The Virus: What Went Wrong? (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
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- As COVID-19 spread across the globe, why was the U.S. caught so unprepared? An investigation of how America’s leaders failed to prepare and protect us - and who is accountable.
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In this 90-minute FRONTLINE documentary special, award-winning journalists Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith trace the coronavirus’s path across the globe and identify a chain of fateful missteps - from Chinese authorities’ early silencing of dissent around the virus's emergence in Wuhan, to the World Health Organization’s failure to more quickly sound the alarm, to Italian officials’ slow initial reaction. Then, “The Virus: What Went Wrong?” zeroes in on key moments in the Trump administration’s halting response - including warnings going back to January, the CDC’s inability to manufacture and mass-distribute a working COVID-19 test early on, and a string of missed opportunities to contain the virus before it was too late.
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My husband caught COVID-19 in February of 2020 while working in rural Washington when Trump was claiming it's only "one person from China." I got him home to SoCal. He was patient #4 in the remsdesivir trial, saved his life.
YOUR LUCK BECAUSE IT WAS NOT THAT EFFECTIVE. IT ALSO CAUSED KIDNEY FAILURE IN MANY.
Again, it saved my husband’s life and many more when not much was available.
Causation is not correlation .. @@diannalazan2846
Bless you and your loved ones 🙏🏾😏
@@meyou4923 what about the people with lingering symptoms that stay with them for the rest of their lives?🤔
I had a friend that was a nurse that went to go work in New York only to get infected himself and sadly passed away. RIP Marco
That is so tragic. So sorry for your loss. I was an aid in the long term care facility the pandemic really changed on how I view the world. Walking into the first covid positive room for the first time scared the shit out of me. Almost quit that day. I needed that job. It was necessity that caused me to stay. Had a big problem with people on unemployment making more money than me just by staying home. Was not prepared to be taken care of infected residents during a pandemic I didn't sign up for that.
But I survived can have pride knowing I made a difference. Someday I can brag to my grandchildren Grandma survived the pandemic by taking care of the infected. Not because I was brave, oh hell no needed my job. Anyone that voluntarily does covid care out of the kindness of their heart knowing the risks are the true heroes their bravery should never be forgotten.
May your friend rest in peace.
R.I.P.
My condolences. It's down right disgusting how people down play this crisis because they want to worship a narcissist.🙏🏾😏
My brother live in Virginia and he was😂 working in ER and my older brother kept in contact with me I always asked if he was okay but my brother was over work in ER dearly so much truth is the United States of America repubicans president Donald John Trump didn't do the right thing for it I feel that trump administration and CDC and every one of them killed the United States of America they killed the population all the world 🌎 😊
So sorry for your loss. It’s a shame how politicized the virus became in the states. We still have people on the political right that simultaneously believe the virus was “fake” while having lost family and loved ones to the very virus. I’ve never been so let down by society in my life.
This is what happens when corruption spreads like a cancer into leadership that impacts public health and well being.
People die and No One is accountable
Corruption is one thing but 10 times worse when ignorant corruption.
Guess what….Trump was right…came from a lab in Wuhan. Turns out, Fauci was the corrupt one.
Turns out DJT was right…came from a scientific building in China. CZcams is still blocking people posting this truth, so who’s the corrupt one?
He was doing rallies while loved ones were dying! What a Disgrace!
I don't relish being the bearer of bad news but the polio vaccine was known to be unintentionally contaminated with cancer virus and so the long history of cancer around the world from the 1960's forward. The U.S. government knew about it but could not reveal it to the American people. I learned about this by reading Judyth Vary Baker's book _Me & Lee_ . She was a young biochemistry prodigy working to find a cure for cancer and President Kennedy's alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's extramarital lover in 1963 and they both met coincidentally and worked together on a CIA project to develop an aggressive cancer virus to be used to assassinate Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Oswald was a secret U.S. government agent and he was assigned the task of delivering the perishable cancer virus to a contact in Mexico City in September, 1963 but the contact never showed up and Oswald tried his best to deliver the virus to Cuba himself to no avail. Oswald was later roped into a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy and was also part of an assassination abort mission. Needless to say he was thrust into a predicament and was set up and posthumously framed for the assassination in order to curtail suspicion of a conspiracy which is exactly what it was.
My heart broke when they were saying 80,000 deaths was horrific. As I’m watching this in 2022, we’re up to over 800,000.
U.s. covid deaths are currently 930 000. in mid February 2022
@@thysdebeer2911 thanks China we ought to nuke them for covid
Now in Sept 2022 it’s over a million in USA. World wide it’s what? 7 mill?
@@deecobb9018 : More than that.
@@deecobb9018 9 million people die from hunger every year in the world. Perspective, princess.
Non-scientists speaking over scientists. That's what happened.
Thank you for your sensible perspective. Comments section is full of rabid lunatics. I can't imagine worshipping a human like these people do.
that is an excellent assessment.
