The Virus That Shook the World: Part One (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh on new year's eve i was so happy that 2019 was ending because 2019 was rough um so what did i do um i don't have a clue of what i do for new year's eve it was before times before kona at 10 40 last year so it was like this is my 40th we need to do loads of amazing things and we'd plan lots of amazing things it was going to be a brilliant year um [Music] the latest figures show that there have been 177 deaths cases are now accelerating rapidly more than 40 000 people have been infected one million deaths from the coronavirus [Music] [Music] we are the heroes because we have exposed this scam endemic for what it is [Music] kovid is not more worse compared to other things that we've seen i don't know how we will go back to the normal life everywhere there is a shift that's happening [Applause] is [Applause] [Music] now a frontline special presentation the virus that shook the world [Music] [Applause] home [Music] by how [Music] [Music] [Music] tonight's concern around the world over a mysterious strain of coronavirus 170 people in wuhan are being treated in hospital several are critically ill and three deaths have been confirmed chinese authorities are saying that this new coronavirus is preventable and controllable a city of 11 million people effectively quarantined foreign foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] hey foreign um [Music] um wuhan's medics are locked in a daily battle against this epidemic the virus has spread to every region in china there's been 259 deaths so far in wuhan two large brand new hospitals are being built in little more than a week foreign foreign foreign [Music] foreign happy birthday to you happy birthday happy birthday to you [Applause] i didn't realize that you actually use those boards yeah amazing it's made my day i'm amy burbridge i'm a mom i grew up in wolverhampton and when i grew up i wanted to be a makeup artist and somehow i ended up as a doctor sometime in january we jokingly were talking about covid's like and it just didn't seem real it was you know thousands of miles away so it was irrelevant to us really i first heard about it in january but it wasn't in kenya i knew it's a disease of the the whites the western people pencils we didn't think too much of it because it was in china you know a long ways from us to italy started and still you're like oh poor italian poor italian they are really having it harder yeah yeah it's completely crazy it's just really playing the ostrich which put a head in the sand i have colleagues working in italy they were sending pictures they were describing the patients they were seeing the number of people dying the number of people intensive care units and it still didn't feel real all right it's not gonna it's not gonna be us um [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] uh [Music] so [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] 90 000 cases worldwide crucially the vast majority of new cases are outside china i was getting scared by now because we knew in early march that that would be us a few weeks down the line i remember my first individual who was diagnosed with kovi 19. and it was like oh my god it's come it's arrived um and it was a a shock that first case because it was quite early on actually i can't remember the exact date um we didn't really know how to manage it because nobody did there wasn't any research there wasn't any evidence yeah who else have we got for medics just so as i'm on top of it that's it isn't it then oh thank you okay she's poorly isn't she a lot of the stuff we did in the early stages turned out to be wrong some of the treatments that we tried because we didn't know i went from having an incredible conversation with a lovely lovely lovely individual um and within two hours um she'd been transferred to the intensive care unit she was intubated she was ventilated and she died and i did absolutely nothing to help her apart from give a false hope to her and her family say oh it's absolutely fine we'll give you some oxygen you'll be fine and she died and that was my first um patient died and i remember her hair her makeup i remember what she was wearing i remember her name i remember everything i just felt like i was a bystander and i felt like that in a lot of cases because people just deteriorated quickly and died we need to keep you in hospital yes you have covid19 yes you know you have corona virus so we need to keep you in hospital but we'll just keep a close eye on you tonight okay okay okay can i listen to your chest okay you feel very hot europe has now become the epicenter of the pandemic the government acknowledges that millions of us may get coved 19 because the virus can't be stopped now is the time for everyone to stop non-essential contact with others spain declared a state of emergency on saturday placing [Music] france is the latest country to take drastic measures to control the coronavirus pandemic [Music] demands pandemic is bringing life in the united states to a grinding halt my name is dan rossi i live in new york and i'm a vendor you know we sell hot dogs in front of the metropolitan museum of art we've been there about 13 years but i've been in the business 40 40 years [Music] we got hit hot you go down new york city you expect mobs there was nobody it was like a ghost town you know people did what they had to do but we got hit hard in that location we're in front of the met it's basically a tourist destination and the only thing these two of us want is the new york hot dog and it can be pretty uh rough sometimes you got to really move sometimes real fast everyone's talking a different language i don't know what the hell anybody's saying but they point to a picture and you give them a hot dog it's fun it is [Music] i said well in two months i'm in the red i need maybe two or three thousand dollars a month to get us through i'm gonna borrow that money i'm gonna find someone and buy all the money i know people to buy out of money i've been in some really tough situations in my life and this just seemed like if it's just money we get to it just money and i'll make sure everything is okay you know don't panic just it'll play out you'll be all right so what do i do i've got me married i got uh four daughters i got 14 grandchildren my oldest grandson is 21 and my youngest granddaughter is three months old so that's quite a mix you know come on get out of here you just get alone that's what makes me go to work knowing that i have responsibilities keep yes vinnie closed get your mouth closed i went ahead and i set up an area for weights and everything so my grandson's good to work out i mean i think those few months were the hardest months of my life just staying home you know doing nothing how could you do nothing every day you know anybody who retires has got to be crazy how could you not work i don't