What numbers are key in fighting the coronavirus pandemic? | COVID-19 Special

Since the beginning of the pandemic numbers are playing an ever larger roll in our day to day lives and we have been encountering a number of statistics. Numbers inform our decision making. But which ones are actually useful? We introduce you to three key figures that a mathematical modeler uses to keep track of the current state of the 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

[VirtualTeds]

DW has the best COVID-19 coverage in English. Keep up the good work!

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test, trace, isolate
mask, distance, washing hands

[AdrianCalgary]

#askDerrick
Hello Derrick,
If someone gets flu, are they more or less susceptible to also get SARS-COV-2 during the time?
Thanks
#askDerrick

[ytmandrake]

Just stop counting and the pandemic will be miraculously over

[KJSvitko]

Why is the disease so bad for some people (they die) and not an issue for others (they are not aware they caught it) ? Age, pre-existing conditions, obesity or just a better immune system from eating healthy and exercising. Seems strange when I see articles about healthy young people that die from it.

[eelkeaptroot]

The fact that antibodies decrease over time isn't a new thing, that happens with any pathogen, for some reason they forget to mention that the body is capable of making memory cells. And when they report about vaccines they somehow do mention they tested for memory cells and claim to find them, I'd call that one-sided reporting...

[mariaobduliarobledo]

#askDerrick: your covid Questions, During vaccine distribution, what is the study or error probability in delivery, etc, the etc, melt of vaccine, expiration.... of what ever timing it has to be safe? Could this vaccine if injected once its melted, done expire have side effects know? Or are we just waiting to find out? Will, the studies still continue in the labs, animals, parallel with humans as time progress on, ? And will they be guiven to the Public, as soon as found out. ? Thanks.

[lyttlebee]

numbers are important, mindset is even more important! ignarance and arrogance kill people!

[sammywestenberger]

Please Lord Protect us From Coronavirus & Covid-19

[nataliecalabrese]

How many people answered the question if they would take the jab or not?

[bsant]

I liked how you showed the 1 death, a casket. Of course, sleeping Vampires excluded.

[jeanisis]

"MAN NOW KNOWS ON ALL THE EARTH, THAT WHAT DIFFERENTIATES HIM FROM THE REST OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WILL OF THE CREATOR : IS HIS CAPACITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS, HIS INTELLIGENCE AND THE DIVINE GIFT OF THE LORD OF THE CAPACITY OF IMAGINATION AND CREATION THAT HE CAN AS A "FREE BEING" : "USE" FOR "GOOD" OR "BAD PURPOSE"; THIS IS WHY "MAN" CAN BE A "BENEVOLENT BEING" OR THE "WORST PREDATOR" FOR HIS "OWN KIND", AS THE "LONG" AND "EXHAUSTIVE LIST" OF "MANKIND' S CRIMES" AGAINST "MANKIND" IN "HISTORY"; "TESTIFIES" ... "AMEN"

[casey]

DW LAUGHING AT CHINA. NOW NOT LAUGHING ANYMORE

[giedriussiliauskis]

Absolute ill wish ... stop thinking people are not educated ...

[nanahuang]

$10 says Trump gets it again by March.

[vitovitale]

Maria...I just met a girl named Maria! She has a bright red beard ..oh dear! She might be infected with something very Italian like pizza sauce!

[rufusreloaded]

People who recovered from SARS 1 are still immune 17 years later.