colored powder at each other as it is tradition the festival celebrates the victory of good over evil the celebrations well though won't do very much to battle the pandemic has more than $68000.00 new cases in india have been reported in the past 24 hours watching t w news up next to talk of the special us use of. 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 19. on t w. o n e pushed all blogs are thrown out in the morgue right now climb a tree different office story. basis lifelessly went on just one week.

how much force can really do. we still have time to our ongoing. success. that subscribes like this. at 1st it seemed as if children were immune to sars copd too it was just adults who had to worry about getting sick but at least their kids were safe. that's where they. schools reopened after lock downs it became clear that children could not only carry but also spread the virus. then came the variance and with them a rapid rise of infections among younger children. but some getting seriously ill.

more children up you know admitted to hospital than before so often you virus variants making kids sikka or simply more children being infected than before. it's not pleasant i'm doing that every day oh well well well come to our coping $900.00 special i want to get jones in berlin and schools here are currently closed for the easter holidays that means kids can catch the virus there at least for the next 2 weeks but what about meeting friends or family and how big is the risk for children anyway well here's what we know so far. all of the order. is there. have to. hang out with many. kids and the

coronavirus it's supposedly harmless for them but is that true. a year after the pandemic struck hospitals are reporting an increasing number of young admissions they're suffering from the so-called pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome or pimms. worldwide doctors have seen this condition emerge weeks after a covert 1000 infection the w.h.o. keeps track of the severe illness in children and young people but says it's rare luckily children in adolescence tend to have more mild disease and even most children tend to have asymptomatic infection which means they don't have any symptoms at all. but since most children are asymptomatic it's hard to know when they're infected so the virus is transmitted easily off and it's completely undetectable some studies show. there have. been children for antibodies again. the corona virus and we found that around 6 times as many

children have had the infection as would have been expected so we do if. you. see history shows us that children definitely do get infected and that they can take the infection home with them how's it going and so far nurseries in schools haven't been seen as covert hotspots but that may be about to change virus mutations likely be 117 variant which emerged in the u.k. are far more contagious amongst children as well scientists want to apply the same strict hygiene measures to them as for adults. the same rules smaller groups social distancing hygiene ventilation should apply there to the stance just like everywhere else only because children also contribute to the spread of the infection. and because the corona virus does pose a serious threat to some children vaccines are needed pharma giant pfizer and

madonna have begun clinical studies in the us some on babies as young as 6 months but with initial results not expected before summer it will be some time before a safe vaccine is available for children. and for more i'm joined by yvonne a maldonado she's an epidemiology is an infectious disease specialist at stanford school of medicine and she joins us from palo alto in california good morning to you good to have you with us at least tell me how worried are you about the rise in infection numbers among children. yes it is a concern but we have to remember that it is still a case that world why that children do not make up a very large percentage of people who are infected with the virus for example here in the united states about 13 percent of voluntary actions are children under 18 it is true however that children can be infected they can become hospitalized and

rarely children can die from the disease so we do have to be careful and in addition as you heard before children can become infected more likely without symptoms so they can spread to other us we have to remember that all our family members must mask and distance how big a role does the so-called british variant be 117 play when it comes to children. well the b $17.00 variant is going to play a similar role in children as it will in any other age group and that is this virus is more infectious so whatever we see in fact infections in children we're going to see more maybe 30 to 50 percent more infectious ness of that fires and children as well as adults but the make them basically of those searching does it also make them sick i guess we see more children hospitalized now yet we don't know that if that's the case just for children we have seen data for the 1st here are that the

b. 117 does seem to cause more severe illness but most of those data came from adults we don't know yet about children you haven't seen enough data there right now i know that you and your colleagues a working on a code 19 maxine suitable for children how will that vaccine difficult from the ones already available for adults. well we know that fives are on the journal and johnson and johnson will be using their vaccines for children and we're going to be starting in the other few weeks to use the pfizer vaccine here at stanford and then maybe johnson and johnson after that and my journal is also so they're starting their trials the doses will be starting out with smaller doses to see if they produce any allergic reactions for example and say make sure that they're safe and if they are the dosage dosing will be increased potentially to the same level as what the adults are receiving and there's a different timeline understand for adolescents and to smaller children could you

