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and persist and others that are completely new and seemingly unrelated. welcome to this week's cobra, 19 special. ah, we started getting here like in many other countries, the potentially severe long term effects of coven were often disregarded. but to martha 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. mm hm. so took o'connell. they hadn't these, i look because i was in hospital qualities were taken away every day. it was and i was afraid 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 9 t geico the 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 sam london. man. i started to lose my breath. you're kumasi up there. it was so hard to breathe that i can even say my name's over there. all you, my lat, has to like a genetically bad. yeah. one of faith in expedia. it was a really difficult experience on the app. then it turned into a trauma because i spent a month 3 weeks and hospital e place them in and then just say i did more than 14 cova tests and they were always positive. jeffrey dick. so i became to press it down because i was in hospital in a gary wasn't getting any better drink, i was tired and couldn't see my family. made 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, we had the app. i've cc'ed billiards, duncan so it was very hard to see him samples. i got, i wrote thanks to him. he had a book would take it. i have a lot of chronic symptom. 7 i think curve it gave me diabetes like will within i bonnie i pike on she's and after i recovered from covert when i had a pulmonary embolism and had to have medical treatment for 6 months to see 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 put the mechanical fossil young goes up to suffolk of is mcdaniels led 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 gannons don't take it seriously because a day, they think it's a game and it's not real well on girl. she started almost 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 cove it is no bedtime story of it. there by this is la donna deborah will be living exists. lots of people get covert and have a story to tell if you're in when you good. so will this when you're home, hope it is a bad memory for me. have also green, but it's also a very good one. cookie because cove had 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 threat. call. c o m o. long hold. it doesn't only affect

those were hospitalized. but 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 travelled to, he's been in with a camera team to the house, to zoom 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 weighted arm bands and leg bands weighs

about 20 kilos. now the idea with this is tara, emulate, the feeling that people with long cov, 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 read his children at bedtime story because he described his 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. i feel quite sick to be honest, as well, with the, with the effort 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 all consuming and 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, but 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 conjunctive. i to dry eyes the recorder in beer or jose ago, 54 year old silvia solaris. one of the more than 1300000 people currently suffering from long covet and 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. grande gussie, we have to improve most 18 months. i wasn't able to do my normal job magland nor have much contact with people when we just were 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 up lot some forgetful ebony a single patient who was hospitalized in which i thought i saw because of called eat on it. rickland shall surgery,

not very hard work on they are collecting clinical data or for these patients. this is why to from police so use for, for complete research. one geneticist, dr. maria, hey, susan runs, leads the research program at the mood to taught. 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 to day 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 are not usually we will look into, they need your response, but also in genes associated with a specific pathologies they are they are developing. 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 these hungry colbert. so they are not the song epigenetic alterations or genetic predisposition that makes them more successful. 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 eating. last just came to the huge costs. funding lawn, coven research is a battle for darby. don't know. i have researcher at the hospital. we have no financial support for the administration. therefore, that thinks things to 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 2 long

carpets, 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 painter. both of the c panel we had it last last whatever with dr. ignacio clemente isn't ear and throat specialist, so he hasn't been honest. there is not medical treatment that that basin could have to get this mail back. the only thing that these are known that could have that base in is that this mediterranean, are 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 the majority just patient because they're gonna mail. they don't have

a good taste, or they don't proceed flavours or foot. so they asked of all we now with rand, order over auto restaurant. ah, son of them don't want to have sex while air relations we go sometimes there, or they don. don is mel, they've their body, male or affiliate like an unpleasant leave and make those small 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 hungry and patient that say that if he wants to, ah, to give 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 end due to a lack of funding. with each passing day she hopes were a break through, you know, or they ha and go try to when you get back to feeling well again where you can i yeah. 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 are tied to it 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 they 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, why is that all and nicked us within the glass incidence? oh, we saw the same incidents with auto immune diseases or 2 thirds of those affected our women. and we suspect that's down to the immune system, which differs between men and women. window shaw women's immune systems deliver a quicker and stronger response that's advantageous when it comes to infectious diseases on in, including coven 19, which causes an acute infection of sars, covey 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. since we're going under cold to on, please circulate in the blood and attack the body's own cells. and often we are talking really and that can lead to an auto immune response, only actual fuel. and so women are more susceptible to these men on their farthest is the deal is the certain variance more likely to cause long covered and long cove

