30 percent of the world population. very simple. not fussy. that's very convenient for the chinese. after all, the poor will be full, very exclusive, but a. the mediterranean as potomac, kind of great sarcophagus. if anything he was proud of, it was to be a steal worker, like his grandparents and his parents. this is his business to come we of all that life. well the winners and losers. globalization, where do we stand? starts january 5th on d, w. o. o. 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, we are wrapping up the show. welcome to our final coven. 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 and northern italy both suffered badly in the pandemic. how are the people they're doing today? back in early 2020. the corona virus picked the northern italian city of burgomaster as the place where it would cost it's dark, his shadow during the 1st wave of infections. for a time burg, 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 wasteful for ah, you know, when we give a lot of gas oxygen to their people. and um, i am also a candle smell, something with which i remember very well at the height of the crisis. bogo, most hospitals did not have enough oxygen and intensive care beds. consuelo localities, 82 year old father, died just days after being admitted a b. i must go bear dolly jane, the delicate, they. luckily nika, were discovered from reading the medical records the day after he was hospitalized . he was given the cba 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 delicious that the us that a companion dog nellum auditing we asked the mayor of burg a mouthful, his reflection of the 1st wave in the city. he says no one was prepared for what came we last time. when, when they were the calling 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 to do 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 them in part, i thought it kately. i think that while we have learned is that the coffee experience has been potentially traumatic for everyone, even for very healthy people who didn't have any preexisting vulnerability or fragility busy thinking 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. 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 really good also. and that was the harder part of the emotions and relationships and crushed by this experience. of death and being isolated away from other people, the more this duckworth under persona cove. it's raff on burger mill was field 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 to 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 bill 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, bergman 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 tribute 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 then it has to be solved on a global scale amazon, 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 least . but he's as an on, on this as an overtime. visa viola. i have what 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. that was something i found personally very moving and about whom we but also how public life completely stagnated, at 1st locked downs and then alongside the like downs,

entirely new perspectives opened up in terms of society and life generally all around the world of ion turnovers. as my phone was actually working in a close space wearing masks for 8 hours at a time, that was really talbot and of the story long on the of on your door. and we will notice there's journalists, but as those impacted to in the sense that we also had to wear masks that we also affected by the health and safety measures that we said exactly the same feelings and fears. as other people, other mention, 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 every one everywhere life. emerson, the talking that it was varnish me by them. oh, 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 so far you had to constantly watch what was happening and reports on it. and also be

a little bit forward thinking for both pickup and for me as a science journalist that was actually something unusual and relatively new, relative noise. 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 to shut wasteland, where you, what you use is electron microscopy or x rays. that's the 1st month we built 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 did

not all the variance or virus particles, are looking the same. they are quite different size and they are not wronged. 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 bubbles. the spike proteins are not regularly distributed across the surface of the very and they are randomly swimming in this double membrane that surrounds our night. so they could even move across the virus particle and they can then it's actually been the industry. and here that can bend quite a lot and we see in electron tomo graphy that it's been all the time.

this is why we made the alternative model, which having springs to show how bendy it is. and of course it is. if you think about it, it's totally dodge because it needs to attach itself inside the lung, which is a really mobile environment onto a wholesale. so if it need to attach it, so it needs to be flexible because forces are still playing on it, right? you're breathing in and out 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 iris like right. no virus, for example, which is common cold. how can hurt protein outer layer of symmetrically arranged throughout, which is beautiful. that's not how corona virus bersh 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, there is not a good few mitigation medic 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 prompt, pre over 95 percent of the people who regularly reporting a contradictory with a whole people up there in to losing land. but mosquitoes can also transmit a number of dangerous viruses among them those that cause it yellow fever the more serious the effect it can have it with the battle folks. the pandemic hit brazil particularly hard

