become dependent on the. chinese gateway to. start february 19th on d w. w news live from berlin and pietschmann 2.00 in the u.s. lawmakers take action again to impeach u.s. president donald trump democrats formally accuse him of inciting insurrection last week the mob that overran the capital they say to accuse the president as the f.b.i. warns that the possibility of more violence ahead of joe biden's inauguration israel

also coming up diverse for cover and black boxes from the crash to indonesian passenger jet it's hoped the device will shed light on why the plane with 62 people on board slammed into the choppa seat and after weeks of protests in india farmers win a battle in their war against a new agricultural loss india supreme court puts the legislation on hold so farmers can have their voices heard of the highest court in the land. plus pressure is growing well over who says co-host of the ice hockey world championship leader in this here with an ongoing crackdown on protesters in the country critics believe the tournament with the image of longtime leader alexander lukashenko.

i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program security is being stepped up in washington d.c. and other u.s. cities ahead of the inauguration of president elect joe biden on january 20th the move follows an invasion of the capitol building last week by pro trump supporters during which 5 people were killed members of the national guard are now patrolling the grounds of the building precautions are also being taken in other places such as madison wisconsin after the f.b.i. warned in an internal memo that armed right wing stream us may be planning to storm government offices in all 50 states on inauguration day well meanwhile democrats are trying to have president trump removed from office on monday they introduce an article of impeachment accusing trump of inciting insurrection in connection with the storming of the capitol but if these efforts succeed trump would be the only president in history in the history of the u.s.

to face impeachment twice but as we report they face a number of obstacles. just in a week after protesters stormed it. the capital is much changed and the author affects not just evident outside inside the democrats are intent on removing donald trump who they say is responsible for the violence. resolution calling on vice president michael our parents to convene the vice president was urged to use his constitutional authority to activate section 4 of the 25th amendment to declare president donald j. trump incapable of executing the duties of his office and to immediately exercise powers as acting president or what republicans quickly block the move i object democrats then introduced an article of impeachment against trump which could be voted on as early as wednesday. he charges him with incitement of insurrection

referring directly to last week's capitol rampage even if democrats have enough votes in the house it could be difficult to win over the senate the main issue is not on the house side it's on the senate side the senate is not around they're not scheduled to come back until the 19th and so there's really nothing forcing them to do anything. quicker than that and a trial again if if they wanted they could rush it through but they would not want to do that neither side whether it be sooner or later many washington residents feel action needs to be taken seems pretty clear that the president was reading or heard inciting right encouraging sedition and you know you know it's 10 days i think that you know how to categorize this reaction should mean something no

matter who it is i think the inflammatory words of senator cruz and senator we clearly had a fact and strong family. and some points. here i think you should hold them accountable. history will look back on this and if we do not act on this moment we fail and so i think that's really critical that we do our job as americans as a government to put down the possibility of this ever happen again but you have to go with the president having just over a week left in office lawmakers will be pressed to move fast. and for more let's bring in now joel joel roy from d.w. who's joining us with the view on you know the fact that this is one week left now in office for u.s. president donald trump so what would the significance of impeachment be impeachment to send a message that it is unacceptable in a democracy to undermine the legitimacy of elections and encourage people to attempt to violently overturn their results it would also have the effect of

barring donald trump from standing for office again if he should choose to do so but it's a very lengthy process it would require not only to pass the house which it is likely to do but it would also have to find support in the senate where it would need a 2 thirds majority which the democrats do not have at the moment the number of republican senators who have spoken out against trump is in the single digits it's not nearly enough and in fact one republican senator who did vote last time to impeach trump mitt romney has suggested that he does not think that this is the way forward republicans have to think about their future after all 48 percent of voters did select donald trump and that is a significant base that is not going to go away they have to worry about upcoming elections like the midterms are they can't just afford to ignore that base and we also have to remember this is a lengthy process it's going to last possibly until after donald trump leaves office so democrats may actually be giving donald trump fresh oxygen atom fresh

