discrimination, quality, or part of the everyday life. for many we asked why? because the life diversity to make up your own mind the w need for mines the me which drug help against cove and 19 it's the top goal for medical researchers around the world. we have a right to develop several effective vaccines, but a cure has not yet been. why is it so difficult? so far doctors have tried drugs that have already been used for other viral diseases. like h i v, bola, sars and influences. sometimes they can help, but they are not. the breakthrough medical experts are hoping for. what we do know

is that how well a drug works depends above all on when it is administered. in the early stage when the virus enters the body and multiplies or a later face and body reacts with inflammation, and immune defense is problematic because if you have a patient, you don't really know what to do. and everybody tries the best and they observe the patient and of the symptoms. but there is no standards recommendation so far. hospitals around the world are gaining experience with cove at 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 are the strongest defense against the spread of the karone of ours. but treating pay who

have fallen ill has been a lot more challenging. some doctors have used existing drugs against over 1900, but the medical evidence of effectiveness is off like nothing possibility is to use antibodies too. bad to guy pharmaceuticals has applied for regulatory approval of a corona virus treatment, but combined to antibodies. it follows trials in japan. earlier i spoke to clemons vent my head of the small been clinic in munich. and before we talked about the current treatment of cobra, 1900 cases, i asked them what it was like handling germany's 1st corona virus patient. almost one and a half years ago. your patient 0 was without any excitement. so we just did what any doctor would have done. so the patient got a little bit oxygen, liberty, no lation, not even real infusion. so at this moment,

we just use supportive care in the best sense, but did not treat this patient is pacific 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 does that change? i think we have made some progress based on the tries. we also participated. so the one thing is in the early phase of the 19 disease, you can indirect by using direct flight from the year. but we also have the neutralizing anti board, and so spike directed antibodies like the famous rank of, to dawn from god it ends in the later phase of the disease or 2nd week. and so further on the principle is to suppress the inflammation. so that's the reason

that's actually the prime time for steroids, the prime time for i 6 antibodies, for example, and they're on new developments like james, his f, anti bodies, et cetera, et cetera. so you see the material is broadened and, 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 manner. so i think the approach that has been used in germany, but also in the u. s. a. was more efficient. so we have except to be sent the

bodies without an official labor because this will take months and sometimes a year. so you, but you don't have time to wait. so we're just using the down the bodies 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 just this in the 1st week, so typically of the drugs cetera. i mean that's a tried arrow in the 1st days of this been demick time. but actually we discarded the thrust because we learned very quickly that they have more side effects than effects. and when you're trained,

physician, as the physician, also participating. so they tried to, you know, what you have to do. and so this is also the story. you know that we didn't use drugs any more, but sometimes you just take the stuff that the bench if you don't track 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 19 me years before it's awful comic 19. i think we can help patients in a very early phase of the disease. the, the problem is when the patient comes to the emergency room after 2 or 3 weeks after 2 months it. 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 learned a lot of things about vaccination, but the medical treatment is still let's put it this way under development and we and others, we are actively participating for this reason in clinical trial using new drugs for this disease. meanwhile, few 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 damage? we had a lot of elderly patients, you know, office. so the point was that we also had a high fatality rate because many of these only ones in the buck 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 wait, let's put this way. we have 2 patients that was born century, etc. so still a lot of things to be done in the clinic and let's hope that the delta wave, we're not 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 it 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 complications. so the, the pillow, the anti covet pills that can be taken at home. this will be my wish for, for the future. infected patients with comic 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 900 patients continue, several vaccines have already been developed to prevent people from catching the current of ours. despite high effectiveness, people still have questions about the jap. like the following one for science corresponded derek. oh, are there any ways to mitigate your chances of developing a through versus 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 clots 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 has so much smaller than the chance of a serious outcome if you can track over 19, certainly for older people, that there's 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 has this route that a lot of lives. it has also shown some unusual examples of people help each other get through. like in bangkok where the took took 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 pay drivers to carry advertising

for latest music, helping them a little during the crisis. and of course, helping build bigger kate top 10 base in thailand. that's so show, thanks for watching the news . how does a virus spread? why do we panic by and when will all this 3 of the topics that we've covered and our weekly radio if you would like me for information on the corona virus or any other science topics, you should really check out our podcast. you can get it wherever you get your podcast. you can also find those at w dot com slash science.

