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information on the crown of virus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast you can get it wherever you can get your podcast you can also find us at twitter dot com slash science. hungry easy easing it's low but doctors as sounding the alarm death rates are among the highest in the world still stores are reopening with the government praising its vaccination campaign. at the same time as batting journalists from hospitals. coronavirus wards a feeling to capacity but that's not the message the state wants to broke up. like it or not the 3rd wave he's hitting. hungry has the highest. number of people

vaccinated in europe and one of the highest covered related death rates while wide relative to its population health care workers say restrictions should have been in place sooner and should stay in place longer access to hunger in hospitals for independent media to verify what's going on is almost impossible. one doctor who dared to speak on camera about the situation inside a correspondent funny reports soldiers money for people checking into his hospital treating patients when we start to film the building go there and do your t.v. thing over there they ask us to film the parking lot according to staff inside the hospital is that capacity one doctor has to take care of 10 patients at all is in short supply these are just some of the claims for hearing from inside the hospital from a doctor but we cannot verify these claims as all story board independent media

from entering that doctor is. we meet him after his shift 120 hour working wreaks the average now he says but the government says everything is under control . i mean we've heard a lot from the prime minister that those who get sick shouldn't worry that they will be cured that we have extra medical staff but where are they every day we're left wondering what to do we not have time for today what did i forget. that most of his colleagues don't want to talk in public because they're worried about repercussions. we need to reach the people not to create panic but to say people this is what this is about and this is why you need to follow the rules. in an open letter to the government a large number of journalists requested access to hospitals. prime minister viktor orban responded in a televised interview. with now most of this is not the time to go inside hospitals and produce bogus videos and fake news out he took a job. is

a photo journalist he too would like to show what's happening in hungary right now . stop filming the hospital it's a public space or it's a very common situation says martin. sam had a share of r.t. . this it takes the people who want to know the real situation inside the hospitals . and we know that more than 300 people died today. o'keefe uneasy it's hard to tell the story behind those numbers. meanwhile many young people in hungary are starting to shed their masks without knowing what's really going on in hungary's hospitals to them it might seem as if the pandemic is already over. to shine a light on the situation in hungary to what you know secret joins us she's a senior researcher at the center for social sciences in budapest is it time to be

easing restrictions or is the crisis only getting worse. well my view is that the crisis. in hungary we have. heard. so. why if i can jump in there when the government's doing so well with its vaccination drive. effect with that's the other thing we have a very high like summation of 8 of the same time he votes get into the hospital they they are in the really terrible situation current say homes are 80 and these maybe 2 to speed faster as i would say. one of them as.

the. is that the public institution. has been moved. as independent as in stuff in 2017 and since it has seen under. control this means that we are not getting enough information and at 1st i cannot really tell though their ideas their expertise into this the sum so far is because the citizens are taken by the pope and the other if you may be the center of cuts to the house expenditure in hungary recently not only yourself but farsi. under the or by governments and the 3rd was is the motto of my great. care stuff from hungary and in the fast the a. how is the situation with the hospitals on the military why

is that and what not affecting the situation. but yeah because i have been put under military rule the other the other assess the situation and this means that there is a side effect all through. by that public because that is always control over the course and also that they can must. expect their opinions in the media really and the media is not let into hospitals this was not going. to ace and you know how people are here or the photos or the stars and nurses are doing an amazing top. but it limits the information that the of the we and the media make that as best you learning whatever the situation may be.

we don't offer from a cell usually what's best for the citizens what's the situation like a regular hungary and i believe this is one of the only countries in the world to refuse any sort of extension of unemployment benefits in this pandemic. yes to fund them make us when no does not only have tests related consequences but also really severe social consequences so in hungary disliking other parts of the word many people hundreds of thousands of less. but i suppose other countries including our fellow centuries european countries in hungary no accents and ringback so the unemployment benefits the me we lost. this was the we s. that we in the developed 1st before that and then may with 3 months of

a must must the moment like months inference benefit that means that after 3 months as you can or cannot face some sofa less this at a very low and mom and in general most of the posts come up. people are not ready for that hole in the state system so they are left without any properly assess. when they are low over unemployed and this. rate of before especially those who were in and best are in a certain facts or events on and so forth i also believe the government used the crisis to push through a motion see measures to make life harder for the l g b t community. you know some of the m.o. since the measures have not much to do with coffee itself but rather the

government's political incense and through. constant basham measures including. the best. think of 1st those who get out and this is to come for gay couples. and the other one is. that sexual people over to change their sex and their ids with the game does not pass. anything with up on them but rather an ideology that's not the government . to. celebrate. it will have to look at that the hijab she cried on the latest developments in the past thank you very much. ok. on the topic of mass vaccination campaigns a mutation is his our very own dairy williams with today's real question.