just briefly tell us when we can expect the vaccine for adolescents and then in particular for fatah flows and perhaps even babies. yes so by interacting here in the united states received emergency approval for 16 and 17 year olds so we we imagine that for a major now and johnson and johnson there may be approval for 16 and 17 year olds for their vaccines hopefully by this fall but for younger children that is those say 122-155-2128 may take longer maybe later this fall certainly for the little ones 6 months of age 2 years we don't expect vaccine will be available all the trials will be going on this year probably won't see any at their local approvals until 2022 right i mean i know that it's a bit of a nasty question but do we actually need a vaccine for children given that the w.h.o. stresses that most children infected with the coronavirus are asymptomatic. well

you know there are 130000000. births a year and this world and we know that children are a big proportion of our family members that can go out of the house and become infected so we think that children are as important as adults and be protected for their own health as well as for prevention of transmitting this virus in households in all around the world so yes absolutely it is critical that children become vaccinated but we need the vaccines to be as safe and effective as possible and just briefly in the meantime what's your advice for worried parents. yes i think that the same advice should hold true now as it did a year ago if we know that children should be monitored for safety again and. not going out in crowds making sure that children can wear masks children over 2 years old can easily wear masks they're very safe and 2 years

above and just in scene and hand hygiene are still important and that age group as well. and they do from stanford school of medicine thank you so much thank you very much. may i ask you a question did you catch cold this winter come down with the flu no well over to derek and one of your questions now. what happened with flu in the 2021 winter season. as a huge fear going into this winter in the northern hemisphere was potentially having to deal with with waves of coded and flu at the same time this sort of dreaded twin demick that would put health care systems under even more pressure and and one of the most positive things you can say about how things actually developed is that those fears never materialized in fact

a flu infections worldwide have fallen so far during the pandemic that it's kind of hard to find the right adjective to describe the trend it's staggering maybe look at this graphic on the topic from the w.h.o. for a minute i'm on the left hand side you see the numbers of confirmed cases of flu back in early 2020 when those lockdowns happened everywhere back in march and april the numbers nosedive and they've remained at truly historic lows ever since most experts think this dramatic drop is due largely to measures like mask wear and and social distancing implemented during the pandemic but i can hear you saying well if those measures worked so well against flu viruses why have they proven so much less effective against sars kovi to at least part of the reason could be that influenza viruses were already endemic on

a global scale sort of migrating if you can really use that term of the virus between the northern and southern hemispheres and in a regular winter season rhythm so when killed at 19 hit a year ago lots of people had some immunity to the flu. because they've had it fairly recently then another significant slice of the population has since acquired some immunity from flu vaccines many scientists if the arise that that throwing social distancing and frequent hand washing and masks into that mix possibly put flu viruses over a critical transmission threshold one where they they simply can't spread effectively but even today relatively few people globally have acquired any protection from sars kopi to do infection or vaccination so it can spread effectively at least that's the working hypothesis

and a significant turnaround for the country which at one point had the highest death rate in the wilts. the united kingdom says it's already administered at least one dose of its coded vaccine to over 30000000 people that's close to 60 percent of the adult population and we leave you with these pictures thanks for watching. sex as a culture. in my allowed to love. one sex mean to me. and who else does it in fact besides me. in the fight over sexual morality closer to the 1st. t.w. . the latest trend in. the loading

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thoughts the great books of the 20th century. the present day hoaxes. manufacturing ignorance starts may 3rd. in poland a bitter debate is raging over the issue of sexuality. because i will not allow aggressive sex education into our schools why not leave the child in motion no government can take away our right to sex education and our right to house they are here home was the sex education of young poles as at stake sexual minorities are under threat. of homosex so i use she does not share trained

homosexuals are often involved and pedophile excesses i don't feel scared. but pride events there are increasing outbreaks of violence what we're experiencing is not only a fight for young people it's about the health and safety of all of us. foresaw the winter of 21900. between your question of i was about to finish school it's an area which is meant to prepare her for adult life. for victoria this also includes sex education. there is practically no sex education in poland and the

