ah, ah, what people have to say matters to us. ah, that's why we loosen stories. reporter every weekend on d. w. ah, the pandemic caused world wide damage economically socially and of course to people's health. but some communities have actually come out of it's stronger. welcome to the cove at 19 special in a poor part of the venezuelan capital, kirk has some neighbors, had the bright idea of opening a cinema at a great tight center plaza bunda was so successful that it's still running after

the lock downs. ah, and we had to uganda to accompany a blind man as he goes about his every day retains. during the pandemic, restrictions on public life, hit disabled people particularly hot at 1st to germany. in the town of ma book, a medical team, his research, and the effects of long covert including ailments, apparently caused by vaccinations. demand at the clinic is high. my book and alon a small town in the western german state of hassan. in this, the dill is one of germany's few treatment centers for people suffering suspected adverse reactions to covet. 19 inoculation. here at the university clinic, 32 year old vera and 26 year old alexander r,

looking for help. they've suffered major health problems since their coven inoculations a year ago. experiencing a variety of symptoms that are making life difficult. it's alexander's 1st time in my book. he had to wait 8 months for an appointment. the outpatient clinic for post rack is over run. i've been approved for him. it's my 3rd time here and look at how the readings have changed. it could be down to the medication. what are your main problems? goodish exhaustion has to mean one follow south problem. when he hasn't manase neurological problems are still the main thing for me. the pain in my hand and my nerves now and my immunity. and my hand is still misaligned, since last winter friend, although of money, they have an idea where it comes from. the nurse has to be they did

a biopsy on my nerve tissue and found nerve damage. it stayed rigid like that with her while mom and you were healthy before and tried and gone. i definitely didn't have that beforehand. no nerve pain either yards, which had been beth. and after the inoculation, i clearly had something that at 5 days later i had vision, problems, and dizziness and headaches. i went to the optician and was told i had blockages behind both pupils, appearance with pre cursor to thrombosis. and that was then traced back was the inoculation markups as among the atlas seattle soccer field of tuneful aba. it's in the months after half in moore. it's no 12 months ago wishing them. i got more and more varying symptoms baffles until marking like dizziness and heart palpitations when standing out of my mouth. all from now the smith also nerve pain and,

and needles. nobody believe me then i was dismissed as mentally oldish and you're still not am artifact. i was always told it's nothing measurable, but they did do a biopsy of my nerve tissue. and i hope that with all cases it's taken seriously and not put down to being just in the mind that when someone comes in with numbness, the doctors do a biopsy of single matter. oh, the cause of post back syndrome is not yet known. patients develop varying symptoms . a wide range of factors could play a role such as undetected illness or infection at the time of inoculation. oh, the many factors make treatment difficult. according to ban schieffer, a cardiologist and head of the post vaccination, outpatient clinic. emerson hen cooking. you have to look closely, and that's what take so much time does it the all. and it also makes it so hard for us to do our jobs here,

and then convey the findings. come meet them quickly. i can't simply tell dr. so and so who's just phone me, give me your instructions and we'll do a just like that can also me allison halsey and every one is more than welcome to observe our work here. and humans are to come and look at our lab method. the lab ones as his during the forensic search for causes and appropriate therapy, the employees at the center for unrecognised and seldom illnesses are in demand. here, blood samples of those afflicted are broken down into individual parts and analyzed via for moving on to through and since we believe that inflammatory processes can be triggered in some patients through a covert infection. colby or an inoculation who it impact on without which my that is we don't yet know from 3 got food and come, but that's what we're in the process of researching. this will be at least a good us for support. we're calling us. we're here for both of it's improving here

