ah, ah, raring to read. ah, every one who loves books has to go insane. d w. literature list, 100 german most reads. oh, over all the number of covert cases is going down worldwide. are we finally getting the upper hand? will the pandemic soon be over? well not in china, although beijing is sticking to its strict 0 covert policy, the number of infections there is rising. welcome to a new cove at 19 special. among other things we have a report from shanghai were entire cities, owns are still locked down and millions of people are not allowed to leave their homes. busy also in the show, living with a risk factor more than

a 1000000 americans have died of co with 19 in the last 2 years. almost 40 percent of them were diabetic. ah. but 1st we had to the u. k. and to gina and her little daughter, the mother caught cove at 19 during pregnancy, her baby had to be delivered prematurely. we see how gene and lives with the trauma and how she's plunging into new adventures. 015 month old bonnie is a happy, healthy, cheeky baby. is a testament to mum jean as remarkable strength after her battle with coven 19. in february last year gina began suffering severe symptoms while pregnant was forced to deliver bonnie prematurely. i couldn't brave. i felt like it was i was drowning

. that's the only way i can explain it. i remember early i was in the moon intakes in all of my immediate family, tell them i loved him because i didn't think i was gonna buy carp. and in the morning they come in and pretty much said right, we're whizzing you down straight away. you got to be, it's got to be don't die. i was maybe and then to light it. gina was so on. well, doctors told her a c section was the only way to save both her and her daughter a house side. so an gray. i felt so scared. my husband could be there. no one was there. they just held, hold her up so i could see whether she was a boy or a girl. and in that was it. she was was to why not sincere for 14 days. that was of her the 1st time i got see her face play in the photograph. bonnie was delivered at just 30 weeks. maybe sent me a little brown in vibe. so that was how i saw her one midwife in particular. i just held my hands out to her because i knew she was the one that was dep, him for it because i wanted to help her. he couldn't

couldn't touch anyway. it was something a of a saw farmers. they because some, but old consultants in that they had these quite big lot more sown with tubes coming around into oxygen tanks and it was so surreal. so through this was me, me enough for the 1st time during her pregnancy, gina was advised against vaccination. pregnant women were not included in clinical trials and data was limited. expectant mothers were not officially advised to get the vaccine in the u. k, until april last year is may my husband and her for the 1st time as well or health officials. now say women like gina will let down a st. curriculum has had a lot of mixed messaging through the pandemic. so originally that was said, all, it's all fine, don't worry, you know, it doesn't seem to affect the pregnancy at all. then became, oh you're within the vulnerable group. so take extra special care,

but don't get less. and i said, until we have the food safety data from the vaccines coming out, saying, actually you can get vaccinated. experts say studies now make a clear case of vaccination in pregnancy. the latest national data shows almost all pregnant women, hospitalized with cove 19 or on vaccinated, and the government's running a campaign to boost, maxine writes, not the axiom does not cause miscarriage does not cause as best as not in consider school premature burst. and for now, we are confident to add a command vaccine to bring on. it's, it is true that the best way to protect and bring a woman. and her baby is to get the coven bessie. the risks of covert on pregnancy are also clear. professor iris papa joe joe as the cobalt of a major label study which documented how close it increase his risks for both mother and baby. in part, he says, because expectant mothers immune systems

a weaker, it is clear that covert during pregnancy increases the chances of premature birth increases the chances of blood pressure and moms and through the process of premature birth also causes significant effects on the baby. as well as a risk of still birth to the day. although covered restrictions in the u. k, we lifted on to the emergence of omicron risks for pregnant women, remain. iris is now co authoring another major global study. researching the effects of new variance on expectant mothers and newborns with less known about their impact on the kron seems to be on the face of it. less severe. but we need to be a little bit cautious because women, the population. lots of people have been baxon ices, or had the condition and therefore have antibodies. sometimes it can appear that viruses less severe, just because a lot of people have immunity. but for those people who are not immune,

