ah, next on d w. how about taking a few risks you could even take a chance on the rear in to with don't expect to happy ending literature list germany ah, ah, the covered 19 pandemic and it's economic impacts have also at least an epidemic of stress. mental health disorders have risen wolf, wine in gonna one painter wants to use his aunt to help lift people spirits. but coven 19 is not the world's 1st pandemic. and 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 used the time to strike out in new directions. welcome to alcove in 19 special columbian artist mo, started experimenting with new digital technologies during lockdown, exhibiting his artworks in the virtual world of the mid reverse. he's actually a painter and likes to use different materials, florescent colors, and plastic and his paintings. eliza musical being in isolation was like hitting the jackpot because as an artist, you 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 crypt or crypt occurrences 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 back on, but the speed is different from an effort sharing a digital artwork and f t 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. erica pereira runs cause it 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 if keys cannot be copied, they can be sold globally, like paintings or sculptures anymore. and all the art world in columbia 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. and then mr. ne 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. because him on muslim windows,

we created about 9 digital copies of real exhibition spaces. when they were closed on several, then we realized that this was still a very new area in art as well. i la, okay. 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. angles 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 f t's are a great opportunity for artists to earn more money. in moonlighting, 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 that instead they just uploaded to instagram for life and at last week, but the idea behind web free point. oh is a different philosophy of distributing value village. emma likes those and the

artists can upload their work here. but they don't just get like slick them when they get dollars. older. one in east to he, $10000.00 associate, or even a $1000000.00 on the o levels. the us, me only on the letter gustavo wants to create a digital museum where work's 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. once i'm in my, with lucille marcher, 247 museum will be registered as a space on 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 if you will. and 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 tourney to and if she used 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 it twice herself and had to sheldon new responsibilities in o my coven 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'll change. i'm really about us in radio. i'm from a did and i had cove 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 coven symptoms have changed. lot course my stuff 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 feel 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 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, so only was all 3 computers and one day we went to school 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 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 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 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 a morgue 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 cs people, my lungs may be experienced. i think it 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. 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 covert around so i can move freely and maybe go to another country's to, to other countries to visit my family to um, to actually like live experiences outside covert. not only thinking about corporate, not that i can. mm hm. mm hm. we don't like to leave the pandemic behind us, but in many countries, new on the trans sub variance have emerged. what awaits us this fall and winter when cold weather comes to the northern hemisphere? dw reporter hung sion lee speaks with immune knowledge. is christina fog,

who says there are grounds for optimism sheesh. i love her hike. hello dr. far $89.00 for which new varian saw a micron suck variance. can we expect this fall and winter? i thought momentous heavily in many countries and the be a 5 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 and a skipped via there are other all microns sod variance tune. it's much like b a 275, and b q one. wines 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 going saw will only the modified army cronan vaccines. web sina is as niched as awkward, 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 variant from china then dishes. so got to do with from about a young to of hiena. when visible 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 isn't even with the original vaccines and is equal to immunity icon, viaz i to who should get a 4th vaccine effect to inform is jar 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 um those people have what's called hybrid immunity, vaccinated and had cove. it how long does that protection last? necessary individual that really varies in life. and since we began studying of the immune response we, we found that some people are high responders, meaning they have a strong and long lasting mucosal immune. i did 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. you know, they do respond and that helps prevent severe disease. but it doesn't necessarily prevent infection that monday finished unchecked. and kind of relieved that it was like, 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 emphasis 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 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 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 our micron longer. 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. 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 appendix 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, simple from this the, what's interesting is that diseases themselves don't resemble one another. and when the plague for sample 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 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 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 vicola cholera hit in 1892 and took a heavy toll and 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 placido this heater. so here you can see that every epidemic helped bring about advances in medicine, almost by the collateral. was it on this one with cholera? they used a sand filter system to purify water, all dismissals, all and with the current pandemic, new vaccines were developed very quickly. and so the medical science progressed to

go, didn't 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. good skin ody, bice mueller. there are a number of examples such as during small pox and plague outbreaks where you see there were skeptics and people who oppose the vaccines. you're creating google google day. so the past few years have seen history repeats self. the exhibition in hamburg shows that in fact, we can look to history and learn from it. brussels prove to who to get you can see what measures were taken and how they helped to save lives. she label gotten

clinton hickey in at hang on. 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 to me. oh, do you have any questions about her that 19 a science corresponding 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, can 19 increase your chance of developing a neurological disorder? oh, what cupid 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, coven 19 symptoms will remain mostly confines 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 su nami immune reaction that riggers 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 covert 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 in 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 per cent of infected patients over all 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 pandemic, 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 that is contested. but his enthusiasm is certainly uplifting. echo agreement is in his studio. in ganesh, 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 full cause to more obstruct 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 hungry only. oh, i got scared of anything fainting takes away, as i t know, the traumatic in conditions as we go through a 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 funder make. he says it's his unusual use of color that transforms his works from paintings into a source of healing. you know, it's more everything that you may have to use um, medication, but we can also,

i want people to know and understand and you can also use art to solve problems. you know? oh, of nature. yeah. if i she see, consult problems and solve even, ah, fine remedies for diseases. apps is a remedy in a, in my own way, is a remedy for so many diseases. in mental health limit, you know, cardiovascular issues, namely when the are done, groom won't 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, called grim aunt, is the 15th. i know who my agony an interpreter may. the pandemic has put a danes in commerce business. he says this drago to keep his business afloat and

provide for his family, has been a source of constant anxiety. gremlins spend time with commer, guiding him on how to remain for cost 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 miss miss will relax. the color, separations, dirt 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 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 re last is the brain. i've seen cedar college, if you will, you, i'm drawing you just for causing o'kelly's. we settle for research. i showed that the link between the, the arts, the image true, the colors and all that is we last thing to them green and it's have different juice stress, no most and bring about good 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 relieve to the eye distress. ah,

that's all for this cousin 19 special next week and we'll 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 ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, with

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