*nailed it*
@Brent Tanner You're a psycho-conspiracy theorist.
Brent how did you watch this video with your tin foil hat on.
@Phillip S "it's just one person coming in from China. It's under control. I trust Xi" - 45.
Just a few weeks before Trump uttered those words, Trump assassinated an Iranian general because of "imminent danger".
It was a mistake.
In baseball, Trump mishandled the ball and would have been marked an ERROR.
Yet there are still people complaining that our government "overreacted", causing financial problems. Human lives do not have a price tag. We didn't do enough and we did it too late. Thanks again, DONALD.
I wish all news media had this much journalistic integrity. Been binge watching Frontline lately
Your brainwashing is going along smoothly !! %100
The government just loves ppl like you !!!
😂😂😂😂😂 who pays for these comments 😂😂
@@waterishdrake8693 wdym? What's wrong with my comment?
@@JoshieMadhattNothing. The reply above you just prefers to deny reality.
There needs to be a part II of this. This was just the first act.
P’eaoo u p
PLEASE P L E A S E help us!!!!
Part II: Everyone died.
@@danelosullivan3408 Covid is just as fake as your account right?
@@danelosullivan3408 Too bad that you did not contract that disease. I wonder if you still utter that stupidity when your breath stops.
This makes my blood boil. When will Americans put down their petty differences and work towards a better future.
When indeed.
Making america great AGAIN implies we are not gonna change for the better, but go back to when trumps life was great. Not many Americans know when America was great. Maybe 1%
Nevaaaaaaaaaaa lmao. A lot of this new gen is fake and superficial. They don’t really care about eachother like that. Well, like half. The other half could really make some change.
Sahel When we cure the cancer of Identity Politics from our society.
Never
Okay, I'm sorry of someone doesn't like this - not trying to start anything - but I never understood how he could call for a national emergency to build a wall...but not for a worldwide pandemic...
The simple answer: He's a self-centered asshole. Admitting it was worse than he thought would be showing weakness, and hes desperate to prove to everyone he's not weak. Millions of people died on his watch because he couldn't get past his own ego, including my grandfather. He'll never see te I side of the white house again as far as I'm concerned.
Because trump. That’s it.
@@Rugelacharugula yeah
@@cassiemeigs5711because he's a sick individual who probably figured it would thin out the democratic herd, ensuring his remaining in power and becoming the dictator he aspires to be
Exactly
Should arraignments and charges be brought against him for protecting his image instead of the lives of people who suffered & died?
Where are we on Health & Safety & Human compassion?
Nancy Pelosi was in China town San Francisco February 2020 assuring people they were safe. Look it up. Democrats
This is the time when we need reporting like frontline and public broadcasting the most
@@Jordan-vf4up It really is!
As long as the current mode of conservatism holds high offices that won’t happen. Frontline is, first & foremost, INTELLIGENT. The producers look at issues with an emphasis on facts & analysis - both of which have become politicized. Trumpian conservatism is about fear, control, & fantasy. Facts that don’t cater to their fears are rejected, their need for control is rooted in fear, & fantasies (conspiracy theories, interpreting religion to support a political agenda, scapegoating) are fed to them to allay certain fears & amp up others. The Trumpians who walk the halls of the capital buildings have an additional agenda they desperately try to keep on the down low; self-interest. Money & social position pretty much covers it. You could say that our Founding Fathers set up a fantastical system which has always fomented conflict via hypocrisy & inconsistency. Idealistic, beautiful prose resting on a foundation built from the opposite. The only demographic all that pretty prose uniformly applied to from the get-go? White males. FACT. Every other demographic was part of the foundation, the not-so-pretty REALITY. Blacks, women, the natives of this land, the mentally impaired, religions other than Christianity (American version.) Since the Civil War - when white men as a class were FORCED to give up slavery . . . CONFLICT. The violent kick-back of the KKK & their sympathizers, women’s suffrage, the practical application of non-Xtian religions, the Civil Rights movement, the right to hold political beliefs counter to democracy/capitalism, the ERA, the LGBTQ movement, and - last but not least - the enduring struggle between institutional religion & secularism. Every single ounce of actual equality has had to be fought for on the ground & in the courts. Why? That’s not what the prose of our founding documents promised, yet here we are, embroiled in another crisis. Trump’s elevation is a nostalgic triumph of (imo) of white, male-oriented privilege. That’s the reality of “MAGA”, while it’s being simultaneously & publicly denied. Feel a little familiar? It should. Behind the scenes, a lot of Trumpians are quietly raking in the money - the one thing that can ensure they stay above the privations of the hoi polloi. So, yay MAGA-STYLE CAPITALISM! For the good of the country & our future, Trump HAS TO BE an aberration, a one-off, our first & only novelty president. If he’s the start of a trend . . . wave bye-bye to our better angels because we won’t be seeing them for a long time.
