against prejudice and playboy. for recognition. of stars the big steam. train kids starts may 17th on w. . be forced to choose it's the sense of smell most people believe they could live without. but losing it can be life altering scientists say covert attacks the cells that help communicate what we're smelling. we could lose our appetite or worse still the will to live sense of smell helps define who we are. nice to have you along a study of 2 and

a half 1000 patients who lost their sense of smell and taste should 40 percent of them had completely regained it half a year later 2 percent reported no improvement whatsoever for belch an ounce of feel or camp less incense such as her favorite per fumes smell or. after she got infected with kobe at 19 a few months ago at 1st she could no longer smell anything then many smells were distorted one of the most common side effects of the virus she can only see the spring on her balcony. there is a tiny bit of something but i don't know the smell. that's frustrating and makes me a bit sad. sure michelle my yard can understand very well feeling the frenchman lost his sense of smell due to an accident 5 years ago it's the smell

of his children he misses most but mayor does not want to give up his passion for cooking. a bit of color is good we eat with our eyes after all a bit like the great chefs in france are doing it but it is the nose with its millions of factory cells that defines the tell you stuff this silent after is accidental my i was angry because no one could help him even if an estimated 5 percent of the french population suffers from a distorted sense of smell but with time his anger gave way to an idea he found it a necessary sion and developed off actually training incorporation we scientists with concentrated sense rose lemon laughs. the sense of smell is a sense that is as important as other senses. many forget about it. most

people only discover it once they've lost it or. since the beginning of the pandemic thousands of affected people all over europe have been using his sense of smell training techniques belgian answer feel our count is also exercising her nose her doctor has seen for herself their penny patients are recovering thanks to the training for example because the a factory sells damaged by the virus renew themselves. this gives me hope but my motivation very soon and so does my hope because sometimes i'm just saying i keep asking myself if it will ever come back. even if things are getting better only slowly answer feel. is hoping these smell bottles will help her put on her perfume again without upsetting her nose. let's look at the science surrounding this panel adult is an old factory scientist so badly just how quickly can people recover

their sense of smell because the researchers i've spoken to say the shortie of covered suffers a massively impaired. you're correct in that they can be massively impaired during the acute verb form of the virus however fortunately most people do recover their ability just smell sometimes within days or weeks after the virus passes unfortunately a small portion of individuals seem to have a persistent loss they the the ones who are suffering from long. in some cases smell loss is the only symptom that they may have ever experienced from cove it but yes some individuals with long cove it also do experience this persistent smell loss can go on beyond 6 months well and one of the consequences of that i mean i guess you just don't want to eat too you if it doesn't taste good and

there are lots of other things involved like relationships and depression it can really impact on your life counted. it can be very distressing particularly for people who never thought that losing their sense of smell would have such a dramatic impact on their life eating is certainly the 1st thing that is affected and some people actually go into different ways some people stop eating because of the lack of enjoyment of food and some people overeat because they're looking for that satisfaction that they can no longer get from food flavor assigned to lost smell can also so sorry what are you going to say. loss of smell can also change your relationships with your environment and the people around you familiar places and familiar people no longer seem quite the same when you cannot smell them so as scientists any closer to agreeing on why this happens. and

there are intriguing studies being published almost every week we know for example that the virus does attack certain types of cells that express the ace tuberous scepter but it looks like the persistent loss of smell may be more associated with ongoing viral replication and inflammation in the nasal passages in the normal apathy ileum where all of the cells that support our sense of smell are located. what does the virus do this because it's basically giving itself away it's a clear sign you're about to become infectious and most people would quarantine themselves of course and prevent the virus from spreading. well actually that's really interesting question because until it was made clear that sudden loss of smell was a cardinal symptom of sars tovey to infection most people really didn't understand

what was going on with them if they experienced a fever for example or severe muscle aches or extreme coughing they might have isolated but many people who suddenly lost their sense of smell were not actually quarantining themselves until the message got out that this was indeed one of the best ways to know whether someone had been infected with the virus we also mentioned earlier in the show that the old factory cells are able to renew themselves and regulate is that the same for everyone though. well in the normal human sense of smell yes the old factory neurons regenerate throughout the lifespan unfortunately when there is destruction by a virus that can lead to inflammation this can actually attack the system in multiple ways it can produce inflammation as i said earlier it can also attack the

supporting cells that are involved in the region or a sion process and some viruses also attack the all factory neurons themselves and what's your take on smell training and its effectiveness. at the present time it's not training seems to be the best recommendation for people who have persistent smell loss following kovan infection it requires some persistence and compliance it doesn't work if you only do it casually but the evidence is that if you stick with the program which generally involves about 12 weeks of smelling for odorants twice a day and doing it very mindful late that approximately half of the people that have been in studies actually do regain their sense of smell and do so faster than people who don't undertake small training so it's a lot of work but definitely worth it in the long run you say. if you're depressed