educational work done by n.g.o.s is about to be banned this is threatening young people because they simply don't get the knowledge that they need. yet. so that. the top of your list together with her parents her 12 year old sister olivia and their dog in the north of warsaw. victoria's mother was the one who told her the facts of life. sex education in school is optional in poland and is steeped in the views of the catholic church. here from york but we're going to come to that i remember how contraception methods were taught in school. guess what was the best method of contraception the menstrual calendar of course 100 percent

effective yes and look how many girls got pregnant in your class. don't ask in my high school. nobody showed us how to put on a condom either but thank god there were instructions and a packet of directs you said you will see yesteryear. victorio sister olivia is in the 5th grade and attends the sex education classes organized by the state. the optional subject is called preparation for family life and is offered from the 4th grade upwards. the school books which are officially allowed mostly concentrate on the teaching of catholic sexual values no masturbation no homosexuality had no sex outside of relationships usually when someone has driven only by their emotions and sexual desires then he or she is acting against their own happiness so that means if you have sex because you enjoy

it you're automatically a bad person and acting against your own happiness unbelievable the teaching book is only about preparation for marriage and not having sex i think it's disgraceful because it's not up to anyone else when i'm allowed to have sex. since the sex education classes didn't have the answers to her questions she asked for a book which has been creating a stir since it appeared in poland. sex ed p l offers teenagers information on sex that they can't find in the usual school books but everything is described here from the structure of a penis to the female body and all types of contraception that see. a lot of it is when the fish fresh air i think it's good that i know these things.

anyone and that's age i will be pat's. since the end of $21009.00. 100. 80. s. this building up against the draft bill. up to now schools have been able to act on their own initiative and invite n.g.o.s in to give liberal sex education workshops. the law is threatening to overturn this. supermodel on your group it is on the front line of the demonstrations of the night now that i do not see now no government can take away our rights to sex education and all right to health. he is thinking about them. for many youngsters the

supermodel is an idol for others she's a trouble maker. started the legal initiative with a petition that's already been signed by over 260000 poles. when and whether the law will come into force it's not clear. jeta job ski hopes for speedy success because it disturbs him that sex is spoken about so openly in the liberal sex education classes for poland schools. all. the. sex education has to take place in a safe environment. that's why parents are the best suited to it.

such issues do not belong in school will shine up pick them up. the father of 3 set up the foundation pro-rata life a group of radical anti-abortionist. for 20 years he has fought against anything that could endanger the catholic nuclear family his latest enemy is liberal sex education. he wants to outlaw the work of n.g.o.s offering sex education in accordance with w.h.o. standards there is one. of those on dogma. these so-called n.g.o.s send young people into our schools and claim that they are working on prevention. but in truth they are telling the children that masturbation is ok. and that sexual intercourse is fine irrespective of age as long as the partner agrees. that is like encouraging children to go into

prostitution. jet foundation often publishes leaflets condemning the sex education and other in your state's. worship. here. i have a guide for protecting children from pedophiles. we describe the sex education excesses of other countries. here we have some photos from a sex education book for 5 year olds in germany. as a concept for our brochure we show the consequences of such sex education yes. it is that children are exposed to the danger of pedophilia. and this is the sex education the l.g.b. t.

lobby wants to introduce in our schools. believes that the portrayal of sexual acts and teaching books will drive children into the hands of pedophiles equates with homosexuals. in a village of 1500 in the east of poland is one of the around 100 places which have declared themselves an l g b t free zone since 21000. this is where. lives. also on the line contrasts for our. for a while now i felt a kind of a version towards me that people don't want to talk to me that they look away or look at me strangely. when one of her former teachers in the village found out that i was gay. started getting mail from her regularly.

