Beethoven is for. Beethoven is for. Beethoven is for every. Beethoven 2020. 50th anniversary here on d w. Children teens and young adults how vulnerable are they to covet 19 statistics is starting to show they might not be as safe as of originally thought. The reason i believe that were seeing more of it right now is just because of the sheer number of children who have been exposed. Doctors are still working to understand the risks and government officials in many cities warn against complacency. Its not time to get cocky no time to get this riders has deceived us every step of the way we have been behind this virus from the very beginning. And it still surprises us. The more we live with corona virus the more we learn about who it affects and how the reality is more complicated than we ever realized. Welcome to this coffee of 19 special im robots in berlin and its good to have you with us doc says around the world are working to understand an illness with possible links to the corona virus found in children it says symptoms with the rare potentially life threatening blood condition kawasaki disease which can cause toxic shock cases were 1st reported in the u. K. Italy and spain and now the United States is seeing clusters of the disorder. A warm welcome for 8 year old jayden hart of wire hes back home from the hospital after coming down with a rare pediatric inflammatory condition when the doctors say is somehow linked to covert 1000. There are now more than 130 cases recorded in the u. S. 3 children have died. Officials say this highlights a greater risk for children during the pandemic than originally thought. Now we see Something Different that we did not see in the beginning and the entire medical community is coming together to answer this challenge and we take it very very seriously i want everyone to take it seriously and i keep saying to parents and family members i need you to be vigilant to protect your children all our children because your vigilance will make all the difference in this crisis. Symptoms are similar to those of coa saki disease. They include fever a widespread rash so called strawberry tongue where the tongue becomes bright red and swollen bloodshot eyes and swollen lymph nodes concern is also growing in europe as children head back to school after weeks of lockdown now parents are asking if its really safe. From the last 10 days is that this disease is similar to callous sucky for Young Children we still have a lot of questions for now Health Authorities around the world have few answers but are gathering the data they can im told so what weve asked for is for the Global Network of clinicians to be on alert for this and to ensure that they capture information on children systematically the statistics still paint a positive picture for children showing they are unlikely to become infected with covert 19 and doctors stressed the link to the kawasaki like symptoms still isnt 100 percent certain when i speak to dr Lawrence Kleinman hes an expert in Childrens Health because university in new jersey dr kleinman is the idea that children a bad day affected by corona virus an out of days idea i think it is rob good morning. Truly we are learning more about this virus and how it effects adults and more so children every day we originally thought that this disease seemed to spare children we now know both that they can get the infection without symptoms and they can become very seriously ill from the disease but theres been a lot of talk about this cow is sackey like disease how certain of the link between it and corona virus i think a lot of people working in the field believe it strongly although i wouldnt say weve reached scientific certainty at this point each bit of evidence that comes out seems to suggest that we are currently working with scientists from the United States senate for Disease Control and prevention as well as scientists from around the country to gather a large series of cases to try to understand the extent to which that link exists and to understand more about that illness yeah i mean youve been researching it as Research Going into this all around the world but actually the numbers involved a very small were looking at sort of tens of cases in Different Countries rather than hundreds or thousands why is it worth understanding this possible link i think there are a number of things to think about the numbers are small but at least in the area where i live the new York New Jersey area theyre growing were seeing new cases every day so we dont know the full extent of this i think its also important to realize that most of these children at least from what we know and from our conversations around one another do not have preexisting conditions it points out the importance of social distancing at all ages in the population including for parents and children. Now you mentioned this is possibly affecting children who dont have preexisting conditions that could be anyones children really should parents watching this be worried i think parents watching this should be aware and concerned and focus on the things that theyre able to do to protect their children keeping them away from close contact with others who with whom theyre not living. Wearing masks and being when youre out being around people who are Wearing Masks washing hands and keeping surfaces clean socalled high Contact Services door knobs counters things like that where people touch a lot of were other people maybe touching. This is a reason to be concerned and fortunately its not in overwhelming numbers. That the respiratory infection went through adults but we dont know what the future holds were every day we learn what we didnt know the day before and what about National Governments theres a real climate to get schools reopened in countries where theyve been closed should there be a rethink on how those a reopened how playgrounds are reopened given this new understanding of the diseases effect on children. I think there needs to be an awareness and there are many factors that need to be taken into account in some places schools are an important source of nutrition for children so its a risk to have them closed that said we shouldnt do anything hastily and when we do things they should be done with the utmost caution and with awareness that children are at risk and this is not a safe harbor so i dont think rush to go willy nilly is a is a good thing what i do think is that it is a sign of strength to delay decisions that can be put off because the decisions that are made next week or the week following will be made with much better information than the decisions that are made today some might see it as weakness or dithering i see it as strength and awareness of whats happening a constant a learning well dr Lawrence Kleinman from Rutgers University in new jersey thank you very much time thank you robert and dean my pleasure. And now its your chance to ask the questions as a science correspondent derrick williams. Have we finally established how deadly the diseases in terms of the number of infected requiring hospitalization and the death rate. Know those are things that are going to take much more time to figure out for several key reasons 1st and foremost is that in the midst of the crisis Different Countries are counting statistics and in different ways there are no Global Standards comparing statistics even between countries in europe is still quite literally comparing apples to oranges to paris to strawberries well actually have to wait until the pandemic is over to get firm numbers on how deadly the disease really is. Many vaccines are made with what are called live attenuated viruses are there any prospects for an l e v for covert 1000 live attenuated vaccines or l. A. V. s have been around since the 1950 s. There they are derived directly from the pathogen itself which has been weakened in the lab to cause a very mild form of the disease now in general compared to other types of vaccines l. A. V. s stimulated a powerful long lasting immune response because the immune system of the person whos been inoculated is actually confronted with the disease causing bug just in a controlled way with that with a damaged version of it but theres the rub if you want to create a vaccine directly from a potentially deadly pathogen you have to be certain that your vaccine is going to be safe and not do more harm than good deli bees we use now for diseases like like polio or measles have been through many many years of extensive safety testing we dont have that kind of time. Im with coke at night scene which is why according to a list of vaccine candidates published by the w. H. O. Just 3 out of the over 100 candidates in testing at the moment worldwide involve live attenuated viruses. Is it possible that just like with h i v we may never find a vaccine. Back in the mid 1980 s. When hiv he was identified as the pathogen that causes aids experts predicted wed have a vaccine for it within a couple of years but skip forward 3 and a half decades and were still waiting could that happen with covert 192. 00 possibly but there are some fundamental differences between the 2 viruses a really major one is that sars totoo appears to mutate at a much slower rate than h. I. B. Thats the good news it means any vaccine will probably retain its effectiveness against the corona virus at least for a while the bad news is that weve never fully developed vaccines for coronaviruses before now have ever been approved but what we know from work done on a potential sars back saying that making a vaccine thats effective involve lasting is not going to be easy basically were in unexplored territory and we just have to hope that the massive resources and the technology being thrown at these dozens of potential covert 19 vaccines now in development will bear some fruit. As science correspondent very quickly happens that im not 6 for this colleague 19 special if you want more on the virus to go to our web site t w dot com i report some balance thanks for joining us. Into the conflict. 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