oh oh. oh oh. then respects. it's tough being a teenager at the best of times during the pandemic it's so much worse home schooling no hanging out with friends massive stress all because of coke at 19 in fact more and more young people are getting infected in germany the number of cases among teens rose 11 percent adolescents have until recently been tested less because they aren't as impacted by the virus but they could be asymptomatic carriers recent outbreaks have been linked to them spreading the virus. doctors say

vaccinations for kids are key to achieve the levels of immunity we need in our community. welcome to our covert 19 special i want to get jones and millions of us i'm still waiting for my shot now the good news is worldwide more than a 1000000000 doses have by now been administered and teenagers in the united states have a clear advantage those age 16 and up can now receive the biotech prize a shot and anyone 18 and up can get the modern a shop for all of them this means the days of isolation are sooner over. daily training during the pandemic that's how these 2 brothers have gotten through the last months both. get vaccinated yes is promised teenagers a jap then your future being that age is hard enough with the code restrictions it

has been even more challenging i think for me as a mental health and of course like school that thing i was worried like there being back but then i went to school and debbie hine but i think that ways to catch up with academics might with growth and socialization you know it's it that's had it this school has been moved into the living room the boys can't wait to get their bikes and. i think you know so it keeps the people my people around me safer and i would keep myself safe too i think so when we bring a little normality back i don't miss school exactly by the people in school because you know it's really difficult not to interact people and talk to people. and yeah i mean he's an awesome guy just really. you know friends. them and additional obstacle mosques. it's very hard to see people's expressions and

it just gives a sense of like you're talking to a wall. it's just a body you. are you with us this quick move makes you masons but what is in other countries restrictions remains i would definitely are idiots like rice social skills. already very well the more social i'm going person. but. i think that would not really be good for me on this one trying to go back to school brown is a social worker and sees the huge opportunity in teenage makes the nation teens need to be with their peers and need to be taking social risks and doing things on their own outside of the confines of their family home for a teenager to have the opportunity to vaccinate i think is tremendous to give them

that freedom to move about with a lot more confidence but for both themselves and for their parents that they can go about their lives and do the things that they're developmentally supposed to be doing right now. outside of the u.s. most teenagers don't have access to the vaccine yet they have to find other ways to keep going. so the question is how long until young people can be vaccinated on a grand scale let's ask him k. he science communicator of the german association of research based pharmaceutical companies that's the. a good to have you with us as you know case numbers among young people are rising here in germany even number off new cases among teenagers actually know equal to those of older people of over 60 and so far as i know there's no vaccine in sight for the younger age group is their 1st good news one company has applied for approval for its vaccine for adolescents so it

seems we're only weeks away from an approved vaccine for this age group also some other companies of developing their vaccines for this age group and even for younger children so most likely within the next months this year we will get 4 'd more vaccines which are approved for this h well that is good news indeed but i wonder why can't we just use the existing vaccines on teenagers just like they now do in the united states we need not change anything in the co-op assertion it's all about safety so we can use those vaccines when we know that it's safe to use them in the as this age group. also with children we can use the same vaccines but we need to know what is the good appropriate those things. so what are the risks that we know about teenagers and

children getting vaccinated will most likely the risks will be no. for adults this is something we need to know and that's why clearly coal trials mate with areas age groups to see if the risks indeed. and the benefit is high now of course this takes time i mean you say we're just weeks away from at least one vaccine for children which is brilliant in the meantime however do those risks outweigh the risk of catching the virus which as we know by now can lead to severe inflammatory reactions in children notice. or also long cove it well that's what trials of all. designed so that you see that indeed back scenes are safe and once they are approved you can off of them to the parents and their children. with.

come from safety. and who is actually investing in that seed in trials for children well all the companies that have. foggy of all of vaccines for cope with 19 they invest in such trials right from the start they expected to develop vaccines for all age groups and the e.u. also expects a company to do so you just mentioned earlier and i have to get back to that because that is good news indeed is that we may have a vaccine ready for children in just a few weeks from now and there are several other trials underway. will this vaccine only be available for children here in europe are we talking about a vaccine for kids all over the world these vaccine trials that are have

being carried all of just being carried out they will lead to safety and efficacy data which can be used all over the world to apply for proveable and that's what the companies have in mind also the chinese companies which have to follow vaccines they have also included children in their trials so that they as well it can offer vaccines are suitable for children so hopefully within the next moments we will gather the set of vaccines approved for all age groups and then it's to politics and the logistics to get them out to every child in the world all right well let's hope that politics and logistics are not getting in the way to get everybody vaccinated. from the german association

