Beethoven. And beethoven is for. Beethoven is for every. Beethoven 2020 to 50000 or verse 3 here on d w. Coronavirus is not the great equalizer although it can affect anyone it hits the already vulnerable the most in brazil new favelas are springing up overnight here. This is building a provisional shelter for his family before the crisis he worked as a day laborer on construction sites when work dried up the downward spiral began. The landlord didnt want to wait he wanted his money so he told us to move out we heard that a lot of people in our situation were building shacks here so we came here clear to our doing the same thing there were. These improvised railings are crowded and there are no toilets Health Authorities worry that the Living Conditions here could lead to a sharp rise and convert 1000 infections threatening their livelihoods further and thus completing the vicious cycle of poverty and illness. Welcome to the w. s cove in 1000. 00 special im joined now on thanks for joining us poor in danger of getting sick and then becoming even poorer too many people are finding themselves in the situation during the pandemic but especially migrants are in a particular bind with the governments of their host countries often taking insufficient responsibility for that this next story takes us to the border between iraq and costa rica. A blue steel fences or separates costa rica from the correct way here. Elsewhere concrete posts mark the border. Every morning nicaraguans cross the frontier to work on farms in costa rica they have brought by truck to work illegally on fruit rice and beans plantations they earn less than half the official minimum wage theyve been doing it for decades but now the border is closed because of the Global Health emergency gustava from nicaragua accounts himself is one of the lucky ones hes officially resident in costa rica his wife is not but officials tested them both for the coronavirus. d the situation is worrying ive been tested twice thank god both results were negative d but 2 of my colleagues got infected so now we have to be tested again and. Dozens of undocumented workers tested positive at this border pineapple farm only around a 5th are registered in the costa rican Social Security system. They earn less than 400. 00 a month working 12 hours a day for many its the only way they can feed their families back home in nicaragua where conditions can be much worse. The costa rican foundation areas for peace is critical of the poor treatment of the nicaraguan Migrant Workers it says exploitation is widespread i did notice Everybody Knows about the Smuggling Networks everyone knows the woman who rents her garden hose to the migrants so they can wash their feet chart but they all know how much it costs. That they all know about the taxi driver who will tell the migrants when the police have gone or when theyre taking a lunch break the coronavirus has just uncovered that reality you know its all its got that migrants pay Trafficking Networks as much as 200. 00 to smuggle them across the border ministers admit theres little they can do about the illegal employment. The Legal Framework does not allow finest to be imposed on Business Owners who employ undocumented nicaraguan harvest workers this is the police we need to show decision on whether there is a legal infringement. With. Costa rica does not publish the nationalities of coronavirus patients but many blame the nicaraguan workers for the growing number of covert 19 cases as well as raising tensions the pandemic is highlighting the precarious conditions judged by migrants forced to cross central americas borders to find work. Professor hio it saved of the life in its institute for Prevention Research in epidemiology a joins us now professor t. V. Youve written about how the risks and consequences of this pandemic are evenly distributed socio economically speaking weve seen in this report how especially vulnerable migrants are and that so many countries depend on migrant labor from around the world what can be done to protect the soul 1st of all i think we have to basically respect their contribution to all you know economy to society and so or so that means. Help them to be able to cope with their demick just as many countries try to do for the citizens living in the country anyway so that means inform that 1st order allow them help them to you know take those protective measures that are needed improve working conditions such that distancing is possible and sure that their Living Conditions are ok mike and ruckus often live on their very precarious condition as it crowd its accommodations and these other things that we can really do now on to a supports those communities that make sure that they can really also you know get the best out of the protective measures that are out there that coronavirus exacerbates inequality is something thats becoming clear is there any way to address this issue at a time where we still dont have a vaccine i think it does relate to what i was changed just before that we now have to make sure that the conditions are there that these groups of people with lower social Economic Resources and hopeful that they are able to really cope with the situation as. Best as possible we have seen for example in the in the us that knowledge that the support that we could support was cut and immediately i mean do issues of unemployment come up and this is particularly precarious fall for groups with you know low income and or terrorist jobs there was little income they may have and then they split into real Major Economic and also social problems and that also means Health Problems because they would be having you know a lot of time to care if they needed they may have less access to the Testing Facilities and all of this is really something that needs to be taken care of now and once a vaccine comes another big issue is to make sure that it reaches especially groups under you know major a higher risks than other groups that will also be a big challenge though as you say poverty leads to Health Problems leads to more poverty what does worsening inequality it mean for the ability of the Worlds Health assistance to cope with this crisis im sponsored the office. Most social economic groups with me not with but low resources they also suffer more from lets say chronic conditions and also chronic conditions i exactly know those that make survival or lets say been the cause of the code a disease more severe so we may have this situation that people with lower socioeconomic status actually were suffering more from copy it and they are also at risk in their right condition so these are things that the Health Systems were definitely see and as as more cases occur and there will be more severe cases among people with low in opportunities to protect themselves and who may have already trick or treat existing conditions well see more really serious sick people getting into that hospital that need to be taken care of quickly to be taped healthy and not ours has been is will be able to cope with its now this isnt the worlds 1st pandemic some experts say it wont be the last so what lessons can we have derived from today that would help seal those in situations most precarious from the worst effects of the pandemic we do see this so often and in the you know diseases. Chronicle Infectious Diseases coming up that we have a social differences in disease risk and the disease cost so this is nothing new and we just need to be acting more swiftly and in the beginning already you know be aware and realize that this is what is going to come here that we will have groups that are at each really affected by such an demick and we need to start having structures that really allow swift action that really brings those those issues that out in the open immediate the beginning offsets and demis so that we can cant talk to them much better that we have no ability the ability to you know look at these working conditions change for example the. Working and Living Conditions all migrants immediately and thats when we execute ask for pandemics only but in general but is hardest and to get the politicians doing this we have been trying here in germany it is a slow process but it needs to be done and you need to be done be folding next wave of this epidemic of your future plans time to act thank you very much professor hyatt of the lightness institute for Prevention Research in epidemiology thanks for your analysis. Thank you. Now you got to ask the questions heres our science correspondent derrick williams. Ive Heard Research is talk about trying to meet the immune response but also saying that a younger stronger immune system is more successful in fighting off covered 19 is not a contradiction. To understand the apparent contradiction here you have to understand that there are are different stages of covert 19 that patients can go through the 1st is usually an initial infection in the upper respiratory tract and thats usually where it stays with most people thats where having a strong fast acting immune system is really great its able to keep the disease in check and eventually wipe it out in some cases it keeps it so effectively in check that you might not even notice that you had it but in more severe forms of the disease if the virus eventually makes it to the loans or to other organs it can kick in a severe immune response and when that happens the immune system can start attacking not just diseased tissue but healthy tissue as well thats when doctors have to step in and try to use the immune response with drugs because if it spirals out of control it can kill you but striking a balance between letting the immune system do its job and reining it in if it spins out of control is pretty tricky. 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