is there a link between mass vaccination and mutation of the virus. like other pathogens sars kovi to mutates constantly and vaccines do have an impact on its evolution but a less direct one than for example a theoretical antiviral treatment because the 2 work in different ways drugs work by wiping out an active infection while vaccines work by preventing them from occurring in the 1st place wiping out an existing infection with a medicine applies a kind of spore earth selection pressure the only pathogens that survive are those like these with mutations that make them resistant to the medicine and only

they go on to spawn the next generation that's why drug resistance is such a common problem nowadays because we put pathogens under massive pressure to evolve quickly in a very particular direction which is to grow resistant to a medication by deploying vaccines on a wide scale we're also having an impact on virus evolution but a more subtle one by making a lot of people resistant to infection we can drastically reduce opportunities for a virus to spread so we're also upping the selection pressure but in a different way when the supply of potential hosts grows limited because many people are vaccinated viruses that have for example mutate. added to be more infectious they'll have a clear advantage and will on average infect more people that's why more infectious

variants can supplant less infectious ancestral ones over time and there are indications that this is happening in many places now with sars kovi 2. thanks for watching they say and see you again so. who's by our side when life comes to an. corona has drastically changed death rituals. how are people coping with it. is it possible to die with dignity while practicing social distancing. we take a look coronavirus and its victims close up. next on d w. eco india. in some payments.

but not all people for lawn the dog whisperer thing because it was a put on for exploitation indigo has since become a symbol of sustainability and success thanks to a project at the edge of the himalayas. in 60 minutes on d w. 19 . their story their very own personal trauma. people took to the catastrophe remember.

and they share private footage with us that has never been seen before. back to channel all sorts of people 20 minutes on d w. what about the. mind i wasn't there when she died and she was probably all alone in a dark hospital room and then her life was suddenly over. the september i go by and i was crying because i was thinking where is the humanity where's the dignity in this pushing this patient into this a back. the

1st day above it's unbelievable to see your partner lying or the energy in her body and again couple. of i thought there's so much i want to do i have dreams i want to live. spotlight will just carry on the living need us to lose yeah you can't die along with every patient who doesn't make it through with it that's how it is so. if. it. was a funeral during the cope at 19 pandemic a small group of mourners are keeping their distance there are no hugs no comforting of others just a final memory. my dad had

a fall on christmas eve at night just as he broke his leg and was taken to hospital by the emergency doctor it's are they tested him and he was positive for city. on dying so he was put on the covert unit. and then things got really hard up to 3 of the she. offered rob died 11 days later without his family being able to see or speak to him again. he had been married for 64 years had children and grandchildren a family man alone in a hospital room in 4 times as his life ended. up for so i tried to talk to the nurses to a doctor but they kept saying oh it's a holiday there's no one here someone will be in touch it was really difficult so i thought ok and the next day i called and kept calling then suddenly i got a call from my brother that the hospital had called him to see. that her dad had

died. but if i feel guilty because i should have just done it for the family but i didn't manage to reach them and i keep picturing him all alone in his room. i was being too trusting too considerate to nice fits whenever i called they'd say there's a staff change over where there is no doctor here right now at 6 i'd say no problem i'll call back and that was the problem i should have been more assertive but now it's too late that. we only tie our own death once what we experienced out of our loved ones over and over the feelings of guilt failure and helplessness have all grown during this pandemic. was the man you mentioned is actually a lot of people are experiencing these feelings of guilt. and i try to free them of these feelings to encourage them to look at what they heard

when the person was a life of the relationship they had to not to put so much emphasis on those final days but it's hard as i've. those final days are thomas schneider's daily work he runs an intensive care unit in simpson bird in southern brandenburg one of germany's covert 1000 hot spot here he needs to take a few deep breaths breathing is the your voluntary process that keeps us all alive he has lost many patients the pandemic overwhelmed everyone here including him very little of what we talk about death rates death statistics or seeing a 1000 deaths a day. but even i can put it in perspective yes in a 24 hour shift i witness 10 deaths that is my reality here that is what is really happening here what's real. but we can't trans. this reality to people outside just