of research based pharmaceutical companies thank you so much for your time thank you. suboxone nation is one way to train our immune system against the virus another is catching it and recover again but does this always feel at the time to ask derek. do asymptomatic people develop weaker immune responses than people who have more severe disease. ok this is going to get probably horrendously complicated because we're still so far from unraveling the immune system which which immunologists compared to to a ball of spaghetti which is a really brilliant image even understanding just why some people can be infected yet show no symptoms is a really complicated task early in the pandemic studies that focused on

antibody levels in patients and former patients indicated that people who got severe cases of covert 19 might have a longer lasting immune responses and that he sent a medic people might be at more risk of getting the disease again at some point but but antibody levels are just one aspect of a new response a recently published study has no helped fill in some of the other gaps it looked at blood samples taken from several 100 male migrant workers in singapore who lived in densely inhabited dormitories during an outbreak there last spring and its findings agree with other research in one sense that levels of some antibodies against cuba 19 and the men who got it a symptomatically did indeed fall more after convalescence than in those who

had symptoms other immune responses how the. including ones involving what are known as t. cells they remain fairly robust even in the asymptomatic group and that's being carefully interpreted as a sign that immunity by 8 generally remain strong for some time even in people who caught the disease but had no symptoms so so lots of ifs ands and buts like i said it's complicated. talking of complicated the relationship between the e.u. and astra zeneca it's anything but easy the european commission has just announced its launched legal action against the british swedish drug maker for not respecting its contract for the supply of covert $900.00 x. scenes $180000000.00 vaccine doses were agreed to for the 2nd quarter of this year

but astra zeneca said it would aim to deliver only one 3rd of that to the block costello kuria kiedis the commission of health and food safety explained the decision on twitter saying every vaccine does counts every vaccine dose safe lives . and that's all for this edition of thanks for watching. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing. what measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus of data the coalition special monday to friday on g.w. . what secrets lie behind these walls.

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and in our continuing series 100 german must reads we feature austrian writer joseph novel job of reworking the biblical story. welcome to arts and culture it was a very different oscars in 2021 with the upside being a very diverse lineup of nominees but meanwhile many commentators postulated that ratings would dive and that most people not being able to even see the majority of the films had simply lost interest let's see how it panned out from the center of hollywood prepared to mic to the main los angeles train station mid pandemic a nice room where this happened oh. oh oh oh. that was the best actress winner frances mcdormand who led the acting in what was named for best picture of 2020 nomad land a tale of down and out americans living out of their vehicles. and the oscar goes

to. oh moment around. it was directed by the groundbreaking chinese born chloe jo the 1st asian woman to take home the best director award. this is for anyone. who have the faith and the courage to hold on to the goodness in themselves and into late toned down intimate events in a socially just space the winners were more diverse than in years past. and the oscar goes to. judge young you take for example korean winner union john of the best supporting actress award from the film inari own elected thanks to my 2 boys who make me pull out with didn't work so. did our son oh i knew it. this is because mommy will. also

picking up a statue at the film judas and the black messiah supporting actor daniel. who in his own way offered a wait one moment is incredible last incredible moment that he had 6 it's amazing legis it over here you mean so i was so happy to be alive so it was a really that's a nice. you are probably a diverse array of reactions to the top honors amid such diverse array of nominees and winners. diversity writ large at this year's oscars and of course scott roxboro joins me now on the line from bonn welcome scot's now finally is what i feel like saying after all these years the diversity message seems to have gotten through what stood out for you this time round. well i mean the best picture but it really stood out not only because it was directed by a chinese director but also because it seems really to speak at this moment in time

i mean this is i think a moment for all of us after the year of the pandemic where we're fearing feeling vulnerable where we're perhaps more introspective and and this film really is a very introspective movie about an incredibly vulnerable woman played by frances mcdormand who has lost everything and is living out of her van as is a modern day nomad. in some ways this film can be seen as almost a retelling of the american western or of the american dream story and i think it's interesting that it did strike such a chord with the academy this year because i think it's coming at a time when so many people also in america are going to question question their national miss and the and the stories that they tell each other and i think it's very significant and and really a deserving winner for this year's oscars that's really interesting and great to see chloe's all making history in so many ways only the 2nd woman ever to win best director tell us a bit more about her as a filmmaker. yes she's fascinating i mean she's

a chinese born director but she's probably the most insider director and best seller of of the american underclass really in all in the whole earth her 1st 3 films and what she does she basically embeds with the people the story she telling and she usually works only with nonprofessional actors no matter that is the 1st time she's actually worked with professional actors with francis dormant and the rest of the cast almost the entire rest of the cast are nonprofessionals they're playing versions of themselves and what i find so fascinating about is that she's really taking a very american for the western with a road movie and giving it a completely new spin and also a very female focused point of view and i think that's what really causes her to have such strength as a director now in terms of surprises i guess the surprise ending left a few people cold. yes this is very fascinating they put the best actor award at the end usually that's the best picture goes and i think they did that because they soon but we all did that the winner would be chadwick boseman the late actor who

