 2022. or the scientists really doing a story, knowing what that is gonna help us out of where we are right now. absolutely. you know, they've done still 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 get to it, when there is a conducive environment and support from garmin, from other stakeholders, from regulators, you can actually make things happen the fact that we have back scenes the fact that we managed to do multi national clinical trials with literally thousands of patients in bel under. they are just shows that progress as possible. and you know, countries like india certainly which of the manufacturing capacity can help support a larger availability of drug instead of it expects seen. but for that i think globally, we have to agree that the priority should not be profits. the priority should not

be intellectual property. the property has to be sorted out to the prior. the has to be john, you know, just global health and ensuring that as a will become better with the spend the mac. and if we can get that sorted out at various levels than i think there is an article for 2022. and what i mean so hopefully far is that this experience teaches us that for many other diseases that still need solutions. we can get a scientists together, focus on those problems and the same urgency as we have seen for a forward market. 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 are saying in terms of find advancement and how fast it's happening. us army, create single vaccine against all covered and solved variance researches say the f d a the food and drug administration that's in the u. s. authorizing the antiviral pill as 1st approved at home treatment for cove. it as a game changer, potentially,

pfizer agrees to allow generic versions of it covey to pill. one more headline here, research is developing process to store code 1900 vaccines at room temperature. that is really got to help with developing nations. margaret, what are you seeing that gives you hope in terms of and the bad guy. i've 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 because of it at the time. and they were talking about what they knew so far about the summer viruses. what vaccines were possibly in the making. how on earth you would structure the studies and over sharing, it didn't matter what country they were from the old term 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 numbers of trial assigned to 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 the immune alert, logical treatments, a 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 share that kind of solidarity. i mean, i've got a couple, couple of thoughts for you from, from you chip, which i'd really love you to engage with. javier says many people, wait until that dest door to demand the medical community,

do everything to save them. this is about prevention, lessening demand for health care, thoughts on that one? yeah, i think it's a really difficult question to be honest because obviously we restricted once freedoms and things like that. but when it comes to something as simple as putting on a face mask, it's quite literally a cloth from your oil. 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 you're right, people who suddenly demand as soon as they're about to die, they want to be intimate and they want to go to the you, they want the emergency medications. some people are going also, the vaccine was on the bed towards an apartment. i mean, is that have you ever heard? yeah, no, i didn't. i remember one time this is i ended up being on, on a bus once and there was a guy wearing a face not wearing the face. and i just told you mind just just lifting up. and he turned around to me and this was in the us with the turn around me and said you liberals like you're supported by that and all this stuff. and 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 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. yeah. 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 that i've read the article there just wanted to list who was asked who she wrote an article. i think it was a chicago trucks 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. that one was sick, the vaccine isn't going to do anything to help. so jeannie says, the politics of ruin, people getting faxed in the united states politics lead to the population here,

i believe in other countries as well. but will let us 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 have cove it in hospital? what advances to be made in treatment that going into 2022. your not necessarily in crisis mode or are you still? i think it's a few different aspects to my question number. i don't think we're on crisis moved as much as we were before, even though we're recording record numbers of you know, they've actually worked almost one is not bad or various other things. it's an issue where we're not actually seeing that many come into a q b on well,

the other thing is we haven't really made that many treatment advances. the treatment is to provide oxygen if they need ventilation red vents and 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 and 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 what there are some new drugs are coming on. medications. possibly my work when i start using them. yeah. and the acute phase we're using them and patients i being treated at home, 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 previous conversations. that's something that

we've got a hold on. now, but how we fix biggest challenges in 2022. 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 20? 22. and had a sham on youtube says it's going to be 5 years. oh my goodness, 5 more years a stream shows about corrode 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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