the group is naomi and shaming thousands of officials supporting the whole ukraine . how far will that van hooton's power they want to know will make the german 13 death in the john love and banning them away from that. but i'm not even have to have my own car and everyone with later holes and everything. just getting, are you ready to meet the german can join me, right? just do it on d. w. ah, do you remember how it all started with a corona virus? there were rumors, speculation, and a lot of fear. the whole world yearned for concrete information. that's why dw started the coven 19 special back in march 2020. we kept you up to date with the

latest developments and discoveries daily at 1st, lighter weekly. now, after more than $500.00 episodes, were wrapping up the show. welcome to our final cove at 19 special scientists have now found out exactly what the corona virus looks like. it's actually different to what was originally thought. we'll take a closer look. we'll also take you to brazil in northern italy. both suffered badly, independent mac. how are the people they're doing today? back in early 2020. the corona virus picked the northern italian city of bergman as the place where it would cost its dark. his shadow during the 1st wave of infections. for a time bug, amal was the world's epicenter of the viruses, deadly outbreak. leading to these haunting scenes bodies of the dead in army trucks

being transported to crematorium in neighboring regions. inside burger, most hospitals, health work, his battles to keep people alive. i remember the phones. yes. all of a different devices that you were using are of the time we sold for, ah, you know, when we give a lot of gas oxygen to their people and the m m. also a kind of smell, something which, which i remember very well. at the height of the crisis. burger, most hospitals did not have enough oxygen and intensive care beds. consuelo countries, 82 year old father digest days. after being admitted a b. i must go bare dully, jane to delicate they. luckily nica were discovered from reading the medical records. the day after he was hospitalized. he was given the soup up ventilation helmets. and unfortunately, at that time,

there were not enough of dos helmets and doctors who had to choose who could survive and who to lead di amy, my dead little suffered a choice to be accompanied to diving men. there are so be delicious that the us that a companion dog, nellum auditing. we asked the mayor of burger muffle, his reflection of the 1st wave in the city. he says no one was prepared for what came last time. when, when they were the caller id name pinky, ah, because we, we weren't aware that about the possibility that the virus came exactly here from china to radical. when i heard about the 1st case in back, oh which, which wasn't it actually the 1st because they live virus was here her for, for many weeks before i i, i use tentatively, i thought it's not true. all the who will pass very fast by the end of the 1st wave

cove. it is known to have claimed 16362 lives in lombardy province. nearly 50 percent of all debts in the country. at the time. testing capacity was limited back then, so no one can really say how many people were infected. but studies dance since then have revealed the lingering effects of infection, particularly on psychological well being, collect billing per i thought icky lee. i think that we're, we have learned is that the covered experience has been potentially traumatic for everyone, even for very healthy people who didn't have any preexisting vulnerability or fragility. for this thing in bergman, every one knew someone who died of cove. it many turned to their faith for comfort . this priest who lost his nephew, said his own faith was tested. his church became a more when the city had no more room for the dead. a been the one to the gentleman,

the to the phone there crystal a, we had to face this and had to deal with a whole lot of organizational things was real good also. and that was the harder part and emotions and relationships and crushed by this experience of death and being isolated away from other people. the more they really stuck with. and the persona cove, it's ref on bergamot, was filled by a slow response by officials to detect the virus and enforce measures to contain it spread a population of older adults with underlying conditions and a desperately under resourced health care system that had suffered years of budget . cuts, we need web doctors or in the territory of her generic purposes and also small her after care. please. he said in the, in name, in the city is a, in the territory and her, this is what it is going to be built in italy in the lombardy mainly where we were

missing the structures. the problem is that we, we are, we are lacking doctors and nurses. in the meantime, loganville is slowly starting to resemble light before the pandemic, but bergman won't forget those that were taken away by cove at 19. this memorial is a trivia to them, surrounded by a grove of trees, releasing the oxygen so many needed in their final moments. but is the worst really behind us now? and can we even ask that question without being accused of stirring up panic? right from the start, our teams in berlin and bon thought to take a constructive approach to our reporting based on the latest science. all the while the pandemic was impacting us to. we asked ourselves as a team, how did these times change us? what have we learned?