it may be the lower still has a significant impact less of bonnie in the color, fos for gina the trauma of her battle with cove. it lingered before but today she and bonnie as the lucky ones will come to what gina is raising money for the near natal unit which can for bonnie is her way of giving back to the team who may well have saved her and her daughter's life smooth d w signs correspondent derek williams keeps on top of the latest scientific reset . to day he answers the question of a risk faxes that make you more likely to contract lung cause it. oh, as you can probably guess, this kind of research is just super complicated to carry out. not least because the term long cove, it doesn't describe a straightforward condition, but

a wide range of complaints that are all still generally lumped together under the medical term. post acute sequoia les of coded 19 or pasco. but we're slowly starting to untangle what risk factors seem to be linked most often to it. let's start with some straightforward aspects. some studies indicate that women are at higher risk of past, especially 40 to 60 year olds. in general, middle aged people and the elderly, appear to be more affected by a than younger people are. and the evidence is also piled up that if you're not fully vaccinated, then your chances of developing past after a catching the disease are higher. now on to the more complicated stuff,

a recent study involving hundreds of test subjects and over 70 researchers worldwide came to the cautious conclusion that at least 4 other factors could be playing roles. in the development of past. the one that stuck out most was the presence of water called auto anti bodies, which are anti bodies produced by the immune system that attack the bodies, tissues by mistake. a long coded sufferers often seem to make auto antibodies very early on. in the course of their infections, i'm a 2nd contributing factor could be heavy viral load during and infection with source covey to perhaps, unsurprisingly, people in the study who, for whatever reason, had high levels of the corona virus in their bodies while they were actively ill.

they seemed more likely to go on to develop past. the 3rd factor that appeared linked to long cove, its symptoms was the reactivation in the body of another pathogen called the epstein barr virus, which causes the disease mano, nucleus is also known as glandular fever. now nearly all of us are infected with this extremely common virus as kids or young adults. but even after we shake off the symptoms, the epstein bar virus doesn't disappear, but instead goes into a kind of hibernation in your body and it can reactivate again later in life. that flare up also seems to regularly happen in some past sufferers. and finally,

the 4th factor linked to long coded that the scientists identified was a common co morbidity. of those who have type 2 diabetes, also seemed more likely to develop past in the wake of a coven 19 infection. m. o experts have found that one thing in particular that can be to a severe case of kevin 19 is diabetes. d w correspondent in his pull focuses on the people living with diabetes. the numbers are shocking me. over a 1000000 people in the united states lost their lives to the co with 19 pandemic. in the last 2 years, almost 40 percent of these were patients with diabetics working as a nurse, i saw a lot of people lose their lives from comorbidities and,

and cove. it and was diabetes, it comes with, you know, kidney failure and kidney disease and, and that plays a big factor as well as on top of being sick, insolent chrysler or tough right now. you know, people are rationally insulin, no, in order to, to just to get by because they can't afford it. so a lot of people are unfortunately losing their lives from not having the correct amount of insulin. but amy nose is better than most because she was diagnosed with diabetes at a very young age. as a 7 year old. you always want to fit in. you want to be the same as every other kid . you want to go outside and play sports and play recess at school. and i was sometimes taken away from that. if my blood sugar was low, i kind of had to sit on the sidelines and eat a snack to get my blood sugar up. i'm if my blood sugar was high, i had to go to the nurses office and take insulin. so i was kind of taken away from those normal activities that a normal 7 year old would participate in. there is some stigma towards people with diabetes that having this disease is somehow their own fault,

something the doctor rodriguez fides through his diabetes, summer camp many children don't have a schoolmate or a friend that has type one diabetes and it can make them feel very isolated to be able to be at a camp in some cases with 100 or more children that all get up in the morning. a test their blood sugar or they're using a continuous glucose monitor. they're counting the carbo hydrates, they're dosing, arizona, and all of that. and, and for them to realize that they aren't the only individual diabetes i think is tremendously empowering to understand how to empower the people. it's also crucial to understand the core of the disease, said b, this is a complicated disease. we have some people who are born with a predisposition for type one diabetes. we have folks who may have type 2 diabetes and may be at risk because of the environments that they live

in there. so. so you cannot michel, status, the education level, all this, which people use diabetes at a very dangerous intersection. this cold over 19, has had an impact on all of us. this virus is this infection just exacerbated their condition and also put them in severe risk for complicate complications from the virus itself. i've learned that we need to put aside all of our biases and just be human beings again. dr. rodriguez from the florida diabetes camp has some advice. so specifically for children, i would say, and their parents, honest, obviously, learn everything. you can learn everything. you can surround yourself with