if your lifestyle has changed because you can no longer smell that people the places the food you enjoy eating then it certainly is a worthwhile effort it has very little risk except for perhaps boredom and a little frustration in the early days but it has been shown to have efficacy in post-viral smell loss and so therefore it is one of the recommended treatments for to hear about adult and thanks for joining us today on this our pleasure my pleasure thank you. williams now he's got an interesting question about natural immunity. how long does not true immunity acquired from having the disease last. this is another question where a little background comes in handy when you're infected by a pathogen for the 1st time your body forms what's called an immunological memory

of it now experts say these kinds of memories are in some ways like neurological memories a few will stay with use throughout your life while others will disappear after just a few months when it comes to cope at 19 we still don't know exactly how long immunity and those who recover will on average last but several studies including one from early february that's been cited a lot they indicate that in most people who caught the disease naturally acquired immunity seems to remain pretty robust for quite a while the study looked at a range of factors associated with an ongoing immune response in people who'd recovered from coke at 19 and then found that in the overwhelming majority of them immune memory remained apparently strong at least 6 months after recovery many

experts are now hopeful that most people who have the disease could prove resistant to reinfection for at least a year and hopefully longer. that's good news though it's likely not the whole story with other coronaviruses immune memory tends to lapse over time which is why authorities also recommend that people who had copd at 19 and recovered still get vaccinated at least once because that scenes provide a safe way to update and refresh immune memory and could patel. really make you even more resistant to sars gobi too and for a longer period of time the natural infection alone. and 2 of the share would leave you with a touch scientists who've told bees to sniff out coated 19 researches gave them

sugary water as a reward for identifying positive samples only once they got used to the system they'd stick out their tongues automatically the results can be provided in just seconds. of course bees have a keen sense of smell let's hope they don't lose it from covert thanks for joining us on dino use code 900 special. how does a virus spread. why do we parent and when we're all the same. just 3 of the topics covered and the weekly radio program. if you like and more information on the coronavirus or any other science topic you should really check out our podcast if you get it wherever you get your podcast you can also find us at g.w. dot com look for it slash science. if

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this special exhibition. welcome to arts and culture the brits awards is one of the biggest nights in the music industry's calendar this year it made history as the 1st major indoor music event to take price with a low noise audience since a pandemic closed the doors of cultural venues everywhere thousands of fans and front line workers were invited to london's o 2 arena for the glittering occasion with some stars even braving quarantine to collect the accolades in person and some spectacular performances. the 2021 british words kicked off in grand style with a performance by the band called. plate from a pontoon on the river thames. but it was women who took center stage with 8 of 10 brits going to female artists including album of the hero for future must tell jokes by delete the.

sound girl band little mix who became the 1st women to win the trophy for best british group. it's not easy being a female in the u.k. pop industry we've seen the what my dominance mr cheney sexism and lack of diversity we're proud that we've stuck together by stood our ground surrounded ourselves of strong women and i'm now using our voices more than ever with performances in front of a live audience including by iconic elton john this year's brit awards marked a welcome return to normal for a music industry battered by a year of code lockdown. i was watching from home and so was d w culture reporter scott he joins us now from boston scott's high that as we heard a big night for female artists do you only post

a little make spite celebrated let's talk about the other winners of the night. yeah i mean the brits have come under a lot of criticism as have so many award shows for in the past over emphasizing male artists and ignoring female artists but they made a lot of changes last year and it seems to have paid off because the majority of the winners last night were female artists we saw artists like arlo parker who won breakthrough british artist last night for her debut album collapsed and sunbeams taylor swift the indomitable taylor swift took the stage to become the 1st woman to win the brits global icon award and the all female band hein took the best international group on earth is interesting they're actually from l.a. and they spent 10 days in quarantine in london just to be able to be at the brits personally well that's what i call dedication scott it was the 1st event at

london's i'm 2 arena since the pandemic started and there was a mix of live and pre-code performances but very significantly there was a knife or do you tell us about. yeah that was only made possible because the u.k. government designated the brits a past event so they allowed them to try out new protocols to see if you could do life music with a live audience safely under coded conditions so the stadium had several 1000 people in it many of them were actually workers from the british national health service the n.h.s. who got free tickets to attend the event and they were treated to a really impressive a lineup of live performances including. performed her megahit driver's license live on the o 2 stage we had. he won the u.k. drill band that really got the audience on their feet but i was actually been impressed by the the pipe in performances supreme court of ones like that from the

