success in our weekly coven, 19 special next on d. w. ah, what people have to say matters to us for me, that's why we listen to their stories. reporter, every weekend on d. w. ah! ah, the cousin 19 pandemic, and its economic impacts have also at least an epidemic of stress. mental health disorders have risen, world wine in gonna one painter wants to use his art to help lift people's spirits . but coven 19 is not the world's 1st pandemic. unofficial. in hamburg,

documents the history of pandemic in the city, and on covers some surprising parallels between past and present. but we begin in bogota, columbia, where museums and galleries remain closed for nearly 6 months. local artists used the time to strike out in new directions. welcome to alcove at 19 special colombian artist mo, started experimenting with new digital technologies during lockdown, exhibiting his artworks in the virtual world of the med averse he's actually a painter and likes to use different materials, florescent colors, and plastic and his paintings. delays them in the vehicle being in isolation was like hitting the jackpot because as an artist need

a lot of time for yourself. like a more i finally was able to try different techniques. i experimented a lot and was curious about this digital crypto or not with crypto currencies were skyrocketing at the time that could someone in the change of circumstances inspired him to immerse himself completely in the virtual world and to conceive of new exclusively digital works. louisiana cannot michael, but the speed is different, and if it is sharing a digital artwork, an f teal goes much faster than when i want to sell a pending to a collector. do i create an, an f t m, and people can share it immediately and instagram where we are viewed in the med averse without a thought. eddie capero runs cause a dement, a, an art gallery in bogota. she thinks and f t's are a good way to market emerging artists like mo, internationally unlike other digital artworks and have keys cannot be copied. they can be sold globally, like paintings or sculptures. in more and all the art world in colombia is quite

exclusive. and so it's relatively difficult for a young artist to get a 1st exhibition and even more difficult for them to sell their work. this so nf t's offer us the opportunity to promote these artists international and inter amazon a services at b, as in harry goes focusing on exhibitions and the metaphors. visitors to the immersive virtual exhibition can interact with the works here. they can also buy them using crypto currency that wasn't coming up. we're heading in the right direction. it's been a hot topic. and during the pandemic, a lot of colombians have invested in crypto currency. there's a lot of people who already understand the system, but, and with the crypto currencies, we have an f, t c us any, was any of the big jose luis codio is a programmer. during the pandemic, he recreated many of the most important museums in columbia. and put them on line he's currently developing an app that artists can use to exhibit their works in the

metaphors and sell them directly. is him on muslim windows, we created about 9 digital copies of real exhibition spaces. when they were closed isabels. then we realized that this was still a very new area in art as well. i love the law when it all started with the n f t boom and the new digital platforms in 2021. a lot of people had never heard of it tangled and but so we advised artists curators and gallery owners on how to exhibit and f t in the metaphor as little as that has been. the san felipe, a neighborhood in bogota, is one of the cities cultural centers. that's where we meet gustavo so much. he thinks that and if t's are a great opportunity for artists to earn more money in lighting, john is the best. there are millions of people who create great art today and who would love to sell their intellectual property. their art works like instead they

just uploaded to instagram for like cnn last week, but the idea behind web free point. oh, is a different philosophy of distributing value in the jama life, those are the artists can upload their work here, but they don't just get like slick them when they get dollars older, one least, to get 10001 s a c or even a $1000000.00 on the o levels, the s me only on the letter, gustavo wants to create a digital museum, where works are registered as an f t's to be exhibited, and sold this way. hopes to make it easier for artists to access the digital art market lumped them in his mouth, deals quite as yet the most ail march, a 247 museum will be registered as a space in the block chain. in the south, the all the artists whose works are in the museum will be able to generate revenue for their works if it will. and a certain percentage of the profits will automatically end up in the artist swallows. it doesn't the might be coming and there's still a long way to go. but more and more colombian artists are tourney to, and if keys to realize their dream of making a living from art,

a dream born in the nightmare of cove, it is now taking its 1st steps towards becoming a reality. for one young woman in madrid, spain the pandemic, comes to shadow over the last few years of high school. she got cove twice herself and had to sheldon new responsibilities in o, my cousin series. she tells her story in it's probably one of the most important experiences of my life until now. because well, when it started, i was 15 years old, only i was expecting like this whole new life starting and my teenage years being super fun and going out a lot with my friends. and from day to night it all changed. i'm mil at the other radio. i'm from madrid and i have cough at 19 i didn't really have a bad cough, but i did have some high fevers and my head hurt like never before. but then the

