Covering Coronavirus: Cremona, Italy
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English - April 01, 2020 14:20 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 2.3K ratingsTV & Film frontline wgbh pbs documentaries Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.”