Hello, I'm Nula McGoveran here on the BBC World Service.

And this is BBC OS, conversations on coronavirus, reporting COVID.

Vaccines, vaccine hesitancy, Delta, and now Omicron variants.

We catch up with journalists around the world who spent another year reporting

on the COVID-19 pandemic and helping us make sense of it all.

Most of the countries did a pretty poor job of explaining to people why this is important,

of being very honest about what we know, what we don't know, why things can change.

You're just preparing the public really for what's going on.

In March 2021, we connected to health reporters around the world

to hear how they're covering the coronavirus pandemic and the situation in their countries as they see it.

We've been speaking to some of them again to find out what have they learned

over the past nine months about COVID-19, how things changed.

And we've asked them to try and make predictions for 2022.

It's a risky thing to do, perhaps, but how do they think the pandemic will end?

I'm joined by a poor, a mandaville, global health and science reporter for the New York Times.

Also, we have Barbara Carvallo. She's a reporter at Global News in Brazil.

And also with us is Catherine Vizelovsky, a reporter and fact-checker who works in Germany in journalism.

A poor woman, you've been covering COVID from the United States.

When you look back, you know, it's nine months since we last spoke.

Somebody could have a baby in that time.

What is the most significant event you think that has taken place in relation to COVID?

For me, the biggest moment that stands out is when the Delta variant suddenly became a threat.

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