Lessons from a drawn-out pandemic a year on | COVID-19 Special

It's been lockdown after lockdown, with another on its way here. It's been a year now since Germany officially classified the coronavirus as a pandemic. There are lots of lessons to be learnt from this crisis. The biggest challenge being understanding. How we perceive the dangers of a microscopic pathogen. How science progresses. And how politicians decide what's best for us. One year of DW's COVID-19 Special tracking the ups and downs of a pandemic.

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[dwnews]

As always, we'd love to include your questions in our upcoming shows! What would you like to know about the coronavirus pandemic? #askDerrick

[zsarimaxim]

Certainly learned more about human stupidity than the virus.

[michaelglod]

I never comment on videos, but I have to make an exception and post, I LOVE this ask Derrick segment! He, and your channel, have been very informative, great to see he is Human like the rest of us ;)

[Sofus.]

I'm not sure you can learn anything from us here in the West. It has been a pretty humbling and humiliating affair 😟

[poochesworld]

Those bloopers from Derrick at the end of the video made my day! Thank you, DW crew! 😂 😂 😂

[achristian]

What have we leant from Covid-19?
China/Taiwan/Singapore: How to control a pandemic
Europe and America: How to arrange subsidy in a pandemic

[VirtualTeds]

Thank you for your excellent coverage of the pandemic. Your informative coverage has been welcomed by the English speaking world in contrast to the more political coverage offered by other news agencies.

[TheKkpop]

Still finding scapegoat after one year.

[jasonkennedy]

Great segment at the end!! Love Derrick! DW on DW is the best :)

[dfitch]

Derrick Williams is the best part of these segments and the main reason I watch. Thanks for the laughs. I totally needed it today

[oscarlu]

This episode is really somewhat inspirational and a little funny in a depressing report. 👍

[siva]

10:43 From this point I realised Derrick is also a human being😂 Thanks for answering us for over a year.

Funny bloopers thank you! Dude you are all good don´t worry.

[wolfrun]

I really appreciate DW about valuable many news for the public and every people in the Earth. Hope that everyone is staying safe and doing well.

[dmares]

That it is very profitable for the some of the largest companies in the world to have the masses go into a pandemic

[nallanchakravarthy]

Only lesson we learnt is none of the lessons taught in school didn't help the ones who desperately needed help... Many died not knowing what hit them.... So no lesson learnt is useful and we keep learning new lessons.. Whats finally the point of all this

[rutherzheng]

Main takeaway: Governments have not been coorperating with its people, that's why cases are rising.

[joh]

Nothing, the answer is actually "Nothing"... our government has learned nothing at all.

[rollingdownfalling]

I saw at least one book in German from Derrick's bookshelf.

Although I would no longer like to read and write in its physical form because it takes up too much space, doing that on a laptop and an iPad saved me a lot of space and almost dust free.

Cute at the end btw.

[cornebod]

The most important thing we learned is that vaccines don't need lengthy trial periods and can be made from scratch in a couple of months, they say it's safe, so no more BS about lengthy clinical trials before releasing lifesaving drugs going forward...