platform after he's already stepped out or after he left office and for those of us around the world who thought we had heard the last of the trump we may be hearing a lot more from and about him for some time to come what has been the white house been saying well we haven't heard much from trump because of course he has been banned on multiple social media platforms we know that officially he has signed an emergency declaration for the washington area covering the inauguration period he has also met with the vice president mike pence which is being taken as a sign that the 2 might be reconciling and pence might not use that 25th amendment that he could use to try and remove trump. it's been reported that he's spending a lot of time on the phone to loyalists still complaining about the election result and also buying into this latest conspiracy theory that says that it was not in fact trump supporters who stormed the capitol but the leftist anti far movement now this conspiracy theory can be disproven through photographic evidence and also in the profiles of those people who have already been arrested but we can see that it

seems they don't trump is living still in a parallel reality as we mentioned we have a little over a week before the u.s. . we have none forced an agency is now warning that security is very much at risk that we could see more unrest in the united states just walk us through how they might be preparing for that right now well the f.b.i. has warned that there could be armed protests in all 50 states and there have been social media posts calling for militia to come out and march in the capitol itself some 15000 national guard troops can be deployed on an old aeration day now that is going to take place the inauguration will take place on a stage in front of the capitol building the same place where we saw all those riots scenes just a week ago. now the mayor all's well is washington is actually calling for people to stay away entirely even joe biden supporters because of course you have to

remember in the middle of a pandemic so the last thing they want is huge crowds coming together so far as health and security reasons so when joe biden is and does take that stage he's going to use the same american united perhaps more of a hope than reality at the moment but there were too many crowds there will be huge security it will be an old aeration unlike any other i did at the news thank you. and there have also been more concerns about safety at the inauguration following the unexpected resignation of the u.s. public security chief acting homeland security secretary chad wolf has announced that he is stepping down for what he described as procedural reasons wolf becomes the latest senior administration official to quit following last week's deadly mob attack on the u.s. capitol his resignation comes days after he pledged that he would remain in office so let's get a check of some other stories making the news a u.s. judge has halted the execution of the only woman on federal death row hours before

she was scheduled to die lisa montgomery killed a pregnant woman and took her baby 16 years ago she would have been the 1st female inmate to be executed by the u.s. government in nearly 70 years. the trumpet ministration has read designated cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism secretary of state on pay or maybe announcements live and new sanctions on havana restoring diplomatic ties with cuba was among president barack obama's biggest foreign policy achievements cuba's foreign minister condemned the new move called me a political often tune isn't. a german led police operation has taken down what is believed to be the world's largest dark net marketplace prosecutors say magnet dark market excuse me was used to sell drugs stolen credit card data and malware that had nearly half a 1000000 users and over 2000 vendors as the pandemic led to much of the narcotics

trade going online. what we have now to india where the supreme court has temporarily halted the implementation of controversial new agricultural laws that have led to widespread protests from farmers the chief justice says that the court will form a committee to hear their grievances against the legislation tens of thousands of farm. i have been camped on the outskirts of delhi for more than a month to say the laws but it's a large problem with firearms at the expense of producers. 60 percent of india's population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods. correspondent standing by with a view from delhi so many are what more can you tell us about the court's decision well before this decision came in there were 8 rounds of conversations and negotiations between the government and the formal groups which ended up in deadlock there was no outcome that was reached now the supreme court the top court of the country has decided to put

a temporary hold on the implementation of these laws in an attempt to find a solution at the supreme court and also previously expressed disappointment with the government by the way the government handled this crisis now the court has formed a full member committee of expert and i thought in an attempt to find a solution to the deadlock what was so controversial about the laws well these 3 laws of the government was trying to bring in according to the government were really good for the farmers of the government these laws would have allowed the promise to produce them to market their produce more freely would have given them more opportunities to on more and profit more they also said that these laws would actually need to better infrastructure and better infrastructure in agriculture because of the increased private investment but that's exactly what the farmers i wanted to about the increase in private investment in creating private and also the biggest concern has been about the minimum support price which we call the m.s.b. system which is essentially