by quoting numbers. tapering off and then out of this my cold is spilling the can miss frances the most difficult thing for me what has really changed is that we go to the patients fully covered in protective clothing to accompany them as they die because we can't really touch them there's no skin contact or holding their hand or i really miss that i would never have expected it . so far so good to. know very well. said ina pingo can't count how many people she has seen die. of the depth the coffee is hot ok. on the clinic has been pushed to the limit for months now relatives are not allowed to come close to the highly contagious patients even if it is the last chance to see them before

they don't work there is. nothing to give my best as nurses we do our best to stand in for the relatives but what's missing is a few personal words what we can't do that because we haven't known the patients for years or some of the relatives tell their patients that it's ok for them to go . lekan say that too but of course the patients feel the difference when we say it was that when their relatives say it it really tells them they collect go to last and it's. up to now the team has had to keep functioning in an emergency situation and no one knows how much longer it will last it's an extreme experience which has brought the team closer together. with your many of the emotions which had to break out erupted here in the unit the shots of it was something we had never experienced before with this i think every

member of staff here has broken down and cried in the corridor or at least once taught. for selena pink to there was a moment in the pandemic that changed everything for her. one spot us asked the pups and it was the 1st patient who died who i had to put into a body bag. because. that was really awful for. me miss september i was crying because i was thinking where is the humanity in this where is the dignity of this putting the patient into this bag is it so they just thought it was a feeling where i thought no this is not why i became a nurse something like it was too close to the. not always being able to save people's lives is not unusual for doctors and nurses it is part of everyday life in the intensive care unit but the corona virus has

opened a new dimension does it towards what was thought there was this situation where you had to think about calling relatives 10 times within 24 hours to tell them that somebody had died it was. so important writing 10 death certificates it's going to they all have the same diagnosis or for the same on the 8th or 9th call to the family you start to doubt your ability to deliver the news with the kind of empathy you'd like to have the supreme being with us government. zarb and his work involves trying to see the light in dark times as a funeral director grief therapist she prioritizes self-determined dying and grieving she worries about how dying has changed with the coronavirus. ending is this

a birth or death has become much lonely yes i think that's what hurts people the most not just those who are dying but also they loved ones that they can't say goodbye because they can't have physical contact that the visiting rules are so strict that's making dying even now difficult at zarb has a video blog about death and mourning for which she produces films which she calls coffin stories. she says her aim is to build bridges. as a minister when i get the news that someone is dying then at 1st it's just something in my head from the way from my head to my heart is so much longer than just the distance between my hands it can be very helpful and comforting to really feel it to grow. but to really grasp it you have to be close by which the rules of the pandemic do not allow.

in berlin. experience that 1st hand when the virus claimed his mother's life. i took 4 weeks off from everything i was written off sick and then i just spent 4 weeks grieving lost in my thoughts. i thought about my mom and about the finite nature of life and this. is why i'm still i wasn't there when she died. she was probably all alone in a dark hospital room and then her life was suddenly over that's not how anyone wants to leave this world and live it's a loss and. i kept thinking how could she have caught the virus and she never left the care home she was in her wheelchair or in bed she was always on the same floor and i thought what

if she caught it from me i had these thoughts what if i in fact that her and what i always went really close to her although i was wearing a mask when i put my hand in front of my mouth and talked to her as best i could i'd never be able to forgive myself i couldn't. play paul never displayed any covert 19 symptoms but back then he was never tested the possibility of being responsible for his mother's death still haunts him as does the thought of her lonely and anonymous death just a statistic in the pen demick his mother. she died on october 31st and on the 1st of november i heard the statistics. i don't recall the numbers exactly but at the end there was a one and i thought that number one of the end that's my mom before.

he wasn't allowed into the hospital where she died so he couldn't be at her side he could only say goodbye at her grief. i decided to write her a letter and i put the letter into were great for me that was a ritual a way of saying goodbye. now he visits her grave regularly. but i haven't processed my grief yet it's been snowing for me it's all very new for me and it is taking a long time. i come here once a week even if it's only for 10 minutes or so and for that i think the cemetery here is beautiful but i live nearby i often go shopping in the market hall nearby and i think this is the right place for her i can wave at her when i go past the room.

