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welcome to the cove at 19 special house. the about a virus different from cove at 19. we took to veronica just wolfgang prizes. and what's the difference between a virus strain and a virus variant? but we start the show in germany, where the latest cove at 19 barian are causing a fresh spike in infection rates. and adaptive vaccine targeting on the crown is now available. and one doctor in berlin is being kept very busy here and berlin's nie cone district. patients have come to the doctor to get a booster shot. since the start of the pandemic, they've been flocking to g. p. sabelle, a constant dance practice to get tested and vaccinated. in the early days, the doctor's office was overrun. but now things have come down. for

susan's jo, easy, quick, we make a point of reaching out to patients who are vulnerable and also testing to see if someone has a pre existing condition. then we offer them pack fluid, eto, elderly patients to them. but it's a completely different situation compared to last winter, at least in my practice, if that's in vancover. dr. constantly dying has vaccinated about 20000 people in her practice. at the moment, the elderly and people with underlying conditions are keen to get boosters and flu shots. but she believes that is winter approaches. the situation calls 1st and foremost, for the right information mentioned you and her people who are vulnerable need to protect themselves. so they should, i were mosque at work to protect my patients and my staff. a few men, i'm not sure if government efforts are working west this. i'm not sure it helps to re introduce compulsory massive measures and dolls every winter. yeah. it's me that she isn't chron, doesn't enjoy musson good talking about,

listen. if in the swim they make sense and the health sector in hospitals, and doctors and physiotherapy practices, but i don't think the authorities should dictate our every move. so dear again. how does miss relisted in germany's inner cities, most public health and safety measures have been dropped. but authorities are mulling a re introduction of restrictions such as mandatory masks indoors. most people are taking a relaxed approach and more or less stick to the current rules. middle violem, monkish middle. i'm not worried these thousands hold on. i just keep to the rules, try to protect myself. when i'm vaccinated, we're happy to have the chance. i used to be really worried about going shopping. i, it's my hist, us and but now i feel pretty safe and i trust that people are protecting themselves and sticking to the rules. oh, did i got the hired as a coronado even got some recently before i'm kind of worried. we're not out of the woods yet. oh, so it's been 2. yes. this is the 3rd winter i and it seems like we haven't learned

anything, john, so it's ok. mr. tutored on tom. politicians are now discussing re introducing safety measures to ensure the health care system doesn't get overwhelmed. the number of home patients and i see use is currently stable. but as the 3rd, coven winter approaches, hospital staff are feeling the strain. and they're struggling with high infection rates bound rather than a lesson law in the last few weeks of infection rights have gone up among the general public and among doctors and nurses, alive all amounts. and this puts additional pressure on the systems of, of, and we've had to reduce the number of available beds because so many are off sick law, both in the short term and the long term long for state. also it higher energy costs are putting hospitals under further pressure, making it all the more important to avoid another coven waive this winter. patients admitted with omi cro intend to have mild cases and are treated on normal

wards. but staff shortages mean that some hospitals are already postponing non emergency surgery. this is not going to all of it. in no trouble. we have to keep up with emergency operations and emergency care list on the tumor on the clock. we have a duty to do so, and we're doing that on the old school to anger anger, but we're putting off certain procedures as well, so long as it's safe to do so for the patient and so on. with the german health care system is understaffed, over stress and an urgent need of reform. this applies to clinics, as well as doctors offices. sybil constantine would like to see some big changes as a master's leaving don't make life harder for health care workers than it needs to be too much bureaucracy. and the system is to hierarchical of

you've got too much jobs in health can need to be made more attractive. the less people are going to do. the muffin, drop you the attractive and come up loiter. rising infection rates are just one of many challenges facing germany's health care system this fall in the northern hemisphere, the fed covered winter is approaching. let's take a look back at how the global pandemic and funding the 1st year of the pandemic was about unprecedented changes, streets emptied more or less over night countries all over the world closed borders and locked down. masking up became compulsory. there were no vaccines, and because health care professionals had little experience with the disease catching, it was a terrifying proposition. as the 1st vaccines were rolled out at the end of that

1st pandemic year, around $90000000.00 cases of coven 19 had been reported. world lied since then over 7 times that number of people had tested positive for the disease. and experts estimate, there's been many, many more unconfirmed cases at the peak of the amok on variance surge last january. the highest number of cases in the pandemic. so far, over 20000000 people worldwide were testing positive for the disease. every week. throughout the pandemic, deaths world wide, unsurprisingly, have reflected infection worldwide. a series of waves struck the planet, though different countries suffer differently at different times. a retrospective reveals at least one detectable pattern. it was as simple and devastating equation when the number of cases rose and fell in

a new wave. the number of deaths followed a couple of weeks later. the deadliest waves so far peaked and early 2021. when in one terrible week over a 100000, people died wide. but the equation has changed somewhat since the massive on the conway. currently this year. large numbers of people are still getting sick, but on average, fewer are dying. the changing relationship between case rates and death tolls is at least in part due to another factor. widespread vaccination, so far over 12 and a half 1000000 doses of vaccines have gone into arms all over the world. significant percentages of populations in the americas, europe and asia are now fully vaccinated. though there's still a lot to do in africa. the biggest vaccination drive in history is not all on

