The Virus: What Went Wrong?

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🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

As COVID-19 spread from Asia to the Middle East to Europe, why was the U.S. caught so unprepared? Despite repeated warnings of a potent contagion headed our way, America’s leaders failed to prepare and protect us. Why and who is accountable?

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audio Cast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.
0:06.0	We also produce a podcast, The Frontline Dispatch, currently offering a series called Covering
0:11.8	Coronavirus.
0:12.8	Right now, here's the audio cast of The Virus What Went Wrong.
0:17.6	The correspondent is Martin Smith.
0:30.0	America is re-opening.
0:41.4	People are taking to the streets.
0:45.9	On his fears of a second wave, correspondent Martin Smith looks at how we got here.
0:52.7	Anybody that needs a task, it's a task we need.
0:54.9	Did you say that I'm a little Mr. President?
0:56.8	With all due respect, it's not true what you're saying.
0:59.5	Yeah, I'm not going to comment on the conversations I've had with the President.
1:02.8	The missteps and the denial.
1:04.9	We have leaders throughout much of January and February saying that this is a hoax.
1:10.6	Every lab is fighting for itself, every state is fighting for itself.
1:14.2	Now on Frontline, The Virus.
1:16.8	There will be thousands who will die needlessly because of our lack of preparedness.
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1:31.6	Thank you.
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1:35.4	Major support is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, committed
1:40.0	to building a more just, vertent, and peaceful world.
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