Everything is just hunkydory!
Think they are public? Think again. Better yet go 👀
@@AccentYouLovingheart - you are mis-informed. Mostly supported from public funds.
Frontline...easily the most captivating and impartial documentaries out there. Could literally watch these all day.
I am ;)
The truth is that trump thought he knew better. No test no accounting of people dying.
In my hometown in Puerto Rico, a relative of my daughters from their mother's side was the first case reported. He spent over a month in the ICU and to this day he has difficulty walking or standing up. He ended up having to resign from his job which required for him to always be going from one place to another. Hardly ever had a chance to sit down for more than a few minutes.
Another relative refused to get vaccinated based on her religion and about 2 weeks ago (it's 2023) learned she had covid.
A friend of mines and her mom also had it about 3 months ago so the virus hasn't dissapeared. Protect yourselves.
Thank you for sharing as it is a stark reminder we are not out of this yet. Take care 🌍☮️
@@worldpeace8187 👍
I just told my family I'm going start to 😢 wearing My mask
for a while
But one day it's just gonna POOF go away
A dear friend of mine was hospitalized 1/20/2020, Sacramento, CA he was in ICU for weeks they had no idea what was up! He spent three months in a rehab, he had to retire from the law firm he worked for and died , 5/15/2022. LONG COVID is serious! So sad to watch someone slowly die! Heartbreaking situation we all where in and still are! i’m fully vaccinated and I’ve never had Covid!
Documentaries like this one should be presented to all generations..to be able to see how horrible our country was for being late in closing borders and stopping flights everywhere
To play with people's lives for political gain is absolutely disgusting and infuriating because life is such a precious gift and should be treated as such. There is no excuse to ever justify putting politics over informing people of the truth and facts when a virus with the potential to have deadly results reaches the shores of America and beyond. This is sickening and maddening at the same time.
Start showing this in 6th grade through college
Trump
They may as well have put a part one at the end. This isn’t over.
So true !
Part two:
"IF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU ARE ONE OF THE FEW LEFT ALIVE. YOU ARE PART OF THE RESISTANCE"
The worst is yet to come... Winter is coming.
Did you not watch the original frontline? This would be part two
@@googleuser3473 yes we will look back on these days and the good old days. How naive we were.
Man 2020 has been a year to never forget
Yes, let's learn from it so that we never repeat this again.
2016 was the worst year. That's the year. That was the year that presaged the shape of thing's to come...
Still amazes me that I've lived through this.
I was avoiding this episode. So disgusting how it was handled.
FRONTLINE the best .Producing top class documentaries for decades.
Sometimes
PBS is the worst propoganda ever!! (Yet, they do it so well)
Who is still watching this during the 2nd wave? 🙌🙌🙌
*Watching and so enraged that I have tears running down my face...* 😖
Still Learning...
That's How NEW This Is
4th wave
Just as I said it starts in January and trump was just worried about golfing in New Jersey 🤔
By the time it had spread to that Washington state senior facility, I was paying attention... by the time it had reached New York City a week or two later, I was preparing for the worst. This was sometime around late January 2020. Knowing how integral public transportation is in NYC, I couldn't imagine it being contained without extreme & unrealistic quarantining.
It was the biggest scam in history and I called it for what it was in April 2020. I knew it was bullshit from that moment forward.
As I watch this, my anger at those in power, worldwide, grows all over again. 😡 I’m so tired of all the lies, all the coverups, mismanagement, corruption. I’m so tired of it. 🇿🇦
It’s gotten larger under Trump.
AMEN. Vote Trump 2020 and help him & us drain more crooked swamps. Now we have international predatory swamps too deal with
You've spoken for the vast majority of us!
@@believeitlandscapemaintena7636 DOH!
I'm with you...but is there really anything we can do
Extremely powerful episode. Thank you for all you do it Frontline to get the truth to the masses
@@ChildOfTheLie96 Obviously, you're drinking the Koolaid provided by your hero.
I have been raised on PBS. They are truthful and it's comforting during these times
@@healingv1sion Me too; they're the closest thing we've got to the BBC. I love PBS
It‘s no true
@@alexcarter8807 the old BBC. Not the new bbc like cnn and the rest thatt are geared more towards ratings, biased, and stimulated tabloid-like gossips than actual news.
I came down with COVID in January 2020. The clinic I went to had no idea what was wrong with me. I got through it quickly, but boy howdy, it whooped my a**.
FRONTLINE please please please stay in such professional manner. Very good job You deliver
Again, thank you frontline for giving us the truth of the most important issues in our lives, of these times! You are the gold standard in reporting.
Finally!!...some one who speak the real truth for those tha think the Trump is not a threat......
Evey lie is a threat !!😳
Nearly half of the electorate still thinks Trump’s the best POTUS this country has ever had. We are already so screwed, yet the fringe wants to re-elect 45 in ‘24.
