make some medical experts are hoping for. ah, what we do know is that how well a drug works depends above all on when it is administered. during the stage when the virus enters the body and multiplies or a later phase where the body reacts with inflammation and immune defense problematic. because if you have a patients, you don't really know what to do and everybody tries to the best and they observe the patient and it helps out the symptoms. but there is no stem that recommendation so far. hospitals around the world are gaining experience with covered 19 and they're gathering data, and the hope that it will soon be possible to do more than just protect healthy people with vaccination. hello and welcome tara covered $900.00 special, of course cobra berlin vaccination programs around the world, the strongest defense against the spread of the karone of ours. but treating patients who have fallen ill has been

a lot more challenging. some doctors have used existing drugs against go with 1900, but the medical evidence of effectiveness is often like not possibility is to use antibodies to bands to die. pharmaceuticals has applied for regulatory approval of a corona, virus treatment that combine 2 antibodies. it follows trials in japan. earlier i spoke to clemons ventnor head of the bobbing clinic in munich. and before we talked about the current treatment of cobra, $1000.00 cases, i asked them what it was like handling germany's 1st corona virus. patient almost one and a half years ago, patient 0 was without any excitement, so we just did what any doctor would have done. so the patient got a little bit oxygen, a little bit inhalation. not even a real infusion. so at this moment,

we just use supportive care and the bad sense, but did not treat the patient is specific way. actually the disease wind off by itself after a couple of weeks and looking at how you treat patients today with covered 19 infection. how is that changed? i think we have made some progress based on the tries. we also participated. so one thing is in the early phase of the code 19 disease, you can indirect by using drugs like run year. but we also have the neutralizing anti bodies. so spike directed antibodies like the famous rank of, to dawn from got it and in the later phase of the disease or 2nd week, and so further on the principle to suppress the inflammation. so that's the reason

that's actually the, the prime time was due rides, the prime time for 6 antibodies totally, for example. and there are new developments like gmc s f and he bought it cetera, et cetera. so you see the material is broadened, but still some work to be done. not the queue for every patient at this point. now on that the antibody treatment a company in japan has applied for regulatory approval for an anti body treatment. for cove in 1900 is this approach the most promising one i think. and then make times you have to react in a very timely and quick men or so i think the approach that has been used in germany, but also in the u. s. a. was more efficient. so we have access to the 70 bodies

without an official labor because this will take months and sometimes also a year. so you, but you don't have time to wait. so we're just using the, the body and without the label, we tell patients about this. but we have some data from tried that they can even reduce mortality, so that that's reason enough for us to apply these new drugs now called the patients have been treated with drugs for other viral diseases. what can we draw from that? actually we also did this in the 1st week, so typically a shall be drugs cetera. i mean that's the tried arrow in the 1st days of this been demick time. but actually we discarded these drugs because we learned very quickly that they have more side effects than effects. and when you're

trained, physician, as physician, also participating, they tried, you know what you have to do. and so this is also the story. you know that we didn't use a drug any more, but sometimes you just take the stuff that's at the bench if you don't drive a lot of things to offer. and this is how it happened. also in this pandemic, now have to fight effects outweigh the actual benefits. how far along are we then when it comes to developing a medical cure for covered 90? make years before it for, for comic 19. i think we can help patients in a very early phase of the disease. the problem is when the patient comes to the emergency room after 2 or 3 weeks after symptom onset. so these are the real heavy cases. and sometimes even we are not able to help young people. i think this

is a long path to go. we have a lot of things about vaccination, but the medical treatment is still let's put this way under development and we and others, we are actively participating for this reason in clinical trials using new drugs for this disease. meanwhile, if you are very old, patients are being hospitalized. how does that change the work of the doctors working in the hospital? in the 2nd and 3rd wave of the been dam make, we had a lot of elderly patients, you know, office. so the point was that we also had high vitality rate because many of these only ones age and didn't want to go on the i see, you know, we have few patients, but the majority is quite young. so we do everything for them and,

but we have also a non copied way. let's put this way. we have 2 patients to postpone their surgery, etc. so still a lot of things to be done in the clinics, and let's hope that the delta wave were not present of many young patients that we have to treat in the clinic in the i c. u was clements. if you had one wish that would improve the treatment of cove at patients, what would that wish be? which will be that there is the metric pill. so an agent that can be used by the infected peeper before the disease really starts to, to make complication. so the, the pill, the anti covet pill that can be taken at home. this will be my wish or, or the future. i infected patients with probably 20. let's see how long it takes until we have that pill clemons in my head of the swab,

in clinic in munich. thank you for your time. while research for a drug to help cover 1000 patients continue. several vaccines have already been developed to prevent people from catching the current of ours. because by high effectiveness, people still have questions about the jap, like the following one for science correspondent derek williams. oh, are there any ways to mitigate your chances of developing it from bosis if you're vaccinated with astrazeneca? oh, i'm going to start this answer by saying something i've already said many times before, which is that both trials and hundreds of millions of recipients show the astrazeneca vaccine is highly effective that preventing future infection with covered 19. and the chances of developing the blood plots that have been associated with the vaccine are extremely rare. the exact numbers are kind of hard to

interpret. but the european medicines agency says that over the course of both doses, about one recipient and 100000 developed the side effect. so it's a very uncommon occurrence that chance. it's so much smaller than the chance of a serious outcome if you can track over 19, certainly for older people, that there is a very clear benefit and getting the astrazeneca vaccine. because the vaccine induced thrombosis is so rare. we're still learning about it, but we think we figured out the mechanisms that cause it. and that, coupled with simple awareness, is now playing a big role in reducing the dangers for those who do develop the condition because it can be treated if doctors recognize it quickly. symptoms of it can include severe headaches or blurred vision, persistent pain, and an extremity or in the abdomen. shortness of breath,

or the development of unexplained bruising around the injection side and those symptoms usually occur between $4.30 days after vaccination. i couldn't find any advice about how to mitigate your chances of developing the rear side effect, which there's no surprise there since we're still unable to predict even who might be vulnerable. but being aware that as one bosis can occur and vigilant about how it presents that can go a long way towards helping you. if you turn out to be one of the very few people who are affected me, i've been down and dropped a lot of lives that has also shown some unusual example of people help each other. get through. like in bangkok where the took the motorcycle taxi is a tie, national symbol, but with our tourist, many drivers fear for the future. to the rescue, hands of south korean pop star jessica show they paid drivers to carry advertising

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