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we are chain only understand this new culture. so you are not a visitor, not against you, want to become 2nd into migrants. your platform for reliable information i believe is chapter in the ongoing debate over restitution of lucia art africa centers around a sacred drum that's currently in storage in london's british museum. well, that's coming up on today's arts and culture along with these stories. the french city of both a brand new cultural campus with a tower spectacular tower by canadian american architect frank geary. as it's centerpiece. and for the 1st time since the pandemic, the verona,

rena amphitheater in northern italy, has returned to staging full offers, albeit with an innovative re imagining due to continuing virus restriction. while in a historic move in april, germany agreed to return priceless artifacts to nigeria that were stolen by colonial forces. back in the 1900 century repatriation of the famous been in bronze as will start next year. but the u. k. holder of the world's largest collection of lucid art is far more reticent of the sacred ganges drum of the picola community in kenya, which there are unfortunately no current pictures available is just one of thousands of artifacts. now gathering dust in its museum volts. and it's an object of deep spiritual significance that the community wants to reclaim the manually as him by returns every so often to these groups in shallow on the banks of kenya's gentle river. he belongs to the become a community the grooves. once,

how's the comb with secret? g drum which was stolen by british colonial offices. little 100 years ago in the possible elders who had been caught in a place like these to see the secret place in the forest and hide, but not even small children could find their way. the drum or gadget was once we via the homeless center of sovereign power, it determined their way of life. without it, the groove is no longer secret and become a governing council to reach manuel he belongs, has lost most of its authority. after taking the gods from the coma, it was shipped abroad and kept his storage in london, british museum liberal comb with king macaroni among the 7th and the elders and his kingdom over the drum will never return. then i'd like to know my jin,

if i had the miss westminster, the parliament in england, if i had the miss leong somewhere here and they musing it, does that food store, what the british it would be sacrilegious to them if this isn't drum on savages. but it is, which is not only meant it has it some function. why should you deny an object? it's functions like the many communities across the african continent have been demanding for the return of plunder, cultural cal minor, a digital heavy paid specialist was shocked by how much of the restitution debate and even the actual return of objects takes place behind closed doors. she co

founded open restitution africa, an online platform that puts together data on restitution and bring the african positions to the forefront of the debate. especially when you look at technology by say we are saying that more people can access this information. more people who are not in expert circles, let's say i couldn't meeks or even in museums, and people who are on twitter and instagram and have nothing to do with museums or hate age can actually access this information. and i think that's powerful in, in creating awareness that yes, there is material that has been taken to macaroni for. com was king recently got communication from the partition that we would like to talk. a huge step forward from when he 1st lot of initial requests in piazza go, his community, which number roughly 200000 live in one of the poorest regions of kenneth many no longer here to the all traditions and question the relevance of the drum today. i

king michael rodney and manuel he has been both aware of return to the old days will not be sitting here under the lush mangle trees by the river. this society is distinct. identity will one day be resurrected in an era to become a one in s. and let's hope that that pride can be restored for a younger generation and enjoy. now by my colleague adrian kennedy. welcome, adrian. it's great to see you. and we heard about one initiative there in the report, but there are really many voices across africa that are now being heard on this topic. yes, for example, kenya's national museum in ny ropey has an exhibition called invisible inventories examining the skulls and consequences caused by the absence of so many cultural artifacts. the symbolism of the m. t showcases

cannot be overlooked. missing objects include mosques, shields, smoking, pipes, cones, grave markers, drums, and even stuffed lions all in all the international inventories group has a recorded over 32000 objects. wow, which is a huge number. so the plan, i guess, is to create a database of canyon objects that are held bicultural institutions across the world . and that's why our team talk to artist and activists, jim chu, chu, he says this is absolutely necessary because kenyans very often don't know where these artifact saw and even what they got, what they are. and here he is explaining the scope of this problem, just in kenya, plan was to create a database of canyon objects that are spread out across cultural institutions across the world. because because can never know where its object sign,

