Coronavirus. Now operators face billions in losses and lawsuits Health Experts say the ships helped spread the virus industry says it took extraordinary measures to limit outbreaks germanys attorney i had to call on australia for help when the virus broke out. This cruise entertainer was trapped aboard and is critical about one thing she should have been kind of the ships dont have a party to carry out corona tests of the like you have been caught has to be done on land and takes time outside then the passengers want to take a cruise again one of you can find definitely were booked out our passengers all want to come back. For the next 2 years and im certain many many people will want to do the trip you know isnt much and it takes a lot to convince me to set sail again but ive got nothing against this little guy had a provide a combo to hold my hand hes an expert in the field. Of cruise ships more susceptible to Something Like the coronavirus than other places that certainly are because wherever you are the crowds of people 4000. 00 up to 6000. 00 plus the crew on the narrow area Program Makes together the risk because there are basically these giants of this. These are some of which had already just been finished but are they going to run at full capacity there was a very big there money and this was the reason why more and more trips of this all youth group being built they really thought everybody thought oh good they get into that business that really good one can go in continuously and go on are very difficult but for. Some smaller expedition boats are now allowed back to sea but with only half the passengers and no stops along the way the big guns are still in dog. They look so a load completely empty but bookings are already surging operators are offering big discounts and promises of a Gold Standard in Public Health some Analysts Expect another boom even bigger than before the crisis just dont count on me. Of a more im joined by professor alexis puff of the masses hes the chairman of the Truth Research society and codirector of the institute for maritime tourism and brain maha from university of applied sciences now that out of the way good to have you with us 1st question simply has to be would you board a cruise ship right now or. Me personally i would probably do this. For research for. All right as you probably would weigh a mask and not look for fun but the problem is why did cruise ships get caught up in this pandemic in the 1st place more so than aviation or other modes of transport what went wrong. Well i think theres a degree its very easy to trace back lets say a coral outbreak or an order on a ship rather than on an airplane as simply because you know in an airplane people go in and out and its very difficult introspect where you came from plus Cruise Companies for deployed in asia and where they had the outbreak started and therefore the noose and i think this is basically what happened i dont think that. Is less risky than the crucible that bob as i mentioned its very very difficult to trace back to where the people got it shows up in the cruise that he nor it was on a cruise. Or it doesnt really matter whether most of the cruise but the cruise gets argued for right that its all in there were very difficult to perspective and of course on a cruise ship you spend so much more time so if theres a case to take to it then you get stuck with it i dont course you mentioned risk i mean the typical cruise ship client is middle aged or older and knowing that this is the High Risk Group what advice do you give them. Well at this point of time with the hordes normally the average age for cruiser is around 47. 00 so i think there is a big span of what we call middle age but if we are talking about people high risk people people that have previous illnesses. At this point a virus than 2 will turn the cruise in the same way i would advise them to restrict their traveling as much as possible. So what you say that those cruise Ship Operators have learnt their lesson to make it safe. Well i dont its not like theyve been trying to keep it safe and they had outbreaks in the past. The big issue is how do you deal with a crisis when such curves. And communication has been a big war plus im afraid theyre currently trying to to really start up as quickly as possible this is the forwards whereas i think this should be really trying to read carefully redesign test and trade their personal vote for the new situation because if something goes wrong in the Current Situation is going to escalate in the media and the industry cannot afford more negative press than they already have and so fingers crossed hopefully itll all work out all right alexis at papa tenaces from the institute for maritime tourism in britain often thank you so much for your time and to stay healthy. Thank you very much the same to you. And now for the last time this week weve got our science correspondent Derek Williams on storing your questions and this week you want to know about t. Cell immunity. Can inhaled steroids help in the treatment of covert 19 for example for people who also have as not. Currently the only steroids being used to treat coke at 1000 patients as one called meth as one though it isnt inhaled and its only used to treat people who are in very bad shape and need respiratory support i think that what youre referring to is a group of other compounds that made headlines last week called interferon and so now theyre signaling proteins that play a key role in steering the bodys immune response by acting as a kind of frontline defender one thing they do is warn an infected cells that an invader is around so those cells have time to shore up their defenses source code to appears to be able to block the interferon perspire bonds kind of allowing it to to sort of rampage unchecked so the idea is that by administering interferon based drugs through an inhaler at just the right moment you can cause the immune system to work not only as it should but also exactly where it should in the air passages and then the lungs initial results from a non Peer Reviewed small scale study appear extremely promising but it was also conducted by a British Drug Company testing their own formulation so there will definitely have to be a lot more corroborating data before we can say anything for sure. To keep a lid. The have an increased chance of dying from coffee 19. A number of different studies have looked at this issue and mostly they agreed that people who are living with hiv are are no more likely to contract or die from covert 19 than people who dont have a hippie the u. S. Centers for Disease Control currently lists also having the immunodeficiency virus as as only may be affecting our columns a key aspect of that though is certainly going to be whether or not hiv patients continue to get the antiviral therapies that are keeping their disease in check the United Nations program thats responsible for Global Action on hiv aids has warned that in 2020 alone there could be up to half a 1000000 additional aids deaths caused indirectly by covert 19 because its a disrupting supply lines and access to the medications that People Living with hiv need to survive that would basically wipe out all the progress thats been made in the fight against aids over over the last decade. 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