mild or even no covert symptoms at all which makes you wonder shouldn't children be higher up on the priority list in fighting the pandemic. welcome to our coverage united special i want to get johnsonville and good to have you with us and we all tend to associate old age with frailty and illness right so when it comes to prioritizing covered 900 vaccination we all say the old and vulnerable should come 1st but what about the young and vulnerable is the struggle of a family that feels abandoned by society and so there. is a loving partner to her husband where suffered from spastic paralysis and she also looks after her son felix the family could really do with some outside help but that's a risky prospect in times of covert you can feel. the

scrutineer 'd. it is very difficult for me to wait to luck because if we catch it it will be very bad for the boy and for me to. prove. the family has been living in almost complete isolation for a year catching covert would most likely be fatal for the boy and his stepfather getting vaccinated would change all of that but it's been 3 months since the vaccination rollout in germany and the family is still waiting. the key the correct yeah and the style of it out right now the pandemic clearly shows where the rights of the severely disabled are not exercised or seen at all or at which point the un disability rights convention is once again just on paper wealth of popish. felix shows us his room he suffers from chronic muscle weakness so he has to be

artificially ventilated when he sleeps his mother looks after him around the clock every night is the night shift she tells us. so how is it sleeping with the ventilator is that all right. and mostly it's difficult for him to fall asleep if he gets to sleep then it's not a problem. for the past year felix has taken all of his classes online his parents would like to have been vaccinated so he can go back to school once the lockdown has eased it would be a so-called off label vaccination because the vaccine has not been approved for children but says they can't find any support for that either as. there's no one out there who says please contact us now we will take care of it for you we have been in the circle and want. and also hopes that the needs of people

with disabilities be put in focus more. on hope i hope this interview will make us be moved visible to everyone very prepared to run with truth. until that happens the family will continue best struggle. and professor marcus kloof is director of the clinic for children and adolescents and he is dr haast clinical in this biden good to have you with us as a pediatric intensive a still critical care physician and in fact yalit just would you say that children have received enough attention to find this pandemic. so far the focus of the pandemic has been on their duly especially those older people over 80 years of age in particular risk of fatal causes and that's why the.

demick is a pandemic of the elderly let's say overall children do not have a very high risk of becoming seriously ill and that's probably the explanation for the fact that the children are not in the middle of the activities around depend in the fight against the pandemic a process worldwide so. your question. with monsanto and no children do not have received enough attention during this pandemic process yes specially now with the new variants we see a rise in infections among children but why is that. well. we do not really know what happens if our in touch with 2 and the mutations so probably. the previously introductory virus is

more or less similar to a corona virus which is more or less frequent and look show the population now of the via the mutations are something new for the immune system and that's probably one reason why the numbers are going up but it's not good honest there's not a good understanding of how how this this works so do we then know whether all children equally at risk right now are especially those with special precondition. well good news is that most of the children do not have a very high risk to to become seriously ill but. there are also complicated. some complications especially in those should in which are risk and those sort of a new bones of pre-term infants or those was underlying. diseases for example comes

under the hot deficiency or immunodeficiency is as well as those children which were treated with immunocompromised medications and in terms of hematoma corrupt ecole diseases and so on there is a relevant number of children with a high risk and one prominent. group of diseases that the down syndrome those children of very high risk falls. and fatal outcome. 2 sasco for 2 and 2 children with let's say. in one era of metabolisms or assume drums for example at your rose to rosa some of us and these children why they react differently mostly to the virus than adults the elderly with with inflammatory reactions of various organs i mean how

worried should we be about the so-called g.i. mess and i s.e.z. . yeah this implement henri multi system to some drum is. it's not very common so we do half also asians off the syndrome and hospitals especially in miles but will as well but of the muscle our overall overall than a muslim though so there is not really a mandatory it among this but at least there are some sure don't which are affected by these p.m.s. and there is an assumption but genetically to to mind. to billet he is responsible for all these cases so this means it's not random that a child a fact it's prescribed by. and genetical to tom

and assess up to the nitty gritty truth as a new fan thank you so much for your time. step by step we learn more about kobe 1000 and children and about 19 in general it's time for your questions now over to our science correspondent williams. do the different vaccines protect people from the long term effects of covert 19. many patients who contract coded 19 become what are known as as long haul or as or people who have long kovac there's currently no way to predict who that might affect although there isn't really an accepted definition for it having long coded basically means you don't return to your previous levels of health even months after sars topi to falls below

detectable levels in your body it's affected millions of people who have a wide spectrum of longer term symptoms with with chronic fatigue for example a really regular complaint there are 2 big theories for for what might be causing it one is that long it happens when the body can't clear out all of the virus or viral fragments left after infection that basically the virus is able to hide in some people somehow and then the body goes into a kind of of of trench warfare mode the 2nd hypothesis is that lone tobit is an unchecked auto immune response so so an off the rails immune system in some patients experts say it could be a combination of both but there's no doubt that for people suffering long coated symptoms the prospect of getting vaccinated must be pretty terrifying i mean could

getting the shot actually make you feel worse well although i emphasize that we still can't say anything for certain there. are a growing number of anecdotal reports that getting vaccinated appears to be actually helping at least some people with long overdue we don't know why. one small study in pure review also at least indicates that more long haul worse feel better than feel worse after been vaccinated the problem is to find out more we would have to conduct trials where so long haul or is get posted 19 back scenes and and others get placebos masquerading as covert 19 back since i don't think that's going to happen to be honest in the current climate right now i can only say that the general consensus seems to be that long haul ors should also be vaccinated

and some anecdotal reports say it might help with some things. derek williams then he'll be back on some more a few questions tomorrow that's all for now thanks for watching stacy.

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