and it's time for your questions on the coronavirus here's our science correspondent eric williams. since we don't require lasting immunity to other coronaviruses in circulation how likely is it we could develop lasting immunity to sas code to there's still a lot we don't know about immunity and coronaviruses everyone is still being pretty cagey about whether people who contract covered $1000.00 have had any immunity afterwards including the experts at the w.h.o. no one wants to go out on a limb but pretty much everyone believes they do at least to some extent so assuming that the question then becomes for how long many by rolla gests making educated guesses assume that having the disease will provide people who recover with at least some protection against reinfection for at least a year antibody levels against the other corona viruses that affect us are usually detectable in recovery patients for for longer than that before they start to wane and the length of immunity will probably be linked among other factors too to help badly sars cove to affected someone. is it true the size

now to our science correspondent eric williams with your questions. i'm recovering and having trouble shaking the fever how long are we contagious. there have been several studies on this and they came to somewhat different conclusions according to the centers for disease control in the us viral r.n.a. can sometimes still be detected in patients for weeks after they've come down with cove at 19 but that doesn't mean that you remain and factious for that law for health care personnel returning to work c.d.c. recommendations say at least 10 days have to go by after symptoms 1st appear and of those the person has to have been fever free for at least the final 3 days of those 10 days without any help from from fever reducing medications and there are other symptoms have to have improved as well other sources recommend waiting at least 14 days after symptoms appear before leaving quarantine if covert 19 tests are available to can also be administered at least 24 hours apart and if both of them turned up negative then that person is generally considered to

and time for your questions on the coronavirus is our science correspondent eric williams. how was taught i wanna able to contain the spread of covered 19 so successfully taiwan was badly affected by the sars outbreak back in 2003 it killed over 180 people there its mortality rate was was higher than anywhere else in the world and after that the island's government put detailed plans in place to deal with possible future outbreaks and they kicked in very quickly after the very 1st reports of a of a new pneumonia and on days or even weeks before most of us had even heard of this disease the actions that were taken appear to have contained at 19 very well they included border controls a 14 day quarantine on international arrivals closing venue's where large numbers of people could gather and a ban on the export of protective masks so far there have been fewer than 500 cases of covert 900 on the island and just in just a handful of deaths. how effective is social distance in preventing the spread of covert 19 a research team in germany looked into this and found strong correla

my pleasure thank you now for your questions on the corona virus is our science correspondent eric williams. how long could this virus last in your refrigerator at home. i couldn't find any new studies addressing this question although i'm sure that research into it is on go away but i did dig up one that looked at the reaction to temperature in the virus that causes sars which is a close relative of the new coronavirus what that work showed was that sars actually likes it when it's cold and dry at 4 degrees celsius which is a temperature that similar to that in an average refrigerator it was able to survive for up to 4 weeks and was inactivated much more quickly warmer temperatures now that's no guarantee that the new coronavirus will respond in exactly the same way but it seems pretty plausible that it won't mind the cold in a refrigerator really much at all still before you go and start scrubbing your fridge out with believe each don't forget that there have still been no confirmed reports of transmission of sars cove 2 through food so it seems pretty unlikely that you would get it from

you very much and you've been well it's a part of the show when you get to ask the questions to eric williams is how science correspondent he is with the queries sentance. if someone were vaccinated against kovac 19 could they still carry the pathogen and transmit it to others who haven't been vaccinated. but this is something that we'll only know when we actually have a vaccine so this question involves quite a bit of speculation the hope is know that vaccinated people won't be able to transmit the virus anymore in simplified terms the way that diseases like that 19 spread is is by turning your cells into factories for turning out many more copies of the virus and it takes time to really get those factories up and and running on a scale that's large enough that you begin to shed the virus and significant amounts and and start infecting other people if your immune system has been primed by a vaccine to recognize sars cove to it should stand down on on any subsequent infections with it quickly before the virus is able to start churning out a lot of copies of itself then as more and more people

time for your questions now over to a science correspondent eric williams. experts say if you eat meat from an animal carrying the virus it's destroyed in the digestive tract how does it get into your respiratory system. in previous epidemics with coronaviruses like sars and mers transmission didn't occur through food and to date there have been no confirmed cases where somebody can track that code at 19 through through eating meat so catching it that way it looks unlikely especially if the meat is cooked the assumption therefore is that the 1st person or people who caught the virus didn't get it from eating an animal host but by either being exposed to be the heir to to the living breathing animal as as it shed virus or through physical contact with a dead one that's why there's been such a focus on the wet market and rouhani associated with the start of this outbreak live and dead animals from the wild were sold there after jumping species to us sars coast who didn't need animal hosts to spread any more it started passing from human to human. is it true th

