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the ship of shame everything's can arrive for crossing fiction to notice other 60 minutes the ruby princess we were all expecting to be tested negligence isn't power colossal stuff up your dad gets off the ship on Thursday passed away the following Monday has supercharged the virus is that the half thousand people on those cruise ships and it is a potential catastrophe h+ DIY protection the virus is in the hospital why doctors and most especially study Gans goggles rushing to buy to intimidate to speak out and we have a crisis in New York an American Horror Story good evening and welcome to a special LIVE edition of the program back in the good old days just a few weeks ago cruise ships full of happy passengers steaming in and out of Australian ports were a common and welcome sight now in quite unbelievable scenes maritime and police authorities around the country are forcing the vessels back to their home bases overseas of course it's because of the corona virus and its ability to spread death and miseries so rapidly especially in confined spaces many cruise liners have had confirmed cases of covert 19 onboard but one stands out as a ship of shame the Ruby Princess this afternoon the New South Wales Police Commissioner called in homicide detectives to investigate what went on aboard the vessel and why they have now been 11 deaths here's Liam Bartlett cruise ships used to be considered fun but in the course of the last month an invisible and deadly passenger on board coronavirus has turned many of them into vessels wanted by no one they need to leave and go to their own countries it's not fair on us our governments won't let them dock because they fear a deluge of sick people it's a big problem for Australia because we don't want to be seen as a place that cruise ships around the world can come to we've got to make sure we solve the problem get the cruise ships away our health experts warn of catastrophe if we let them in so do we say all right we'll take you all on and we'll totally collapse and we become an Italy or a Spain do the Australian people really want that what the cruise ships want to protect is international staff stuck on board some sick with coronavirus it is time to go to your port of origin now this debacle on the high seas got so out of control is an extraordinary tale that's left a growing casualty list of victims and devastated families are you suggesting there's been some sort of cover-up here yes I do suspect that I'm saying lethargy pain in the eye like somebody's poking me in the eye the coffin fits you know the saw lungs I've had days where my skin feels like it's sunburned I can't touch it my head is so sore that's like somebody's pulled my hair hidden in the suburbs stuck inside and dreadfully sick with covert 19 Gary Callahan has had plenty of time to get angry his wife carries meticulous cleaning and obsession with keeping her distance is working so far she's virus-free the callaghan's were some of the now-infamous 2,700 passengers who two and a half weeks ago were hurried off the Ruby Princess cruise ship unbelievably without being tested by health officials everybody on that ship was allowed to disembark without any tests whatsoever yes do you find that staggering now yes crazy well I thought we would have been given a mask some plastic gloves go through the quarantine checking and I get your temperature check but everyone was left on their own device yep the catastrophic result of this massive oversight is that it is now the largest single source of deaths in this country and in terms of coronavirus sufferers 12% have now come from that one cruise ship ironically on the day Gary and Kerry boarded the Ruby Princess the passengers disembarking from the same ship on the same day were tested if they were feeling sick why would the previous passenger load be tested and none of you tested doesn't matter that's that's shocking to us we didn't know they had been tested when they got off and I was like we were all expecting to be tested when we got off because just to be sure to be safe you're letting us out in the public around people and nobody tested us and I really think that was disgraceful Carrie and Gary knew ten other people on board the Ruby princess eight of them in total contracted covert 19 to ended up in hospital I still don't think we've got to the bottom of it no we are extremely extremely mad sad and cranky that we weren't told that somebody potentially had it on the ship that has infuriated us because if only everybody had a 9:00 everybody would have stayed put like if we had to say on the ship we would have stayed there we're just extremely mad that we weren't told anything carnival's Princess Cruises say they have done nothing wrong during the cruise the ship's doctor took swabs of 15 sick passengers but was unable to test for covert 19 complicating matters there was flu on board with 104 people taken ill suffering respiratory infections a major symptom of coronavirus senior vice-president of the companies steward Ellison released a video statement this week they required guests who'd reported flu-like symptoms to self isolate in their cabins the ship then reported these cases to federal and state authorities as were always obliged to do it's clear no other passengers were told about the flu nor the ship's concerns about coronavirus but these leaked emails prove the Ruby princess did alert New South Wales health about the sick passengers incredibly though the afternoon before the ship arrived back in Sydney that apartment gave the vessel a clean bill of health they even claimed there was no risk setting for covert 19 being on board now that's an impossible thing to say because they still had to wait for the 15 swab results and when those results came through the following day New South Wales Health's gross mistake was exposed three people tested positive to coronavirus does that make you angry it makes it serious well it's negligence isn't it so somebody knew