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Germany was able to flatten the coronavirus curve in april it will have to do it again in november beginning next monday a partial lockdown will take effect in all of germany 4 weeks of no dining out no Domestic Travel and no nightlife a november of shutdowns and shut ins that will hopefully shut out the fires im bringing up in berlin this is the day. The speed at which the fire is spreading at the moment is 60 chile quake what were experiencing is an exponential rise in you cases of the important indicator of ice use and the number of patients being treated in them here again and the last 10 days the numbers have doubled if the speed rise of new infections continues the response capacity of the Public Health system will soon be exceeded we must act to prevent an acute national Public Health emergency. Also coming up as they say they are sick and tired of dealing with the coronavirus but never too tired to throw a Party Tonight pandemic fatigue in madrid and the police are on the way. We just rented a place so we could drink and smoke inside to get a few visitors even wore masks but that didnt last long and honestly young peoples biggest fear is having to pay a fine thats why the places need to be well insulated so the neighbors and the police wont detect anything. But to our viewers watching on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day exactly where she feared we would end up a few weeks ago german chancellor Angela Merkel sounded the alarm over the troubling row. Lives in new coronavirus cases in the country and she warned not enough was being done to slow the spread and she was right new daily cases are now approaching 20000 here in germany so today with the support of all regional leaders the chancellor announced a partial lockdown for the country for all d of november medical said that time is running out to flatten the curve again and that the decisions made today will mean wife or death tomorrow here on the south temple that is us or that the issue here is that this is a b. And at which the virus is spreading at the moment it is particularly quick what we are experiencing is an exponential rise in new cases with doubling times that are quicker and quicker today for example we had twice as many infections and this is the case with other important indicators as well for example the important indicator of our i. C. Use and the number of patients being treated in them here again in the last 10 days the numbers have doubled if the speed of the rise of new infections continues the response capacity of our Public Health system was soon be exceeded and this is why it is absolutely clear that we must act and we must act now we do not want to have a Health Emergency in this country and to prevent it we must take measures. The most important tool that we have and ive talked about it again to curb the spread of that and make is being able to trace the contacts of every new infection and this is a tool that is no longer available to us because the Public Health offices have reached the limits of what they are able to trace we no longer have the control of the spur of the spread of the virus and we must change this and for more now im joined by to be escort hes an epidemiologist and director of the institute for Public Health at the sharon tate hospital here in berlin and professor kurt its good to have you on this show let me ask you that the german chancellor she warned the country several weeks ago that we would be in this situation because the measures she said were not strict enough stringent enough to slow the virus and that is indeed what has happened this partial walked right action at the right time i think its the right time its about the right time maybe a little too late to implement these measures as you said since the merkel has predicted as others have predicted that this development and were not surprised to see this so right now its the time to really react because if we wait things will get worse and then we cannot do it with a lock on all 3 to 4 weeks to really solve the situation and to reduce the number of inspections its not a complete lockdown and its also not going to be a 2 week short period that had been predicted were talking about it entirely. With this partial walked. Is that enough time. I think its well you can argue that 2 weeks would be sufficient but we know that we see the result of a 2 week lock down after another 2 weeks so i think 4 week is the right time because otherwise you would not be sure whether the measure actually worked out think its important to keep schools and Child Support open because thats a very important aspect i understand it measures a very hard for some people and we all have to support these businesses to to really keep their their function over these 4 weeks and after really to hopefully go out and enjoy them again but if we dont do anything right now we are in a situation where its getting much worse and we see other countries west of germany and also these of germany where the situation is really bad and then you cannot we need have a lockdown in place for 4 weeks it will be much much longer than the decision to force restaurants to. Do you think that is. A wise decision to me is there proof that restaurants are places where the virus is being transmitted. Well its indoor people sitting in door and obviously you cannot wear a mask while youre eating the ventilation situation its also sometimes difficult to understand that it may not be a major force of the intention and most of the infections may be happening elsewhere but i think its d. D. E. Only way to really make it make a sort of measure of that that we is accepted i also think its important to have it all over germany in just not regionally so i think unfortunately its right decision