slower working on the curve, its special show made me particularly aware of the huge global nature of the pandemic. and that it has to be solved on a global scale. as we have as many guns and i gained a huge amount of scientific knowledge, i found that really exciting because without working on this program, i wouldn't have been so intensely involved with the scientific background and mr. but he's, as an on, on this as an overtime. visalia, except for i am and i learned a lot about science and how it works and, and also that there is a lot that we don't know it as well. it is. and then it's something that we simply have to live with and was, it's got our show came about partly because there were gaps in how the topic was being reported or out of a few more finish you by. i'm run fiber which had but i was impressed by the way, even if it came across differently in the mass media. many people stuck together and were respectful of each other and that was something i found personally very moving and about whom we but also how public life completely stagnated,

at 1st locked downs and that alongside the like downs. entirely new perspectives opened up in terms of society. and life generally, all around the world of ion turnovers, a smartphone with the actually working in a close space wearing masks for 8 hours at a time that was really talbot and of been stored long on the of on your door. and we were noticed there's journalists, but as those impacted to, in the sense that we also had to wear masks, that we were also affected by the health and safety measures that we shared exactly the same feelings and fears as other people elementary and no the span of the van, what was most exciting, were the many reports from around the world, which made it clear that the pandemic really affected everyone everywhere. like emerson, the top from that it was varnish me by me. you could only said was like a car race. we was standing on the sidelines watching the virus moving around like cars, doing love also for only one hour far you had to constantly watch what was happening

and report on it. and also the a little bit forward thinking for both pickup. and for me as a science journalist that was actually something unusual and relatively new relative neu. after nearly 3 years of pandemic, we now know a lot about sars covey too. but not everything. scientists have discovered that the virus actually looks different to what we previously thought and have created an exact model. andrea taught from the university of hamburg, explains what it means. things that are so small are hard to measure the virus smaller than the wavelength, visible light. so you cannot observe, it was light, you need something that has a short whitening when you what you use electron microscopy or x rays. that's the 1st month rebuilt and it had about 100 spikes and was larger. and this is the new model which is smaller. and have fewer pipes because we know that now, but back in 2020 we didn't not all the variance or

virus particles are looking the same. they are quite different size and they are not round. it can be flattened, it can be more cylindrical, it can be deformed, so it can be kind of like potato shape very young because it has no heart out a show, like many other very tasks can be deformed like a soap bubble. the spike proteins are not regularly distributed across the surface of the very and they are randomly swimming in this double membrane that surrounds are nice so they could even move across the virus particle and they can then it's actually been the industry in here that can bend quite a lot, and we see in electron tomo graphy that it's spend all the time

this is why we made the alternative models, which having springs to show how bendy it. and of course it is. if you think about it, it's totally dodgy. cope it needs to attach itself inside the lung, which is a really mobile environment onto a wholesale. so if it needs to attach it, so it needs to be flexible because forces are still play on it, right? you're breathing in and out to move because it's flowing. so to spikes are pretty flexible on the stock. and they're not typically sticking out and they're by no means symmetrical of viruses like right. no virus, for example, which is common cold. how to hurt protein outer layer of symmetrically arranged throughout, which is beautiful. that's not how corona, virus, marsh i. d w science editor derek williams was a fixed member of our coven,

1900 special production team. the whole time with his segment act, derek. he was the face of the show, every episode he answered your question, but it wasn't always easy. i actually hate looking at myself on television, but for the last 2 to 3 years, i've been doing it almost every day if not every week. well, and it wasn't always easy. let it roll treatments were covered 9 came of 1919. what is i keep trying to attract to make any predictions. ah, it is not a good few mitigation met. view mitigation memory, medical medication members, education members, litigation measures. few mitigate

delta has become the dominant variant, a recent big pre prints, pre front, pre product, pre pop over 95 percent of the people who regularly reporting a contradictory with a whole new people up there in television land. ah, but mosquitoes can also transmit a number of dangerous viruses. among them those that cause a yellow fever the more serious the effect it can have it with the battle folks.