here in this care how. much gift in southern germany people have not process their grief either normally it's an open care home but today its core doors are deserted 17 residents died at the start of the pandemic kanya laura and her husband were infected he did not survive. the seizure i was so see it all happened so fast suck all of a sudden he was gone i couldn't do anything about it makes a big mark and i couldn't really say goodbye to him he'd already been moved on. and then a nurse called. me and told me that he was on a ventilator but he didn't want to go and what did i think of that in those nations so i said well if he's fighting it that he doesn't want it with all finished. go. 50 years abruptly ended without comfort without consolation without

human contact just for i didn't like it but it's not in our hands full why. no one was allowed to enter or needs a home presidential unit one was turned into an isolation ward too many patients were infected the bed vacated by one of doors husband was needed again immediately contact say he saw that's really how it happened the husband died in hospital and i had to tell the news of his death after it most and that same afternoon we had to move 3 of the residents to. basically on the isolation ward fully packed it was a truly awful moment i just want guns guns should a moment. for weeks on end the people in the home and to find a way to manage between functioning and grieving. that involve the we

weren't expecting it at all and want to hide it was in our residential community and it hit us like a tornado talaga sock it's my we were powerless to stop it i did mock it was we had all the protective measures we followed all the rules but still so many of our residents caught it had so where so many deaths it was very hard for us this early last for us yeah sure hop back. no one was expecting this young woman's death either she had no underlying health conditions the funeral took place among her closest family members but it was just a click away which is how she would have wanted it. return your karma a young influencer from hamburg lived in and for social networks she addressed her last public words full of hope to her fans and followers. whoever is with me

knows no grief whoever knows we can only laugh and forget their troubles at least for a short while with god's help i will get through this. almost 2 weeks later britannia died of covert 19 she was just 29 her life was snatched from her says her fiance man who they had plans they wanted to celebrate their wedding they had their lives ahead of them. let's at least i could stand enough come the season at the end when i got the news that she hadn't made it off that i was allowed to go and see her to say goodbye but. on the other says. on 1st day of oh it's really unbelievable to see your partner lying or know with no energy in her body. and the game kind of

busts on for i wouldn't wish that on anyone interest me mountain. man who wishes he could have held her hand once more when she was still alive that he could have been by her side now he has friends and his faith to give him strength in his time of grief or feel 5 beaten. for showing us. together. to put in every free minute we find we pray for. and for us that we will stay side . but she's still with us in all forms and that makes the loss a little easier for us to pay phones off for. the patients admitted to the co but intensive care unit in this stuttgart hospital are getting younger we were often here in the 1st wave when most of the patients were over 80 but now many are around 65 and often have spent weeks here what. i show you jerk heads the units nursing staff at the moment her patients can only sense the

empathy she feels for them. toilets had recently a patient said to me she must you know you do so much for me but if i met you on the street i wouldn't recognize you it's with finished and that it upsets me that i wouldn't recognize you as i wouldn't even be able to think you know because i can see your face shop of privacy so even now imagine how that is for the patient they have to trust you although they can't see your face but often i should knows nothing about her patients either because they are in a coma and their relatives are not allowed to visit them elizabeth has been here since mid december after weeks in a coma she is fighting her way back to life michael my colleague will open up the speaking valve here and then you can communicate with us because community are you

going to talk about you know hello everyone. in her hearing her speak means a lot to her family was there you know it's always seems easy and fun and they've been there for me since the beginning. but no one is allowed to come in come in. otherwise they'd be here every day just that said see right here oh yes it does how does it have you been able to talk with your family yes we've already spoken on the phone i can do that clownish how was it should lovely really really lovely. and i bond to be back with them soon. so it's patients like elizabeth to give i sure hope this fandom ache has been the biggest challenge of her professional life the 49 year old is a marathon runner so she's used to the long home but her view of life has changed.

