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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 begin in bogota, columbia, where museums and galleries remain closed for nearly 6 months. local artists use the time to strike out in new directions. welcome to alcove at 19 special with colombian artist mo, started experimenting with new digital technologies during locked down. it takes to 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'm in the vehicle being in isolation was like hitting the jackpot because

as an artist 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 not. with crypt occurrences were skyrocketing at the time that could come on in the change of circumstances inspired him to immerse himself completely in the virtual world. and to conceive of new, exclusively digital works. louis louisiana cannot like them, but the speed is different, and 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 m, and people can share it immediately and instagram where we are viewed in the met averse without a thought. eddie capero runs concert 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 and mourned 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 teas offer us the opportunity to promote these artists international enter into amazon. a services at thesis is ethan eric 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 it this 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. get 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 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 tangled and but so we advised artists curators and gallery owners on how to exhibit and f t 's. in the metaphor, leslie thought 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 moonlighting, john is the pastor. there are millions of people who create great art godaddy and who would love to sell their intellectual property. their art works the little.

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 to lead yama life. those are the artists can upload their work here, but they don't just get like selected. and when they get dollars fell over one in east to he, $10000.00 with us, he or even a $1000000.00 on low levels. the us, 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. let them in mind that there's quite a busy at the most, al march, a 247 museum will be registered as a space in the block chain. in those are the, all the artists whose work certainly museum will be able to generate revenue for their works if you will. and a certain percentage of the profits will automatically end up in the artist swallows. it doesn't with the money coming, and there's still a long way to go. but more and more colombian artists are tourney 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. ah, 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 with 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 of love with my friends and from day to night it'll change. i'm mil it them out of us in radio. i'm from a do 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 ring a vacation. um, so there i had very bad cough and, but my fever didn't go up. so i think my experience with cove, its symptoms have changed. look gorgeous my step that went to the hospital. 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 the structure i even had before helped 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 who 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 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 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 they were using it as 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 recovered. 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 school that 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 cove. it not only thinking about cool, it's not that i can me or we don't like to need the antenna behind us. in many countries, new on the from sub ariens had emerged what awaits us this fall and winter when

cold weather as to the northern hemisphere. d, w reporter, hung sion lee speaks with immune knowledge is christina fug recess. there are grounds for optimism. josh kind of hike hello dr. phone line, which new varian saw a micron suck variance. can we expect this fall and winter as what momentous is covered in many countries and the be a v i variant has been dominant for quite some time height and it's replaced some older variance. right? but it's still an arm across variant. escaped via, there are other all microns, some variance too. 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 already of eyes of the often weak man. i forgot to threaten listen, go and saw will only the modified army cronan 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 one does, but there are large parts of the virus and the spike protein that are still identical to the original varian from china, then dishes. so got to do it, which was about a young to of kina gisele i are immune, system response, quite well to the parts of the virus that haven't changed that of him. so we still get good immunity. and even with the original vaccines and his the equity, immunity, advising verzati, who should get a 4th vaccine. if filter info 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. did anybody 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 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 one, right? and since we began studying in 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 it. they do respond and that helps prevent severe disease. but it doesn't necessarily prevent infection with monday finished unchecked. and can really do that. but we've been living with the virus 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. as a rule, stock 3, vaccinations will generate a strong immune response. active. yeah. on your immunological memory has been re activated and of course, so all of the mechanisms that fight the viral infection have been reactivated 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. well, no, 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 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 as is cholera, and 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. 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. done come to 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, bacterial 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 heater, so here you can see that every epidemic helped to bring about advances in medicine almost by the colonial wanted on this one with cholera,

they used of santa filter system to purify water on the spot as well. and with the current pandemic, this new vaccines were developed very quickly. and so the medical science progressed to go didn't seem beautiful, uncombed ah, the history of pant. 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. the kids can no device be living. there are a number of examples such as during smallpox and plague, outbreaks, what you see there were skeptic 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 that vessels for food when you can see what measures were taken and how they helped to save lives. she label gotten clinton hickey in athena, and so i abide by hygiene regulations, be cautious and also have a positive out leg, because this isn't the 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 b. o. 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 co producer at d. w. dot com for this week. he answers the question, oh, can covered 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 confines 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 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 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 pain to hopes to help people with his aunt. he's convinced the cannon has healing properties. the scientific proof that is contested on his enthusiasm is certainly uplifting. echo agreement is in his studio. in ganeth capital, a cra, the artist specializes in color for wakes on a broad variety of thieves. adds, has been his passion and livelihood for more than 3 decades. in recent years though,

grew mont has shifted his 4 course to more obstruct themes driven by color. when the cove lane, tim pandemic, his 2 years ago grew mom 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 fainting takes away, as i t know, the traumatic in conditions that 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 honda mic. he says it's his unusual use of color,

but transforms his works from paintings into a source of healing. you know, it's more everything that you, me happy's, um, medication. but we can also, i want people to know and understand and you can also use art 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 a, in my own way, is a remedy for so many diseases. in a mental health limit, you know, could you escalations, namely when the are done, grew mont 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 thee a co agreement is the 15th. i know whom i again interpret. the pandemic has put

a danes in commerce business. he says there struggle 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 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 will say that is what makes me so relaxed. the color separations, the dye gum in the motions. the color motions come on, come on, but it's, it's for, it's, i think that does, that's what makes and then his blended colors in such a way that the colors themselves, i think, speaks to the brim. the covered night in polemic 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 psychologist, see that art therapy can help people cope out rely, says the brain as he see the color even when we are not drawing you just for our signal. carlos, we settle for receipts. i showed that the link between the, the, the matron, the carlos and all that is releasing to the green and it's have to reduce the stress levels and bring about with activity and a site for me. 3 months or 2 weeks have long since found their way into private homes and public species. the painter now hopes that his arts will rich even more

people and bring relief to the eye distress. ah, that's all for this cause it 19 special. next week i will be reporting on the bola i'll bring 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, with

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