a minimum assured income that the farmers get from the government agencies when they directly by their friend use from the farmers and these laws according to the farmers would create a situation in which the government agencies would buy less and less hence making the minimum support price system is relevant so given all of that what are now the next steps in this process and what is the reaction likely to be. they all leave the actual which have come from the farm as i guess that they're seeing it as a positive development but they're not giving up as they say they are creating the domain that they've been knocking if it decided to drop this unless this thing of the true followers but with a future point. joining us from delhi thank you. investigators in indonesia may soon be able to say why an airliner crashed 4 minutes after taking off from jakarta on saturday indonesian navy divers have recovered the flight data recorder from the wreckage on the seabed north of the capital divers are still

searching for the other black box containing cockpit recordings officials hope that the data will help them determine what caused the boeing 737 to clench into the water they said that the crew did not declare an emergency or report technical problems 62 people were on board. drugmaker astra zeneca has applied for authorization for its corona virus vaccine in the european union the job developed with oxford university would be the 3rd available for the e.u. after the pfizer beyond and montana vaccines it could boost the $27.00 member of walks and ian ization program which has gotten off to a slow start the european medicines regulator says that it's accelerating the approvals procedure and a decision could be possible by the end of the month. meanwhile the premier of the german state of bavaria has raised the possibility of mandatory vaccinations for staff in nursing homes the call comes as many medical professionals in germany are

openly questioning whether they even want to get an ocular needed despite their collective proximity to danger some are still reluctant to get the job reporter tessa vaulter visited a hospital in berlin to find out why. putting on his protective gear before entering the room of a covert patient a routine for intensive care. that. he has been working with corona patients for months now and knows how important it is to protect himself when coming into contact but an even better protection would be the current jab. we see. every day i see people dying from corona i see how patients are suffering how seriously do they become because of this virus that's why i would definitely like to be vaccinated against it is a real horse. in for nasa and i also find that i have a duty of care towards the public and of who go with it.

but not all doctors and nurses in germany share this opinion. is not against vaccination in general but when it comes to the corona she says she would rather wait and see. if she could m.s.f. i am still very cautious when it comes to the vaccine and still of the defrayed of it because it hasn't been around for a very long time so i can't say right now i'm 100 percent convinced of it tight skepticism about the jab is apparently not rare in december a survey of the german society for intensive care medicine t.v. shows that one in 4 doctors and one in 2 nurses do not want to get vaccinated against the corona virus but according to devi that might have changed now that the vaccination process started health minister. has appealed to nurses and doctors

once again this one kind of that's why i can only keep calling for health care workers to get vaccinated not only out of a sense of responsibility for themselves but also for those they careful and treat him from dust. more information about the corona vaccination is therefore planned to be provided and more information is also what nas vivian kaufman would like to see with that she says she would probably be totally convinced. and elsewhere in the car on a virus pandemic german daily newspaper bills says the chancellor angela merkel has told lawmakers and her party that she expects a lockdown to last until the beginning of april to curb the spread of the new variant of the corona virus the world health organization has warned that herd immunity from the virus will not be achieved globally by the end of the year that's even if vaccine makers manage to step up their production and malaysia's king has

declared a coronavirus state of emergency that will suspend parliament at least until august amid political turmoil it comes as much of the country is set to begin a 2 week partial lockdown went to spain now because in many parts of the world snow fall is a welcome sight in winter but the people in spain's capital madrid have really had enough storm filomena hit the country on friday blanketing large parts of it in snow and bringing every day life to a halt well now after a weekend of marveling at the end usual weather the cold reality is settling in. standstill in spain the country is simply not equipped to deal with this weather after madrid experienced its heaviest snowfall in 50 years cars were left abandoned on the city's ring road and the government activated the military to deal with the situation the capital's and port is now up and running again with bulldozers making

up for the lack of snowplows in the country. hospitals already stretched by the coronavirus caseload have remained open with some health care workers tripling their shifts to cover for colleagues unable to make it in. some elderly patients are arriving on foot as ambulances struggle through the slippery streets with many roads still closed. while some have enjoyed the unusual weather it has left its mark on vulnerable parts of the population. on the outskirts of the capital the situation in deprived areas is proving particularly difficult where many residents don't want to risk using emergency shelters. better not enough in our in these times with the pandemic going on i'm not going to a shelter i still have a home right now but i don't have electricity. madrid residents hoping for a return to normality will have to wait