something and a lot of other people including yourselves weren't being told exactly the last day when we're getting off in the in the master Aries is heaps heaps of people had him and they were surgical masks and I said to Kerry I wonder if these people are all been seeking and obviously that's what's happening I guess the cruise industry is sailed into the perfect storm as an infectious diseases specialist dr. clay College is not surprised that coronavirus has thrived on cruise ships he deems these tourists megaships as the perfect breeding ground for all viruses so you've got a steel and aluminium structure full of hundreds thousands of people in relatively confined conditions a lot of those passengers are elderly a lot of them have heart disease lung disease diabetes peripheral vascular disease smoking etc you've then got the crew the crew quarters can be pretty awful four or five people in a room no windows shared bathrooms so everything's kind of ripe for cross infection what's you're describing to me is the sort of perfect floating laboratory to breed these correct it's an incubator so it's a bacterial and viral incubator for coronavirus and you couldn't have scripted it worse and the longer you keep people on these ships the more cases you're going to get what is also shocking to dr. Golic is the lack of care cruise ships have shown selfishly choosing to continue to sail when the world was counting down fast to a pandemic he's adamant governments were too slow to act at the beginning and didn't focus on turning away the most infected monolithic structures of all and that should have been probably mid-february that the cruise industry needs to shut down go back to your ports discharge your passengers repatriate your crew shut it all down yet here we were in mid-march still people booking cruises and going off and sailing off around the world so it's I'm gobsmacked by that but people still booked and still got on the ship still booked still got on the ship so now we're in this storm of uncertainty we've got ships off the East Coast we've got a ship still stuck in Fremantle at the moment who knows you know what's going to happen that ship in Fremantle is a German Cruiser called the AR taenia it won a battle for help just over a week ago when the W a government was forced to open up Perth hospitals for 41 sick passengers and crew that number keeps rising and that's why dr. College warns this is a dangerous game we run the total risk if we take all these passengers from all the ships around Australia that are ill our health system could will collapse just on the strength of what's floating off our oceans at the moment totally we don't have infinite resources we're scrambling like mad to create more beds so our whole system could be totally overwhelmed yes this has to be one of the number-one issues in the country to solve on the west coast w a Premier Mark McGowan had a tough battle against five cruise ships refusing to leave Australian waters just this week for finally departed but that German Cruiser the Artemia still staunchly remains caused me sleepless nights it's caused me nightmares it's one of those things that is sitting there as a potential time bomb so it's one of the most difficult things I've had to deal with in my time as Premier he feels his state has done its fair share of helping out cruise ships flying home 850 passengers and caring for 41 sick patients but for waa enough is enough you were a lawyer premier with the Australian Navy what does maritime law say about this well it's assess you've got to look up to people on the high seas but the same time it says that you can remove a ship from your port so it's contradictory I think what the Australian public wants to see is a tough approach to ensure we protect our hospital beds for Australians who need them and we get people back to their homes as soon as possible in other countries clearly those cruise ships are hanging around because they they don't they want to be within a stone's throw of a decent medical system ah well that that's probably the answer but that's clearly not acceptable so far our federal government has ordered all cruise ships leave Australian waters by mid-june after that the operators face five years jail and a sixty three thousand dollar fine while five ships left Sydney Harbor late yesterday they're still more than a dozen dotted around the country's coastline including the Ruby Princess in Sydney and the RT Nia in Perth both have covered 19 on board so it's a question of almost sacrificing some of your local beds for foreign tourists that won't go down well with the population either no and that's why you know the ship needs to be gotten away as soon as possible all those ships that's why I'm saying there's a lot of priorities in Australia at the moment but this really needs to be elevated to number one our special coverage of the coronavirus crisis continues gary Callahan's coronavirus has terrified his wife Carrie she takes all the precautions she can while her husband battles the sickness for this story our crew kept their distance filming from outside through the couples lounge room window it's unbelievably lucky I've got to say that Carrie you haven't picked it up you didn't get it I mean you got to buy yourself a lottery ticket I know I know I'm just I'm thankful but I feel guilty that I don't have it as well I feel why me but I just thank my lucky stars and I everyday I am scared of getting it as well as long as he's got it I am scared I'll get it as well Gary and Carrie were passengers on the Ruby Princess cruise that's become a coronavirus hotspot 10 deaths now over a quarter of all victims in Australia and more than six hundred others infected all from that one ship after what they've been through this couple is desperate to get one message out everybody's still walking around outside I think they're all thinking it's not real this is not real I just want to tell those people out there that it is real and it is dangerous and it is killing people so that