Amanpour: Petra Costa, Dawn Porter and Dr. Sean O'Leary

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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As the number of COVID-19 cases in in Brazil surpasses 2 million, Petra Costa, director of "The Edge of Democracy", joins Christiane Amanpour from Sao Paulo to discuss the state of the nation’s health and democracy. Then Dawn Porter, director of "John Lewis: Good Trouble", reflects on the extraordinary life and career of the civil rights icon. Our Hari Sreenivasan also speaks to Dr. Sean O'Leary, vice chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, about how children are affected by coronavirus. And finally – arise Sir Tom Moore! The UK’s beloved Captain is knighted by the Queen for his contribution to the NHS in a special investiture. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:10.0	Two million COVID cases and counting in Brazil coming in second to the United States
0:15.2	a report card on the populist president who failed to take charge
0:19.3	with award-winning filmmaker Petra Costa.
0:22.0	Then, when you see something that is not right. winning filmmaker
0:30.6	Petra Costa. Then, when you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, says something.
0:29.0	Do something. A new documentary for our time, Director Dawn Porter, on the legacy of civil rights giant
0:36.0	Congressman John Lewis.
0:38.0	The thing that is fairly clear is that kids are less severely affected with this virus than adults.
0:44.0	The knowns and unknowns around returning to school.
0:48.0	Our Hurry Srenovasen talks to Dr. Sean O'Leary of the Academy of Pediatrics. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina, I'm poor working from home in London.
1:12.0	The United States, Brazil and India are the
1:15.2	only countries in the world with more than a million coronavirus cases and a
1:19.8	common thread between them all, they're populist leaders.
1:23.7	Many blame Brazil's president Jayev Bolsonaro
1:26.7	for the country's 2 million cases
1:28.9	and nearly 77,000 dead.
1:31.8	The president himself has the virus and yet he consistently down plays
1:36.0	in the risk, dismissing it as a little flu. He's also used his veto power to
1:41.1	water down laws that would protect the public, like one making it mandatory
1:45.7	to wear a mask in some indoor places. Since the virus came to Brazil, Bolsonaro has lost two of his
1:52.1	health ministers.
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