2nd time i got cove it, it was actually during a vacation. um, so there i had very bad coughs and, but my fever didn't go up. so i think my experience with covet symptoms have changed. look towards my step that went to the hospital and my mom was really thick . i sometimes had to like go out to the grocery store and do things. then i really felt like the responsibility of my family and basically relying on me. and there was times where i was maybe very lonely, but then i also remember that this wasn't forever, even inside the chaos, the family, and maybe a structure i even had before. help me get through it. i think the impact of coven in schools and location has been huge. it affected us on the way of learning. suddenly it was all through computers and one they,

we went to school and another day we said at home and we have online classes. i think that really has affected us and you can see you can see that and the results of the exams and the results like of people's own experiences. well, i have 2 main memories. i'd say one is my step that coming back from the hospital because it had been almost a month and we didn't really know a lot about him. like how was he, where was he? we haven't really seen him or touched him. so when he came through the door and we saw him like completely, ok, it was a very big for all of us. and i think that moment was like a very i can put in one inside the pandemic and also, well, there's this big place. it's called the black, the yellow, it's the ice castle and we normally go there for ice skating. and i remember seeing on the news that we're using it as a more and that was very also impacting to see like

a place that would be full of fun and happy memories. suddenly, just like used for the seas, people, my lungs may be experienced. i think up quite a hard time doing the coven. so i think that the last for a little bit, but now i think i'm fully covered where my mask a when places are very crowded, but i also like to live my life. as of i like to thing that there isn't that much covert around so i can move freely and maybe go to another countries to, to other countries, to visit my family, to, to actually like live experiences outside call it. not only thinking about cool. it's not that i can i or we don't like to need the antenna behind us, but in many countries, new on the from sub variance how much, what awaits us this fall and winter when cold weather comes to the and hemisphere

d w reporter, hung sion lee speaks with immune knowledge is christina fog, who says there are grounds for optimism. josh, idaho. hike? hello, dr. foundation line, which new varian saw army kron suck variance. can we expect this fall and winter as what momentous hazard in many countries the be a v i variant has been dominant for quite some time high and it's replaced some older variance. right? but it's still an arm across variant. escaped via, there are other all microns, sod variance tune. it's much like b, a 275, and b, q one. winds, which are getting a lot of attention and which may be on the rise in some countries reach of eyes of the often weak man. why fi golf to treatment? listen, go and saw will only the modified army crone vaccines. web sina is us niched as often it shouldn't be a problem. as long as the mutations in the variance are focused mainly on the

surface of the spike protein. mike, that's the place where the virus is changing so that it can better enter the host cell yet. and that's where the mutations are located time does, but there are large parts of the virus and the spike protein that are still identical to the original, very end from china, then dishes. so got to do it, which was about a young to of keena gays, of ohio, our immune system response quite well to the parts of the virus that haven't changed the document. so we still get good immunity and even with the original vaccines, and is the equity immunity advising vazo to who should get a 4th vaccine effect to infill is scar. and germany for this depot vaccine commission recommends a 4th vaccination, a 2nd booster for people over the age of 60 and for people with any form of immunosuppression. i really commend and that includes people who are taking medication that suppresses their immune system or are receiving treatment for an illness that compromises their immune system. mentioned people under 60, with

a healthy immune system, don't necessarily need a 2nd booster with 3 doses. they're already well protected against severe disease and fun. and of course many people have already had coven, district, diesel mentioned. hm. those people have what's called hybrid immunity, vaccinated and had cove. it. how long does that protection last? isn't there individual that really varies in life? and since we began studying the immune response, we found that some people are hi responders. meaning they have a strong and long lasting mucosal immunity that last 6 months or a year and i was, yeah. and then there are the low responders who don't get such a great immune response on it. they do respond and that helps prevent severe disease. but it doesn't necessarily prevent infection with monday finished unchecked. and can really even started with we've been living with the virus very for 2 and a half years. how wow, does our immune system have cove it under control them under i don't get into this if you've been vaccinated 3 times than it has it pretty well under control. you