get it you know it was pretty boring i gotta tell you i understand everything that's going on and it's the right thing to do distancing to keep things closed to open things up in portions i understand a lot but it's still taking a very big impact yeah everybody i'm not just talking about us sitting around every day every day i go downtown every day i sit there for a few hours and there's absolutely nothing going on nothing it's crazy this time it was a normal year we'd be so busy you're all right god bless them a a [Music] [Music] [Music] a he [Music] [Music] pro [Music] [Music] foreign a ah [Music] foreign so the colombian army fighting the gorillas on a drying number of fronts the gorillas and the drug cartels are shipping out cocaine and heroin [Music] a carlos so [Laughter] wow is amigos [Music] no [Music] a [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] a coronavirus has reached every continent except worldwide 400 000 [Music] the quarantine rules have been slightly relaxed if no new cases are reported for 14 days the restrictions could be reduced further foreign [Music] huh belarus resisted a lockdown altogether country's football matches are still being played and president alexander luchenko has suggested vodka would help against the disease [Music] hey [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign it goes away it's going away let's see how it all works out but i think it's going to work out fine you do certain things that you do when you have the flu i mean view this the same as the flu meanwhile in new york they're struggling to manage the sheer number of deaths chinese virus [Music] i did two tours in vietnam enlisted when i was 17 right out of high school donald trump is not the kind of guy who i would ever want to be leading me he just doesn't have it you can just see it what we had to do was just say let's take a precaution and wear a mask but his arrogance and stupidity thinking that he's smarter than the doctors that he's smarter than everyone it's just he's got a lot of people killed his thing was this virus is gonna disappear so why do i need a mess you got to be a clown to wear a mask i'm a tough guy you know it's stupid people people are dying you know what is the big deal about wearing a mask what's the big deal you know every day i would go down there sometimes twice a day and just check on the cot what we would do is we kept the cards in the position where we work so that nobody takes my spot you know [Music] i do that a few nights a week and then i have somebody else to check on the nights that i'm not there i'll be sleeping there tonight so you know no one's gonna help you you know you're on your own we had one year there was a blizzard talking snow [Music] and i did a 600 day in the blizzard with people who couldn't even move i mean that's how bad it was now it is zero [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good evening it is eight o'clock and this is for britain's nhs workers carers and everyone helping to fight this tyronavirus pandemic [Music] oh is it started [Applause] amazing do you know i'd forgotten about that isn't that crazy that so much has happened that every thursday 8 p.m platfor carers yeah yeah [Applause] locked down was the right thing to do and when it did happen it was like oh this is this is what we need on your marks get set but i knew everything was going to change the children went to stay with their dad because i was like i can't contact them they can't come to the house because the house is clearly riddled with covert and if they walk in they're going to get it and they're going to get sick just thinking about it now the fact that um i couldn't hug my children yeah it was it was horrible what was incredible everybody just did it when we were meant to finish work often we just hung around in the wellness of chatting because we didn't really want to go home because a lot of us were going home to empty houses we've finished work and we've decided to have a dance [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] oh god um we laughed we cried and it just brought us together and it was it was magical we even had disco lights you know we really made it a big thing um you know everybody loves dancing the latest figures show that there have been 177 deaths cases are now accelerating rapidly 335 people have died from coronavirus that's six times more than last week 5 373 people have died in hospital the uk could become the worst affected country in europe nobody should have to die alone no one that is not dignified that is not humane yet that's what was happening every single day you've got some incredible people who've done incredible things they've had incredible lives and then they pass away and they've got me there and it seems so unfair on them and their family it's cruel it's a bloody cruel disease um it's it's crap it's horrible and and i'm i yeah hmm foreign [Music] um [Music] [Music] is [Music] a um [Music] foreign um foreign [Music] foreign foreign here yeah um here okay be a foreign my foreign [Music] [Music] my and [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] prison [Music] the world health organization says that the number of coronavirus cases around the world is set to hit a million within the next few days foreign [Music] hmm let's take a brief look at some of the other coronavirus developments around the world today the prime minister is spending a second night in intensive care being treated for coronavirus the us state of new york on the verge of overtaking italy for confirmed cases the chinese city where kovid 19 first emerged the city of wuhan has allowed people to leave the area for the first time since his went into a lockdown in lake after its initial faltering steps china eventually hit this virus hard shutting its whole economy down and while there is some doubt about the detail of the official figures it's clear the government believes the trend is going in the right direction which is why today we've seen the reopening of the city where this whole thing began [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] uh [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign like [Music] [Music] a is disturbing [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] is right pass [Music] oh america baby [Music] that's the thing about covid19 it doesn't care about how rich you are how famous you are is that madonna you are it's the great equalizer and what's terrible about it is it's made this all equal in many ways [Music] and what's wonderful about it is that it's made us all equal in many ways girl bye why what i knew madonna was out there already but she's no girl it's not the great equalizer yeah i mean and then folks are like they're shocked when other folks say eat the rich i mean it's stuff like that that makes them look pretty yummy so we can beat the virus only through solidarity it is we are all in this together [Music] all