a further cold spell is set to turn the snow into ice in the coming days as authorities warn the roads may not be properly cleared for another 2 weeks. well opposition is growing to belarus hosting this year's ice hockey world championships starting in late may well racine president alexander lukashenko security forces have brutally crackdown on opposition protests local schenkel warmly embraced international ice hockey federation chief rene foss on monday in minsk the president promised fossil a state and secure tournament fossils as he hopes the championship well unify by that and divide well the co-host latvia say that should not be rewarded with the tournament now european politicians have joined the criticism calling for the country to be stripped of hosting rights. alexander lukashenko is a big ice hockey fan he's often seen showing off his skills on the rink but look at

the cues to abusing the sport to critics a world championship in better routes would be used his image it's a process what we did today is asian focused. on the stand for example delegations from other countries will call on countries from canada where you say money from your countries will come to means it's means it's a. hit. the question. is the government's own government and its all the question from critics how can a country be allowed to host an international competition when peaceful protesters are being beaten up and thrown in jail members of the european parliament have now taken up the issue writing to the international ice hockey federation and calling for better reefs to be stripped of the tournament. should not. play a common gain his regimes which are using so much violence

also gives women children and peaceful demonstrations. the federation the i.a.e.a. jeff and its president switzerland's renny faso have so far resisted taking the tournament away from better roost they did the same when the country last hosted in 2014 even though they'd also been a crackdown on protests against. this is nice that it's not the job of sport to somehow exert political pressure on something the politician is a normally supposed to so the political system is behind the scenes officials are looking into replacement hosts france right until president of the german ice hockey federation told the i.h.s. was having quote intensive and important technical discussions he added we hope that sport can make the difference here in the role of mediator. switzerland could step in to host matches the country was supposed to hold this year's world

championship until it was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic and bettering stan might get a chance again in 2 or 3 years' time a classic compromise in the murky world where sport meets politics. and we are joined now by maximilian kline who works for athletes germany an organization that represents the interests of german athletes and is also in contact with the belarus opposition welcome to the program and thank you for joining us we know that mr lucas go told the head of the international ice hockey yesterday that politics would have nothing to do with may's world championship what do you think of that where you know i think 1st of all it's right that the i finally looks for terms of options and different host countries. but i think this is caution we are how do you look if sports should influence politics that's not

the discussion what it's all about is a human rights responsibility it is your right to do it as a small organization so there are human rights violations taking place and blows which lie in the sphere of influence of sport because human rights athletes are violated as well not only of the whole since society and therefore sporting organizations should take care of their human rights to gerges so what do you see then as the dangers perhaps you can just elaborate for us and walk us through it your viewpoint on this lucas shank oh you know if he does have this forum if he is allowed to present himself as a sports person is that dangerous. of course it is dangerous because basically a warning a while chairmanship to someone who was also a sporting official analyst the political how to for country why a waste of human rights of its own mathlete this basically gives these human rights violations a platform. the i.o.c.

for example has rightly taken correct consequences and basically banned from the international sporting world and also recommended that sporting may go down should not take place and below the io shaft should follow the i.o.c. is recommendations. what if it goes ahead anyway in belarus how do you think that players and teams should conduct themselves well being you know athletes can have transformative power they can make their own decisions i should make their own decisions but i think here is really about the responsibility of the sporting especially as we should not sort of shift the responsibility here from this floating officials of the world to the ration to be individual athletes they can make their decisions but it is really here about the sporting officials that up failing to it's here to the human rights responsibilities of sporting organisations and that is basically symptomatic where we are happy whole world of sports or