supportive individuals, and i don't let diabetes limit your asperger's so fall of a 6000000 people have died from the corona virus. every day, thousands more around the world are added to that long list. what makes the virus so dangerous is that it affects many different organs, dw reportage, stephanie solving. listen to the latest research. since the start of the pandemic, scientists have been describing sars covey too. as a multi organ aggressor. the virus can be found not only in the lungs, but in many other organs of the human body. and now international studies have been reporting new findings. more than 400 people who had been infected with the corona virus sometime earlier, were examined at germany's university medical center. hamburg happened off or

u. k. e. diary of physicians. but with examined people with mild and moderate cases who had not gone to the hospital. and interestingly, and surprisingly, we found evidence of mild functional impairment of the heart which will kidneys and lungs you 6 months later, not fix more. lung volume was reduced by a total of up to 3 percent compared with the control group. hard examinations showed an average reduction of pumping strengths by one to 2 percent. kidneys filtering function, a 2 percent reduction. speaking of an asi mason, we assume that roster has organ dysfunctions aren't completely reversible. it, however, lasting minimal organ limitations cannot be ruled down on some patients, especially those with severe corona virus cases. i'll skip these are things that we need to examine more closely in the future,

longer term studies to configure the name of this things we can see if you can tell you from the filter in other parts of the body, such as blood vessels, the effects of even mild cases of corona, virus infection. a more apparent of number 29. and since it's chris dr. ellis, 2 is worth noting that larger ongoing studies which have followed 150000 patients now for up to 12 months after their coven 19 cases have shown that it can significantly more often lead to cardiovascular disease, such as heart attacks and strokes, thrombosis and rambo. embolic events, unfair that is indeed worrying about oh, tom will spilled on one company bullish nigh this little dust isn't attach on wouldn't. the corona virus can also, in fact the liver directly and lead to inflammation and altered metabolic processes as another you case study found. the brain can also be affected by a corona, virus,

infection, smell and taste disorders are unknown and common symptom. the vegas nerve originates in the brain from there, it leads to the abdomen. it's connected to the heart, lung, intestines, and muscles. and it controls heart beat, breathing and digestion, if saws covey to damages the vegas nerves function. this can lead to diarrhea, rapid heartbeat, dizziness, difficulty swallowing, as well as a drop in blood pressure. the pandemic has had some positive consequences, though. since few people suffered infections in general, for your antibiotics were prescribed in germany. fewer than at any time since their invention. d w reporter christina kutner asks if this new development can be sustained, couldn't talk to have one still free it. hello, mister vanstone afraid nice. you could join us today. me actually. and during the coven pandemic, there has been

a drop in the amount of antibiotics being prescribed a significant drop. could you explain why that might be? this is a difficult circ leon davina as at yahoo and no reply. yes, we've been seeing a decline in the use of antibiotics in germany for years now. bushland, the corner germany, is in any case in the bottom 3rd internationally and in europe when it comes to using antibiotics that has dropped even further during the pandemic. this the under upon the me not my daughters work longest. he reason does that's in keeping with a long term trend on yoga clinton busy in this even almost every year. yeah. we see a drop in the use of antibiotics. it was, it was full glory fishes herself. mister, does that mean that far too many were prescribed in the past im and when it's not truly in ellipse, of course in the last few years we've become particularly conscious of the fact that every single prescription is potentially increasing the risk of resistance. gillis since we the course and naturally,

and of course it has something to do with public awareness school to torn been de puts you in to the patients insist on receiving antibiotics and they'll probably always be able to find a doctor who will prescribe membership was mine not strengthened in on to go to come for all this. so it also has something to do with awareness among the populations, mittened wilson and a referral to to him. thanks so much please. my pleasure. in shanghai, they were reports of people screaming us if they windows at night because they couldn't get enough to eat this film that can no longer be seen in china because beijing's online census deleted it shows a compilation of telephone calls. impressions and recorded conversation was in court and of districts of shanghai. yardley mailed to me about a paragraph. in that manner one, can i ask to combat the outbreak of it? will sy sees? are instead administering herbal remedies that are useless against coven 19, and also harmful to health? still china sticking to its strict 0 coven policy?