What’s that sound I’m hearing? It’s the unmistakable sound of what little democracy we still have left being flushed down the toilet.
@@gioperdomo8353 lolololol. I found the pillow biter.
They lie a lot do some research
They lie a lot do some research
Like if Frontline is underrated and better than vice
kRu503 Do we comment if we like Vice more? 🙃
Might be a sign of maturity lmao
Vice went to shit 5 years ago at least. I think the episode of Documentary Now! on Vice is pretty accurate.
Both is good
Frontline
Thank you Frontline. Korea had the right idea. Testing within days. A monumental failure in the states. RIP all those who died.
This was well done, but they left out something important about testing. It wasn't just that the CDC made an unreliable PCR test and that the US would not purchase a working German test. In addition, the FDA prohibited hospitals from developing their own PCR tests for the virus.
I can see this being played in a history class in the future
It should be
This is HW for my econ class rn
But will they teach kids that the real death rate is >1% and they shut down the country over politics or will they teach that orange man 👨 bad? The virus is the propaganda as is that Medicare for all and free college is something that would be good for the country and not destroy our great country and take us broke. I wonder if you will think Medicare for all is a good idea when they tell you that your tax rate has to go up to 70%+ to pay for more handouts? As Americans we are Guaranteed equality not equity your results depend or your effort as it should. If college should be free then as a college graduate you should make the same as someone working at McDonald’s, or are you leftist is equity what you want only when it benefits you?
Hope your right . They should be showing this on every network NOW . People are known for short memories .
@@awright1216 obviously someone posing as an American. Broken English rampant in the post.
In my personal timeline New Year 2020 seems to be like 3 years ago. I can hardly remember January.
We (kc) won the Superbowl in February.... That was the last Cool thing I remember.
Crazy huh?!?
The whole Iran fiasco and Australian wildfires
I remember January seemed so long, it felt like the longest month to me, I was glad when February came, little did I know what was to come. I should have embraced January.
For real 2020 feels like 2 years already
People in high places never want, nor will they say they were wrong.
Everything about the outbreak and lockdown has broken me.
Imagine chatting with your friends on a group chat, and then the police knock at your door and then makes you sign a hush agreement. Damn.
Exactly
In the US : you get sued.
This pandemic really showed how weak we are here in America. We won’t do anything about it either.
It showed how weak liberals are. End of story.
@@julieann4616 No, Donald Trump and his bunch of Republican cronies are really weak.
@@samoyed81966 lol. We see things differently. 😊
@Shonte Brent right, because everyone else (scientists, epidemiologists, etc.) knew exactly how to handle this novel coronavirus. You seem smart too. 😂
@Shonte Brentyou’re right,, I’m so mad!! 😂😂
This is all so very sad. Being a Covid nurse (which I still am as our unit is full of Covid right now) it was very traumatic to watch people coding right and left and we were so unprepared for the intensity of this. Granted the rest of the hospital was empty and healthcare workers were furloughed. We absolutely did not have enough trained staff to handle the level of care the early Covid patients needed. I lost a cousin to Covid. I, myself, have been very fortunate that I have never caught Covid. Not sure why
Seriously me too. Ive been lucky that I havent caught it yet
I am a health care worker in the hospital we still have covid patients coming in but not at the rate of two or three years ago. We have workers getting sick and me personally still wear my mask
Herb inmuteaty! You should know that silly!!😮😂
It's all a part of the job! I am in retail very simaler!! Crazy people running around hoging toliet paper and now creepy people still wearing masks!!
@@johnhettrich1802get an education.
Same in USA. I was of huge opinion churches saw their right to worship more important than helping prevent illness. Crazy bat s-- sense.
The memorial they did in China for Dr Li moves me to tears. I can never hate such compassionate, brave people as I saw in that part of this report.
I never trusted Chinese. Just as I never trusted Trump.
😢
We have to remember governments are not the people of a nation.
@@lilys7431 We should all get he clue that a good government is the representative of the people. THIS current liar government doe's not represent the people, only it's own leftist interests.
@@kirtwilliams7775 Try not trusting Dr Fauci & Nancy Pelosi, ETC.
Rewatching this today. “Only” at 100K deaths then, now 700K+…
Coulda shoulda woulda
trumps denial, delays, distractions have extended this way beyond .......the finger is pointed directly at him till this day, he let all of this chaos happen.....
@@59plexi the only thing it seems he’s retained into muscle memory is the Cohn playbook. It turned him into the perfect Cohnman. Was it by design? I have a difficult time thinking he’s that smart, but the mere thought of the timeline of events and how everything bizarrely happened as if in a Twilight Zone or some weird reality show turned LARP, inquiring and enquiring minds want to know…who’s rolling the dice?
@@59plexi Trump, notorious for not reading daily briefs. What a leader.
