Covering Coronavirus: Cremona, Italy
The FRONTLINE Dispatch
GBH
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A reporter’s emotional journey back to her homeland in Italy, now the global epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak. “I never thought that I would be making a film like this in Italy,” says FRONTLINE correspondent Sasha Achilli. “I feel immensely proud of the way that the Italian doctors are doing everything they can.” Italy’s doctors, she says, are looking at how America is responding now, and finding similarities with how their own country reacted weeks ago. “Doctors [here] are saying, absolutely self-isolate and do it in the interest of yourself. But in the interests of everybody else around you and who you love. Because this is very, very real.”
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| 0:27.0 | It feels like a whole that Italy just can't plug, the daily loss of hundreds of lives. |
| 0:36.3 | Coronavirus fatalities in this country of 60 million people now higher than in China, |
| 0:41.9 | with a population of one and a half billion. It's brought |
| 0:45.0 | one of the world's best health care systems to its knees. This is the |
| 0:49.8 | frontline dispatch. I'm Rainey Aronson, executive producer of Frontline. I'm Rainey Aronson, executive producer of Frontline. |
| 0:55.0 | Across Europe, it's been another day of grim statistics and images as the virus spreads. |
| 1:01.0 | More than 100,000 people are infected right across the continent. |
| 1:06.0 | Life in Europe has changed almost beyond recognition in just a matter of days. |
| 1:11.0 | And nowhere is this more the case than in Italy a country in complete |
| 1:16.2 | lockdown streets deserted overwhelmed health workers battling to save lives for For Americans watching, it's hard not to wonder |
| 1:25.4 | whether we're peering into a similar future. It's my story, it's your story, it feels |
| 1:30.7 | really really close to home and I feel as as an Italian right now I |
| 1:37.0 | feel like there's no other place I want to be. That's journalist and producer |
| 1:42.0 | Sasha Achilles. |
| 1:43.0 | Right now she's filming for us in Northern Italy, |
| 1:46.0 | which has just become the global epicenter of the pandemic. |
| 1:50.0 | Sasha was born and raised there, |
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