canadian pop star the weekend which looked quite impressive in general i think the brits felt like a return to normal and a sign of hope that maybe in the very near future real concerts with real audiences can take place again. keep our fingers crossed for that now the push towards a not 9 for being political but briefly if you can this year that changed. yes definitely everyone who took the stage used it basically to make some political point to. dress the british prime minister boris johnson directly telling him to raise the pay for workers of the n.h.s. the weekend use his acceptance speech to call for more action for the victims of violence in ethiopia and even taylor swift and her acceptance speech to thank the n.h.s. for helping out during the pandemic of course so many of the members of the n.h.s. or in the audience there said it was over very very well in general it was incredibly activist night at the brits. reporting from boehner thanks so much for your analysis. big screens small screen or the

stage center bag a is master of them all from 200 starlets in 1950 s. austria to hollywood leading lady charlton heston in cut douglas wood just leading men she's been on the ballot in film festival jury twice and in 2622006 she became one of the 1st female activists to talk about sexual harassment in hollywood long before people started listening in the weeks and to bag a turns 80 we look back at her career. center back a has brought the power of her charisma to both the big and small screens in a career spanning more than 6 decades so she's become a role model of self-confident femininity she gets even the most conventional characters that certain something special making them authentic and strong but never arrogant. has to come from the toughest. moment

of temptation always been pretty realistic about my job i wasn't interested in signing autographs but in just being allowed to act and being seen of course there was some useful exhibitionism involved but you get over that as you go through life . batgirl was born in vienna in 1941 her father was a musician and her mother a teacher though her parents were not well enough she was able to take ballet and acting lessons. i never felt my childhood was hard just the opposite i think we along with the rest of society were very fortunate to be able to feel we were able to look forward to the future belong to us when he wanted to get out of the social housing i grew up in and conquer the world and. the. center bagger ended up going to hollywood where she acted alongside stars like charlton heston and your brother and kirk douglas seen here.

once again my mother was 23 and was suddenly working with a list actors over there that wasn't always easy hog i think she was almost mobbed by all those men concluding for instance kirk douglas but they were also friendly to my mother i wonder why when i look at her from back then i can understand why the men were so friendly to her they were all after her but then my mother always charmingly put them off because she was already with my father this diva the screen goddess stayed true to him luckily because otherwise i wouldn't be here gives me. the $966.00 bagger married director mr probus together they started the centanni production company their sons also work in the film business zeman 5 who've been gave his mother a lead role in the successful comedy welcome to germany. been coming by didn't house was. a nice idea but. don't

rollerblade all ok those fish will only look twice and does this possum little vanished in the house and i'm not finished with us i think is a particular challenge for an actress it has to be said but she's mastered it brilliantly she's remains a young soul she tries to confront the difficulties that are a normal part of life with a smile and to take joy in her life she tries to find some things each day that makes life worthwhile because i hope i'm able to grow old like that. sure i think i've been very lucky and still am but i also think that i've learned to make the right decision at the right moment not always but often it lifting moments of 12. ft. whether on screen or are sent about god has had a rich and fascinating life full of success and joy we wish her many more years to come. a strong woman with some to. hales to tell now

german conception artist joseph boyce would have been 100 dismay one of the many artists he inspired is pushing scott said tony cragg who later made gemini his home voice was both a mentor and a friend to cry as a tribute to voice in his. crack has selected 20 of his works for the private collections and put them on display in his own special gallery. tony cracks greatest because i'm constantly is arguably this sculpture park which was transformed from an abandoned plot of land in the top where the british artist has lived for some time now. like voice he believes that art is always political. in a world where everything is becoming impoverished and weaker and destroyed scotcher is one of the only ways of producing new forms new language new ideas new

emotions and i think that's a very very important role you know while industries death killing everything around us the sculpture park is a space of energetic exchange. crags own works enter a dialogue with the works of other artists. currently those of joseph boyce. voice and a lot of artists of that generation they were the 1st ones to talk about the environment they were the 1st ones to really start to talk about our relationship to nature they were the 1st ones to talk about our acceptance of political systems of of ideas of hierarchy and so when you look at art today and you see how many platforms for protest have opened up. tony cracked 1st met voice in london in 1972. first time to see. in him in the white house he stood there with

his face exactly dawn it is that and the curious curious figure and not very good english i have to say the exhibition perpetual motion comprises small ones that make for big art replete with symbolism like the rose for democracy or prepare to. boyce's complex thoughts compacted into little sculptures raise more questions than they answer. indeed there's not so much to see but what the observer is left with is what owns one's own reflection you find out what you think what you have in your head. so you don't have to understand it all to get boyce just be creative and follow your intuition. believes it is not the most to be. fantastic it is.

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