we're finding it difficult. he sees his successes around noon in our weekly coven 19 special. next on d. w. o rearing to read. ah! everyone who loves books has to go insane. the d. w. literature list 100 german must reads ah! during the 1st 2 years of the pandemic, the w h o estimates that 145000000 people in the world contracted long cove. it this disease encompasses a huge range of symptoms. some that occur during the acute phase of the infection

and persist and others that are completely new and seemingly unrelated. welcome to this week's coven 19 special. ah, we start in guinea here, like in many other countries that potentially severe long term effects of cove. it were often disregarded, but to matter, dna is helping to fight that. she's a well known tv presenter in guinea. she developed diabetes following a corona, virus infection, possibly as a secondary disease. her experience with cove it was an especially agonizing one. mm hm. because if they hadn't these i loop because i was in hospitality, so taken away every day or it was and i was afraid to as i said to myself, will it be me tomorrow or not just he thought mother james sutton,

mustard janese guinea. i'm a journalist and t v presenter and i survived coke at 98, garrett covey. he said oswald, on the evening of april 30th 2020. i wasn't feeling very well too. i felt sick and had a fever, so i thought it would be a good idea to go to hospital. james, eugene, this is sal to landmark when i started to lose my breath, look almost they up there. it was so hard to breathe that i can even say my name's jaretha, won't you? my that has been like a genetically bad yet. one of fabian expedia. it was a really difficult experience on the app. then it turned into a trauma because i spent a month on 3 weeks in hospital, e, place them in. and then jiffy, i did more than 14 covert tests and they were always positive jeffrey because why they came to press it down because i was in hospital in a gary wasn't getting any better joy. i was tired and couldn't see my family met bashful. but luckily i met a doctor who was there for me. he,

he was very supportive and help me to get through it. all. he marvel with the archive. i see fit the bill yet. don't go home so it's very hard for them. so we'll go through it. thanks to him he he book would take it. i have a lot of chronic symptom. ha, i think cove it gave me diabetes like will be denied bonnie. i played on, she said after i recovered from covert when i had a pulmonary embolism and had to have medical treatment for 6 months. it was a very advanced embolism, which could still be fatal. well, because i've had treatment several times and it came back and whenever you played the mic and go for salad, young goes up to suffolk of the mcdonald's lead. after i'd recovered from covert, my parents didn't want me to talk about it. because at the time when people knew you'd had cove it, they'd stigmatize, you should law,

they wouldn't want to come to your house anymore and they keep away from the family . go what could get an appointment. i realized that many canadians don't take it seriously because they, they think it's a game and it's not real longer. she started almost, she long. so i broke my silence and wrote about my journey on social media. if i explain what i experienced and hospital to belt awareness in some people began to understand that covert has no bedtime story of sickness by this is why daniel double covered because it exists. lots of people get covert and have a story to tell if you're in when you good, so malicious when you're home, hope it is a bad memory for me. i have also great, but it's also a very good one because cove, it made me question many things. hawkins shoes, not to leave until tomorrow. what can be done today? because i realized that life is hanging by a very thin thread that calls c o m o long hold,

it doesn't only affect those were hospitalized with toronto virus. it can also result from mild cases. there are hundreds of symptoms associated with the condition which can hamper its understanding. but therapies are now being sought everywhere. and one hospital center in berlin is using simulations and virtual reality to try and give an insight into the experience of long covert on a frosty autumnal morning. i travel to east berlin with a camera team to the house as combed center, which is part of the copy hospital between 5 and 10 percent of patients with cove at 19 will go on to develop long cove it fatigue is one of the main symptoms. one paper estimates 46 percent of people with the condition will suffer exhaustion. i'm in front of one of their exhibits here, which is a weighted vest which together with these waited arm bands and leg bands weighs

about 20 kilos. now the idea with this is tara, emulate, the feeling that people with long cove it have a very sort of large pressure on the chest and shortness of breath. i had one account of a man who couldn't reach his children at bedtime story because he described this son back on his chest. i try the leg and arm wait, son alone with the suit to see what it's like. i try walking up the stairs. i already fell really quite out of breath, just walking up those stairs and i am conscious that my heart is beating quite a lot harder than usual. hum. i feel quite sick to be honest, as well, with the, with the f, a of the weights and my body is also in a bit of pain from sort of supporting the weight people with long covey to advise, to keep moving. if they can, to help with their rehabilitation, the center uses virtual reality to encourage that with activities like football,