died last year i was nominated for his final performance in black bottom but when the award was announced it wasn't chadwick boseman but anthony hopkins who won for his role playing a man suffering from dementia and the father unfortunately mr hopkins wasn't at the ceremony so instead of ending with a very touching moment in tribute to chat with both men we ended with a bit of a damp squib. ok well i'm sure the data isn't in yet but it's interesting that in the lead up to the oscars the overall interest was low many were questioning the point of this event especially in a pandemic year how did this ceremony work actually and is the model i've dated do you think. yeah the ceremony itself i think given the conditions that had to be produced under was fine it felt felt like almost like a regular normal award ceremony but maybe that's the problem because this this format of the 3 hour long award ceremony really feels old hack by now it feels like a throwback to another era i'm. especially in the instagram world that we live in

now maybe there's something they have to do something new to attract the younger audience or and the young fans are hoping that for next year's ceremony that will be interesting to see what that looks like thanks so much for that analysis scott roxboro in boston stay safe. oh when you i cruise on i was just a girl enamored with painting and drawing her mother took away her aunts and paints in the hope that she would lead a respectable life all the artists in her saw no other choice but to escape literally to new york city and emotionally into mental illness over the next 7 decades art was a way to manage her own mind and at 90 to her of the now on show digitally here in berlin is dazzling introspective and complex. huge turns because draw us into the world of your kusama the princess of pocket dos a manger retrospective at the march in gropius bow in berlin pays tribute to the 92

year old japanese artist. so there is a real icing desire of her to create needed like a parallel grew worse in which you know she sometimes lives it so the polka dots are way to create also for us a completely different ways of looking. creates whole new worlds psychedelic and disorienting from the artist had to pollution nations and anxiety attacks flashes of lights and threatening to engulf her installations put us in charge with her in a world. like that like the yellow ribbon or you get slightly dizzy you suddenly think oh what's happening with the floor and if you look longer on the wall you suddenly feel like i was there through the war there is this kind of going into into that so it is of course a kind of way of playing with the way we see our vision and i think she's very good

in kind of every changing how we can see and therefore also of course questioning you know what is the normal way of looking. for the past 40 years kusama has lived in a mental institution. in japan but by days she paints obsessive li in a studio situated across the road. i'm not sure if it is a suggestion from my illness or if i wanted to do that we because i'm totally absorbed in creating the piece when i am creating my work so everything disappears around me in my hands create the work. the retrospective traces her autistic journey over 7 decades of intoxicating

creativity in the 1960 s. kusama left her native japan for new york and found her place in the world of flower children political everett shopping she staged happenings against the vietnam war and against the food dish sexual morality of the time but don't now adorned with naked bodies to some a certain boat history art history she was one of the 1st you know who did make it performances and even at the time in new york that was shocking and i mean that is something of course this has has revolutionized also. that the presence of the body the idea that we can be naked is of course sexual but it's also true of the honorability it shows and at the way of how the human body connects with the environment. to some has recalibrated the world and pushed its boundaries gender boundaries personal boundaries even the boundaries of the universe and chancing and

visionary she makes lots of points about the nature of existence and leads us to ward's infinity. life is finite joseph roth only lived to be 44 years old but in his short career. he wrote a dozen or so novels and i was huge amount of journalism but most of those novels are habitually overlooked in the modern canon and so this week's pick of german books in translation is job his novel of jewish life in europe that we feel certain . this is the biggest jewish cemetery in the euro bisons day in berlin here in germany in jewish cemeteries will always be a reminder of the millions of jews murdered by the nazis before the holocaust most of the world's jewish population lived in eastern europe nowadays there's hardly any jewish life there left at all. and.

use of quotes novel job tells about life in the shuttle or jewish village his main character a torah instructor named mendel singer faces challenges of biblical proportions like the job of the bible he survives one twist of fate after another and his horrible loss has put his face. i am alone i will remain alone during all these years i have loved god and he hasn't hated me all the arrows from his quiver have already taken but kill me but he's too cruel for that. job was published in 1933 years before hitler took power but even then it was read as a swan song to the jews of eastern europe those opposed spoke allows us to see and smell the dirt poverty and misery of the status we understand mental singers struggles with tradition his longing for freedom and his anger with god but it's

also an uplifting novel full of warmth and hope the actress and singer marlena de twice called job her favorite book maybe you will too. don't forget about our website for more arts and culture and until next time. alice cooper from us here in berlin and he doesn't just. i'm fearful *. that's the promise of the drone of the moment crystal man. not the only ones dancing to other criminal contacts they want internationally and are increasingly brutal we dance again too long to jam in buda music. chris uhlmann. 30 minutes on d w. pick up. lucky style sports 9 speed

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