message about staying home staying away from other people and social distancing you're a huge advocate well of words Carrie hasn't gotta we're in the same house now I'm keeping my distance I'm not touching him you know people have just got a look give it two weeks three weeks four weeks whatever it takes give it that and you know if you're alive at the end of it its job well done Tasmanian Leonard Fisher another tragic victim of the ruby princess lost his fight with coronavirus on Monday night let's go back to the beginning his son Greg is now left grieving for his 81 year old father and wishing he'd stopped his dad from boarding bring dead chill three times a day and when he was in hospital getting near the end he was getting very short of breath couldn't hold long conversations and and he did say that if he was away that how bad this this forest was and if it was if it was on the ship he would never have got on the ship when your dad told you that he was going to take this cruise what did you say to him did you advise him against it yes yes I did try to talk him in that he said at my age I probably never never get a chance to do another trip like this again and he also said that if there was any anything wrong on this ship they would have canceled it so he was relying on the ship being responsible yes yes what why were you concerned uh just about the impact of what what the coronavirus could potentially do you take these companies for what they are you'd think if it was possibly on this ship or was any son you know it would have been would have been empty to the passengers but Greg now knows the passengers were never informed firstly about flew on board with 104 passengers told to self isolate and wear masks and secondly that 15 passengers had been swapped for covert 19 did your father tell you about any obvious signs of sickness on the ship he said that he had a gentleman sitting beside him that was coughing and coughing coughing that his hand over his mouth and he was quite concerned about that did he mention anything about coronavirus being talked about on the ship in an official capacity at no stage where the passengers told there was a possibility of coronavirus on that boat there are unaware of any sickness that was on the but it was just so wrong they things should have been handled a lot better the blame game continues who's at fault is now being investigated by New South Wales police but it's already clear that the Ruby Princess alerted New South Wales health about the sickness on board prior to arriving in the city Carrie and Gary Callahan now question why they ever decided to step foot on the ruby princess I did want to cancel the cruise but then we would have lost our money and it's a lot of money just to throw away if there was a concern I would imagine that the health department or princess or somebody should have said cancel everything now for an affair and trade and nothing was done so we were under the impression not okay it is safe because we're not going to an Asian or Europe country we're going to New Zealand so everything must be okay and within a couple of days obviously it wasn't so because you were going to New Zealand rather than perhaps an Asian destination you figured that was fairly safe because you are staying within the region we did yeah silly us now we feel stupid and we feel guilty that we did go would you ever go on a cruise again no I don't ever want to go away again more of our special coverage without doubt the doctors nurses and other health care workers on the front line of the coronavirus war are heroes but they're not invincible and many have real concerns about their own health they don't want to catch covert 19 tragically around the world the rates of infection and death among medicos are staggering and mostly it's because they don't have adequate protective equipment in Australia hospital staff are reporting shortages of basic safety gear like masks goggles and robes and some are also claiming that with the pandemic on our doorstep we foolishly allowed huge quantities of this equipment to be sent to China as Liz Hays reports protect us is their cry in Italy 7,000 doctors and nurses have been infected with the corona virus and over 70 are dead in Spain 20% of the healthcare workers have the virus in America the toll amongst frontline medical teams is already frightening now it's starting to happen here at Boggs Hill Hospital six health care workers contracted the virus Eastern Health still working to notify anyone who came into contact with them akin to getting soldiers and just bringing them out of the trenches without any armor without any weapons and just basically facing the onslaught that comes on and this is an invisible monster in a major Australian hospital this corridor leads to a ward where at least 20 kovat 19 patients are being treated every hand sanitizer dispenser is empty and in this highly contagious environment a cleaner can be seen not wearing head protection or an appropriate mask right now nice that has dr. Rob Hackett says one Hospital has told him he could lose his job for speaking out but his voicing beers shared by many of his colleagues working in intensive care units across the country we're very scared we can see what is happening across the world we can see how we've been disempowered we don't we don't really have a voice we want to be safe we want to be safe when we're looking after people this is the sort of personal protection equipment worn by health workers overseas the doctors should be using here their thick waterproof suit means the doctors and nurses are sealed in but some Australian doctors are being forced to improvise buying goggles masks and shields from hardware stores and in dr. Hackett's case ordering hooded gowns online because hospitals have simply run out any of my colleagues who have purchased fitted gowns and other bits of equipment from Bunnings and have even pleaded for other people to go to Bunnings and buy these bits of equipment for them and what we are desperate