its own. been enough to stop the continued spread, coven 19. but coupled with the immunity induced and many people through wide scale exposure, experts say it's brought the day when we declared the pandemic at an end, a lot nearer and save tens of millions of lives. oh, do you have any questions about kind of 19, a science corresponding derek williams is always up to date with the latest findings and is here to answer then to send your questions to cove it produce at d, w dot com this week. yonce is the question, what's the difference between a strain and a variant? oh, this is one of those questions that i get asked pretty frequently because for the general public, the term strain and variance are often seen as synonyms and,

and even some experts seem to sometimes use them interchangeably. so let's start with some background. all viruses evolve over time, which means their genetic code changes during replication. as mutations occur in source, go be to those mutations happen fairly frequently compared to some other viruses. we call these mutated viruses variance because they're different genetically and, and sometimes also structurally from their ancestors. but, but those changes, and this is important. they don't necessarily cause a very hint to behave in really new ways. when those genetic changes lead to new properties and a virus however, like it begins infecting cells differently, or it becomes much, much more transmissible than that's when many experts began talking about new

viral strains instead of variance. so, strains are always variance, but, but variance aren't always considered strains. unfortunately, though, there's this kind of muddy place in the middle, which is that naming viruses strains or variance basically boils down to how differently they behave compared to their ancestors. a subjective judgment, or maybe it's easiest to take an example from the macro girl to explain it though, it's just a rough approximation. um let's look for a 2nd at dogs. different breeds can be really, really different in terms of their size and their shape. and the color of their fur and their temperament. but they all have something that i would like to call

intrinsic li doggy. they're all variations on a common doggy ness. and if dog breeds were viruses, then we would call them variance of dogs. now let's compare dogs to their close evolutionary relatives, bulls a, here. the behaviors and characteristics really clearly delineate one canine from the other. a walton us and dogging us are so different that if the to require us is we call them different strains. they're clearly related. but they not only look different, they behave really differently to, um, it's not a perfect matter for maybe, but may be a useful one. ah, this sudan if thy la virus has been spreading rapidly in uganda in the last few weeks. there are still no approved vaccines against this particular virus species.

but thanks to experience game during the covered 19 pandemic, the process of identifying and isolating cases is now more efficient than in previous outbreaks. are reported julius mcgonigal, i've visited the village of my duty in where the virus 1st said a grieving father and husband, monica sim, powell has lost his son and his wife to ebola health workers and closely monitoring his family little gun. but right excavated up our lead a modem. they said that we must be under surveillance for at least $21.00 days. while i am, i often check our temperatures. i am a 0. you know that korean has since passed my job. you know, cuz on the uganda sense that its health care system is prepared to cope with ebola central. uganda is more than the hospital reported the 1st confirmed case of a bowler at the end of september,

dr. saying that system set up to fight cove 19 can also be applied to ebola. we have not had any other experience in handling such epidemics of this level in the country. so that it's a foreclosure that time the, the work of the immigration of community to physical experienced in that kind of skills have been blown over to this. you have seen the response this time, but nose and government much, much faster. when cov 19 broke out, uganda formed a special task force to advise the government that emergency team has now been re deployed to find a bela right. we have the same is that commander who was heading are covered is the one heading a bowler with our scientific advisory committee. i'm part of that committee. we

have a steering committee. we are not pillar, we have case management pita. we have surveillance pillar. we have all these pillars under our emergency resource, so these are helping and they're the ones, those who are useful covered now i'd be useful a bowler before covered 19, uganda had only one laboratory that analyzed viruses. the government felt compelled to obtain more diagnostic equipment to deal with cove. 19. now the laboratory examines cibola samples on site. it is to take longer even days, weeks. i did that was a problem before you intervene. but now quickly we have the labs. you can easily our quickly get the results and intervene for test takes about 5 hours. the moment the sample arrives in the lab takes 5 hours, but because we need to confirm every sample that is positive will confirm it. and it may take 1210 to 12 hours to find areas. there is that

the people of uganda also appeared to be more responsive since the coven 19 pandemic. uganda began local production of medical essentials like protective gear to support health care measures such as hand washing are also widespread in the fight against the bola. i don't shit hardy. i don't hug and i keep washing myself my cooper. i spoke with chris, will your hygiene like wash your hands, washing the body the middle of prevention? hello. i think it is almost the same. doing good we we were asked to put on musk. that's why even when i'm communicating out my own musk, some challenges that arose during the cove at 19 pandemic remain during the ebola

outbreak. for instance, many frontline health workers still feel under paid minister of health as not provided a courier composition. blood for the health was why did he get it and risking their lives? i different lane in this tough, but again, it's a bala emerging. ah, virus. it is is with a high for tell you to it. we remember we lost over 64 north walkers, during covey. 19 no one ever composited. the 1st, the bola hayes was reported on september 20th in my due to, within weeks, the virus spread to a 200 kilometer radius of the village. even so the uganda and government is confident that it can stop ebola from spreading further, even without imposing travel restrictions, travel restrictions hit your gun does economy hard. that's why the country's