@@59plexi only nine people openly agreeing with the statement? Pitiful & sad.
The dope Herman Cain agree
What went wrong. Everything! One thing I’ve learned through all this is just because someone’s a Doctor doesn’t mean they have a clue as to how to treat patients outside of their stupid protocols that a robot could do. All the faith in the world to nurses, paramedics, and a few doctors that question stupid things but only a few. The hospital has become a dangerous place to be in America. Truly dangerous
My friend told me the 1st of December 2019 that I needed to stock up on canned foods, tuna, alcohol, dog food, paper products, Tylenol, Advil and any other staples I needed.
The 1st of February 2020 my local grocery store was void of paper products, canned goods and frozen prepared foods.
Wow, that was really early for your friend to say that! Obviously he or she wasn't wrong, but I don't even remember hearing about COVID until the second half of January. I admit I just kept living my normal life until the night Trump suspended travel to and from Europe.
What went wrong ? Every freaking thing !!!!
You can always send your money back.
Yeah every freaking thing... like suckers who wear masks and push this bullshit agenda forward...
LOL.. seriously!
“Well said” 👏🏾
What is the difference between Trump,and any person that is controlling someone? There need to be term limits on any government worker.
PBS deserves a Pulitzer Prize for this.
Well said
I agree Your comment is the reason i watch this
*Fauci lied. China did this on purpose. Perfect timing for the election. Why has China threatened us with nuclear war now US is considering a probe to find lut the true origins and original host??*
@@VirantRoss bruh. Come on you now better to excuse China of this, now China did start this by their way of trying to sell food. And the virus got us out by there. But come on look at how trump handled this, listen next time and stop saying that “ this was on purpose” and stop making excuses, deal with it and move on...
@@sebasramirez1812 Created in China. Spread on purpose. Trump was correct, but we hated Trump and blinded ourselves.
They Built a Hospital in 10 Days America Needs to Do That ASAP
I am still very scared of covid and any new virus that could appear. I still wear a mask in public and sanitize. I still clean my groceries and shoes every time. People make fun of me but I don't care. I kept it out of my home and am determined to keep it out. Plus, I will be ready for the next pandemic, which will happen. It's just a matter of time.
Well, that’s pretty silly. It is an airborne virus, only transferred through air. The virus is killed immediately when exposed to outdoor air. It was designed in a lab and only survives in indoor lab like conditions. Avoid spending long hours indoors in large crowded buildings with recycled air. Get as much fresh air as possible. Do not wear masks outdoors. If you insist on wearing a mask in doors in crowded places, make sure it’s an N95 respirator or bette. Make sure it fits properly, and only use it one time. Use disinfecting nasal spray and gargle with mouthwash daily, especially after spending time indoors with others. Wearing masks does not promote good health, it can lead to bacterial infections of the airways, mouth and skin.
Thank you PBS for such great & extremely important documentary!!!!!!!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙇🙇🙇🙇👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽
My wife and I were sick as a dog for Christmas and new year of 2019 to the point we didn’t celebrate the holidays. the worst cough I ever had to the point I downed bottles of syrup to try and break it, fever at 105 degrees, labored breath. The worst chills and body aches . After many Urgent Care and Dr visits strep throat test, flu test everything came back negative. All they did and could do was give us a proair-hfa inhaler. mind you we never had history of breathing problems or Flu like symptoms that severe. we truly believe COVID was already here since late November when we got sick mind you we live in NY and had been ice skating for my birthday Nov 30th in NYC and visited China town! I don’t care what anyone says COVID was here already and we will die claiming that. thank God we are young and healthy and was able to recover without knowing wtf was was wrong with us
I think so too.
@@jamiestewart1223
Dear Mr. Stewart,
You are SO right about what you feel was a bad case of the
Covid-19 Virus👍 In November
2019 my husband was in a Care Facility when he started with a severe fever, chills, breathing difficulties, loss of taste and smell. He stopped eating for about 2 weeks as he was so sick he started coughing and so much mucus was building up in hus lungs they put him on the Respirator. He still could mit breathe with the respirator at full blast.. The Care Home did not tKe him to the hospital and he died two weeks later on Nov. 20, 2019.
I also kniw now for SURE HE DIED
wifh the Covid-19 Virus. The Care
Home keep trying to say he died of Diabetes and Cancer? NO HE DID NOT👎 I know for sure that he died of COVID-19 AND I am currently working on getting hus Death Certificate tk be Changed to the TRUTH OF HIS PASSING OF THE COVID -19 VIRUS✌SO YOU ARE CORRECT IN YOUR THOUGHTS! Thank You For Your Informant Post🙏 Peace Be with You And Family👍
@@dorothyrobinson517 I'm so sorry for your loss.