should more proactively tacker their own human rights risk was within their sphere of influence and it was the really sad. satisfying chase maximillian climb from athletes germany joining us to talk about this opposition which is growing to bellaver is co-hosting this year's ice hockey world championship starting in late may thank you so much for joining us to share your views. and more news now from that point where politics needs sports new england patriots quote coach bill belichick while not be accepting donald trump's presidential medal of freedom the country's highest civilian honor the ballot checkers a longtime friend of trump and a 6 time winning super bowl coach has decided to decline the battle after last week's each on the u.s. capitol hill chick said that he was quote flattered but that the love for his country quote outweighs the benefits of any individual or

a. quick reminder of our top story democrats have formally introduced an article of impeachment for us president obama trump charging the president with inciting insurrection it comes in the wake of the deadly riot at the u.s. capitol last week. and up next on d. w. documentary close up taking a look at the medics on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic do stay with us if you can for that i'm sara kelley in berlin thanks for watching.

it's a constant fight for life survival the coronavirus ward at the university medical center in fribourg. since the beginning of the pandemic we've been accompanying workers in the intensive care unit to show the challenges they face on a daily basis. battling the virus doctors on the front line

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get. young moroccan emigrants. they know the police will stop black. they know that the road is not a solution. they know their flights could be fatal. but going back is not an option shattered dreams starts january 8th. on t.w. . thousands of covert 1000 patients are fighting for their lives in german intensive care units. in germany half the patients who end up on respirators die and we have to remember these are human beings with families for some of these numbers are abstract maybe coronavirus 10 iris can't put themselves in someone else's shoes but

each number stands for person in these that size mesh. we've been filming the work of i.c.u. teams at freiburg university medical center since the start of the pandemic. but the cut you can't get any more air you can't speak you realize that you might die. how can we beat this virus what are the possible long term effects in germany 2nd wave many young and healthy people have caught the coronavirus unfortunately being young and healthy is no guarantee for getting a mild case. of that there was a young man 45 years old with a release of a x.x. lease is a textbook case of how someone who is young and healthy and without significant preexisting conditions can almost end up dying off.

the air ambulance arrives with a corona patient on board he's enclosed in a special protective box to prevent others getting infected during the journey to the hospital a little later the patient in his late forty's arrives at the intensive care unit. or dr vivian saltsman works the patient is already in an artificial coma and has been into baited that means he's connected to a ventilator. man who had said the patient came from a smaller hospital he had coughing and a temperature for a few days and then his condition suddenly deteriorated placed he developed severe breathing difficulties he was in debated and then transferred here. by. 6 medical workers carefully turn the patient so that he's lying face down prone

positioning is proving to be one of the most important treatments to help many people severely affected by the virus. patients have to be adequately cushion to avoid pressure sores on the face for example because they spend so many hours bed bound. after work site there knowing that that means if you lie on your back secretions collect and inflammation worsens the lungs can't heal properly our patients to lie in bed for well said turning them face down allows the rear areas of the lungs to be ventilated and to heal the patients alternate between their back and the front so that all parts of the lungs can be equally ventilated that. every day the patients are turned on their stomachs and then back again it's very work intensive for the medical staff. of the ventilator is not enough for many of the seriously ill covert $900.00 patients they would die

if they were not also attached to an artificial long the catheter channels the blood out of the body and then back into it with its twin tubes and i think it's time to get out after making a small incision the doctor pushes the catheter toward the heart using a guide wire that you know from the sort. of. it's. because. this is the e.c.m. oh the heart lung machine. it's attached by a plastic tubing and in this instance takes over the work of the lungs you can't put it where my blood flows into the machine the carbon dioxide is removed and the blood is in rich with oxygen then it's pumped back into the patient. and.

you know of course we also use it for far too long support we use it after a heart attack after resuscitation they have a wide range of medical uses but the ones just on long support here are primarily coronavirus patients we don't have many options left for really sick patients that's the last card we have a carsley. we're going to go with the 5 we have 23 e.c.m. o's in fribourg university medical center 23 that's it and currently we only have 2 that are not in use so i hope the way won't be so severe and so disruptive because this is not just about intensive care beds as such are. tested in the 1st wave of the pandemic one in 3 patients here are needed to be hooked up to an e.c.m. 0 to have a chance of survival. due to an operation to cut the therapeutic options are sobering we supply oxygen we have the e.c.m.