know, as a rule, stock 3, vaccinations will generate a strong immune response. active. yeah. on that you're immune, a logical memory has been reactivated and is or so all of the mechanisms that fight the viral infection have been reactivated to men. right now we're in a good position and the variance we're seeing around the world are still quite similar to. i'm a chron long it. as long as that remains the case, we should have good immunity, which if need be, can also be updated for on a chron few. thank you. know, you're welcome. and now day and age. we're lucky to have effective vaccines against many infectious diseases that once were deadly. so how did people in the past try to protect themselves from contagious diseases, and exhibition and handbook takes a look at the history of the pandemic. the corona virus pandemic propelled the world into an unprecedented state of emergency

. at least that's how it felt. in fact, in the course of history, there have been numerous pandemic that claimed millions of lives from the plague to colorado and the spanish flu. and exhibition at the medical history museum and hamburg explores pandemic throughout history and highlights the parallels between then and now. good them go from this to what's interesting is that diseases themselves don't resemble one another. the plague, for example, is a disease caused by bacterial pathogens and as is cholera, what are similar are the containment measures. they were taking the same measures back then. i've shown the black death cross meant keep your distance or risk infection. when the plague hit hamburg, infected people were kept in isolation in so called plague houses and efforts were made to identify potential super spreaders in flooding. a yellow flag in the

international maritime signal flags system stands for q for quarantine. a ship would hoist this flag when it needed to be checked by a plague, dr. voice and also the exhibition also reveals that throughout the ages fighting pandemic has been a case of trial and error. done come to color, cholera hick in $1892.00 and took a heavy toll in hamburg. very little was known in the city about the disease at the time. there was no awareness that it was bacterial, for example, bacteria is in humble early methods to fight the plague included burning incense. it was only once the city had a proper sewage system and improved hygiene infrastructure that it managed to get things under control once either this either. so here you can see that every epidemic helped to bring about advances in medicine almost by the colonial. wanted on just met with cholera, they used a sand filter system to purify water on the spot as well. and with the current

pandemic and new vaccines were developed very quickly. and so the medical science progressed to go didn't seem beautiful, uncombed ah, the history of pend amex is also the history of medical progress and achievement. but as the exhibition shows, medical advances have often met with resistance. there have always been sections of the population that dismissed the science. peddling, conspiracies about infectious diseases and refusing treatment as these caricature is from bygone era's illustrate. gives kilo device believe there are a number of examples such as during smallpox and plague outbreaks where you see there were skeptics and people who oppose the vaccines. you're creating who gayden gay. so the past few years have seen history repeat itself. the exhibition in hamburg shows that, in fact, we can look to history and learn from it. vessels for food,

when you can see what measures were taken and how they helped to save lives. she label gotten clinton hickey in a thing that i and so i abide by hygiene regulations, be cautious and also have a positive out leg because this isn't a last time we're going to be in this position to anyone. that's one of the exhibitions messages. it's up to us to make the most of what we know about pandemic past and present b. o. do you have any questions about her? the 19 as science correspond, and derek williams is here to answer them. just send your questions to co producer at d. w dot com this week he answers the question, oh, can cove it 19 increase your chance of developing a neurological disorder? oh, what tube 19 can do to your brain and, and nervous system has been

a topic of intense research, but it's one that's gotten a little bit lost and the background racket a surrounding the disease. so let's look for a 2nd at what can happen to you neurologically when you get it and, and why in most people covered 19 symptoms will remain mostly confined to the upper respiratory tract where the initial fight between your immune system and the virus a gets started when things generally start to get dangerous is if the virus moves down into your lungs, causing pneumonia and limiting oxygen uptake among other severe knock on effects. this critical situation can lead to a kind of su nami, immune reaction that triggers a range of other symptoms, including many of the neurological ones that have been linked to the disease. so in