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now to your questions all across the virus is our science correspondent eric williams. what do you think will happen after lockdown is a 2nd wave very likely. where no one can predict the future i mean who would have predicted that we'd be here a couple of months ago but a 2nd wave is certainly possible and what's still up in the air is exactly what form it could take and in a great article i read this week some top experts from the us talked about what might happen next after mitigation measures are eased now their models are based on data from past influenza pandemics they hypothesized 3 different scenarios and the 1st the current spike in cases of covert 19 would be followed by a series of repeating smaller waves every few months for the next couple of years right into 2022 in their 2nd scenario we would see a fall this summer but kovac $1000.00 would come back with a vengeance this fall and winter after that big spike in cases there would be smaller spikes and 2021 with the pandemic only starting to peter out in late 2021 in the 3rd scenario they postulate which the

and eric williams will be back tomorrow could all the areas coronavirus lock down lead to a bumper crop for b. this operator of one of the country's largest beef farms think so because her gaze even a scare more says less noise pollution and pesticides from nearby farms have been a boon to his 300 hives he hasn't lost any so far and the crop is coming in weeks ahead of schedule his farm is the only honey export in albania where the losses had been especially heavy in recent years. and that's all for the $100.00 special i want to enjoy and the end for me and the team thanks for joining. lots of goals met with silence the 2nd bundesliga match day an empty stadium. beat as by in munich trumps frankfurt. and passed up by leaving the local rivals. to go. on the ocean. nearly 1000000 people killed in just 100 days. where one does younger generation did not experience the 994 genocide but. its consequence of. learning to overcome the psychological trauma one step at a time the lines up done a long road to reconciliation the close of. the film 60 minutes on d w. 2 a symphony. triggs in beethove

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time for your questions he is a science correspondent eric williams. what is a virus how does it were. a virus is little more than a collection of genetic information either are in a or a d.n.a. protected by a protein coat which is sometimes covered by in an outer fatty the layer viruses are not viewed as full fledged life forms because they don't make their own energy they they have to steal it to replicate viruses have to invade living cells like those in your respiratory tract they're able to dock on to specific receptor is on the cells outer membrane and they're either absorbed or they inject their genetic code into its interior now once inside the invader hijacks cellular machinery to churn elop more viruses which which burst out of the infected cell to infect others that whole process and how your immune system deals with it is what we call viral infection and disease. scientists think to the originated in bats does it kill them as well if they adapted to live with it bats or are amazing in lots of ways not not least because of their immune syste

and eric williams will be back tomorrow could all barriers coronavirus lockdown lead to a bumper crop for b. this operator of one of the country's largest beef farms think so because it gives even a scare moore says less noise pollution and pesticides from nearby farms have been a boon to his 300 hives he hasn't lost any so far and the crop is coming in weeks ahead of schedule his farm is the only honey exporter in albania where the losses had been especially heavy in recent years. and that's all falcon $900.00 special i want to get johns on the lan for me and the team thanks for joining. us. for many they're considered and denzel washington is poorer neighborhoods for the crimes shootings abyss is joe houston has almost behind him and today his message is sports not murder. she is spreading hope and it is infectious. even 3000. t.w. . weeks living beings ensure the wellbeing of their progeny communicate with others of their kind of. feeling pain and are neither schuman nor animal. trainees. he joins our latest on an exciting expedition into the world of. the 16 years of g.w. . in the

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eric williams there if you've got any questions get in touch on our digital i'm in for one. of our. target for preservation german businessman bill fleet pabst owns a large private wildlife park in zimbabwe organizes sustainable hunting tourism there and other animal protection activists in zimbabwe say hunting should not be allowed the danger of abuse is too great how trophy hunting can save species close up. on d.w. . kick off empty stadiums strict regulations the bundesliga has resumed after its coronavirus shutdown the decision is highly controversial and abuses questions how long can this go all in. terms of why bless her majesty in sporting chance to. go. in 60 minutes from d.w. . nor what do they dream of at night. as cleaners and they see the face of. their job censoring for the social media industry. in manila there are thousands of so-called content monitors day for day they scrubbed terrifying images from online platforms. are rich. a job for starvation wage the strain is enormous. for the cleaners social media's shadow industry starts june 8th on g.w. . what about. a hel

and so you've got lots of questions to science correspondent eric williams has been busy answering all the questions you've been sending us keep doing that it keeps derek busy. well over the counter allergy medicines like claritin suppress your body's immune reaction to kind of it 19. the active ingredient in the medicine you mention is lower rad today that's an anti histamine now anti histamines reduce allergy symptoms by blocking histamine that's a compound that's released by your immune system during an allergic reaction and it plays a central role in the etching and and the swelling that hay fever sufferers experience now because the medication interferes with an immune response which is actually kind of a hyper in your response many people who suffer from allergies are worried that it could make them more vulnerable to infection with sars code to take antihistamines currently however all the national allergy organizations i looked at are still saying that antihistamines are safe to take during the pandemic if that changes i'll let you know here. has a little mind being tested. amo