shanghai has been in lockdown for a month. oh. it's not the 1st time traditional chinese medicine or t. c. m. has been used in china's battle against covert 19, but it's distribution among people and shanghai has been unprecedented. millions of batches of the homeopathic capsule, young watching, one were handed out to people under locked down this month. so, so its song says she and her 4 fled maids received 6 boxes. i actually, we don't take it because, ah, from the social media i got, i followed is meant for like hearing your symptoms. it's not preventing you from that co way is sounds either the on what ching once ingredients include honeysuckle, licorice, rude, and other herbs,

t c. m practitioner say it can help suppress fever and sore throat but health experts. one, it's not an alternative to vixen's. the leading chinese neurologists recently had out at the promotion of young watching when he questioned why had received delivery priority in shanghai. when many people under locked on were struggling with access to food. we think that they are and then she is focus more on the basic needs for their paypal reports. have also linked china's health don luncheon with the maker of the pill. eeling pharmaceutical john guides, china's coven 19 policy. as head of the national health commission, he said to have received funding from eeling for his own medical foundation and also signed a cooperation agreement with the company. but beijing's also strongly back the t. c . m. industry worth some 60000000000 a year according to the world health organization. the promotion of this,

this kind of medical market is something that certainly being encouraged, the idea being that if this industry can be developed to a certain level of maturity, where are some very highly the drugs are developed then you know, these, these can become part of the more mainstream mix of different types of treatments, not only domestically, but also internationally. the debate over the use of tcm has even taken on the nationalistic tone. people criticizing it, have been accused of betraying china. politics seem to once again, be trumping scientific efforts to be cobit 19 ah, the only chrome variant is the problem for china's 0 cove and strategy. in the spring hong kong had the world's highest desperation among corona virus. patients. now, for the time being, the wave seems to have lost strength in the metropolis who's

a hong kong travel agency circles to survive by turning itself into a grocery instead of troops. they sell food from overseas. many others are shattered because of the pandemic or the clothes she has made to travelling almost impossible for over 2 years. however, the air post departure terminal is getting busier. since the beginning of this year, whole whole snapped outflow half peaked, as about a $165000.00 in april, over 5 times to total number of last year. many a foreign talent, like john wood, who left with his business up to 80 s in hong kong. i want to be able to have my son where he has the freedom to do simple things like go to the beach or walk around out doors, a lot of mass guy. and as a global philanthropist, i want to have the freedom to travel around the world and raised my seed funding. and so for me, hong kong went from one of the most open, exciting cities in the world to being the thing that is closed and petrified,

where the government's policies seem to change willy nilly. the final straw is hong kong. so here is to china cabinet policy prompting the toughest measures ever emitted omeka an outbreak. not only individuals voted with feats, but also companies, companies or have significant problems to refill positions to attract talent, to hong kong, across industries, even reaching as far as financial services industry, which has usually been perceived as the most resilient part of it. in the latest survey, released by the european chamber of commerce, about half of the european companies in hong kong plan to relocate in the coming year. only 17 percent were families say, hong kong is actually a popular baseball region. the headquarters of all businesses. the exit comes on top of the local brain drain, triggered by political pupils and the sweeping national security law. when you wake

up every morning and see that journalists are being arrested, ah, that some newspaper publishers are being arrested. that there is no more freedom or sam boy, no more freedom of speech that hits me pretty hard if you can subtract the city state, tallest solitude if you do the cultural dna and your actual dna dies, it's. i 88, a global ally body set hung whole has been effectively off the map as an aviation hub. flights bands and compulsory hotel quarantine happens slightly blast up the backlash starting from may, visitors can enter hong kong for the 1st time in over 2 years. is a long awaited 1st step, a fall from enough for foreign businesses, as they call for a clear road map of who opening up. companies have to search for alternate super connectors. tokyo on call will not lose it's status with regards to mainland china . would have to see hong hall has always recovered from crisis over dec case. but

this time there is no guarantee that's it for this week's curve at 19 special. we hope you can join us again next week. goodbye and stay healthy. ah ah ah

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