Thank you! I got the worst cold about mid November, my grandson supposedly brought it from school 😷 for three days he was sick went to the dr. he not even knew what was going on but it went through to one person to the other almost three wks of suffering being me 69 years old I got it the worst, pains,red eyes,coughing chest-pain fever, my daughter being a nurse I pull thru this painful virus 🦠 this is for real guys it’s not something to play with it, left NY as soon as got better which means this virus was here since mid November and not may like they argue wear the mask wash yours hands and be safe 🙏
@@jamiestewart1223
Thank You! I Am just grateful to O👍ur Creator that he went quickly more so then to Suffer so long like many of others had to ENDURE👍
PEACE, PRAYER & PLEASE TAKE THIS VIRUS SERIOUSLY🥰
April 9th, 2020....Carlos Villanueva...RIP...miss you brother.
4/21/2023 watched this!!!!i was infected with this original virus december 2020, and endured the world lockdown, personal lockdown, and survived, only to become a long covid survivor, its STILL scary today. blessings to all over this earth!
Why do you think you got it and still have it
That time square video is so chilling, I was there and the atmosphere was so happy and people were so optimistic. It went down the shitter in 2 1/2 months later
I was in Hong Kong at the end of January. The atmosphere was so opposite of your experience.. very depressing. By the 28th, I was getting my temp checked every time I entered my hotel. I hope I can visit Hong Kong again in better times.
How are you doing? Do you live in NY?
@@sharonhunter337 no.
@@geraldmcdevitt3996 Ok. I trust you are safe and hope you know Jesus. Lu 21.36
@@sharonhunter337 thank you.. but never met him.
The lack of humility is extremely painful in view of the death of every American. We created this custom to say thank you for the service military's efforts after 9/11. Today the shield of America is the health care member. You're our best. 400 of you gave your best effort and example of selfless service, again.
Thank you forever.
Thank you for that. We lost a nurse last month from Covid & it’s infuriating when people call it a hoax or downplay it. Even if it were “only killing the elderly”, these are still people we’re talking about. The problem with statistics is the lack of human face.
Biden need to take responsibility for causing it ( covid-19 ) with his evil friends
911 have killed 3,000 american in a day but USA revenge by killing 11 million muslim in 9 countries by listerning and advice by zionist advicer around US President.
This covic 19 is punishment by GOD to ALL leaders who is crouel to humanbeing.
How many health care workers lost their jobs due to mandates, not passed by Congress? An mRNA treatment that clearly doesn't prevent the spread of the virus.
We underestimated the Corona virus.
Seeing her FaceTime her mom in the hospital reminded me of my dad when he was in the hospital dying of cancer during the Covid 😢
What went wrong? Idiocy in our gov is what went wrong!!!
Also people going around spreading the virus. That too.
Ignorance, cover ups, lies, and corrupt political power
Bonnie Holman
I agree WHO and China seriously screwed the pooch on this one. BUT, it was compounded (in the US) when our POTUS decided to announce it was a hoax, nothing to worry about, etc. Then whoops! Not a hoax but it’ll “just disappear” & a thousand other untruths. He and other politicians made this a bigger disaster. Many of the public followed their lead. Hell, masks are a sign of party affiliation now! Craziness and failure in leadership.
@@t.l.1610 BLM protests caused the virus to spread.
Google Google
“It’s the new Democratic hoax” - Trump rally. Even his most ardent supporter has to admit the man is a walking, talking contradiction. Say one thing, do another. Reverse positions often, lie if needed. The hoax statement is less important than the continual misinfo like “It’s under control”. Confronted about that later, he spins it. Asked by a reporter at one point about lack of tests, he replies, “Everyone can get a test” (absolute BS at the time). All these things pile up.
I feel so bad for the woman who lost her Aunt and her Mom and could've lost her daughter. I can't imagine how much pain she's in.
@Valentina D. who do we charge for:
HIV
The seasonal flu
Chickenpox
Mumps
Herpes
Hell if I can chart my history back to Europe do I get damages for the bubonic plague? Fucking stupid what you just said.
I feel bad that she couldn't see her loved ones in the hospital. This type of shit is still going on. Horrible.
Absolutely heartbreaking.
It is sad! So in 2024 go ahead and elect bunker boy and see how many more people will die because of his ignorance, stupidity and moronic thinking.
WOW! If you have or had all of those diseases, you should REALLY PAY ATTENTION, & follow the recommendations of medical professionals & scientists!
Listen to the science , not the politicians.
When I first heard about Covid on TV I KNEW something was seriously wrong and I didn't know just I should react. I now know now how badly I had underestimated how bad it would truly get and for how long.
This excellent documentary should be on all broadcasts at the same time.
@Apostle Tyrone I bet you wake up in the morning and kiss both sides of the rainbow.NOT
This documentary has brought tears to my eyes.
Joe Biden is racist
Frontline is eye opening jouralism 😊
@@Coolidge2329 Is the stay at home order causing you to troll?