the pandemic hit brazil particularly hard president jai, here boston are largely ignored. the scientific communities, recommendations, and even appear to mock those who succumb to the virus. brazil ended up with the world's 2nd highest cove at 19 death toll after the u. s. and many are still struggling to get by now because of the problems created by the pandemic. for more than a year caught in a boston hardly dared to go out on the street. she was too worried about contracting cove at 19 again. all of her bones still ache. she suffers from dizziness and his fallen over several times. even before the pandemic. her life in the villa and nancy from vienna and rio de janeiro, was not easy. but after she contract cove, it her situation worse and she could no longer pay for her rented apartment. and now she lives in her sewing studio, she used to teach nearly

a dozen women here how to so she also found her. where is that markets? but the virus robbed her of all her strength, was my blog, which a lot of people have died from cove it here. so i isolated myself. i was afraid to go out on the street. i've never felt so sick. but if i have trouble concentrating where i used to take part in online meetings and also gave online classes, now i don't have the stamina. i'm just overcome by terrible fatigue, sampling, facile, her neighbors help her, but she has to survive without financial support from the state and acupuncture treatments on her ears help her to cope with stress. stuck white. how are you wearing diety levels? notice i'm doing better. i'm not waking up all the time at night any more

than mere. 2 during the pandemic, the pool helped the poor, you the state left to fend for ourselves. in some places, there is no water or sanitation. where are you supposed to wash your hands? it's going to be hard for rio de janeiro to recover on for us here. people at the end of the world, so to speak. it's going to be even harder to feed them on the sake of i went to my brazil is one of the country's hardest hit. find a pandemic. nearly 700000 people have dined from coven 19 here. so far, former president, shire bull, so narrow down, played the dangers of the corona virus, was late to order vaccines and mocked victims with breathing difficulties. there was a lack of oxygen and ventilators, and the health care system was on the verge of collapse in rio de janeiro. at least a state of the art cove at hospital was built quickly with 200 intensive care beds for severe cases. that were was,

it was old in the general situation was terrible because not all patients could be treated. there were long lines of patients in the emergency rooms that and unfortunately we had a president who did not respect the suffering of families for the big here he worked against quarantine regulations against social distancing and mass glaring roles. yet older i've read you that there was a disrespect for science and research. would you mind the crisis in brazil did not have to be on this scale. if you've like it is moving in any dust, could have been avoided, the f am i going into it with us? what would that help if you live without the infectious disease specialist hopes the incoming brazilian government will make better use of the scientific knowledge gained during the pandemic? especially in the event of another episode of a peer my head, you g, which device you need a network of hospitals and institutions that are prepared and can respond quickly.

happily, that's how you build resilience with the vi. and that's very important is the institutions need to be resilient site, physicians, refresh refusal. they're also his in the 8th. it resilience is also the most important thing for cotton and boston on the outskirts of rio, just like the women in her sewing group. she would like nothing more than to sell her own creations at markets again and to teach the craft and courses. but before she can continue, she 1st has to get better. she has been waiting for an appointment with an orthopedist and specialist treatment for her pain in the public health care system for months. oh, she does not want to rely on prayer alone. she expects the state to play, it's part down law says a so's access to health care,

dignified treatment so that everyone can recover fully and get back to work on me. are they to rep on there that i bought? are there is nothing more important now than to restore a self confidence on our dignity? god forbid. good listeners. thumbs. i creep on down was well to know that we are still here and can be productive again that we can have dignified work like we had before. more as agency or ours people living in poverty like cutting a bustos, have gotten through the pandemic by helping one another. and like many of her neighbors, she hopes the new government taking office and january will handle the pandemic and its consequences more responsibly. columbia government also made some decisions with far reaching consequences. it banned traditional vigils for the dead among the majority catholic population. in order to halt the spread of coven 19, like in many countries, people were unable to say good bye to their loved ones. now there are moves to

provide help for grieving families. the pandemic has claimed over a 180000 lives in the predominantly catholic colombian capital nadine in 2020, or sorties here, can't sold traditional funerals to try to limit the spread. claudia vullez, he gets her lived in fear that covered would impact her family going as a law. oh louise, it's like a shadow in long this if you see it on the news, they start talking about the shadow, the shadow and the shadow deserted from the fuck at the corner. and you see it getting closer and closer until it completely engulfed to your mail. corona virus took my 2 dearest people from meals better on her pony. her mother was the 1st to get sick then her father both spent their last days in and i see you. claudia sister lena says the last time they ever saw their parents was via video.

