in the heart of true. africa. what's in store. for the future. come for to make your city local to give you insight. into. tech companies get political twitter is shutting out thousands of accounts primarily dedicated to sharing q. and on because here is the content other taken giants are also taking action we talk to often entrepreneurs one to find out more about the intentions behind such moves also coming up the consumer electronic show in las vegas kicks off this year it's online only and digital health takes center stage. while the pandemic forces us to stay at home airports are struggling to stay afloat.

come to d.w. business want to get jones and dylan good to have you with us but 1st it was the us president now twitter has suspended more than 70000 accounts used to spread the far right conspiracy theory. it's the latest company to crack down on extremist content following the deadly insurrection in washington last week twitter said it was committed to quote taking strong action on behavior that has the potential to need to offline harm the backlash comes as pay pal blocked accounts and crowdfunding efforts linked to the violence air b.n. b. has said it will council bookings in the u.s. capitol connected to hate groups ahead of joe biden's inauguration meanwhile rightwing twitter alternative pala is suing amazon after it was delisted for failing to moderate its posts and now the new york times reports that a dog shit bank is to come. business ties with donald trump the bank which

historically has been his most important glenda. lots to talk about civil war let's bring in our financial correspondent who is another friend who had struck xchange 1st of all deutsche bank what war do we know about the decision to cut ties with donald trump. well monica the bank itself declines to comment on this. but you know rumors that reports that deutsche bank is seeking to end this business relationship with trump have been out for quite a while as you said is trump's most important land with about 340000000 u.s. dollars worth of loans outstanding to the trump organization but this business really hasn't made deutsche bank very happy many american investigators prosecutors have tried to you know find out more about those loans find out about the background

whether everything was kosher there or not at this kind of press is not something that your bank really appreciates in particular as the bank for so many years has tried to you know get a better reputation. what's more what we do know as a fact is that the banker at deutsche bank in new york who handled the accounts of trump has left the bank couple of weeks ago this already was seen as a sign that something was about to happen ok so that's could be it's probably is the motivation of the bank now of course the political outrage over what happened last week is understandable but tech companies acting the way they do now is that politically motivated or other other factors at play. well it's very politically motivated of course with you know joe biden in the white house soon and the democrats controlling both chambers of the u.s. congress it's advisable for tech companies and for social media platforms to you

know do something for the relationship with the democrats but there's more you know those events last week in washington what we saw were really criminal acts and also parts at least of what donald trump tweeted last week can be considered to be close to treason or to other you. chargeable offenses if a company wants to avoid to get in the focus of criminal investigation itself it really has to be concerned do something about it now it just briefly cannot because i mean. cutting off or shutting down accounts of politicians isn't that unusual certainly when we look at non democratic political leaders usually that then goes hand in hand with other sanctions how does this current situation differ. well of course because we're talking about the us president but also because fundamental

questions of how we do business are concerned you know the german chancellor criticized the twitter throughout. she says that you know free speech should be the responsibility of politicians but she doesn't really offer companies a way out of a problem to become the target of criminal investigations and goosen in frankfurt thank you so much for that. time now to take a look at other business stories making news. u.s. comical for disclosing its 3 factories in brazil after more than a century of operation the pandemic exacerbated already slow sales in south america the move will affect some $5000.00 workers and cost the company over 4000000000 dollars. china's electric car maker x. paying as secured a credit line of $2000000000.00 from 5 chinese banks the maker of the police 7 sedan and the g 3 sports utility vehicle plans to build a 3rd car plant in china the firm is competing with tesla there and built 827000

cars last year. u.s. steel industry and union groups have urged president elect biden to retain a 25 percent import tax on chinese steel the tariff was imposed in 2018 and the industry says it's essential to ensure the viability of domestic steel production. german vaccine maker by own tank is said to provide more coronavirus jobs this year than previously thought the company has increased its production forecast to $2000000000.00 doses from $1300000000.00 on the basis that an additional dose can be extracted from each vial of the vaccine and your factory will also help ramp up capacity. the consumer electronic show is being held online this year because of the pandemic fittingly digital health is in the spotlight on display bios and. a range of other gadgetry that can help people avoid going to the doctor where they could potentially be exposed to infected patients demand for tele health service is

expected to rise significantly underscoring the need for better communications platforms monitoring and devices and more. and more that brings us to our next guest i'm joined now by peter hosking is professor of medical information technology at the university of applied sciences in arts and daughter good to have you with us. i mean digital health now of course seems more relevant than than ever is this just a face due to the pandemic or do you see an ongoing trend here i don't want morning yes i think it is consequent to please state your on this show that's a trend using more violence and sending britney also technically add on's for the daily management of heresy issues started about 2005 and pandemic only employer employee for the knowledge and experience which huge value contribution that

technology can bring id for its care but in fact the trend i think will go and also after putting him right i mean the digital health as a concept that isn't totally new how widespread is it now what are the trends that we should watch out for. i think i all over the wild world did this used and we have maybe 4 or 4 main trends 1st many countries on the way to instead loose nationally and splat problems for fast opera for better cooperation and coordination between their care institutions and to continue to have craft also to integrate the patient as a team member i 2nd this mention above most people use more buys with headsets for prevention and it's a lifestyle and hearts of patients with chronic illness use special education center put minutes to minutes special aspects of their. head say of their illness