know that it just buys time the body the lungs have to heal themselves there is no medication to treat coronavirus. almost half of the patients who ended up in intensive care in fribourg during the 1st wave died at the beginning of march few people suspected what the medics would soon be facing the 1st cases were only detected in germany in late january. this is barbara she was one of germany's 1st coded 1000 patients she is a pediatric specialist at the university medical center her colleague consultant yohannes culp and has worked with her on many occasions. you. know stupid from the very 1st one arm when the patient arrived in intensive cache she had severe breathing difficulties otherwise she was very alert unlike some of the patients we encounter she was feverish but not at all disorientation and that

we were really struggling to get our breathing difficulties under control we gave her a lot of medication to try to control and we had to give her an awful lot of oxygen . then given the rapid progression of the onus we decided to anita times and into baytown this amount is to supply her with a very rich concentration of oxygen so what we saw she was suffering from severe lung failure. to start. barbara spent more than a week fighting for her life. she made it her ventilation tube is gone in all likelihood she is no longer infectious today's 1st test was negative she has beat the virus but it was a close call. but the situation was frightening at that moment. you can't get any air anymore. you can't speak. you realize that you might be going to die or. then i began giving instructions

with my last remaining strength about my last wishes if i don't make it. head on whatsapp. it was a nightmare. in germany's 1st wave of the covert 900 figures rose rapidly in the south of the country fribourg university medical center switched to treating only medical emergencies and patients with a new coronavirus. this is clement's the sores on his face are from the long periods of time that he has spent lying face down before contracting the virus clements was a fit man in his mid sixty's a passionate mountaineer with no preexisting conditions. vivian saltsman has been treating him for weeks his lungs were so badly affected that she's been keeping him

alive with an artificial long that supplies his blood with oxygen clemens has been attached to the machine for almost 3 weeks but the intensive care team is confident he will make it. now after 20 days they have decided that he no longer needs the e.c. a moment. they're going to remove the tubes from here growing it's a big step forward we're all really pleased. that . the e.c.u. mo is no longer needed but he still needs ventilation via the tube inserted in his trachea. that afternoon clemons gets visitors his wife but tina and his daughter have come to see him they're still not

allowed to touch because of the danger of infection. i.e. there. his eyes are half open but not focused he's only semi conscious. barbara has just received her 2nd negative test the treatment was successful the virus can no longer be detected in her body she's not infectious she has survived kovac 19. she's still weak but she's no longer getting oxygen what she doesn't realize is that the nightmare is still far from over a little later she's back on a normal hospital ward where she gets some sobering news from a lung specialist he puts her back on oxygen she's not getting enough air this.

it means i'm not independent. it's ok when i'm in the room. but it's a bit tiresome to find quite honest. if i want to go outside i have to carry this heavy bottle. and i had really been hoping that i would get taken off it soon . but i think i'll just have to resign myself to my fate she stuck. joachim loew clear and time is a long specialist covert 19 has also confronted doctors in his discipline with a completely new range of challenges. the room. for the inflammation triggered by the virus has also destroyed healthy tissue in the lawn and scars have formed. and the scars are

a defect that hamper the normal functioning of the long. and often they hinder the gaseous exchange and we want to restrict that as far as possible by suppressing the inflammation that leads to these scars. into talking. with antiinflammatories like cortisone no one knows yet what the long term consequences will be of a severe case of coronavirus as a doctor barbara is only too aware of that you know. you can't but help thinking how will i cope with every day life will i be able to live and work on warmly after this. that's the $1000000.00 question. but if i'm left with lung damage it wouldn't be so great of course. but i can't do anything about it.