archery, or boxing. the hope is that by increasing their strength, long cobit patients can one day get back to their lives. what i really taken from this exhibition is not only how or consuming an intense, having long covey could be, but also how difficult it could be to function in everyday life. although around $200.00 symptoms associated with long covered. so any treatment would be highly individual and how it was tailored. still not very much about it is known medically for the center, told me what it does do is point people in the right direction of medical care and also towards support groups that can help them cope our next report is about the development of useful treatment options. for long covered various promising research projects are underway in spain, in and around barcelona. but with such a wide ranging symptoms, this can be a particular challenge. sh. was

single. yeah. well, i have mental folk, tinnitus joint pain, all over this at the migraine attacks recurring conjunct vitus dry eyes, the recorder in beer, or jose ago, 54 year old silvia. so there is one of the more than one point. 3000000 people currently suffering from long covet in spain. her case is somewhat extraordinary. she contracted coven, for the 6th time in august 2022. she's only been able to have one vaccination against the virus. run because if you took rural most 18 months, i wasn't able to do my normal job magland nor have much contact with people and just but so not. so larry has now put her hope in clinical trials being carried out and several centers in and around barcelona. see, you know, we collected a blood sample for every single patient who was hospitalized in which i thought i saw because of called eat on with it. rickland shall start doing

a very hard work on the collecting clinical se thought of for these patients. this is why to from police so use for, for complete research. geneticists, dr. maria, hey, susan runs, leads the research program at the move to taught after the university hospital sits in the shadows of barcelona in the city of teresa. historically, one of the main drivers of the regions textile industry. today. one of the homes in spain for research into long cove, it and half that will fit the hero. having 200 patients with long term could be there by your logical sample, the clinical samples. and obviously we will look into, they need response, but also in genes associated with specific pathologies. they are they, are they looking now? we know that people with long trying to compete all 4 times more likely to have carven puppies or diabetes for potentially diseases than the general population,

or people who have had called the hungry colbert. so they are not the song, a beach, and the call today shows all genetic predisposition that makes them more sick, sceptical. while the hospital has the expertise, it likes the funding to do all the research in its own laboratory. most of the research wark, the st. sue height, 12 foot facilities to do it. the last just came to the huge costs. funding lawn cove at research is a battle for darby. don't know, a hip researcher at the hospital. we have no financial support for the administration. therefore, that thinks things stood the initiative of several groups of invitation that have their own financial funding. and we can maybe use some part of his findings to cove it the to long

copied. but that's not due to their support or for the shelf, a national health system or the administration in you know, will the speech here? people with long coven, who've lost their sense of taste and smell, are treated as pilot both of the c panel. we had it last last whatever. with dr. ignacio clemente isn't ear and throat specialist. so he has to be an honest that is not medical treatment that the patient could have to get this mail back. the only thing that these are known that could have that basin is that this mediterranean, or the most common losses of smell, are of people's natural body odor and food. thing that you're going to be concerned for doctor is, is the impact this has on a patient's mental health normally are affected. i add this social but

they're missouri just patient because they're gonna mail they don't have that were based or they don't proceed flavours or foot. so they estoppel we now we're trained order. oh, after restaurant. ah, son of them don't want to cab 6 round air relations me good. sometimes they're or they don don is melody of their body. male or affiliates like an unpleasant leave and make those smart, more social. if this is their 1st parties have started to recover, they are what if they continue with this and then get the oppressions and i know there are mental illness now and then hung around patient that say that if he was still ah, to kill him said yes, because host, very but for sylvia, so now the worry is that her life may never go back to normal and she will forever

