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or excluding the cameras on reinforced indigenous peoples are now briefly opposing them because it's not only the earth's brain models that are going to be reinforcing the fees and, or people die out. a long term report from the heart of brazil starting march 9th on d. w. ah ah, the initial illness has passed but unpleasant symptoms lingered for months on end. it's a condition known as long covert and it's turned the lives of some coven. 19 sufferers upside down. welcome to this week's cove at 19 special at the university hospital and and long and reset is a testing new treatments for long covert symptoms. but many symptoms remain invisible to others. some patients feel not even their doctors take them seriously
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in the us. some are now organizing self help groups but our 1st report comes from india where the phenomenon of long cove it is affecting patients. both young and old are not and, and cause her bad dog epa, her lifeline. she says the bub, he's on her doors all the something which she says was not possible just a couple of months ago. 53, it was sad now was infected with the corona virus during the 2nd week. while her initial infection was not civil. a few days after testing negative, she was diagnosed with cardiac inflammation. a poor score with complication which left her with a crippling weakness for months. i used to feel so weak, so weak that i have at times used to feel like i can't even sit. i must lie down, i hardly had his time and i was do a very active person earlier. and i started feeling depressed also always to feel
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very low sadness. case is not exceptional. many other people have suffered from, for school with complete. doctor, are you scope thus as patients have come to him with complications like heading a deep depression, palpitations and cardiac issues among others and staggering number that is 60 to 70 percent of patients who recover from covered have these effects on them. there are some kind of risk factors which predict long covert duration of illnesses, one severity of a lesser 2nd. it is not completely understood. it is a science in a volition. so even young patients may be experiencing more symptoms than an elderly high disposition, 30 year old rationing. the walker was an avid yoga practitioner. she said she was at a healthy estate when she tested positive during the 2nd grade. and her infection was quite mild. but soon after she started experiencing complications and with diagnosed with a balance disorder called vestibular disorder,
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which makes her feel dizzy and pause as constant ringing in her years like being on a board all the time. so when i stand it florida is like this. so for me to walk straight is a job, there was a point where i literally needed to be good to go anywhere because i just couldn't get my buttons. it got me very overwhelming and exhausting wildfire. rashni it has been rehabilitate of therapy and yoga that have had tugging a sense of control over her condition. for santa it's been medication, ample rift and help up epa, which had told with a bosco, with complication, he sleeps with me with me. like a small child i haven't grandchild now, i mean the sadness that she the lot better know as she has found some happy distraction with people, but for many like her, the lingering effect of co, which remains inexplicable. the medical community also remains baffled by long covet its origins and its pathologies. for example,
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why some are affected and others not cellphone studies are inconclusive. d w. repose have been physician. any recently recovered from the corona virus. he paid a visit to rehab clinic in huntington, dumb in ne, in germany that specializes in long cove. it the full cost is duncan, cloudy, but he's at my future. could i get loan covered months after a mild case of only crone study suggest so in at least 10 percent of cases. i'm hoping a physician in hiding and dumb has been a news. people with respiratory ailments have been coming to this german health resort for over 200 years. now it's mainly a place of pilgrimage for covered patients. the median clinic has seen 3 and a half 1000 cases. dr. yoda's home home says more and more coming with long covert
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uncles and cadets long covered patients have milder acute symptoms. they often didn't need hospitalization are frequently younger, were previously very fit and had hardly any previous illnesses. and their performance isn't flagging because they were confined to bed for long periods. they're showing fatigue symptoms, a leaden tiredness, headaches, cognitive deficits, joint pain, muscle pain in very varied forms, up to 200 different symptoms can occur. machine as i'm trauma, can al clinton male. but how can you attribute so many symptoms to one disease? is there really such a thing as long covert natalia at the moment? we don't have the studies that will enable me to confirm a 100 percent that these symptoms are definitely linked to a coven 19 infection, however, but i see that hundreds of thousands of people are unable to work, that they're suffering and have medical problems. and that should be sufficient
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motivation for us doctors to take these patients on and look after them as balance of common. the clinic off as a special rehabilitation program for long covered sufferers. it includes psychological support as well as physiotherapy, in a relaxed setting by the baltic sea. so the doctor from home says the fresh seeaire which is low and dust and high and humidity is great for the lungs. but most important is what she calls pacing. not over doing anything, and only moderate exercise of 159 year old anchor anderson boons recently checked in for long covered treatment. the mother, the geriatric care nurse, caught the corona virus before a vaccine was available. her patients got it to they all died. the trauma runs deep . she hardly sleeps at night. oh them. yeah, not haha, song modest. you can almost say i've aged 10 years, you know, strength concentration. everything's down to i used to lift people weighing 60 or
