now, how documentary series will show you how people, companies and countries are rethinking everything, and making later changes. europe revealed, starts november 3rd on d. w, with ah, ah, the cabin 19 pandemic and its economic impacts have also, and least an epidemic of stress. mental health disorders have risen, world wine in ghana, one painter wants to use his art to help lift people spirits. but kevin 19 is not the world's 1st pandemic. an exhibition in hamburg documents the history of pandemic in the city, and uncovered some surprising parallels between past and present. but we began

in bogota, columbia, where museums and galleries remained closed for nearly 6 months. local artists used the time to strike out in new directions. welcome to alcove at 19 special columbian artist mo, started experimenting with new digital technologies during locked down, exhibiting his artworks in the virtual world of the med reverse. he's actually a painter and likes to use different materials, florescent colors, and plastic in his paintings. elated i mean the vehicle being in isolation was like hitting the jackpot because as an artist you need a lot of time for yourself. when i finally was able to try different techniques. i experimented a lot and was curious about this. digital crypt or crypt occurrences were skyrocketing at the time and i 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 can apply, compare the speed is different to man if it is sharing a digital artwork and an f teal goes much faster than when i want to sell a pending to a collector. do i create an, an f t and people can share it immediately and instagram where we are viewed in the met 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 amazon,

a status of the stuff is erica's 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. and if it jose luis, cardio 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. his him on muslim windows, we created about 9 digital copies of real exhibition spaces when they were closed

or else. then we realized that this was still a very new area in art as well. i located the la 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 tangles. 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 f 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. 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. so, so the artists can upload their work here, but they don't just get like selected. and when they get dollars older one,

you need to get 10001 as a see for even a 1000000 dollars window levels. this meeting will meet on the letter. gustavo wants to create a digital museum where works are registered as an f t z to be exhibited and sold this way, hopes to make it easier for artists to access the digital art market. once i'm in my book, there's quite yet the most m. r to, to 47 museum will be registered as, as a space in the block chain. in those are the, all the artists whose works are in the museum will be able to generate revenue for their works. in a certain percentage of the profits will automatically end up in the artist swallows. it doesn't with them. i think, i mean, there's still a long way to go. but more and more colombian artists are turning to nf 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. now my kind of in 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 love with my friends. and from day to night it all, teens. i'm military, this is radio. i'm from into it and i have coff 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 about coughs and but my fever didn't go up. so i

think my experience with it symptoms have changed. look towards my step that went to the hospital. my mom was really sick. 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. so suddenly it was all through computers and one day 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 could 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 back 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 hadn't really seen him or touch him. so when he came through the door and we saw him like completely, ok, it was a very big relief for all of us. and i think that moment was like a very they can put in one inside the pan there make and, and also well, there's this big place. it's called the by left of the yellow, it's the ice castle and we normally go there for ice skating. and i remember seeing on the news, they were using it as a morgue, and that was very also impacting to see like a place that would be full of fun and happy memory. suddenly, just like used for the cfo, my lungs may be experienced. i think up quite

a hard time during the course of it. so i think that that last for a little bit, but now i think i'm fully recovered and where my mask, 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 cove it around so i can move freely and maybe go to another country is to, to other countries to visit my family to come to actually like live experiences outside covert not only thinking about cove, it now that i can, ah, we don't like to leave the pandemic behind us, but in many countries, new on the trans siberian had emerged. what awaits us this fall and winter when cold weather comes to the northern hemisphere. d w, a reporter, hung sion lee speaks with immune knowledge. is christina fog, the says there are grounds for optimism. josh, i love her hike. hello,

