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Chasing Life

Covering a Crisis: Wolf Blitzer & Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is joined by colleague and veteran anchor, Wolf Blitzer, to discuss covering the unprecedented story of this coronavirus pandemic. 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

Our medical course by Dr. Sanjay Gupta is at a hospital east of Baghdad, Sanjay.

0:07.6

Tell us what's going on where you are.

0:09.6

We're inside an operating room.

0:10.9

This is an unusual operating room.

0:13.5

That's from 2003 when I was embedded with a group of medics during the Iraq war and

0:18.7

still relatively new to CNN.

0:21.4

The anchor introducing me is probably a familiar voice to many of you.

0:26.1

It's my friend and colleague, Wolf Blitzer.

0:29.4

How are you holding up, Sanjay?

0:31.4

I know it's been difficult.

0:32.7

Yeah, these convoy rides, Wolf, you heard so much about.

0:35.8

They can be a very challenging thing.

0:37.9

Wolf and I have both been at CNN for decades, which is kind of surreal to say.

0:43.4

We've been at the front lines of some of history's most life-changing moments.

0:47.5

9-11, Hurricane Katrina, the Ebola crisis.

0:52.3

But this pandemic has had no precedent in our lifetime.

0:56.6

As host of CNN's The Situation Room, Wolf says this has been one of the most intense

1:00.6

experiences of his career.

1:03.1

He joins me today to talk about the challenges of covering tragedies, the politicalization

1:07.9

of facts, and how he keeps going during this never-ending new cycle.

1:13.4

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent.

1:17.4

And this is coronavirus, fact, versus fiction.

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