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70 kilos out of bed. and now i'm happy when i can pull my suitcase along behind me for something that we had seen, everything has changed. enormous say, and i've got no idea where things go from here. it's not to your business reason why doug is on the experts aren't any wiser. as i found out back in the office in berlin during a digital press conference, and they can't even yet say how many people will be affected by long covet guns, wristed me, it's really important to remember there could possibly be changes brought on by the illness that people haven't yet noticed or don't show symptoms of it all, but that could potentially of long term consequences, such as in dementia. we need to look at that and investigate more closely and better our understand on just looking interesting. a lot of people are getting on the chron, but aren't even getting sick. that something i talked about with hamburg, cardiologist effect phantom boyd. they're getting vendor curbing come from the body, comes into contact with the virus in an unprotected state,
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in an unvaccinated state house. you have to assume that omicron will also affect organs, and even in the omicron era, we recommend to anyone possibly still not vaccinated, that they should protect themselves against infection. and for us, that also means getting vaccinated out teams that he and with all microns so wide spread, if even just a small percentage of patients get long covered, we're talking millions of people here in germany alone. feeler mentioned ankin vending lots of people saying that if we all just get infected with all micron, then it doesn't matter in the end. but i can see clearly that vaccinated and boosted patients have an almost 70 percent lower chance of contracting long cove. it's or if young people can be saved from having their lives up ended because of long cove. it then it's a decisive argument in favor of vaccination. went along corbett line so all that's left for me to do is take
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a deep breath of fresh sea air. take it easy and wait a few more months to see if i really do get the all clear from long covered long breathing exercises and rehab programs are one approach. but many long clothing patients also hopeful medicinal treatments to ease symptoms or even kill them. they can take heart from new research in germany, where doctors are seeing promising results there for stan fact to her max that my head's telling may go there and do that, but my body just isn't up to it. it can't cat moving forward. you can't tell by looking at me, and when myself a stranger wouldn't suspect how quickly i reached my limit, the snail before that been on, on my leg installs doors are, suffers from long covert the nurse cod covered twice and for
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a year now she's been more or less unable to work at airlines university hospital. dr. bettina whole bagger regularly checks her patient's ability to concentrate. since the pandemic began, she and her team have been trying to find the root cause of long covert, and they're making headway. they've discovered circulatory disorders in the eyes of a number of long covert patients. this was on time, august us go off candy eyes the special as be often see complaints there that relate to the whole body as but that's nothing new. we observe the effects of diabetes and high blood pressure in the eye variance by parts. and what we've seen was patients after a coven 19 infection, is that the narrowest blood capillaries aren't as well supplied with blood as those in a healthy person. focus on the lighter the back of the eye looks either better at circulation . if it's too dark, something's wrong in the image of the healthy eye on the left. the intricately
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branching blood vessels are mainly white. with long covered patients, poor circulation means the proportion of black is higher. the next step was to conduct precise blood tests. they revealed the presence of auto immune antibodies, proteins which hinders circulation. a kind of antibody also found in heart and i element them, it pumping that isn't fennel mean what we knew this a phenomenon had a negative impact on circulation because we also knew there was a drug in the pipeline that could neutralize this auto immune response. so we had the idea of administering this medication, b. c double 07, which we knew could render auto antibodies harmless, either in the hope that it was improve patient symptoms. ok, so now god wouldn't have been able to climb the stairs a year ago. after a mild case of corona virus, he developed increasingly severe, long covered symptoms. naga was easily exhausted and could barely concentrate. he
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sat at home for months on end and was just the shadow of his former self, say, the foot since the toughest day i go to brush my teeth. we could pick up my tooth brush and wonder what to do next. i complete blackouts walking straight the impossible, ian nixon keeping my balance. no way. we got to alicia the compulsory touch, your nose test, total fail, leg facade during those difficult months. axle nuggets boss of the sponsor savings bank gave him lots of support. nevertheless, like many other long covered sufferers, he fell into a black hole. the bank employee says few people can understand just how bad you feel. really long, quoted, but said many long covered patients. i've met an air long and don't have any one batting for them. how honey lobby, those around them dismiss it, saying stop making such a fuss on come on,