@@Coolidge2329 yes, we know but what does that have to do this this comment? 😂
@@Coolidge2329 I see Joe Biden is starting to live rent free in your head... enjoy the next 4 yrs
Brilliant Reporting!!! Thank you Frontline
FINALLY THE WORLD HAS REALIZED WHO IS THE TRUE ENEMY OF HUMANITY.
IMO, it's Trump.
At 0:17 you see the reason no need to watch further, just vote that thing out in 2020.
Thank you Frontline for telling it like it is, another great documentary, condolences to the families.
A Howard Cosell quote is very timely. We pray for the families. This is a big American mess, thank to Trump. Mike Pence sure is a great help in this process. I know Trumps faults, does our VP have a brain ?
4 years ago we were using freezer trucks as morgues and wiping ourselves with coffee filters. Anyone who thinks we were better off then is nuts!
We as a nation were under prepared. Media made a spectacle and the administration was not the best to control an event like this. It was a media vs the government, and both failed in keeping us safe. I was a RN assigned to the covid floor. It was a disaster. Management never communicated a thing…
February 10th we've lost 460,000+ lives and will most likely break 500,000 by months end! This was a major inexcusable screw up by the government! Absolutely heartbreaking!
614,419 as of July 12
@@justbrowsing5963 and those dying now are doing so due to straight ignorance and political stance. So sad.
But, but, but.. Trump said if it wasn't for his intelligence and foresight, it might have even got as high as 200,000 🤦🏻♂️
@@justbrowsing5963 now 710 thousand. 10-21.
@@francisphillips53 because of legit political grandstanding we could hit a million.
2 moments say it all: a) system inadequacy 1:11:48 "...we've completely failed...the whole way that healthcare is set up in this country is the failure..." & b) Trump as a (non)leader 1:12:39 Peter Alexander berated for asking valid questions "I say that you're a terrible reporter." Sickening (pun intended)
The gov intentionally lied throughout the entire thing. That's what went wrong.
Trump and the repubs lied, yes.
@@dionmcgee5610 democrats lied as well Skippy.
This is what makes me so angry...Obama left a pandemic playbook for Trump and Trump threw it in the trash. The fact that Azar didn't try harder to be heard and that Trump refused to listen to Azar when it did come out.
My God, we're sitting at 370,000 dead right now in the United States. I am so disappointed in our government.
I blame Trump ultimately but his cabinet and congress knew/knows he’s an idiot narcissist and should have stepped the heck up and done their duty. The Republicans are more afraid of a mean Trump tweet and his whacko base to do the right things.
Oh we had a frickin plan
Obama created and developed a response team!!!!
Any college student knows agencies and groups make
Preparedness Plans
Trump removed it
I am very angry at the total incompetent Trump administration - the majority of deaths - his lies, his ignorance, his self-serving stupidity - his fault
@@thankyouJESUSkingofkings Our best virologists can explain to you how they know it wasn’t “made”.
If you’d only listen...
Like it started in China and they have less deaths than USA really the president/government really failed us very sad
Martin never ceases to amaze me with his reportings and journalistic expertise.
I started keeping a very detailed journal starting January.and recorded daily stats on local, state, National and international infections, deaths and other societal impacts. Scariest thing I have every written. I include news. Articles, maps and even memes. I do not know why I started to journal so detailed an complete then. I have been reading the journals ( 6 8 x 12” for 2020. Now I have been writing a journal/scrapbook for years. Nut nothing as detailed and complete as the 2020 ones. Anyone else kept records on the pandemic?
I wish I had kept track of my thoughts of when I first heard about Covid in Washington state.
As it was being downplayed I was buying bandanas. There were still plenty on the shelf. I was very disappointed to see face covering politicized
Agreed. People who already were exposed to SARS viruses knew masks were ineffective from the start. Sad to see people fall for the absurd lies.
God seeing that womans mother and aunt die at the end was absolutely awful. Made me almost cry. It's this level of injustice that makes me wish I could bring the wrath of the heavens down upon the idiotic evil of Donald Trump and his administration.
Well said things left to God are better
That part was also heartbreaking to watch
@1:13:03 - Such a cowardly irresponsible response to a legitimate question dealing with a serious issue.
122 more days left until this clown gets voted out of office.
Amen I can't wait until January 20th hopefully biden would be a great president
Not irresponsible
Try SADISTIC & CRUEL
It's so amazing to think. We actually had Roy Cohn's best friend and boss. And Mrs Be Best. For 4 years. I'm wishing it was a lifetime ago.
I'm wishing it was never.
Thank you to my fellow health workers!
Trump is completely devoid of an important characteristic of a true leader.
EMPATHY
I was anticipating this official Frontline episode on Covid-19. As usual, Frontline did not disappoint. Thank you, Frontline, and thank you very much, Mr. Martin Smith.
