2 years in: What's the best strategy to end the coronavirus pandemic? | COVID-19 Special

How can we learn to live with COVID-19? We look at a child vaccination program in Chile aimed at keeping schools open, and hear about Argentina’s COVID passport. Is travel an option with Omicron? Tourists take to the skies despite the fast-spreading variant. Plus: German epidemiologist Tobias Kurth talks about what we can expect in 2022.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:33 COVID in Germany
03:43 COVID and international travel
08:08 Interview with epidemiologist Tobias Kurth, Institute of Public Health, Charité Berlin
12:58 Children & COVID in Chile
17:30 Ask Derrick: How does genome sampling work
20:40 COVID Passports in Argentinia

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[bkkmk]

Boycott media and government, that's the best solution. You should be ashamed and not allowed to call yourself journalist.

[brokenpersona]

In the US, for 18 to 49 year olds the number one killer is fentanyl overdose.

[willtricks]

Let people to live their lives, spend their money and move around their world.
The world does not belong to Presidents and Prime ministers and they are not their mothers.

[al]

What makes me sad is knowing majority of people don't even know the risks. In people under 51 the 💀 rate is 0.045%. 4.5% of 1%. Not an argument for or against, rather how irrational we have become with our fears.

[paradisemusiclibrary]

To the person reading this comment, I wish you great success, health, love and happiness! I hope 2022 will be the best year of your life!
Have a fantastic day!!! ⭐🙏💖

[Iris-hxox]

I think everyone should just look at it as never going away. Covid is here to stay and we just need to learn how to live with it and the many variants that will come up. The rich countries refuse to help poorer countries and so, here is what you have and it won't change. As our climate changes more and more risks will come down the road. Unless leaders act like climate change is the most important risk their country and people, nothing will change. This will all get worse.

[dobrerazvan]

The only viable solution to end the pandemic it's the most painful.
Darwin's law at his highest level...no more masks, no social distances and so on...but must be prepared for that (efficient treatments).
High cases, high deaths but in 6 months it'll be over.
If we continue like now the virus has time to mutate and we'll be talking about this many years from now on, and the total cases per 7-8 years in total will be greater than 6 months of hard cases.

[severinbechtold]

I was hoping the video would address the answer to its title

[misschief]

I love how the youngest kid is the most eloquent 🙂

[JoshAndBooze]

Thank you Deutsche Welle für showing us some of the forgotten victims of this pandemic: the children.

[stevenandre]

I was been tired of this pandemic I just want this to be over its depressing

[winstonjunior]

Ahhhh cute kids in the report.... DW.... you should use puppies and kittens next... maybe puppies riding chickens!! ('Look Up' movie reference)....
Big Pharma will stop at nothing to try and force us to do something we don't want to.

[nanucit]

So many US in the comments... Don't you have your own media to pester? 😒

[chrisw]

Those children shouldn't be watching the news 🙄

[jaxel]

Seeing all these brainwashed children, and adults, makes me sad

[senadmarovic]

Looks like no one knows the answer to this nightmare but one thing is certain lockdowns are not the solution

[bettyswallocks]

Patience people! The 1918 “Spanish” flu pandemic took over 3 years to wear itself out. We’ll get there, just not today.

[mattford]

So in other words "DO nothing and hope for the best". Why can the media not look at the problem seriously?

[jamesmartin]

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️☢☢☢☢WE DO WHAT WE CAN TO TRY TO SURVIVE ALL THE BAD THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO US THE POOR PEOPLE WHO SUFFER FROM THE GOVERNMENT THAT DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE THEY JUST CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES THE LEADERS ARE LEADING THEMSELVES TO GREENPASTURES

[harrisibrahim]

the best strategy would be, in my very unconventional way, to let it run in developed countries, where vaccination rate is very high and divert the money towards vaccinating developing countries. Simple!