cole thump round, both walkways and students. my dad found out that my mom was getting worse away and but he began to get worse, is i know what we think he wanted to go with her music on it because he no longer responded in all. those were the only thing he did in the video car was waive in no way nickel case. and i make this gesture that says let's so he said good bye. after 5 days left us and walkway due to the restrictions at the time lena and claudia were not able to give their parents a traditional funeral. something that was very hard for them, but can no longer ha is are we never had that sense of closure? that them were dead, the key that we were burying them where at the little us as for you, i never saw them a no, they wouldn't give us our father's ashes, haven't had them up and put it out on the same ether. and in my mother's case, we were only allowed to have

a closed casket already. and i think that because i couldn't say though, oak or not, i've been left with this feeling of waiting a lesson of wanting to know where they are, the cadell them. this time the sisters missed the traditional funeral rights that experts say are an important part of mourning the loss of loved ones. as if the yonder lavelli i accepted the reality of death comes from being aware of that loss from using our senses to verify that yes our loved one has indeed died. not because we doubt that it's true, but because mentally we need to have that certainty. we need to know their loved one has gone yet in order to be able to process that loss ruin some funeral homes in medina are offering free psychological support. this includes self help groups established for those who couldn't properly bury their loved ones. during the pandemic or not, or what i learned in october 2024, we created

a support group to address the needs of those people who are saying look what i'm experiencing right now is something very odd. something i've never heard of or experienced before. you're in when i talk to people about it, they don't understand and i'm feeling good. so we created a place where they can talk about the pain they're feeling after losing some one this way, or the last 4 molecular a movie you so far, the group has assisted more than 4000 people who lost loved ones during the pandemic. located with jewel, it's home, go to for k, to pass a put in every one has gone through the same pain, connecticut that the so we're able to identify with one another sample go. i will. many of the others also couldn't be with their relative silly. i don't live weren't able to see them after they died. the were only given their ashes. if a come up with when you know someone has gone through the same things you've experienced, you feel understood and accepted it and that's a huge help can okay,

there. i do have plenty claudia and lena guleski gaeta have now taken steps to mourn their parents. they were able to hold a farewell ceremony while still abiding by the restrictions at the time the ritual meant. they were able to pay their respects to their parents and say, a final good bye. sure. and that was the final edition of our coven 19 special. what are other d w programs for more on the latest developments in the pandemic. as a farewell, the team wants to express their well wishes to you. take care, and most of all stay healthy. i think that my greatest wish would be that we're better prepared for the next pandemic than we were for this one. we need to learn to follow the science named corn and also he taking cove it seriously without being hysterical about his ankle. that's my greatest wish since it's not over yet. my volume for by my part, are you within trust the science a bit more than likely?

it's not perfect. yes, there are some awful people out there ill tomorrow. yes, there are mistakes with best of us here, but it's the best that we have. this t, it's the mouth system for getting close to what we would call the truth titan ethridge in this it, cuz i hope you stay healthy. take care of yourself and protect yourself from viruses of all kinds. mcvee on another aren't maybe that we'd all regularly remember to take a little more care and be more mindful of each other i'm talking often on is that even if the situation seems overwhelming at 1st and take a step back, could stay calm. take a deep breath and 1st look at the facts of morgan. look closely at what's actually at stake of the unborn kids here. i wish i was even my dog. so could be aware that science is also in a state of flux. it's constantly developing. when you have a new disease, you can only work with what you know at that point across this harm come as,

as martin i there is no shortage of issues or we could still carry on reporting on cove. it had to been my wish would be that everyone would stay interested in the subject and keep an open mind. oh, often think be flexible. so you can save lives and your health flexibility is crucial. that's what i take out of a covet 19 pandemic. since 2020 ah ah aah! with

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