president jai, here bosa narrow 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 has fallen over several times. even before the pandemic, her life in the vila alonzo avila and rio de janeiro was not easy. but after she contracted 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 sold her where is at markets. but the virus robbed her of all her strength, much relative went bought a good school. 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 with that. you're going to feel better. 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. don't sampling at all go far soon. to my worker, her neighbors help her, but she has to survive without financial support from the state. acupuncture treatments on her ears help her to cope with the stress quite no. yes. so how are your anxiety levels? may not if i'm doing better, i'm not waking up all the time at night any more over to one of the bad about us versus going up on the near go. during the pandemic, the pool helped the pool. you,

the state left us to fend for ourselves are, 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 with either on for us here. people at the end of the world so to speak is going to be even harder to feel more real sick of us in want to might. brazil is one of the country's hardest hit find a pandemic. nearly 700000 people have dined from covered 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 wasn't loss. ok,

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 he, there was a disrespect for science and research. would you mind the crisis in brazil did not have to be on the scale. if you've like it is aluminum. any dust could have been avoided there from like you through it with us. what were they don't 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. after civil fear, 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 their why. and that's very important

. really, institutions need to be resilient. i, physicians, refresh, refusal fear, alpha his in the 8th it resilience is also the most important thing for caught in 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 fessor throws access to health care dignified treatment so that everyone

can recover fully and get back to work on may or the rep or their rabbi arc. there is nothing more important now than to restore our self confidence on our dignity. god forbid. good listeners. thumbs. i fear for them was well to know that we are still here and can be productive again that we can have dignified work like we had before. a more or 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's 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 sororities. he had canceled traditional funerals to try to limit the spread. claudia vullez, he gets her lived in fear that cove. it would impact her family. it's 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 is the shadow and as i said, come back at the corner and you see it getting closer and closer until it completely engulfed my ears. corona virus took my 2 deer as people from meals better on her pony. her mother was the 1st to get sick then her father both spent their last days in an i see you. claudia sister lena says the last time they ever sold that parents was via video, cold thump,

ronco. so for quiz and students my dad and found out that my mom was getting worse later. and but he began to get worse, as i know what we think he wanted to go with her music on it. because he no longer responded in all those. but the only thing he did in the video call was waive in no one. okay, so let me make this gesture that says it. so he said good bye. after 5 days left us and mcquaid 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 one own go ha ha ha. we never had that sense of closure to didn't were dead as a key that we were burying them where the little says for you. i never saw them a know they wouldn't give us. our fathers ashes hasn't been hasn't got 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 see them or coronel,

i'd been left with this feeling of waiting, a lesson of wanting to know where they are. they carry on this hon. 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 like something 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 dug 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 stored alike, 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 though, 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, immobile so far. the group has assisted more than 4000 people who lost loved ones during the pandemic. located with jo beth, i'm going to for k to pass up what and every one has gone through the same pain, connecticut that the so we're able to identify with one another sample. cool. 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 is accomplished when you know someone has gone through the same things you've experienced, you feel understood and accepted is a thing and that's a huge help came okay there. i do, i left 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. oh and that was the final edition of our coven 19 special watch, our 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 off he taking covey seriously without being hysterical about his ankle. that's my greatest wish since it's not over yet my level for by my part or even within trust the science

a bit more that life me it's not perfect. yes, there are some awful people out there ill too long. yes, there are mistakes. best of us, but it's the best that we have. this t, it's the best system for getting close to what we would call the true titans and it's winter in las vegas. i hope you stay healthy. take care of yourself and protect yourself from viruses of all kinds, but we haven't, i loved aunt may be that we'd all regularly remember to take a little more care and be more mindful of each other often. and is that even if a situation seems overwhelming at 1st and take a step back? good, stay calm. take a deep breath. and 1st look at the facts and look closely at what's actually at stake, the unzip of who gets here. i wish i might. oh, 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 that harm come as, as martin there's no shortage of issues or we could still carry on reporting on

cove. it, it had to been my wish would be that everyone would stay interested in the subject and keep an open mind go often and be flexible. so you can save lives. and your health flexibility is crucial. that's what i take out of a cupboard 19 pandemic since 2020 ah ah with

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