what they are, we decided to visualize every object as a shipping label. because for us, every object that left kenya was shipped out, right. and honestly, we've covered all the was, but this is only like 2000. well, that does indeed make you think of obviously a lot of work to be done. what's the latest on the drum? well, france and germany have done quite a lot. so moving the direction of returning stolen artifacts. but the british museum is holding onto this idea that it is a cause, dodie and all the world heritage for the world is making sure that these pieces remain safe and can be seen by thousands of people. but the still, the british museum, and the one problem with this is, of course that people in africa can hop on a plane to london every time they want to see their national treasures. now the pa

como king put in this request 8 years ago, the museum is prepared to talk, but probably only about a loan. but the good news in office is that the many proliferating african initiative is putting more pressure on institutions to revise the perspective on homeless. so this isn't developing story or stories, i guess we could say that we'll have to definitely keep tabs on that. thanks very much for bringing us that back. strong background story on the god g drum. adrian kennedy. thanks want. thank you. well, the southern friend, city of aqua, has a spectacular new cultural venue designed by none other then frank geary, in attribute to the town the most famous past residence. the romans on the one hand and dutch painter vincent fun golf. the canadian american architect has created a sculptural steel tower as the heart of a brand new 27 acre creative campus called luma. the new building by architect frank gehry is a monster of steel glass and concrete region,

56 meters in height. no 2 sides are the same in architectural challenge, that the trademark of gary's designs. the facade features more than 11000 stainless steel bricks specially designed to reflect the particular quality of the light and prevalence. gary has described it as a painterly building. the building will be blue, sometimes it will be pink, it will be yellow, orange silver. obviously, the fact that they're set at angles makes each of the panels in different color has the capacity of being a different color to the building will be an exhibition space for the personal collection of the owner. swiss billionaire maya huffman. the site will also include a library archive rooms and restaurants. the round base was inspired by us woman amphitheatre, the tower echoes the craggy opium mountains, and the steel reflecting the light of accidents and van goff paintings. and

speaking of fun golf shoppers and aren't lovers, in the united arab emirates will soon be able to step into his post impression of masterpieces projected onto walls and floors in a do by shopping center of immersive digital experience will showcase displays of some fun. got more famous works, it opens july 1st, and will run until mid the middle of next year. and finally, exciting news from northern italy where the verona rena amphitheater has returned to staging full offers for the 1st time. since the pandemic signaling a cultural return to life for the town of romeo and juliet fame, the o. in february, now where we lay o, seen italy's most fabulous opera as a back to entertain audiences off to the pandemic force, many theaters to go dark. it's kind of magical because in this period have this

situation then come back to the normal things with stage and arkansas pretty much together. not too much distance. i mean, as lallie, we come back to normal and we take out the, the, the restriction that we had for a long time. behind the scenes of the verona arena, professor, plenty of work has been going into adapting the world famous sets to news social distancing standards. the new rules meant that they couldn't hop as many stage hands cramped together to move sets around. oh, best solution. 3 deep background projections, including themes from the helpers, inspirations, such as felina movies. what i'm feeling that all of your materials on the chart we understood already last year in november that we needed to have another plan in the event to ality that we couldn't use the traditional big sets by frank f, a rally,

et cetera. because we wouldn't have been able to maintain the proper social distancing of the workers. and so we came up with many, i guess the son daniel dealer would have to what we, what day and night. and we decided to use technology to transmit beautiful images. instead of the big set technology k. i posted the that i'm jealous to me and trust me to the magic metal. the performers seen here performing poly out, she has to get used to the new technology. but some of the thing is, are impressed by it. you know, once you talk to him or to call him or the 1st of all, it's very convenient because for the voice, it becomes a wall that gives you acoustic help. and in the arena, that's really important. because we thing outdoors that i mean a for the audience also impressed technology at the new technology. well, even being used to the big sets of the arena. it's still very beautiful. most of

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