you know we're on Greece now ourselves none of us have ever signed up to this several highly-trained intensive care doctors have told us that they're simply terrified and many say they are often faced with little choice to deal with suspected coronavirus patients without protective gear or face the sack when dr. Hecker brought his own protective gear to work his hospital said he couldn't wear it the equipment we do have is pretty much nothing much more than plastic flimsy gown at times and we're having to reuse masks and a lot of staff members don't have masks and we're desperate to get these things onto the front line as soon as possible this may not be the message that's coming from you know the managers and the governing bodies of health care but this is certainly the message from frontline staff China manufactures the majority of personal protection equipment for health workers around the world but when it realized this unrelenting virus was not going to be beaten it took an extraordinary step when this pandemic hits China what happened to those factories you had there in China and a factory in Shanghai where requisition the petition was requisitioned by the government of China when you say requisition that means taken control of the Chinese government commandeered gr livadas company medic on that produces millions of face masks and gowns and stopped him selling any overseas do you feel comfortable as the owner of that you lost control ultimately of your own factories not a comfortable situation to begin but I'm not sure we have a lot of choices shockingly despite being in control of the bulk of the world's supplies it wasn't enough so China put a call out for more and Australia responded I think the main concern was if all of these essential medical items leave the country what's left for us in Sydney's staff at Chinese backed company Poli developments in Holdings were urgently mobilized by email to find masks anywhere they could if you have time police drop by your local pharmacy to check if there are any 3m n95 or 80210 masks for sale staff bought up what they could from pharmacies in Eastwood to Penrith Hornsby to mona vale meeting rooms lunch rooms and the boardroom starting to be filled with different types of items getting unpackaged and repackaged and labelled definitely rose my suspicion this man worked at Greenland a Chinese owned property development company in Sydney he saw tons of gloves masks gowns sanitizer and other vital medical supplies being brought in then shipped out of Australia the way this activity was organized from going to procure different medical items from the urgency to collect it from the way it was unpackage and repackage from the way full time employees were utilized what our witness saw was being repeated in officers in companies around the world over the course of two months China amassed an estimated 2.4 billion pieces of protective equipment including more than two billion masks by late January with the coronavirus now a global threat Australian doctors warned that our stocks of face masks were already dangerously low because of the bushfires Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt didn't seem worried so there is a national medical stockpile of of 12 million in addition to those that were provided for bushfires where there are still significant reserves with the states and territories but on February the 7th the minister would learn that the World Health Organization was also concerned the world is facing severe disruption in the market for personal protective equipment global stocks of masks and respirators are now insufficient to meet the needs of WTO and our partners despite that warning and in full view of the media on February 24th another Sydney based Chinese company ridgeland sent 90 tons of medical protection equipment to China it's a dilemma isn't it there are people in need somewhere else but we find ourselves now desperately needing their same items but if you're operating in Australia who are you listening - are you listening to the government of your own of the country of the country you're operating or are you listening to your parent company in you know some other part of the world and are you doing whatever they tell you to do Australia is now preparing for the worst of this pandemic but frontline health workers are still desperate for personal protection equipment just last week the Australian government finally banned the non-commercial export of PPE such as face masks hand sanitizer gloves and gowns well now the government has banned the export of these items what's your reaction to that I think it's good but I feel like the horses bolted we could have been more proactive we could have had some sort of contingency plans you know in place you know for situations like this no regrets for speaking up I think you know time of crisis we all have a responsibility to do something and I felt that I had to do something it just didn't sit with me that this type of thing could happen I couldn't I couldn't I just watch it and just stay silent more of our special coverage of the coronavirus crisis welcome back to our special LIVE edition of 60 minutes I'm joined now by the Federal Minister for Health Greg Hunt from his office in Somerville on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula thank you so much for your time Minister hunt more positive signs today that the curve is flagging how do you keep people at home in the face of some positive news look it's very important what we're seeing is we're moving from over 25 to 30 percent of infection growth on a daily basis down to the low teens just over a week ago just below ten percenter now as a country through the walk at work on the borders testing the best regime in the world contact tracing and all of the hard work that australians are doing magnificently on self isolation we're now down at about 5% add a growth in infections much more to go that's the message much more to go but half of our job is to reducing infections and flatten