and so it's so easy today to manage food diary page injury on a medication management latch our granddaughter 3rd we have heard wide a movement to involve some patient more in treatment and make them treatment members of their own team so treatment plant from scene to grace integrate doctors nurses social services and citation right conservative since the advent of patient that sounds fantastic with seti seconds to go just briefly i mean can everybody be involved how tech savvy does does a patient have to be. you know who we we're after this is a goal we have to to the odds of their elderly people with the use of beatle beauty and good usage of creations enable to use all of this because most chronic illness is very people and so they should participate or so in their you know wish

and use right all right well peter house professor of medical information technology at the university of applied sciences and. traveling these days seems like a distant memory for many in the 2nd year of this pandemic which sort of grown used to the fact that we'll have to stay put until the coronavirus is under control now what saves us money it costs the aviation sector dearly not just big allan's are affected but also airports a plane landing in dortmund it's a pleasant surprise the local airport has lost an enormous amount of business since the koran of ours struck a hard time for its new director to take charge. of this now i mean we all know what is day 2 out of the pandemic and it's having serious effect there's been a 90 percent decline in german air traffic and about 75 percent in dortmund the 2nd drop and. midday rush hour and nothing but emptiness. processed almost

3000000 passengers and 29000 but at least a few flights are lined up for the next day all with one airline all connecting with eastern europe. i'm in the is basically the gateway to eastern europe there are often trips which have to be made their business trips and that's why that kind of traffic is pretty stable. a corner of ira's test center has moved into the arrivals area making camp where car rentals are normally found every passenger landing and dart board is tested about a 1000 every day that gives an idea of what still is operating despite the gaping emptiness of the departure halls for the airport chief a sign of hope. in an excellent position because we're home to a very stable and very professional airlines and that office growth potential after the crisis as well as like some sports and. the nearest airport to dortmund is part

of borne lipstadt 70 kilometers east of what is hibernating the last scheduled jet landed here in late november the next 1 isn't expected until the end of march the our business jet passes through but even before the pandemic there wasn't enough passengers coming through to keep the airport going. like other airports we are being hit very hard we're using the time to reposition ourselves we're going to convert to self administration that's part of an insolvency process. repositioning also means a 2 thirds cut in personnel and put up or has no growth plans either for the post coronavirus era it evolved even attempt to reach pre-crisis levels yesterday and saw find us what we're getting used to the idea that we'll be handling far fewer passengers about half the number we used to handle and we're adjusting our costs accordingly. put up one is shrinking to survive one expects

a return to normal different approaches to the crisis and the outcome uncertain it's not an easy time for the aviation industry. and that's your business up to. our year and. even the end as always thanks for watching. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update. on t w. years years we've given you and how last year's german starts now we'll bring you an angle a man called and you've never had to have surprise yourself with what is possible

to this miracle really what moves and. who talked to people who followed her along the way admirers and critics alike how is the world's most powerful woman shaking her legacy joining us from echols last august. every year after the 1st corona virus cases some early patients are still suffering . long covert refers to symptoms that can last for months although britain after recovery i was only the hospital for a week and yet months later i was still can't go back to work. when you study from china has about 3 quarters of hospitalized patients still experience at least one symptom half a year later. what we're yet to discover is just how long covert can last.

in the mean time doctors say get the vaccine regardless of whether you've had the virus or not survivors know all too well how damaging the sickness can be even after they get better the road to recovery can be long and difficult. peggy green is battling the long term effects of covert 19 when she became sick in march she had few sometimes but it's now devastated her life. pretty confident. i only became really ill months later and at the time i thought that everything would eventually be fine but things didn't improve i was extremely ill for many many weeks which turned into months without getting better. and. peggy is 48 years old and suffers from long term effects after kovac. she sought

treatment at a rehabilitation center on germany's baltic sea coast after the virus peggy felt. she suffered from dizzy spells and chronic pain. in some cases i also had cognitive difficulties like my head wasn't functioning properly i couldn't hear had poor vision and couldn't follow conversations well. i'm not afraid but i still wonder if i'll ever be the same again. as a school that survivor peggy has officially recovered from the illness but she says it feels like coronavirus has stolen her healthy body and left her with a sick one in its place. peggy spent 5 weeks here her main goal is to get her life

back on truck. you live your life 5 days out work a week and so on my life might be more intense that it was before i would like it to be as it once was at the moment life is dramatically different for everyone and maybe i can still manage to get a lot done i'm sure that my recovery will allow me to i think i will be a different person than i was before but that's ok. this is lynch him. peggy green has since gone back to her normal routine but she still feels the lingering effects of illness she often feels weak and her muscles hurt but even if the road to recovery is slow she's glad to be on it. doesn't david strain heads up the british medical association's work on the long term impact of covered and is also a survivor we'll get to that in