It was also nice to see Dr. David Ho on this episode being interviewed. I personally wish that him, and Don Francis, could’ve led the charge in this crusade to fight against this virus, like they did with the AIDS epidemic; like Dr. Ho also did with SARS, and the way Don Francis did with Ebola in Africa.
I wait for Frontlines to come out too, they are the best.
Don't forget Dr. Fauchi.. He was there in the beginning with HIV too. He's still speaking truth to power.
@Bonnie Holman did you even watch the documentary? Go to 52:32, Fauci literally said this is not enough, this only delays the pandemic. It will eventually hit our shores. Fauci knew the inevitable and called for an investment into our medical infrastructure to minimize the amount of human life lost in this pandemic. The point you make about Pelosi going to Chinatown and saying spend money is xenophobic. At this point, Trump was still holding campaign rallies which are bigger spreaders of the virus so you should blame him. Additionally, if Trump listened to everything Fauci was saying we would probably have a nation wide mask mandate, most schools would be online in the fall, and the Trump administration would have created a national plan to give out PPE to states and rapidly ramp up the United States testing capacity.
Flip-flop fauxi will fall like the rest, modern mengele
@@daniel3231995 I heard this undue comparison about a month ago. Abject propaganda spreads just as fast as the virus.
We just had a hurricane in Hawaii where no one was warned. That was a disaster and a major loss of life and many children!
I had covid in 2022,boy that was the worst 3days of my life,that sickness kicked my behind.
I could barely move one muscle,everything hurt,it hurt even to breath.
Covid is a badass
Omg me too. All I could do is sleep. The cover touching the hair on my legs even hurt. I couldn’t breathe, it was terrible
Dr. Li is truly the hero too all
When I heard him, protected my self and didn't get covid.
After this documentary I can confidently confirm that the US of A is officially the most embarrassing Western developed country in the world. How our government reacted to this from the start, the middle of all this up to before the official shutdown was appalling compared to even other developING countries.
800K death still can not wake up this nation. We are still in the middle of it in 2022!
The wrong person was in the White House to handle this pandemic Trump should be prosecuted and in prison
Remember when trump tried to shit shit down and control flights from infected areas, then the dems called him racist while Pelosi went to china town telling everyone to come on down, there's nothing to worry about? I do
YOU can stay in denial forever...donald trump is where the reponsibility of this mis-step, mis-handled of this...as you see it "third world country" lied.....in his hands...on his watch.
I have to agree with you. Too many people went along with this tragedy.
Why hasn't the source been held accountable? All I want to know...
It is a touchy and sad moment seeing her trying to support her mom 1:15:21 God be with you and your beloved ones.
Damn to those people that could think and act better, but they didn't. Damn whoever and however caused all this pain. The pain that the world has been suffering for over two years.
Anyway, it is an educational documentary. I can't wait for Hollywood to bring it from documentary to a movie.
Thank you Frontline. It's the best television reporting bar none.
Now I would really like to see an updated version to this documentary!
Wait til another year or 2 when all of the intel has trickled out to ths public gets leaked
Ditto
Maybe in 4 years
Yes, and the stupidity of the US Senate is taking up a huge chunk of wasted time, telling us no stimulus while unemployment is chasing covid-19. If your not the victim of either one of those, you are lucky for now.!!!
@@robertpickett2569 Maybe Moscow Mitch may not be just a nickname. It seems HE is the only one in charge. The Democrats have been trying. Recall they wanted $600 a few months ago & 45 said $300.00 as he didn't want people not going out looking for work?
I hope 2021 is full of love, good health, wisdom, prosperity for you your family, friends. 🍃🕊🍃
The sad part is instead of treating it like the public(emphasized) health issue it is, we managed to turn into a culture war!!!
2022 it's almost over, and we are still dealing with Covid in America.
This doc makes me feel irate. I can’t believe how incompetent our government has been. The president is complaining about a mask. How dumb. If he doesn’t understand the most basic stuff how do we even stand a chance against this thing
It doesn't take a president to take proper precaution of spreading the virus.
And that was 5 months ago
The message coming out of this pandemic is " Everything matters EXCEPT HUMAN LIVES"
Another great job by Frontline!
I had forgotten that nonsense. Where they kept repeating, if you haven't traveled overseas or come into contact with someone overseas, you should be fine.
Because at that point covid had surged across China, across Italy, across Europe.
Obviously it would be spreading within America
One of the finest documentary, I have ever seen :)
They need to update it. Huge huge power grab we are witnessing in the USA and the world frankly.
Properties being stolen left and right.
Lockdowns don't work only create more wounds. 2020 was just a Prelude of what's to come . Scary stuff I say👀
What an excellent documentary this is!
It murder
@@pamelafranklin3452 Agreed it is murder!
This documentary needs to be updated and rebroadcast this year! WE MUST REMEMBER!!
Started to watch this thinking it was released early 2022 when I saw it came out JUNE 2020