the curve and the other half is to boost capacity tele health for our GPS and our primary care to protect our patients and our magnificent health workers our work in aged care and then our work in the hospitals where we've brought 57,000 nurses and 30,000 beds into the system through the partnership with the private hospitals these are the things bringing the curve down which we're now beginning to see really happening and that's only due to the work of Australians and boosting the capacity of the system at the same time there's been great concern as we've seen here tonight on our program from the frontline medical workers that just to do their jobs that they are putting their lives on the line to save lives they're possibly a great risk of losing their own can you guarantee that they'll be given the protection they need to do their job I do have very good news on this front these are genuine heroes and whether it's our nurses our doctors our pharmacists our aged care workers we've already distributed 11 million masks but we've just received over the recent weeks 30 million masks and I can release that via you this evening and that's replenish the stockpile it's still you know a global challenge but we will immediately move to make the first 10 million of those available to precisely the heroic health workers you're talking about over the coming days more to come including significant amounts of gowns gloves goggles and so we're working in a difficult global environment as well as making masks here in Australia we expect over the coming months to the end of the year to make up to 200 million masks so this is about protecting our population but above all else protecting our magnificent health workers yeah is it a quality that affords the best protection for these health workers and immunities and will the stockpile remain or will we run out again so one of my most important jobs is to make sure that we are working on the supply lines both from overseas and within Australia that for example the army has moved in to help a small central Victorian firm with the support of the Victorian Government the Australian Government to make masks to do this to equality which the CSIRO has certified as being surgical grade these are critical steps to protect our health workers because what we don't want to see here is what we've seen happen in some overseas countries and our health workers are the frontline this news along with the fact that over the weekend the Finance Minister Matthias Korman has made an additional eight hundred million dollars available for PPE or personal protective equipment where our focus is firstly our health workers but that protects them and with tele health which provides distance and space for patients it protects our patients all of these things are coming together to boost the capacity at the same time as we help contain the virus and reduce the spread angry are you Minister over the debacle of the Ruby Princess cruise ship because it really has been a debacle hasn't it first and foremost it's been a human tragedy and we know that New South Wales has today called both a criminal and a coronal investigation and I think that was the right thing for them to do whilst the ship was in their care they are nevertheless doing their best and they've raised some very significant questions about the communications from the company in question I'll let them proceed with that but I do want to say to all of our health workers to all of the people around the country our focus is always in terms of the testing the tracing following up these cases and protecting the patient's we are now at just over 5600 cases very importantly 33 cases in ICU under ventilators and that's been stable for a number of days so all of these things are incredibly important and that's a number that I follow because these are the most critical cases and it all comes back to the fact that if we can test and trace it doesn't matter where the source of an infection is we're ultimately going to give ourselves the best shot of saving lives along with the social isolation all right Minister thank you very much for your time we appreciate it we understand how busy you are thank you very much for tonight's update thanks very much Tara and I do want to say this to the Australian people thank you for what you've done but you are the ones that have helped reduce this rate of infection and it will be a difficult few months but as my 85 year old uncle who lived through the war as a young boy said to my daughter today there'll be better times and we will get through this well I hope so we all hope so thank you for your time Cheers about special coverage of the coronavirus crisis in a moment by uh pending humanity so quickly and completely coronavirus itself has become a world superpower and until there's a vaccine or cure even the mighty United States is incapable of stopping its rapid advance more than a quarter of global infections and now in America and like elsewhere so many have already died but there's worse to come it's estimated the peak in the number of deaths won't occur for weeks liz hayes explains why the US has been brought to its knees America is used to winning wars but this fight especially for its president is different I've seen things that I've never seen before I mean I've seen them but I've seen them on television in faraway lands I've never seen them in our country it's been a sharp learning curve for Donald Trump two months after the first case of coronavirus landing in the US the president is now faced with an infection rate higher than anywhere in the world and a hospital system crippled by the sheer number of patients nothing would be worse than declaring victory before the victory is won that would be the greatest loss of all we're looking at very large numbers of deaths in the United States over the next six to eight weeks Professor Ian Lipkin known as the virus hunter is one of the world's leading infectious disease epidemiologists he fears this virus will cut short