back in intensive care clemons condition has barely altered. his lungs are being ventilated via a tricky ostomy he hasn't received any sedatives for some time now but he still isn't properly conscious the doctors suspect covert 19 also attacks the brain as indicators suggest. that the excess in many cases we see the brain being severely affected many patients are agitated disoriented and need lots of sleep medication if they become so disoriented during the course of the illness the brain has to be involved in the title. in the high security lab of the viral a-g. department they're studying the coronavirus there infecting cells with covert 19 so

that they can examine it more closely all of the light colored dots are infections that are spreading. under the microscope you can see alongside the blue cell nuclear lie that there are masses of red virus particles that are self replicating . such research is helping viral edges done yellow has lead and helmet hangal to know what they're up against the sars coronavirus too which is causing the current covert $1000.00 pandemic is a much more successful and unpredictable opponent than the 1st sars virus. has a corner of your weaver all i just thought we knew about coronaviruses the songs coronavirus tune is a science virus that's much more advanced than the sars virus that we were confronted with in 20022003 which had difficulties with effective transmission of the current virus manages it. exactly that it is efficiently transmitted via the air we breathe and of course that's really bad news for us. this if there is

a fuse in my 25 year career as a viral a just it's the nastiest virus i've come across because it's so unpredictable and it's becoming clear just how unpredictable when you get the flu you know you're going to get sick seriously ill if you're unlucky but there is a vaccine we can treat it sars c.o.v. 2 is quite different some people get it but don't get ill though they are infectious others die from it without it being clear why and of course it affects older people but also the audience person it's an absolutely unfair opponent but once. after being unconscious for around 6 weeks clements has come around. yeah he took a long time to really become conscious and communicate but now he is not at all

disoriented and can join in he's mostly pretty cheerful he's a fighter have he's a cyclist he wants to do all these things again he has goals i think that's very important to know what you are fighting for to stick with it. clemens has beaten the coronavirus but he keeps getting other infections mike ammonia each one is a new threat to his life. this is hoping it's a roller coaster when he got an infection again he was just lying there again i began to despair and wonder what would happen to the next bad piece of news always seems to be around the corner so i'm afraid of being too optimistic you stop wanting to engage even with the positive stuff that. clemens has been. in intensive care for more than 2 months. his constant focus getting his own life back

he has lost more than 15 kilos and most of his muscles have wasted away. he's getting high energy nutrition via a feeding tube he is fighting to recover. files about once he is in a kind of rehabilitation face at the moment with us he's doing a lot of physiotherapy he's using the pedal exercise or he's also able to get out of his chair already and can do that pretty well the situation with the artificial ventilation is getting better. slowly than. his wife but tino records every bit of progress that he makes. you think that in this is him going into his room he couldn't get up and sit down to learn at that point and this was the 1st time more than 4 weeks ago that you even recognised as.

a jury member that yes you can remember that i can remember. those who yes his gaze looked to many again through reason pursuit of him and it is a huge difference if someone has light in their eyes almost. it's really frightening when someone just looks completely blank at least i was really afraid. he wondered whether his spirit would turn and he will be back to the way he was or not it's terrifying and. barbara has been at a rehabilitation center in the black forest for almost 6 weeks now she doesn't need oxygen any more and she's fighting her way back to normality.

amazing if you saw me on the walker. here she is 7 weeks ago on a walker at the intensive care unit in freiburg when she arrived there she was at the point of suffocation. as. it was absolutely apparent to me that i would not have survived without artificial ventilation and so in principle they've given me a new lease of life and i experienced an amazing sense of gratitude the 1st 23 days i was really over the moon. it was a feeling of happiness that i think i have never experienced before it's. not me. in summer clemons to was on his way to a rehabilitation center in the black forest after more than 70 days in intensive care. before he got the coronavirus he could climb 4000 meter high mountains. now the

slightest incline taxes him. several years for most yes i can feel that i've been active. going move move move it's not my legs that are the problem it's my lungs. through. the times i asked myself what made me so vulnerable. and that means i thought that i would definitely not be affected as badly as someone with risk factors for. heart i don't have high blood pressure or diabetes no other chronic illnesses. i haven't found any answer to that. it's