to close rest wrong as much as i had it myself how did we get to this point maybe youre familiar discussed with the police here in berlin had to break up a party that had 600 people attending despite all of the Restrictions Mean has our behavior made the situation worse. Difficult to say im not a friend of accusing a specific part of the population of have done something wrong i think its a diffusion faction situation where many of the infections this happen at home or like at situations where you dont even expect to get infected so yes we have to pardon situation certainly that is that is not a good thing doing on a pandemic to do because he would increase the likelihood of of infection but overall i think that nothing really went long we as a population may not have listened carefully enough and we may have focused too much on on the on a discussion off of that people argue against it and not support the people actually following this measures and recommendation since many weeks a month and now were facing this lockdown of we all have to Stay Together otherwise it wont work. Difficult to say is all a question on the vaccination there will certainly be another way for its almost impossible to to keep this low and if we have a situation like like now where the hospitals like it in full again with the i see you bats are getting killed again like over 1000 patients we will face another lockdown in the fuchsia in the future hopefully swords and hands and then hopefully we can open up again. To be escorts the director of the institute for Public Health at the surety hospital here in berlin professor quote we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you for having me. Or germany is not alone spain is also dealing with new record high numbers of corona virus infections the number of coded 1000 deaths is at its highest level since may and there are now new lock downs and curfews but not everyone is a big thing the rule w. s Young Phillips reports tonight from madrid. Every week and moderate police have been knocking on hundreds of doors to shut down illegal parties my drift allows meetings of up to 6 people who are not related but police have broken up parties of more than 200 who are keen as a business student in madrid he only wants to speak briefly and anonymously as he regularly goes to such parties he himself recently helped organize one. That we just rented a place so we could drink and smoke inside just a few visitors even wore masks but that didnt last long honestly young peoples biggest fear is having to pay a fine thats why the places need to be well insulated so the neighbors and the police wont detect anything that. Bush wanted. Who are keen and his friends seem unfazed by this that just makes the furred of spending has become infected with the coronavirus at private parties 200 illegal parties were broken up in madrid last week alone police chief javier friend and this is especially troubled by the new Business Model being developed. Bars that are actually supposed to be closed certainly do take money in exchange for letting people in theres a clear economic incentive for it apart from that we have discovered private homes that were charging entrance fees right at the front door this isnt just about a few Friends Meeting up psychiatrys Diego Figueroa is calling for more empathy with a young people even if you support strictly abiding by the hygiene measures experts are starting to acknowledge the consequences of such drastic restrictions on young people socialites. Right now we have finding that Young Peoples Mental Health problems have increased dramatically as a result of the springs to lock down the suicide safe increased by 22 percent so far and attempted suicides have even increased by 35 percent on top of that theres been a major increase in the consumption of alcohol and psychoactive drugs young spaniards are now confronted with new rules all bars in madrid must close at 11 pm starting this week and curfew begins at midnight after a year of the pandemic has necessarily affected the quality of life of young people all over the world at the same time experts keep emphasizing how dangerous partying can be in the Current Situation spains chief amala just even directly charged with and asked them to refrain from parties at the moment. Even so business student who are keen doesnt want to be forbidden from partying he says he can decide for himself what risky is willing to tolerate even if it means partying in private homes until 6 am for the duration of the curfew. Well my next guest tonight is dr John Campbell an independent Health Analyst and one of the u. K. s online authorities on this pandemic dr campbell its good to see you again if you think weve got france going back into lockdown weve got germany going into a partial lockdown weve got parts of the u. K. That are now in some form of a lockdown i mean we see we see total impartial lockdowns nationwide we also see localized lockdowns is one more effective than the others theres a big debate about this in the u. K. At the moment some people say because the downs are regional and theres quite disparate regulations and different people having different regulations in different areas and this causes a lot of confusion and the Scientific Advisory group for emergency is actually calling for a breakout an overall nationwide temporary lockdown if you like totally 2 weeks maybe 3 weeks to try and get the situation back down to way it was a few weeks ago because the numbers are quite dramatically increasing now in the u. K. Is that the way so then that this scientific question if it out but the political will is not yet then i want to ask you about a new u. K. Study showing that antibodies for the corona virus in people who have been infected dont remain in the body very long maybe one to 3 months does this worry you. It actually doesnt too much this is the reacts today and it is a combined study between say more of the polling people in Imperial College london and theyve actually taken antibody studies from the fingerprint blood test from about 350000 people and almost 20000 of those came back positive so they have a very good sample size to judge by they found out about 30 percent of those people are actually asymptomatic and what they did find over the 3 months of the study from june to september that they antibody the people testing positive runty when he went down from 6 percent to 4. 