let's go over now to our science had a tent eric williams he's got answers to some of your viewer questions of vaccines and the coronavirus. why can't we use previously existing coronavirus vaccines. because there aren't any along with sars cove to 6 other coronaviruses are currently known to infect human beings 4 of them only cause cold like sometimes so they're annoying but not really worth the huge efforts that would be required to develop a vaccine against them there's been a lot more work done on potential vaccines against a much more deadly coronavirus diseases sars and mers that work hasn't produced any approved vaccines yet however it has really given researchers a running start when it comes to developing approaches because of sars and mars quite a lot of a preliminary science has been done when it comes to corona virus vaccine development in general and that's what's fueling hopes that we might be able to produce a covert 1000 vaccine quite quickly as these things go according to most experts within 12 to 18 months. what are the long term consequences for people who have contracte

and eric williams will be back tomorrow could all that is coronavirus locked down lead to a bumper crop for being operator of one of the country's largest beef farms think so because her gaze even a scare more says less noise pollution and pesticides from nearby farms have been a boon to his 300 hives he hasn't lost any so far and the crop is coming in weeks ahead of schedule his farm is the only honey exporter in albania where the losses had been especially heavy recently is. and that's all file covered $900.00 special i want to conjunction delenn for me and the team thanks for joining. nearly 1000000 people killed in just 100 days. where one does younger generation did not experience the 994 genocide but. it's a consequence of. learning to overcome the psychological trauma one step at a time in the minds up of the long road to reconciliation and the closing of. the next on d w. bike . oh i'd lay a mug or just love. food for the russian soul. it runs deep. so many different books of life some are. often. told come straight from the heart. of the russian and turning from birth to death

and science correspondent eric williams that i'm not safe for this college 19 special if you want more on the virus to go to our website w dot com i reports and belin thanks for joining us. into the conflict zone. south korea has been hailed as a model. country and british corona virus infection brief under control but the medics have raised privacy and public shaming from sars and now they're on the courts that the virus is back again my guest this week a south korean foreign minister can chill off has her government made too many compromises on citizens' privacy in its efforts to contain the chemical conflicts to keep. next on g.w. . in may of 2021 the corona virus has separated families and friends and the old boundaries are reappear. but despite all of the feel good about health in the future there is still in many places a new feeling of connectedness. the old illegal alien 60 minutes in t.w. . we know this is a scary time for the coronavirus is changing the world changing our lives so please take care of yourself good distance wash your hands if you can stay at how we do w.b. for

now to your questions on the coronavirus is our science correspondent eric williams. what do you think will happen after lockdown is a 2nd wave very likely. where no one can predict the future i mean who would have predicted that we'd be here a couple of months ago but a 2nd wave is certainly possible and what's still up in the air is exactly what form it could take and in a great article i read this week some top experts from the us talked about what might happen next after mitigation measures are in the east now their models are based on data from past influenza pandemics they hypothesized 3 different scenarios and the 1st the current spike in cases of covert 19 would be followed by a series of repeating smaller waves every few months for the next couple of years right and to 2022 in their 2nd scenario we would see a fall this summer but 1000 would come back with a vengeance this fall and winter after that big spike in cases there would be smaller spikes and 2021 with the pandemic only starting to peter out in late 2021 in the 3rd scenario they postulate which they

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. >> yeah, perhaps william barr should give eric holder a call.ou are -- >> he should. >> but he won't. you're the board chair on when we vote a group that works with states across the country to work with voter participation. i want to let you talk about that because the other advocation taken up by donald trump is railing too much access to the vote. what is your administration planning to do 1234. >> yeah, so a couple of years ago, a former first lady michelle obama launched when we all vote. it is non-partisan. it's a 501 c 3 organization designed to help change the culture in our country around voting. nearly 100 million people didn't vote in the last presidential election. our democracy relies on engagement and so over the last few years, we're working to educate people about the importance of voting not just who is running for president but who is in your local offices, who are prosecutors making important decisions? who is on the local school board? who is on the city counsel? congress providing an important check and balance. so this week

. ♪ ♪ lou: obama's attorney general eric holder weighing in, and he says attorney general william barrll that he can to weaken the very institutions that he leads. holder, the first attorney general ever to be held in contempt by the house of representatives, he refused to turn over documents on the fast and furious scandal. by the way, that scandal is still very much alive. just last week mexico's president lopez obrador demanding answers about the scandal, about fast and furious for which the united states and this attorney general in the minds of the mexican government remain responsible. joining us tonight is kt mcfarland, former deputy national security adviser to president trump. she's author of the new book "revolution: trump, washington and we the people." kt, let's start with the broad unmasking of general flynn, your boss. in 2016 through the inauguration. are you surprised? i asked sidney powell, she was not, but are you surprised by the names that we see: biden, the vice president, dennis mcdonough, the chief of staff, samantha power, united nations ambassador, for crying o