when i wanted to cut some of the so i think my teacher sent me all these links to radium area and studies about homosexuality they were always about how you can be healed but it's a scene in that you're not allowed to live like that. let's hear ignored her teacher's attempts to convert her. the 19 year old lives with her parents and 2 brothers they didn't want to be filmed or say anything about her coming out. if i remember that i cried a lot although i rarely cry i tried to tell myself that it's impossible that i will

be straight and just have to wait until it's all over but that article shows a take that's going to focus into. the 1st person she told was her mother will e.c.s. closest to and who supports her in everything. unlike her father and right wing conservative brother. still not that the law only come and go we avoid the issue like the devil avoids holy water we can talk about everything but this part of my life is to be reconciled with. the elites here found support in the l.g.b. t.q. scene and learn to be open about her sexuality. this can be dangerous. she. had gay pride and bialystok last year she experienced homophobic hatred at close quarters. of them

spoke of i experienced awful trauma and be honest when i hear noises from back then tears come into my eyes and i get a shiver down my spine. was the. one it was the 1st time i experienced such physical violence. around 800 participants of a gay pride parade were bombarded with stones and fireworks but the police just barely managed to stop things from getting worse. and. that and the the. climate of fear and it isn't just outrage hooligans and nationalists whipping it up but politicians and the church too. there are no legal consequences of

elites he is a village being in a so-called free zone but it does mean a targeted exclusion of sexual minorities. in the capital warsaw which has a gay deputy mayor this would still be unthinkable. victoria's on her way to a pantani group conference when invited into schools the ngo carries out sex education workshops but nobody knows how much longer this will still be possible. we toria has been asked to report from a teenager's perspective thank you you're welcome thing. all of them is wonderful to hear activists and sex educators have come to the conference from all over poland on stage be tory explains why she wants to get involved with the play of the course so we're all the subject has interested me

since i was in 4th grade and i was also shocked at how bad the sex education was the mindset. of pele says. that it's not a good time to be tory is great idol has also flown in from new york. the supermodel published the book sex as an alternative to poland school books. on the day off to the draft bill was 1st read in parliament the book was number one on the bestseller lists we all know that it was funny how you found his people panicked because they thought the book would be banned. they ran into the shops and bought 567 cup ace. it's better to have negative p.r. the nun that so. many many thanks to all of you.

after the panel discussion the 2 women talk about their experiences. don't be thought. i could learn a lot from victoria but. when she was speaking on the panel i was really amazed how smartly and confidently she speaks. in some believe will that she is still at school. sex education has a huge influence on our openness it helps us to understand ourselves and other people better and to stay healthy. i think without sex education a country cannot be equal and tolerance. to mess and you can't see sex in one.

case i think it was also. that there are no real big offers victoria a job in the social media team of her campaign. but if the draft bill comes into force initiatives like on yahoo picks sex ed will struggle in the future. also how. to find new ways of campaigning for more sex education. was. a is where sex educators such as all are dual us in our new york will be directly affected. the 2 have been offering progressive sex education in schools and poland's 3rd largest city for 10 years this could be over soon this law means that anyone who talks to minors about sexuality could be in danger because any conversation could be interpreted as persuading the minors to engage in sex.

they're not the only ones affected by the law psychologists or doctors would be impacted to. issues that if this law comes into force in its current form or an even stricter version people like us could be threatened with up to 3 years in prison for me personally that means that i will no longer offer any more sex education to those under 18. both of the sex educators are getting fewer and fewer inquiries many head teachers are already uncertain. but their sex education is available online they regularly produce videos for their you tube channel that is good if you don't you know. that this is the thought of the school ok let's go. with a greeting writes thank you. yes just say hello today we're going to answer

all of your questions something like that ok. welcome to add you 6 q. and a video with onion and. jim and unions in the me today is all about vibrators and orgasms. and we're going to talk about female ejaculate you want to. talk about love because since we know a lot about 6 you have your doubts about whether we understand love. great well done a. lot of this is. for their video but 2 of them also carry out a survey in the pedestrian zone of. the robot hello can you tell us what is your definition of love you watched.