. here to you see here that it's dropping in many patients is with lucian wolfing. i wouldn't just blame it all on the inoculation feverish o'conny to you for that are surely also genetic factors that play an individual role. how every one has logins, or hundreds of thousands of genetic variations in their genome. so we got those for those or perhaps triggered more than one person than another on the so i'll talk on this. not so easy to analyze that ad hoc guardian who's thought hopeful of visual food with these are scientific questions and you know what can take a while to answer the conqueror. you can't cure or understand an illness just like that in one or 2 weeks. it can take years, some people work their whole life to identify the way an illness works. with young 2 years after inoculations began, there is still a lack of clinical studies on the cause and treatment. a side effects on employees,

the staff about usa. he's a clinician, we also in clinical algorithms me so that patients no longer remain in diag stick. limbo and unforeseen nirvana for blyth is on a dusty and we need treatment center entry where they know what to do. their us visit to my book has at least brought her hardy a logical problems under control. but her medical odyssey continues both neurologically and immune. logically after filming, she was diagnosed with damage to her immune system, which requires further treatment. vera and alexander, who must her see if his new medication helps him decide to remain in contact. they intend to compare notes and support each other. yeah,

yeah. okay. awesome. and did you want washing? ah, over 15 percent of the world's population live with a disability and majority of them in poor countries where health care is lacking. these people were hit particularly hard by the locked downs, with even the simplest aspects of daily life. posing fact problems with dw reported julius mc gamboa met up with a blind man in uganda's capital. come paula, ah hi, god, to mas, see me is passionate about music. and also about law school. he wanted to study to become a lawyer. but then coven, 19. it was due for an admissions test. when the university moved the

applications online, which left the blind man in the dark. find out if you are in the right place for establish the working rules because everything was done online and for us really green about online. i missed 3 entries for my care as i hadn't applied. and i couldn't come because by that time were supposed to come, they closed at trance, butch and screws were closed, as well. say couldn't be successful in law. god to mas, see me, is no studying to become a teacher. but he hasn't yet fully adapted to e learning. i had to look for someone to, to help me upload may examinations and sometimes issues could happen and it may exams couldn't launch. applewood. trinity,

low ed may perform miss if i'm to compare my performance scenario on and he had to, he had to ease better because he had to, we had no such issues. we're doing exams physically at his university science with measures to prevent the spread of covered 19 could be seen across the campus to the see me felt left out it became an uncomfortable experience. i wasn't able to. i didn't find those areas. yeah. or to ease to wash my hands on unless i had maybe someone say come and bless your hand, said twin i could g r lays. but in most cases, after entering compass anguish, main gate, lake after 3 weeks. because you choose a guide for yourself and the full in those 3 weeks me forgetting again

even navigation, the mobility wasn't or that it could get lost to in different places in the community to the see me faces related challenges like accessing public transportation. he says that this worsened during the pandemic. when the government shut it down, there were no exceptions made even for people with disabilities who rely on support from others. we were restricted, even when you're with your guide, you're moving their neighbor deborah, and they want you to be on separate burnett, bernardez. that's at the end of it. oh, you get yourself lost those border borders, uganda's motorbike taxis,

where his lifeline during the pandemic which left him more isolated than usual. but our community members, many people are not and as soon as they don't normally officially reversed. so it's very hard and our community about 3 percent of uganda's $47000000.00 population are said to be visually impaired. they are part of a white or global population of a 1000000000 people living with some form of disability search shows that during crises the disabled often suffer most already. when you have a disability, you have burden of dealing with all the things you may not be able to do it, some of them on mobility, some of them i, you know, with the education and so with additional restrictions of not being able to move,

not being able to access at least the little services you would have been able to access. i was an i did, but in the statistics show that amongst the poor people are people with disabilities at the poorest. so if i know more regular uganda and leaves on a dollar a day, then a person with this, their disability is even worse. after the pandemic exacerbated the plight of many gods to see me hopes people will learn from it. 6 he hopes for a more inclusive society where people like him are no longer overlooked by their communities. m electrical engineer yet committee at which moved to kenya's capital to find work of his 3 children. his eldest son accompanied him, but then yeah, can we take caught kind of at 19. today we're in nairobi as part of our, my cousin series