lose her job working as a public administrator. she also fears that research programs may en, due to a lack of funding with each passing day. she hopes were a breakthrough, you know, or they ha, and go try to want to get back to feeling well again, where you can idea to be able to laugh again every day on guy has delayed to get up every day with a desire to read the desire to work and to do all these things that i did before, but i need to have a future full of hype in the primary care system and in the research hospitals. i can't do any more than to have faith in them that i will find answers. you're in a group of young. ah, most researchers see long coded as an umbrella term for the many different causes and manifestations of the disease says neuro scientists, martin quarter. his latest book aims to summarize. the current state of research described, mar, gordon, you, mr. corda, your book says the majority of people am to 6 to you, develop

a long covert. i women for why is that all in the us within the glass incidence? oh, we saw the same incidents with auto immune diseases. i 2 thirds of those affected our women and we suspect that's down to the immune system, which differs between men and women. when dosher women's immune systems deliver a quicker and stronger response that's advantageous when it comes to infectious diseases on in including covered 19 which causes an acute infection of sars co. v to the women are less likely to die than men because the immune response is faster and i was. but that comes at a cost. hoyt dep. highest of women's bodies also produce what are known as auto antibodies and a faster rate. this is the one under coal to on please circulate in the blood and attack the body's own cells and or for me at all frequently. and that can lead to an auto immune response layer tune fuel. and so women are more susceptible to these men on their farthest is deals by a certain variance,

more likely to cause long covered and long covert survived fitness bas he as in goodness. but as far as we can tell, it's less common with omicron compared to the previous variant. womach run is currently the dominant strain with all its sub variance. if, but it doesn't make a big difference. it isn't. we're talking about 10 percent for delta and may be 6 to 7 percent for alma crowns and inputs and for life. but it also difficult. i was asked by that because the vaccination status has changed. a lot more people have been vaccinated, men and we know that been vaccinated. reduce the risk of long coven, one long, corbett. swear con. it doesn't revenge long cove. it which isn't shame, but it does reduce the risk of the info. anita was looted, see it as li, depending on which stereo, louisiana, it's between a 15 and 50 percent reduction. so by as much as half or at least 15 percent as witnesses and from its inputs and labeled see it. that's why it's a difficult to assess in terms of long cove. it because the situation has changed

so much yet. so handle upside the ortho, sent it. oh, how big is the problem and how many people who get covered i getting long covered the common wrong covered susan food once input said, allah mentioned using fits yet. um, nothing between 5 and 10 percent of people who get infected develop long cove it regardless of whether they had a mild or a severe case hide point will be short. woodard for in 2021. in england, around 1000000 people had long coven, which is a large share of the workforce. and we have to assume that the figure will be similarly high in germany, or sign, or same it wouldn't. the current state of research to people with long covert have grounds to hope it will pass and which specialists can they turn to for help lenses even your friends are missing, you are being in a majority of cases long covered symptoms will have improved if not cleared up altogether within a year. but not all studies reached the same conclusions thing. it depends which

symptoms they focus on with. for example, chronic fatigue syndrome when you're always tired, however much you sleep, it appears to be especially persistent and can continue well beyond a year. does chimed desantos, application design, when shined off toward the lang hours. i knew other problems such as concentration, difficulties and memory lapses, as well as shortness of breath, life muscle, and joint pain and loss of taste, and smell tend to clear up within the year and from it goes, follows couldn't hoffen the sienna minus yard has a decent torpedo laws, van, and beam, which specialist, oh, should consult, is a very good question. but when you get advice about some therapy, you might want to try. it's worth being cautious, was it all treatments have side effects need? for example, if you get clocked armies, you can take a blood thinner, but there are risks associated with your blood thinners that can be life threatening. so you need to consult your g p as yet somehow thought

o r t fair. one's ethically mercury snell come on. the mit monday. deabner was a but kid on the case and get a diagnosis as soon as possible. and then talk to a team of doctors about potential experimental therapies. consensus professor quarter, thanks. sorta. yeah. mind on you. 03 years since the pandemic began, and there are still so many unanswered questions. our science reporter derek williams has already answered hundreds of your questions. and this week's comes from dan h. how soon after a coven 19 infection? can i start exercising again? 0, one striking thing that you often hear from people recovering from cove at 19 is that they're surprised how big of an impact it has on their physical activity, even if their symptoms are otherwise really pretty mild. um, for lots of people, even those in good shape, they can take