4 percent which represents about a 26 percent drop off so we see that the antibodies arent lasting for very long but what that study doesnt do is test for the memory t. Cells because its probably the case that people get people who get more well make more empty bottles because the t. Cells havent already aborted the infection so the t. Cells are probably the important thing here and the other reason we think that is we if you think way back in britain to the 2003 saw coronavirus type one pandemic that affected about 8000 people in different parts of the world but it was contained people that developed antibodies and they didnt last very long but people that also developed t. Cells memory to use that was that fight that virus and theyve been tested for this yes 17 years later and theyre still present not only that those soft coronas groups are coronas one antibodies will combat and protect people against oz coronavirus to now theres only 8000 people in the world are infected by that so its not a big deal but these memory t. Cells are hanging around for 17 years now we know that they coronaviruses the cause the common cold this fall coronaviruses course the common cold the immunity for them doesnt last very long and we can become reinfected within the year but what the founders the sauce coronavirus to the particular proteins the actor the virus the antibodies the fight sars corona via. One the particular code change they affect to the same ones as on soft coronavirus 2 which had different from the common cold ones so it looks like the sauce coronavirus one is softer on a virus to fairly similar viruses so i personally expect the t. Cell response to be fairly similar and i am optimistic its going to be a long lived response we dont know that for sure yet but i think thats the way the scientists dotting to head what does this does this is a good omen then when we want to talk about the efficacy of a coronavirus vaccine. Is frustrating because a lot of the scientific papers on the vaccines have not been published yet so theres a lot we dont know but just last week the Astra Zeneca Oxford collaboration vaccine did publish an interim report not wasnt a Peer Reviewed scientific paper it was more of a commercial publication but they did show that the oxford vaccine the astra zeneca vaccine is effective in people of all age groups equally effective in all age groups which is encouraging because very often the not effective in 0 people they didnt show it raised the 90 body response but important it of also identified a definite memory t. Cell response in response to that vaccine now how long that loss of course no one knows because we dont know the future it could be that they will spontaneously disappear at the end of the month but thats very unlikely given the evidence we have from sauce coronavirus one from 2003 i would expect those antibodies after 2 doses of the facts seem to be fairly long lived i am actually quite hopeful about long term immunity and you know lets lets hope for that happen before we say goodbye unite we i think we spoke last week a week before last about the walk down in wales is the u. K. Closer now to a nationwide walk down being imposed. If you watch the scientists in the Scientific Advisory group emergencies they say yes it is the politicians are still resisting it there is some evidence that the phased this 3 phases in england this 5 phase in scotland is a lot down in wales so theres all these different approaches but there is evidence from england that this 3 phase lock down is starting to work now the number of cases a going up thats been increasing but the rate of increase has started to decrease over the past few weeks so in the last week the increase was 7 percent of infections but in the 7 days before that it was 14 percent and of course in september it was 90 to 100 percent so there is some evidence that this is working so i think what the government probably going to do is stick with this 3 phase pattern for now and see what happens and the hope is it will get the audacity to doubt round about work and hopefully in 3 or 4 weeks time we will take the success anyway we can get it at this stage dr John Campbell is always stuck here we appreciate your insights thank you thank you. I wrote the ever record prosperity epic job growth at a safe vaccine that eradicates the virus said quickly ends the pandemic and were making that fire dont turn they dont want to hear it were making that turn this is not political its patriotic wherry a matter where war period. The u. S. President ial election is now just 6 days away and the pandemic remains issue number one nearly 9000000 people have been diagnosed with corona virus in the u. S. More than 220000 americans have died from coke at 19 hospitals are filling up with some considering rationing care to patients the crisis is getting worse but the trumpet ministration is telling a different story in a new report listing President Trumps achievements in office the administration credits trump with ending the cove did 19 pandemic and you see here the press room these which says from the outset of the curve in 1000 pandemic the administration has taken decisive actions to be gauged scientists and He