easier if you bring up one leg next to the other. it really gets your thighs does or. the physical rehabilitation program has modest goals this isn't about climbing 4000 meter peaks but ensuring that clements can cope with daily life. a few weeks after completing her rehab barbara has a check up at the university medical center she has been training hard as a doctor she knows that your lungs don't recover on their own. take a big breath out breathe out out out out out. then quickly deeper deeper and quickly breathe it all out out out out out stay with it really press out early and till there's nothing left gone gone gone great. what have the hours of training

achieved disappointment. only 67 really. this would that would mean that my lung capacity has only approved by 10 percent in 8 weeks 5 of them spent working like a dog to improve my lungs. but all the more. the doctors want to take a look inside her along us because i was really in and hold your breath. are there still signs of inflammation. carrying anything. are there signs of pulmonary fibrosis scarring of the lungs covert 19 leave lasting damage in severe cases. like these cloudy areas here these very fine lines here

these don't exist in normal lungs 1st so no hard data because there haven't been any long cohort studies that would tell us whether or not these changes are likely to diminish over time or how they might develop. there are types of pulmonary fibrosis that continue to develop even when a virus has gone i can't tell from your m.r.i. at the moment. the woman. barbara performs well on the following running test but will she remain so fit. as a doctor she knows how dreadful pulmonary fibrosis can be. this is this was when he said that the 2 there is where she used to call it a apathic lung fibrosis that people can get after a severe case of influenza and at some point you end up needing a lung transplant. that's something that takes place after 10 years rather than one

. but of course its progression can come to a halt with a bit of luck is that it's much too much to call just but you can also end up. battling to get air. it's a horrible way to die. from school. in autumn the number of cases begins rising again. clemens has come to the medical center to thank the staff in florida is i'm glad i'm a visitor this time and not a patient. to suffer that really shook me off. i bet it did all your fears come flooding back down thay. clemons continues to convalesce meanwhile more and more coronavirus patients start arriving at the hospital in fribourg been freed karen's

infectious diseases department is full again just like in spring and additional normal wards have already been transformed into covert 19 more. this is this idea going are saying that several other hospitals in the area are already full so we have to brace ourselves for even more cases and the next $7.00 to $14.00 days is due to us. older age groups are now being affected and we know from our experience of the 1st wave that this will result in more hospital admissions. here at the normal coburg ward patients often require oxygen but they don't yet need artificial ventilation about all the staff can do is give oxygen inhalations and stop patients from getting additional infections. the winter weeks will be crucial ones for the hospitals the team led by an epidemiologist hio grundman is responsible for forecasting for the hospital working out how many patients will likely need to be

admitted if we don't stick to the restrictions. do. you have to see things from the point of view of the virus use a virus has a semi parasitic relationship to us and exploits our needs. the why are 6 ports the need of people to be sociable to get together to celebrate with the family with the neighbors successful viruses take advantage of this in a perfidious way. in the 1st wave relatively few people were affected in germany now the virus is almost on the present any family can be affected. it was in. the far reaching social penetration of the virus and also means that we are going to have to be more patient when it comes to fighting this virus now that it is much more widespread. i assume that

a short lockdown like the one that worked so well in april will not work again in that way and that we will have to come to terms with a longer lock down of. there are more difficult times ahead for the people working in intensive care vaccination is no quick fix to be covert 19 we're going to need greater staying power. i hope that we'll have to come around a virus pandemic under control in the 3 years and by then we will have successfully vaccinated the entire population and know that the immunity conferred by the vaccines well last several years then we consider the question of when a booster vaccine might be needed in 3 years in 3 yes many intensive care units are already at or over full capacity in fribourg they still fight to save every life in the intensive care wards are working at their limit we have to say that quite clearly we still have empty beds but every day the numbers are increasing and the

patients remain in hospital for weeks for months the beds aren't freed up just a few days. tries to do the but i don't know how but we have to manage even if the numbers rise we have the beds that we have at our disposal. and we will do our best looking after everyone. we can't really do anymore is that we have to look after the severe cases we have to we can't say we can't cope with anymore here is the cutoff point this option does not exist it gets and. we have to carry on somehow that's quite clear. and with those words philip schmidt gets to work preparing a fresh intensive care bed the next coronavirus patient is already on the way.

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