quite a bit so that makes you really pensive part of who are aware of how fragile it is humans are very fragile so you do all you can instill you lose the saudis or. the code death is a part of life then we just carry on small mind for fight on and leave the living need us to us who can die along with everything and who doesn't make it too that's how it is so. while we were following i shared work a 63 year old died on the 18 bed unit i sure had an admitted her a few days earlier still optimistic about beating the virus. family counselor class has invited the relatives to bid farewell. we'll ask him if death is a lonely one. this distrust of hearts yet we don't know what the patients

are really aware of we just don't know and they get medication to calm them down to stop the pain and the breathing difficulties. once a bizarre we say that this shuts down their sense of what's around them. there is often what we don't know what they really feel most vocal at that it's good for the maybe they sense something on a higher level than we know ones so i really don't know if it's lonely or as i just . amid all the darkness hospital chaplain chiffon pfeiffer has to give the people comfort and support he finds it in his face. but the 57 year old knows that's not true of everyone some cases have affected him especially deeply. it's been 4 and. i was called into the intensive care units before christmas by a young woman 35 years old and seriously ill with coziest systolic our current bank over ignorance in simmers can often see she wanted to have

a blessing. has always entering her room the woman still had her phone in hand she was just saying goodbye to her husband so i knew she was about to be sedated because she would be put on a ventilator and would no longer be conscious she didn't know whether she would survive it was autonomous. or start on the top this i stood next to her and heard the telephone call to us it was heartbreaking i'm sleep enough it is normal. passage to matter what i've heard into the prayer and gave the blessings to both her and her husband live and the tears were rolling down her face and slate as if then it's all in very fast she was sedated and put on a ventilator it was very affecting. the patient survived but as a cleric vi for knows how important farewells are for the grieving process it's an issue which occupies him are not currently not everyone is willing to go through

with this pain at the end. i also hear some people say my mother is dying can you come and give her last rites thing and then i say please come and say goodbye to her and i say no i can't do that because of the coronavirus of that i feel they sometimes use it as an excuse that worries me because i wonder how they will green evolve to it's if they've missed this chance it's really important to say goodbye to the person you love someone who's had such an impact on your life it's a name and. stephon goal survived coated but only just now he's fighting for every breath in physio therapy after $108.00 days in the i.c.u. in a clinic in munich his lung is seriously damaged. one is if i go into a minute and you really feel your limits it's a huge problem just to climb the stairs and afterwards i feel like i have to read them more air than can possibly fit into my bloodstream because all these

interfaces have been badly damaged by the virus it was going through the shittiest . would do nothing to take them recently they did a c.t. scan and the radiologist said your lung doesn't look good there are some parts missing or holes as he put it and that i should think about getting a transplant we want to transplant or to. stefan goal is still haunted by his coma dreams his late mother but also strangers appeared to him in that world between my life and death. if you wish does it i saw myself on the wire. there was no t.v. but i saw what they were doing to me with about a 10 minute time delay and i thought to myself if you can still see this then you're not dead yet you can see what they're doing to you your mom. the 64 year old's life is not like it was before his illness his lungs kidneys and heart have

all suffered damage he was in an artificial coma for over 2 months and underwent 3 into the nation's police and we don't know when i woke up out of my coma doctors and nurses came from all over to see me they were glad i was alive so. if i feel a great sense of belonging to this country because they really look after the people who live here all i can say is it's brilliant if i were in england or america i'd probably be either dead or totally broke by now. patients like stefan gold who survive the virus are a ray of hope for hospital staff it helps to see that their work is worthwhile in spite of all the deaths. oh hello dr. thanks for everything great to see you super i'm feeling much better. it's wonderful to see you standing here in front of us without any kind of help. the

rest will follow 2 there is still dynamic yes there is still dynamic left. 76 days in a coma was he afraid of dying. and i know. that i thought there's so much i still want to do i still have dreams i want to live up to though i never thought that i'd give up i wanted to see my children grow up and i have other dreams. fungal made it but so far nearly 80000 other people in germany didn't so many good guys in times of social distancing what can relatives do if they're not all now to go. and see the deceased is our events has produced a video reconstructing scenes with a friend. should i. i would encourage everyone to ask the nurses to take. off a lock of hair or take a fingerprint and you can do that with an end pad and a sheet of paper it doesn't take too much time i.

have. a you have something to look at something to touch to feel that someone's dog. thinks it's time for us to deal more openly with death. when i really wish is that along with all the tragedy the pandemic has brought us maybe we can spot a few opportunities for instance the chance to ask how we want to say goodbye what is important what maybe we should bring the deceased a little closer to us because we realize now how important it is to say goodbye with all of our senses that it's time for a discussion about this that's what i wish. to pandemic as an

opportunity to talk about the end of life coburg 19 has changed how we die and it will leave its mark for a long time to come. eco

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