can you do love and sex always belong together. unfortunately not sex is an important part of our life and you can definitely separate the 2. but almost no you didn't tell me what. can you tell us what is your definition of love this is love. i just tried to do is do you think that now of and sex always belong together. this is because of us. i think so sex is an important part of relationships. and it's better if both parts work well live aren't really here that can happen i've been here 40 today or it's not about loving a man or a woman but about loving a person. with my daughter is very tolerant love is for everybody even when men love men or women love women and. the point that politicians tell us that we're from the backwoods and we shouldn't

talk about it or unsettled people with the issue of sexuality. but the average person on the street falls in love starts a relationship and of course they have sex. and they want to have good sex and i think that we poles are much less afraid of the issue of sex than people famous at us which. is the majority of the polish population really more liberal in the way or the conservative people like madea's job ski think. he and his fellow campaigners are driving around polish towns in this van rallying against sex education and the l g b t q community. before we have to put this goes on the board members. i have the impression that our campaign is having an effect. there's less and less resistance and more people are showing their support just because we all playful but. there are always some who don't like it.

on the van it says what does the l g b t lobby want to teach our children. the timeshares dollar. we want to show the parents the truth. and what is being trivialized by the mass media this is only damaging our children like not from pics of the g.g. or us. here these quotations on the van show the standards of sex education in europe. 4 year olds are being encouraged to masturbate and 6 year olds to agree to sex school 9 year olds are being encouraged to have sex. through the polish people have no idea what is really happening. to him.

this isn't in the w.h.o. guidelines for sex education that money is just he claims to be referring to. from. an early september elites who travels to help with other activists a small town in the so-called l g b t free zone. they want to put a stop to the prejudice which prevails there. but. they want to show people that the community is neither a threat nor abnormal but the mission is not without danger. until yesterday i was pretty calm because i didn't think there would be any particular groups who could harm us but then i spoke to

a friend who knows the region well and he said that there is a right wing group of hooligans in the area who would be sure to seek a sounds they are ultra right wing hooligans we're always afraid with everything we do. motivates us to if i went to fraid i wouldn't be active. they reach down and their buses immediately accompanied by a police escort towards the marketplace. those are the guys. and of a heart i don't know i can only see their noses. q friendly initiatives are an absolute exception here and only possible with massive police protection. around 60 police officers will protect and or group today. was. this is

the best spot for the tables on the sort of. things that we always anticipate some kind of counter demonstration or aggressive reactions. that's why we are in constant contact with the police just. under the skeptical eyes of the local residents the 1st curious visitors approach the stand. by talking to the local citizens the group want to dispel the government's allegations that the l g b t q community is an attack on polish values. their message is that love is love. can we buy these bags tell us that. you can take them with you and carry them with pride i will use them for shopping super we're pretty happy about that.

the that was in my head there is always the thought and a sense of guilt that this person could get beat not just for carrying my rainbow bag these things do happen unfortunately. but ultimately. a lot of young people come to visit the stand. it's brave of them because especially in small towns the initiatives are under very close observation. 3 streets away their actions could be punished or yes them coming up would you i really admire the fact that they have dared to come out and show themselves here was was just a little flash in the film the 1st i was hearing the was getting loaded it was just scared was scared because loads l g b t people from these places often don't even know about each other that's why we

come here to encourage them and to give them hope for a better future so they can have solidarity together we want to show them that we are referee where and we are real people to. most of the residents avoid the camera team. meet the few who are willing to speak are in support of the initiative . are they going to feed your kids yet. it's ridiculous that there is such a thing as a free zones. we should be ashamed that such a thing exists as the people who look what we hope. that after around 4 hours they pack up their stand. she has one year. you can see how important these campaigns are although we are tired we are motivated to carry on the i have a place. to. be tory

has finished all her school leaving exams and moved into her own flat 2 months ago her 13 year old sister olivia visits her regularly. so are you already thinking about boys and relationships we're not yet ready. i'm still single. well but i'm wishing for a perfect boy or a bunch of them in the queue the perfect. working course not just the 1st boy who comes along but one with prospects ok ok good. i'm still too young to have a boyfriend and be making out. some of the things. after her social media chopping on your rubik sex education campaign 18 year old victoria has new goals she wants to go into politics and bring about long term change in her

country. i dream of a poland where everyone can feel safe. that every person who is growing up has given knowledge about their own body. that everyone knows how to use contraception . but with our government now that is not going to happen. things will only change when our generation comes to power. because we have quite different views from our parents and grandparents but often the most of. them there's going. to get their special get called here. whether the bill against liberal sex education will come into force is still uncertain. 2 polish youth are hoping that their protests will be a success this time. the

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