government is hoping to avoid every minute ban on non essential travel at all cost . so far it looks like such drastic measures will be necessary if bona might be deadly as encoders, but it appears to be less infection. ah, how come it hasn't ever spread around the world like cars at $900.00? dw reporter increase finds out from south african virology just wolfgang prize there. ah, how concerned are you about the situation and you've got difficult to tell these outbreaks day start slowly and then 11 has to really watch what, what's happening in which direction they are moving. what we hear currently is that even uganda, which is a country with a lot of experience that has done very well in the past with, with outbreaks of this kind is sort of struggling to contain it. so hopefully we'll

see the bending off of the curve which so far is increasing with victim measures having been implemented. now, i'm a bit holding my breath. and so we will, i think the next few weeks will tell us how big it is going to get. can you find out a little bit what's equal enough in the body? so it is one of the so called, the rhetoric fevers saw the face with massive bleeding, often after that injuries. and the injection for example, but also from, from the natural orifices. and that happens because the virus interferes with the liver that produces the clotting factors to help our blood clot. but also the cells lining the vessels get damaged by the volume fiction and innovation of leak out blood. and twisting is that his blood is for in feature, some people carry a lot of virus in their blood and therefore, and this is how a transmission usually happens that, you know,

bleeding starts and then others rushed to help and in the process, infect themselves. if you compare this to south africa, which was really a respite attract infection, we know it also has effects on amongst or that's the plotting system in a different way. it, it leads to more rather than less clotting. but primarily it's in the friction of the respiratory tract, starting in the, in the upper respiratory tract, that's basically the back of your nose and throat. and in severe cases, obviously also getting all the way down to effect the lung. and that is, is, you know, it's, of course, it's much less daily than a boiler of mortality rate. it is a lot less than that. but the treacherous thing is that you can in fiction with assaults, copy to the coroner of hours without showing any signs of illness. so you can feel perfectly well, but you're infected and may be passing it on. if you're talking about transmission of the d. b, comparing, you will need to go back to me. just make clear once again it is much more

difficult, right? to transmit even from one human being to another than talk over to yes, that's absolutely right. sitting next to somebody would not transmit the picture, but it would of course, with, with the coroner virus. so for, if you really have to be exposed to the body fluids of the patient. better. oh, in columbia, one teacher went well beyond the coolest beauty to bring books to children. during the pandemic. louis louisiana took a mobile library to remote corners of the country, travelling by donkey ah, riding his donkey alpha, louise soriano is his way to today's appointment at the d. v. no. nino elementary school in the department of magdalena, in columbia. the teacher has loaded his faithful companion with books from

his library. he believes that delivering books to school children is an effective way of fighting social inequality. or through reading columbia rural education in columbia, in bad shape, needs more support from the state for teachers. and really that didn't really that if the burrow was born out of necessity or if you've got a teachers like resources, especially here in the department of magdalena, which is one of the most disadvantaged in the country with this a little bit of a lot even though if you're not, we need to combat ignorance through reading. what is going to help the future population is reading and food is luis sariana continued to bring his books to the region. even during the pandemic, defying the restrictions on movement that were put in place to help stop the spread of coverage,

he refused to put his mission on hold. but a little bit. so now it was a challenge because my family thought i was putting myself at risk at one point i was detained by the police because i shouldn't have been on the street. but knowing the loneliness that exists in the countryside, i felt that moral duty that i could come to keep being able to deliver his books and avoid spreading. covered, he used old farm yard cages as mailboxes he called his plan catcher. read it when the fella, when we started catch a read, the kids got the cages and waited impatiently for me to come by. god. i told them that they could only take the book out of the cage after an hour, but they couldn't wait that long. they went and got an after only 5 minutes. thank god, nothing happened. and i'm sure they were always hoping to actually meet again in columbia as remote municipalities, books as simply too expensive for people to buy the few books that reached the

fears hans have all been brought here by louis soriano, who will be on the, you know, whatever another of these regulus is luis fernando. he's the 1st in his family to learn to read and he asked for books with pictures so that his parents could follow what he was reading. what brought him better? how sad you are. he always makes you smile with his book and almost always motivated us to read other kids have started reading now to whenever he comes to our house and we have something to read on a lot. i look on the yellow brown for teachers in the region. the b, b, a burro visits both during and after the pandemic have been the best way to ensure their students they motivated and keep discovering new books

live. okay, no problem for people who the books we get from school are the only books we have when we read a book, it motivates us to read a new one, know what the related or whatever. but if we just have the same one for last year, the kids already know them. and then we don't even have internet here, they have a knack. lewis soriano has also built a public library for the school children. and the neighbors don't be re, persona in d, c. beverly oberon goes to places that tend to be neglected to see where people are forgotten. because these are people who deserve respect, who need to be helped, and whose imaginations are to be nurtured. i mean, you said you are smart enough feel. louise soriano is almost like

a character out of a gabriel garcia, marquez snellville, a man who takes books to remote corners of columbia by donkey and not even a pandemic, can stop him. oh that was this week's coven, 19 special until next time? good bye. ah . with

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