am eloquent has got to end up. if i, i was hearing that lots of people were dying from cove. it went up as a son when even rich people so eloquently popped up. i was when i got it, i was prepared because i thought, who am i to survive if even presidents were dying, oklahoma, and they are people who have everything they need. now everything to protect themselves. my names are jacquita church. ah, i'm electrical engineer in kenya. i had their covenant in mythical booker. i remember it was in 2021 of the and it was a wednesday or day without i was working and, and everything was fine until the evening. nick a finer kaiser disorder. that's when i started to feel as if i had the flu. some i had difficulty breathing, difficulty breathing to pull move. so i went to a private clinic one to get tested it for 5th. and then from when i told them my

symptoms and the 5, the 1st decided to do a covered test covered that venmal point. and when the results came in, i was positive up with it is nearly quite. i was shocked like one i could young generic and my eldest son was living with me and because he was studying in nairobi, the i end up, i noticed a couple so he also had to get tested and he was when, unfortunately his was negative. so i considered checking into a quarantine hotel, but my son would be left alone at home. it was so challenging, but in the end i stayed at home and we were our masks every day. but i wasn't able to sleep at night. i used to stay awake and because i was afraid that if i fell asleep, i feel i would die alive. thought i would go for after after 2 weeks, my mentor, i went back for another test and luckily i was negative. anyone ever since the protocol, since having covered one, i've been dealing with health problems that i didn't have before after now was or

bubble, for example? no, i have problems with digestion. that is the problem. no, that wasn't the case before covered. resume mer quam. by our ab 2 boys in quit work has not been good. i have 2 boys in college, and my daughter is still in high school. it's been very challenging to earn enough money, and that's hit me very hard. how about any to chromebooks timothy. but after recovering and though i was vaccinated for the 1st time, i also got a 2nd dose as well as the last one. the booster shot. and the government measures have helped reduce cases. if you compare when people were not wearing masks to know when people are, you see the infection rate has gone down drastically our way mouth e o in mid removal was id. ah, wish you had a question about kind of it. how signs editor derek williams tackles them based on

the latest research and analysis. right to him at co producer at d w dot com this week he answers a question from susan. oh, what does research currently say about repeated cat 19 infections? oh, remember back in the early days of the pandemic when having and getting over about was coven 19, at least was thought to have a big outside, which was that survivors for the most part, at least felt protected afterwards. kind of like the way i remember feeling after getting my 2nd dose of vaccine and, and then my 3rd dose of vaccine. but now that we're all swimming in what's being called variant soup. that idea no longer really holds water. i personally know many people, including a couple in my own family who have had the disease twice now, and

a few who tested positive for it 3 times. i'm not sure and actually come as a huge surprise. i mean, after all, the for corona viruses that generally cause cold like symptoms are able to infect us multiple times throughout our lives. so re infections are certainly possible, but how often will they happen in the future? will coven 19 become season? oh, like flu? that seems likely, though, we don't know how long exactly that process will take. a health authorities do mostly agree that otherwise healthy people who recover from coven 19 are generally at low risk of getting it again for at least a few months. but each person is going to have a different immunological history with a disease. so it's impossible to really predict your individual risk. and

if immune evasion turns out to happen in different ways with different sub variance, experts say you can't really rule out possibly getting infected by them even in fairly short order. i'm a chron at sub variance though, have really kind of thrown a monkey wrench into what we thought we knew, because they're super infectious and several looked like they're better at evading immunity. then earlier versions of the virus and, and our micron also continues to mutate at a, at a pretty fast pace. that ability, the experts say could easily cause numbers to, to spike pretty hard and fast. and the coming winter in the northern hemisphere, when it comes to disease severity upon re infection. however, the news is more positive. most studies i've read, show that when re infection does happen, the course of the disease in general seems to be milder.