many lives it's been predicted that the loss of life in America could be up to an over 200,000 do you think that figure is reasonable I would like to think that we could hold it down to a number between 1 and 200,000 which is already a tragedy but the idea that we might lose as many as 2 million people is just you know it's just inconceivable it is an unthinkable figure but this virus is frighteningly infectious even professor Lipkin who understands more than most how to avoid it is another of its victims what what are your symptoms well at this point I all I have is a residual cough when I first became ill I started with a cough and then I developed a headache it actually woke me from sleep and fever and night sweats and a few other things of that nature was very unpleasant I'm now approaching day 14 and I'm feeling much much better 67 year old professor lipkin is one of the lucky ones 48 year old cars Kelly was not the text said I'm sick I'm in the ICU but ok and I can't talk I responded and said do you have the köppen virus he said yes we love you I love you and I thank you with all my heart caius Kelly was an assistant nursing manager at Mount Sinai West Hospital in New York where some staff resorted to wearing garbage bags as gowns Casas sister Mariah Sharon first learned of her brother's illness on March 18th when he texted her I said are you on a ventilator he said yes and asked that I not tell our mom and dad he did not want them to worry and then it said I love you and he it was an emoji with him and a big heart on his back and he said I'm I'm gonna go to sleep now and that was that was it caius died alone six days later he is believed to be the first nurse claimed by the virus in America that's the way we have ill-prepared for our frontline and left them to fend for themselves they just didn't have what they need it there's it they just did not and when you look back on that is this what you expected of America no no it it is devastating and and the idea that there in Australia or any other country in the world would follow our lead and the way this has been handled makes me ill there is nothing about the way that we have handled this that has been good given the time that we had to prepare [Music] under this just completely empty is it slightly unsettling to be living in the United States at this time yes yes it is are you at all worried about your own health and the health of your family well of course the United States has a really fractured health system and Americans have that very strong view about freedom and liberty when you shut down an economy the threat of civil unrest I think the increase in gun sales and the increased military presence and National Guard presence on the streets indicates that leaders share that view few Australians have as close an insight into the mind of President Trump as Joe Hockey Australia's former ambassador to the United States during his four years in Washington DC he enjoyed rare access to the president and his closest aides unquestionably the president was slow out of the gates Donald Trump is not someone that readily relies on expert advice throughout his life he's operated on gut instinct and that's been very successful in team but on this occasion you have to take the expert opinion whenever I've met with him but it's clear that he is very careful about his personal hygiene he takes a view that his behavior is what everyone should do and therefore they won't get the virus well that's change pokey is now permanently based in the US and he records his morning walks through the empty streets of Washington why am i documen ting this well because I want my kids to remember how significant this event has been not just for the United States Australia but for the whole world there's just no one around are you tempted to come home I've started up a business here and I've got to make it work and and you know after 24 years of public life where it's an endless sea of events and meeting people I feel like amok that's gone into a monastery and it's actually it feels pretty good that we can take the moment to reflect that you know hopefully it makes us better people you doing some home cooking yes I was shopping could not bear to talk and eat but I can't cook and you know doing everything washing cleaning the bathrooms watching the dogs the whole thing you know my signature dish is rice and king tuna [Music] the virus is changing how we all live and interact as Joe Hockey watches his former colleagues grapple with the crisis in Australia he says there is an important lesson for our country the world that we're going to inherit in you know from the end of this year on is going to be very different to what we've lived in I think you're going to see the world divide into two or three camps you're going to see America look inward about all of its supply lines massively reduce its reliance on China India and the rest of the world for a lot of its supply lines what we want in Australia is to be there as a close ally and make sure that we're part of the American narrative and they don't leave us behind as they take on a very new direction America's iconic landmarks are now eerily empty New York is the epicenter of its battle with the virus but other cities will follow right now this great western superpower is seemingly impotent to an opponent that may take much longer than many think to defeat as long as this thing exists in the world we are all at risk and it will ping-pong back and forth with every season and it may take two years and god help us I don't know what else we can do coronaviruses trail of death in the United States is a powerful reminder of why the virtual lockdown we're all under in Australia is so important hello I'm Tara Brown thanks for watching to keep up with the latest from 60 minutes Australia make sure you subscribe to our Channel you can also download the 9 now app for full episodes and other exclusive 60 minutes content

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Published: Sun Apr 05 2020