. it selected as does he as in current as this, but as far as we can tell, it's less common with omicron compared to the previous variant. and womach round 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 per cent for delta, and maybe 6 to 7 percent for alma, crowns and implants, and for light ball also difficult. i was asked by that because the vaccination status has changed a lot more people him and vaccinated him and, and we know that been vaccinated reduces the risk of long cove. it one long corded swear con. it doesn't revenge long cove. it, which isn't shame, but it does reduce the risk of the info. anita was we would 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 simplex and little he had. that's why it's so difficult to assess in terms of long cove. it because the situation has changed so much me at

400 outside the horses and know how big is the problem and how many people who get covert, i getting long covered the common long covert. susan for once input said elementary music in fits e at home one up in between 5 and 10 percent of people who get infected develop long cove it regardless of whether they had a mild or 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, horse i'm going or same, it wouldn't the current state of research to people with long covered have grounds to hope it will pass and which specialists can. my turn to for help runs is even your convenience in uber being in a majority of cases, long covert 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. 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 da signed bizarre. those articles i'm shined off toward laying out any other problems such as concentration, difficulties and memory lapses as well as shortness of breath, life muscle, and joint pain and blossoming. taste and smell tend to clear up within the year and from it goes follows. couldn't hoping to see an hour behind his yard has a decent. will he the laws van on vain? which specialist will 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 blocked armies, you can take a blood thinner, but there are risks associated with the blood thinners that can be life threatening . and so you need to consult your g p as e r r o r t fair. one's ethically murphy smell chrome on the mit monday. the oven

was a ha, 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, of my love 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 coven 19 is that they're surprised at how big of an impact that 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 go bad 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 neighbourhood. 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 and his 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 dumb sake. and now i decided let me do other things because you see lazy, north lake, i stagnant, what i said 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 go to paula. 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 my, the law school i was, he took a course in mass communication when we're gonna go and i think i knew that by then if we did it after passing miscommunication. i used that communication skills to come up with that with the, with the facebook or giving a give buck facebook page whereby i started collecting, collecting clothes, telling my friends and telling my neighbors if they can give me that close that they of outgrown. so basically let on,

danny started just with a clothing idea tourism old founded the organisation 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 them, let them to any either. the less that a lived pushed me to give back to the committee. during the cove at 19 pandemic, the organization was a lifeline for families living on the streets to you. or more than his team visited nairobi, slums, distributing barza soap and informing the residents about land warrants of washing hands and wearing masks. the organization also

donated over 6000 sanitary jowls and distributed food to some 4500 families. lag on a pool, a deck, a good long life was hard back than hulu, or the little gardener. a lot of people was suffering because of cave at 19 element, but we got help and food and so for wash in our hands gonna lie logo. and i'm knocking at night at lucy, zach was. yeah, well i used to provide us with mosques because we didn't have the money to buy the apple that alysia think it out. hello, corbin us gun on the arm. tawny, gave out food and taught the children about cove. it went up in there for about the importance of washing hands and using disinfectant and the various other things i well now i'm going to and most people appreciated that and fall the actually so there were no corona virus cases in this area. for the pickup truck, there's no danger that if you go and collect anything, you may me,

you may go and collect lake mark which contains a white 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 the coverage you get when they get money. so fitting was that a challenge for them and mostly they're the ones who have children in the streets. so we came up with dislodge county program whereby we couldn't group and come with food and supplies. a former street kid torres m all 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 will 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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