a while to feel fit again, that's actually common. after many viral infections, there is no one size fits all answer to the question of when you can and should begin exercising again after coven. 19 battle, of course, depend on things like your age and, and your pre existing conditions. and of course, how badly you were hit by the virus. but the standard expert advice is that you should wait at least a week after testing negative. then if your symptoms have largely subsided, you can start with light exercise again. some experts suggest waiting for 10 days, and there are some important things to bear in mind when you start. one is that you should definitely take things slow for the 1st couple of weeks

because trying to do too much too quickly can boomerang. and instead of making you feel better, exercising too hard too fast can cause covered symptoms like fatigue or, or breathlessness to resurface. initially, the recommendation is to shoot only for about 10 to 15 minutes of, of light activity at a time. no matter how serious an athlete you were before you tested positive, start slow, even if you ran marathons. maybe just start with a stroll around your neighborhood. another important factor that pretty much all the experts agree on is that you need to pay close attention to how you feel while exercising, and only gradually increase the length and the intensity of your workouts. so listen to your body. and if,

if symptoms do reappear while you're exercising, then stop. don't try to push through them as you might have before you were sick. and if recurrent symptoms persist, then you need to stop until you can see a dr. m. if a pandemic has taught us anything, it's that we need to look out for each other. and in that respect, some people have gone above and beyond. our next report is a heart warming tale from kenya. so this is to be my life and is what i used to do and i was that i did um say i now i decided let me look at things because you see this is north lake, a stagnant, what i say moving reba. you need to get out of where you are and do something different from your life. the dan, dora dumpsite,

one of the biggest landfills in africa is where taurus i'm all lived after both his parents died in a road accident and he became homeless. my neither would i do that i do for several years. he made a living here selling scrap metal he was eventually rescued by a welfare organization that helped him get off the street and go to school and i school mozilla school. i one. he took a course in mass communication when we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna buy them if we did it. after passing miscommunication. i used that communication skills to come up with that with, with the facebook or giving a give back facebook page whereby i started collecting, collecting clothes, telling my friends and telling my neighbors if they can give me that gross that they of outgrown so basically let on danny started

just with a clothing idea tourism old founded the organization from garden tourney. in 2015, the initiative distributed new and secondhand clothes to families and street children . it's one way of assuring their dignity and, and the reason why i said to didn't let them, danny. either the less that they lived, voice to me to give back to the committee. during the coven 19 pandemic. the organization was a lifeline for families living on the streets or more than his team visited nairobi, slums, distributing barza soap and informing the residents about government warrants of washing hands and wearing masks. the organisation

also donated over 6000 sanitary towels and distributed food to some 4500 families. lag a little on deck, a good life was hard back than hulu. that a little guy, a lot of god was suffering because of cave, at 19 lament what we got help me food. and so for wash in our hands lie logo and i'm knocking. madelyn was easy was yeah, well i used to provide us with mosques because we didn't have the money to buy the apple dad and he said, thank you. hello quote, that's gun on the arm. tani gave out food and taught the children about cove. it went up in depth about the importance of washing hands and using disinfectant and the various other things i well now i'm gonna most people appreciated that and fall the actually so there were no corona virus cases in this area for a while, the pick up just like a new danger that if you go and collect anything, you may,

you may go and collect lake mark which contains a flight us. and you can also get that lead us. of course veda, thought that we read, we took that time to tell them that they should not be going collecting things and you know, through collecting through scavenging us when they get money. so fitting was that a challenge for them. and mostly the ones who have children in the streets. so we came up with this lunch in town and program whereby we quilt group and come with food and supply a former street kid tories. a mole is now 29 and married with 3 children. he's received various awards for his exemplary volunteer work during the pandemic life.

his service to the community is highly valued in nairobi and throughout kenya. oh, in this episode we've learned all about the many aspects of long cove it and caught up with the latest research me. next week. we'll be in south africa, where in just one year, scientists developed an m. r in a vaccine against colbert 19th. see you next time and take care. ah ah, with

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