dr. fowler 9, which new varian saw a micron suck variance? can we expect this fall and winter as what momentous, as has it in many countries and the be a v i variant has been dominant for quite some time high and it's replaced some older variance happening. but it's still an arm across variant, escaped via there are other alma cronsa 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 rehab eyes of the often beek, man, i forgot to tighten this new and so will only the modified ami kron vaccines. web sina is us niched as often it shouldn't be a problem, as long as the mutations and the variance are focused mainly on the surface of the spike protein. mike, that's at 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 and from china and dishes. so got to do it, which was about a young to us. kina gisela, are immune, system response quite well to the parts of the virus that haven't changed that awesome. 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 info if you're in 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, dignity come 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 how those people have what's called hybrid immunity, vaccinated and hud cove. it. how long does that protection last? isn't there individual that really varies in right. since we began studying at the immune response group, we found that some people are high 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 they do respond and that helps prevent severe disease. but it doesn't necessarily prevent infection that's monday finished unchecked. and kind of relieved that it looks like been living with the virus for 2 and a half years. how well does our immune system have cove it under control them under? i'm on the impetus. if you've been vaccinated 3 times than it has it pretty well under control you. as a rule, stock 3, vaccinations will generate a strong immune response. active. yeah. on your immunological memory has been re activated and has or so all of the mechanisms that fight the viral infection have

been re activated 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 longer, as long as that remains the case, we should have good immunity. i mean, which if need be, can also be updated for on a chron few. thank you. know, you're welcome. and now, day in age, we're lucky to have effective vaccines against many infectious diseases that once with 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 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. go. an exhibition at the medical history museum and hamburg explores pandemic throughout history and highlights the parallels between then and now. good them performed as to what's interesting is that diseases themselves don't resemble one another. and when 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 saw 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. the yellow flag in the international maritime signal flags system stands for q or 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. duncan, the color cholera hit in 1892, 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 humbug. 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 he does, he does so here you can see that every epidemic helped bring about advances in medicine, almost by the collateral. was it on this map with cholera? they used of santa filter system to purify water on disposal. and with the current pandemic, this new vaccines were developed very quickly. and so the medical science progressed to go, did it in beautiful, uncombed, ah,

the history of pandemic 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. though could scan no device below. 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 giggled. 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. processes to who to get you can see what measures were taken and how they helped to save lives. she label gotten clinton hickey interviewing 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 line. 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. to me, i do you have any questions about how the 19 a science correspond. and derek williams is here to answer them. just send your questions to kevin producer at d. w dot com this week he answers the question, oh, can kevin 19 increase your chance of developing a neurological disorder? oh, what tooth 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 get 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 soon army immune reaction that triggers a range of other symptoms, including many of the neurological ones that 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 cov, 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 percent 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. raise 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 a direct connection between coven 19 and possibly developing a range of neural disorders later. and it's pretty clearly linked to

the severity of a patient's disease. m. o. during the panoramic mental health disorders have increased worldwide in gonna one painter hopes to help people with his aunt. he's convinced the color has healing properties. the scientific proof of that is contested on his enthusiasm is certainly uplifting. echo agreement is in his studio in gunners capital, a cra, the artist specializes in color for wakes 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 4 course to more abstract themes driven by color. when the cove lane, tim pandemic,

his 2 years ago grew mon to began 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 fainting takes away, as i t know, the traumatic in conditions as we go through in life. that is my experience, you know, and it gives me focused in everything that i do. grandma wants his art to help people who are struggling with stress, depression, and anxiety amid the con demik. he says it's his own usual 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 that you can also use act 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 that, in my own way, is a remedy for so many diseases. in a mental health limit. you know, could you escalations naming when the are done? graham want 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 a cold grey morning is the 15th. i know whom i agony an interpreter. the pandemic has put a dank in commerce business. he says this drago to keep his business afloat and provide for his family, has been a source of constant anxiety. grim one spends time with coma,

guiding him on how to remain foreclosed 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, but it's, it's for, it's, i think, does, does it as well mix and then his blended colors in such a way that the colors themselves. i think, speaks to the bring. the cover lighting pandemic has taken a toll. 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. psychology is see that at therapy can help people cope really. i says the brain, i see, see the colors, if you will, you, i'm a drawing you are just for our signal carlos research uh, research. i shown that the link between the, the, the image trend, the carlos and all that is releasing to the green. and it's have to reduce the stress levels and bring about food. actually, t n a site for me, 3 months to weeks have long since found their way into private homes and public species. the paint them our hopes that his arts will rich even more people and bring relief to the eye distress. oh, that's all for this cause it 19 special. next week i will be reporting on the bola

break 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 with ah, with

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