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pull yourself together. you just need to get more sleep and not go out so much empty. although bologna, if you haven't had it yourself, you have no idea. they couldn't live up with it once a month. ok, so now god goes to elegans university hospital. last may. his problem ceased. he was the 1st long covered patient to get the experimental drug, b, c double 07, which improved his circulation. 2 weeks later he felt well, again, been with guys the fishing club and i mentally and physically fit again of all i can be physically active without feeling wiped out for 2 weeks afterwards. having been, i can go hiking again, but it's such a gift. it's like being reborn thing. i can't put it any differently. i get bored, madness, promise gone. it's all the doctors were also amazed by the rapid improvement in the 1st patient. and 3 others were given b, c,
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w o 7. since reports about the drugs impact were published, requests and poured in the 3rd year female, well, the results were more pronounced than we dead hope for what all we thought symptoms directly associated with poor circulation would improve. but that taste would to was something we hadn't even considered mechanics. gotta hallow tickets in them. nurse doors are, is also hoping she might get a chance to take b. c double 07. and returned to work properly. they've been ye that's. i'd bet i'd oh alice moving. yeah, i'm prepared to try out all sorts of stuff because things can hardly get worse. or really my quality of life is nothing like it was in the past and levies if on for you, i can get a good. but dr. whole bagger can't just keep on treating new patients with a drug that has yet to be approved. the next step would be a larger scale study would be c double. 07. we often entered does a 50 percent?
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of course we're hoping it will help. many patients kind of, but we're aware that not all long covey cases the same. for soon some patients have herman and lung damage scarring, for example, due to acute infection. the drug won't help them because their problem isn't caused by an auto immune response. but for those who symptoms are auto immune based, where hoping it will improve their condition. the passover was if these encouraging results or anything to go by b. c. double 07. could be a real lifeline for the growing number of long colbert sufferers. and now to d. w signs reported derek williams, who's been following the pandemic since the onset, and answering your questions about it. see posey asked, how many people who are dying of coven 19 are vaccinated, and how many are unvaccinated? i generally try to avoid answering questions like this because it seems like the
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point behind them is to feed this vaccinated versus unvaccinated. this kind of us versus them narrative and, and, and people we need to get past that. it needs to be us versus the virus, not us versus each other, but, but i want to talk about this topic anyway because numbers like mortality statistics are often used to feed rumor mills on social media. now, the 1st thing to say is that a simple head to head comparison of raw numbers of covey deaths between vaccinated and unvaccinated people is pretty pointless because they're going to vary from country to country depending on a wide range of factors. they include, for instance, an aged demographics countries that have more elderly people. for example,
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we'll see more deaths even among the vaccinated. then places with younger populations. because coven 19 is a disease. that's a lot more deadly for people over 50 than it is for people under 30. but what makes a straight up comparison of mortality even less significant and informative is something that seems paradoxical, which is that the more people are vaccinated in a population, the more deaths you're going to see and vaccinated people, which sounds counter intuitive. actually when you say it that way, but it's, but it's really simple math. let's look at a theoretical example. imagine covered hitting a country of a 100 people where 90 people are vaccinated and 10 aren't for of those 100 and up dying from the disease to from each group. on social media suddenly reports
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start making the rounds. that half the people dying of the disease are vaccinated, and that's not wrong, but it's a kind of half truth. essential information is missing and that's that 20 percent of all unvaccinated people are dying from the disease, but only around 2 percent of the vaccinate it. the take away has been distorted. this was just a made up example to illustrate the point, but experts say it holds true for what we're seeing. now. the vaccines that we have are really good at preventing hospitalizations and death, but they're not perfect at in waning effectiveness over time, especially among the elderly. and of course, there's going to be some mortality among the vaccinated as well. but the vital question then becomes not how many vaccinated people are dying, but instead,
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how do the risks of dying from an infection compare between those who are fully vaccinated and those who aren't. and they're, the numbers are unequivocal. national healthcare authorities in a number of countries continue to agree that someone who is unvaccinated is many, many times more likely to die of coven 19. if they get it, than someone who's fully vaccinated. boom! a lot of people in africa are still unvaccinated against coven. 19, mostly due to a severe shortage of doses. those they do catch the disease, receive little treatment or support, and many doctors are unfamiliar with potential long term effects.