short, experts now thing that most cobit related neural disorders are not caused by the virus directly attacking your brain or your central nervous system, but by the bodies massive immune response as it desperately tries to wipe out the pathogen as your body battles. the virus, neurological effects are sort of down to friendly fire as, as the immune system goes into overdrive and a serious infection. that's why the most serious neural disorders are observed in coven 19 patients who have to be hospitalized. and even after those patients supposedly recover, they remain at higher risk of developing persistent, long term symptoms like difficulty concentrating or sensory loss or sleep

disorders and very commonly chronic fatigue. so back to the question, how much exactly does having cove it increase your chances of developing neurological disorders down the road? well, different studies are still nailing down the numbers that one published in the journal nature earlier this month, that worked with a dataset of close to 6000000 individuals in the u. s. it came to the conclusion that patients with coven 19 have a $42.00 per se, and increased risk of developing neurological symptoms in the year after the acute phase of the infection. that translates into 7 percent of infected patients overall being hospitalized raised the chances of developing those neural disorders . and the patients most at risk were not surprisingly, those who ended up in intensive care. so there's little question that there's

a direct connection between coven 19 and possibly developing a rec m. o. during the pandemic, mental health disorders have increased volt white in gonna one painter hopes to help people with his aunt. he's convinced that connor has healing properties. the scientific proof that is contested money. his enthusiasm is certainly uplifting. echo agreement is in his studio in ganeth capital, a cra, the artist specializes in color for wax on a broad variety of themes. art has been his passion and livelihood for more than 3 decades. in recent years though, grew mont has shifted his full cause to more obstruct themes driven by color.

when the cove lane till pandemic, his 2 years ago grew mon to begun spending more time in his studio, he says, painting is the best way to cope with. worry and stress i don't remember the last time i got angry only. oh, i got scared of anything venting takes away, as i t know, the traumatic in conditions that we go through in life. that is my experience, you know, and he kissed me focused in everything that i do. grandma wants his art to help people who are struggling with stress, depression, and anxiety amid the honda. mig, he says it's his unusual use of color that transforms his wax from paintings into a sort of healing. you know, it's more everything that you may have to use um, medication. but you can also,

i want people to know and understand and you can also use arts to solve problems, you know, for all of nature. yeah. if i should say console problems and solve even, ah, fine remedies for diseases as is a remedy in my own way. is a remedy for so many diseases. you know, mental health limit, you know, cardiovascular issues, namely when the are done, groom on photographs, his paintings, and processes them digitally. the parsons of color he creates, are not only visually compelling, but sick to speak directly to the brain. to day, i called grim aunt is the 15th, i know, coma, and canyon interpreter day. the pandemic has put a danes in commerce business. he says the struggle to keep his business afloat and provide for his family has been

a source of constant anxiety. gremlins spend time with coma, guiding him on how to remain focused on the works of art. he brought with him after just a few minutes in males in the art coma says his worries and anxieties. i relieved. i hope i will say that is what makes me feel relaxed. the color, separations, der di gum in the motions. the color motions come on, come on the it's, it's for it's, i think, thus does, that's what makes and then his blended colors in such a way that the colors themselves. i think, speaks to the bring the covered lights in pandemic has taken a tool. many people have lost, loved ones, and livelihoods, and depression. anxiety of stress on the rise on treated. these

emotions can have a profound impact on mental and physical health psychologist, see that art therapy can help people cope out releases the brain. i've seen see the colors even when we are not drawing you just for our signal. carlos, we set up where we say i showed that the link between the, the, the image trend, the carlos and all that is we last into the green. and it's have to reduce the stress levels and bring about with actually t and as fights. gremlins are to weeks have long st found their way into private rooms and public species. the painter now hopes that his arts will rich even more people and bring relieve to the eye distress. ah, that's all for this kelvin 19 special. next week i will be reporting on the bola outbreak

in uganda, and how cove it related public health measures a helping stem, the spread of the deadly virus in the country. join us for that and more until then take care. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

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