a moment 1st david is there any way of speeding up recovery for long term sufferers like the woman in that report. that's a really interesting question because we don't really know what the natural history of covert itself is of the long coat it is so i get many reports of people who for example it's a multi vitamins or it's a health supplements and swear that has made a dramatic difference for them but i also get reports from people who don't know intervention have got dramatically better off and no apparent reason whereas in all cases we get people who don't get better so at this moment in time in the absence of randomized control trials we don't have any definitive answer as to what will or won't work well take us back to the beginning what causes long coded in the 1st place. that in itself is a huge question that may help us identify what the treatments are but at the moment we don't fully understand there are 2 or 3 different hypotheses are being run that

further test and the one the research that i'm researching into is looking at the mitochondria that is the powerhouse of the celts i mean actively if you want to think of them as the battery that powers your body basically we know covert the disease does attack that battery and what we believe is happening is that there's a many individuals who the battery just isn't recharging at the diseases it's like having the old i phone but it doesn't matter how long you plug it in for it will not get the charge that it requires and we think that's what's going on and that's the theory we're working on there are others that think that this is an old swimmin disease the antibodies you create to the virus then turn on the host and effectively become like rheumatoid arthritis or s.l.a. and trigger and also immune disease that there are some that think there are permanent scarring that take place in the lung and the blood vessels that occur as

a result of the virus the bottom line is at the moment we don't know when reality is it's likely to be a combination of multiple different causes what about just how many people this actually affects but what do you make of the chinese study that shows 2 thirds of hard hit patients suffer long term effects. when you looking at the hard hit it's no surprise at all if you look at people who've been on ai to you for other reasons many of those will still have long term effects 6 or even 12 months later i think what's more interesting in long coat it is a number of people like was described that only got relatively mild disease i mean for me personally i only have one day that i needed any additional therapy yeah i've been left with symptoms and 12 weeks later there are actually worse than the initial disease and these are the ones that are causing more issues from the oh and s. the office of national statistics in the u.k. they estimate that 20 percent of people who had any symptoms at all with some

debilitating illness at 6 weeks and 10 percent of people even though they didn't require hospitalization or any additional care at the outset 10 percent of people who ever tested positive will have symptoms of long coma bit at 3 months and you've said this is happening to younger people more women than men those suggested to be of low risk. exactly and that's part of the thing that we're seeing particularly in the health care setting that. the risk of dying from code it is much lower in females it's much lower in the youngsters and therefore in many health care settings these are the people that we get to work for a long time because if they catch that the consequences won't be as severe but now what we're seeing as an after effect is that these are exactly the people that are more at risk of lung covidien in all study we've identified that even though women are more likely to suffer presents itself participates in study even after we

adjust for that 86 percent of the long covert that we're seeing is a new younger fitter ladies and and it does appear to be very similar that all of the people who are coming presenting with symptoms of long opiate were previously very fit they were very active we're not sure if that represents that they have a higher baseline and therefore they they realize that a lot more if they've been left with some weakness or it may just be that these people are actually noticing it because while most of us around the world are in some form of lockdown where we don't have the same freedoms that we have normally that we just don't notice how much that they set out impacts on us just briefly you've also said this isn't just a respiratory infection it's a multi-system disease other steps that can be taken to prevent long coping from setting in. we don't really know what the cause is so it's very difficult to say assess of but one thing that we are trialing and not having

a good response of with is making sure that way you've got the illness you stay with a new your exercise envelope or your energy envelope we call that for many other people training if you're training for a marathon or creature going for a race you want to push yourself every single time you train with long coated what we believe is if you stay well within your energy window then the window itself will get bigger over time rather than trying to push because one of the kick key things that all of us are saying is the harder you push yourself the longer it takes to recover after each episode so stay within your energy envelope at every available opportunity that it's right thank you very much for being on the show. you're welcome. officials are distributing madonna's coronavirus vaccine in germany it's being administered from tuesday and is the 2nd vaccine available it still people won't have

a choice they'll have to take whatever comes germany is facing criticism for a slow start to its expiration program code infection rates remain high despite an ongoing. time for your questions now over to our science correspondent derrick williams. what's the difference between quarantine and isolation and what are the correct ways through observed both. in the course of this pandemic these 2 terms have been used interchangeably quite often although they actually mean different things and the confusion arises because both are protective measures for stopping potential covert 19 spreaders from transmitting the disease to others so definitions 1st isolation is defined as a measure for keeping people know to be sick with a contagious disease away from people who don't have it quarantine on the other

hand is restricting the movement of people who might have been exposed to an infectious disease for a while to find out whether they've been infected or not so so both are waiting games the big difference is that if you have cove at 19 you're in isolation if you only might have gotten that you're in quarantine when it comes to the right ways to observe then things get a little trickier because different health authorities in different countries regulate the 2 in different ways here in germany for example if you've tested positive for covert 19 and are recovering at home you have to isolate for at least 10 days from either the day you tested positive or the day you begin to show symptoms though you can also only leave isolation if an. dr determines that your symptoms have really improved and remain that way for at least 48 hours those who have been directly exposed to someone with the disease for example family members

they're what are called category one contacts and they have to quarantine and germany's health authority says they should do so after their last contact with the sec person for 2 full weeks although they can also leave quarantine if they test negative for covert 19 after 10 days i for now.

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