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vivian mccarrow used to be a keen singer in her free time. she sang in a band and she'd sing when she made her dinner. but all left stop 2 months ago after she was diagnosed with coven. 19. the 1st symptom that i think everyone will tell you is expulsion. being exhausted, just basically by doing nothing. and, oh, doing a small activity and then you just get really exhausted. when vivienne became infected, she had trouble breathing and had to be hospitalized. but her symptoms never fully went away. like the blood clots in her lungs. for ologist, duncan knew curry is investigating long coven cases in kenya. he describes some of the more common signs this symptoms may include up, assistant call, up as his may be, fatigue may be on my soil and joint beings. i've had those
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who have memory lapses of memory issues and so on. so they can be just a continuation of the symptoms they head when they are sick. owed new emerging symptoms. so far more than the 3300000 people have been tested in kenya. 300000 positive cases have been confirmed and over 5000 people have died. there are no reliable figures though on how many people develop long cove it. but they are believed to number in the 10s of thousands lead safe 5 years from now. of all those patients who had had via lung damage, how many of them would progress and will needs a continuous care? so i think real estate was titles, were thinking off the post club reputed to post copy to complications and how to
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take care of these people. vivian goes to the hospital for regular follow up examinations. but there is no treatment here for a long covey ailments. the doctors are at a loss, i really hope things will get better as well, and i hope to recover and get back to where i used to be and how i used to live. so yes, but there has been one sign that's given her hope for the past few days. she hasn't felt quite so exhausted. perhaps long cove it will go away on its own. ah, the symptoms of long cove it rarely just disappear on their own. some patients complain of pain fatigue or brain fog months after the initial sickness. but many medical professionals fail to take them seriously. that's one reason they've decided to organize their own self help groups. ashley
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jackson caught cove it early in the pandemic, but has now been suffering from long cove it for 2 years. one of the worst symptom she's having to deal with is chronic pain throughout her body. they're getting treatment has been difficult. my experience has been a lot of medical gas lacking in the last 2 years, i think as a black woman, and there's just a lot of medical med center not being dispelled in medical communities. and so there is the met that why people don't feel as much pain as someone else and like clearly not true for a conic hate and patient to not be experiencing pain. feeling abandoned by medical professionals, ashley has found support in a private online group set up for fellow lung cove. it sufferers in the black indigenous and people of color, or by pock community. i found that there was a bypass group that they had set up. that was particularly dedicated to people of color who were navigating these very nuanced experiences. and i think that that
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definitely validated some of my concerns of my medical sliding issues. and you know, if there was a test that i got, that was not correct, then they would indicate what i should do next. and there was really a community set up for us to hopefully navigate this well known cove. it is an invisible illness which makes it difficult to diagnose and treat. the online group provides ashley with confirmation and reassurance. i think it's made a huge difference having people that you can go to that are quite literally walking the same paths as you mean quite literally navigating the same circumstances invisible illnesses as a person of color. it's like, it's just a set up that in a structure that is not set for people who call it to succeed, medically is just wrong. so having that support team is everything alone, history of racial discrimination has affected the trust. many in black communities have been doctors and medical institutions. a poll conducted during the pandemic found that a majority of black americans have little faith in the health care system,
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needing to low vaccination rates and reluctance to seek early treatment. truth is within the health care system itself. a part of the reason that this trust exist today is because the experiences of the past of align with experiences that people are having today themselves, their family members, different ashley is making small steps to recovery. but at times have fight against long cove. it was only about survival. i think originally that just battling cove. it was scary because nobody knew it was really going on in the early stages of 2020 . i didn't think i was going to live to see 21 or to graduate. so coming to terms of like my own premature death. scary. ashley jackson now has that terrifying experience behind her, but she says her struggle to recover from long cove. it has only been exacerbated
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