Containing the Coronavirus

Reveal

The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As the new coronavirus spreads through the U.S., we chronicle how it came to California, with the voices of first responders, experts and passengers quarantined on a cruise ship docked in San Francisco Bay.

Plus, we hear the story of an African American man who decades ago was shot and killed by a police officer who later became leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:06.2	I'm Al Etz.
0:08.3	To down the show, we're going to tell you the story of a black man who's killing more
0:12.9	than 80 years ago raises disturbing questions about the Atlanta Police Department.
0:18.7	But with the spread of the new coronavirus at the top of everyone's minds, we're devoting
0:23.8	the first part of our hour to delving into that.
0:27.7	By now, this probably sounds familiar.
0:30.4	Infected people got a respiratory ill-nosed-witted-hospital-agency cab issue-traveled advisers.
0:35.5	Expert degree.
0:36.5	Unless it is quickly controlled, it could lead to a severe pandemic, an outbreak that circles
0:42.7	the globe and affects people everywhere.
0:46.2	News clips covering the global coronavirus outbreak, right?
0:50.2	Wrong.
0:51.2	These are actors playing newscasters in a high-level pandemic practice scenario that's
0:56.7	eerily close to what we're seeing now.
0:58.8	The global economy was in a free fall.
1:01.4	The GDP down 11 percent.
1:04.2	The drill happened last October, two months before Chinese health officials went public
1:09.6	with the discovery of the highly contagious illness we now call COVID-19.
1:14.2	A top U.S. public health officer was there with international health officials, academics,
1:19.4	and business leaders.
1:20.8	They gathered in New York City to imagine a new coronavirus spreading uncontrollably
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