m. residence of a some in the venezuelan capital corrupt has found a new way to stay in contact despite pandemic restrictions. but they came up with the idea of starting and rush top cinema. the project turned out to be so popular, but it's still going strong with the red brick shanty hose rise steeply on the hills of katara in the east of caracas. home to jimmy perez. catawba is one of the largest slums in the world. the flat roof tops here, i called platter band of these open spaces, gained new significance during the cove at 19 pandemic in seattle. and they had federal. it's a place on the roof of a house made with construction materials and up ladon,

doctors in depopulated areas to plot of on there is a socialist pace where people celebrate birthdays. 15 years, birthdays, honeywell activities. they take place here on carmel to sell up their plot on the holes people's memories gars after families most treasure feeling gnawed ella from media lamp and comp. barbados, the roof tops became the base for the project. sidney plotted banda launched in the 1st months of the pandemic. it used outdoor cinema to relieve residence, confined to their homes. the events have continued beyond the quarantines locked downs and expanded to include life music. more than $200.00 screenings have now been held with several sheffield each month. the project was a reaction to the increased level of violence and suicide experienced during the pandemic. the projects co organizer and jimmy's twin, brother hyman, explains the program i seen. in fact d. i,

there are children fields and documentary phones, one important field which deals with the fight against depression law. they put us your own appalachian cohen. okay. coming be this is for a population that is leaving through trauma. i'm going through the process of morning and sadness that he stay i'll so this car, this week left by been a swell and social situation either because you know, all of that was projected in to our plaque and dusty name. a screen which what welcome by the community. i generated, i warner. there was so lucky was the level of well this was feed use. as the film ends, residents flash their lights to applaud, and not only for the entertainment, they are grateful for the connections, the rooftop events have created the what a game, blah you rainbow therapy them you got on will sometimes there may be events which i can't see from my house. oh yeah. yeah. we speak with our neighbors who are

watching, i believe, and we moved to their house and sit together. can you buy for me because they had a big balcony with a good view off. we wanted a home by the mama we already knew each other effective, but now we share a more a theme on back this rooftop project allows us to share more, have more contact a c a. and now we're more integrated. ha, my company, our com again, these were the pandemic intensified the social problems which plagues for totter gangs used the lockdown to step up criminal activity. hey tara, no one is venezuela's most dangerous place became even more insecure through sidney platter. bonder the community reclaimed public space, the organizers say their initiative showed patters residence. how to take action, where public services fail. jo, are speedo. ok. i a surprise to see violence. reduce your empathetic. you only come

on is the only way home. one also is there and people like those are who take care of in portland, talking more, thank necessary topics than then we will be in upper tattered without oh and without future, don't they're not yamaha finance and on not to get a muffle doodle, loppy, i'm more than welcome, we aspire to half a more humane community with a barrier the gauge shown with a barrier between, you know, to help us where people feel use old tim on the line the in ear. and we are showing when dark a we thou government here without being bar of a structure and we have demonstrated great achievement, a significant import than a shift them for the people know what he for the community, for children or for them. for kate, take care school and for parents senior, but i don't represent that they put on a pallet, the sinner, platter band, a team drive their equipment to one of the poorest parts of the giant settlement where they're excited audience awaits this screening is for the children who hardly get to visit

a real cinema donors have signed up to provide food for kids who frequently go hungry, which are fired. okay, sick out of many parents or without work, they can't take care of their family. also emilia, there are children who go to bed without eating or mayor for long age will come to go. when i started coming here, they told me glenda. i've gone 2 days without eating those 2 days without food. think or man, it's something he has experienced enough well and, and they give us a lot of and now we're bigger and stronger them over than the flu. the cinema project is shining, a light on how a community can come together, even in the darkest moments. well that's it for today. see you next week on the cover 19 special when we'll show you other ways in which people across the world supported each other

during the pandemic. if, when it's iris soup kitchen, for example. thanks for watching and stay healthy. ah ah, with

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