right guys come on let's get back into it and one two three so my name is tanya denise fields come on one two uh founder and executive director of the black feminist project bronx based activists and um yeah do you want more than that very good i have a 18 year old and a 16 year old and then i have a 12 year old and an 11 year old and then i have a six-year-old and a five-year-old thomas you see where everybody's going get on the beat [Music] come on by the third week of march i pulled my children out of school and then three days later the whole country shut down unless we absolutely have to we are not going outside and so it was just me and my partner and six children in this three-bedroom apartment in a five-story walk-up and we were scared [Music] god [Music] actually i the first six weeks i loved the lockdown i was enjoying the streets of beirut empty it was amazing actually you could hear you know the birds you could see cats or it was you know a city for cats all over beirut i remember i would sit on the balcony at night and i would say carol maybe this is the last time you hear the silence it was [Music] fantastic [Music] my name is veronique de vigre i've got two daughters lou who is now eight years old and ella was six years old they ate my job why do they hate your job because i'm away too much my little one will say when we're having a big cordle before bedtime like do you prefer uh me and lou or do you prefer all these kids that you're taking picture off and you know i try to involve them a bit too but no it's not working very well me you'll have a lot of people who will say yeah you know conflict photographer you are just you know looking for your adrenaline toes and you're just completely hooked with it and yeah maybe yes part of it is true some people are scared of this me i'm most like my biggest fear is not to live my life we enter a lockdown in all of france and there is a bit of a panic benoit so the father of my kids he's kind of guy always think about the worst so he's telling me it's going to be kind of civil war and i'm like come on calm down and then we have this friend and she say you know that's it for me i'm taking my two daughters and i'm moving to my parents house which is one hour away from paris do you want to come with me and i'm like well i didn't think really of that and benoit is like you know we should go i think we should go we have to we have to go but we have to go now i'm leaving tonight with the girls what do you want to do are you with us or do you stay here and this is a big question if i don't go with them i a bad mother and if i go with them i'm a bad reporter [Music] yeah i chose to be a good reporter i went to say goodbye and i took the picture it was helpful for me to have this camera to keep my tears up for because i didn't want my daughter to see me crying i didn't want them to see me yeah crying all foreign [Music] at the beginning of lockdown i was just doing yeah this kind of symbolic places to show the emptiness [Music] then i started to go more in the suburbs of paris where people are a lot poorer i went to a flat where like they were like nine kids and two parents the sixth sister sleeping in the same bedroom right on bunk beds they are going to be locked down like the 11 of them in this small flat [Music] what is the password to this what is that again raising a family in the bronx i imagine is not any different than raising a family anywhere else and then it's a crap ton different one more step one more step there would be days that my children would not go outside take up plenty of space like i'm homeschooling now you know i'm on my laura ingalls [Laughter] you know like like some urban pandemic version of little house on the prairie i let your teachers know that i'm gonna let you take a nap for about two hours okay i'm gonna leave that running so that i can hear what they're working on if you wanna contact you the information yes that'd be helpful hunter come in the room and she'd be like mom i'd be like yeah she'd be like is the coronavirus still out there when the coronavirus gonna leave like the coronavirus to her is a person like it's a burglar on the loose [Music] new york new york the worst infected city in what's now the worst infected country statistics show the poorest neighborhoods have been hit hardest how is it help biblical i kid you not people come in i get intubated they die the cycle repeats [Music] when we talk about essential workers it was like people in doctor's coats but essential workers also look like the people who clean up behind doctors right essential workers are the folks who serve you your food at the mcdonald's and the burger kings those never closed who's doing that work [Music] those are folks who are classified as lower on the socio-economic ladder and those people live in the bronx those people live in very specific communities in brooklyn those people live in jamaica queens [Music] yeah lock down look different i've been watching that for the last week on television body bags all over in hallways i've been watching them bring in trailer trucks freezer trucks their freezer trucks because they can't handle the bodies there's so many of them this is in my essentially in my community in queens queens new york 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 i want to inform you that the ministry of health has confirmed the first columnar virus case in kenya [Music] oh oh they are seen um [Music] [Applause] [Music] evil [Music] me my name is abenta agola i live in kibira nairobi i knew the life you are living i knew very well the social distance it won't work for us and life goes on just pass first let me i have to excuse her to pass just first mama this past two months [Music] we were not ready to face the reality just so death we saw just for death [Music] coming there will be a daily curfew from 7 p.m to 5 a.m in the morning these additional measures have been taken as a clear result of kenyans failing to heed to advice [Music] [Music] the cafe it didn't work for us people living in the slums i think all slum dwellers the way the police look at us is like we are associated with the crime hooliganism when four policemen beat you up you know it's so painful [Music] and the police deal with us ruthlessly people lost so much people lost so much they were killed people they killed people just to get them to their houses [Music] in fact in kibera covey didn't kill as much compared to the police police did much killing yes oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] b [Music] rusty [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] a quarter of the world's population is now living under some form of lockdown due to coronavirus more than 3 billion people in almost 70 health organization warns countries across the globe not to end the coronavirus lockdown too soon make no mistake we have a long way to go this virus will be with us for a long time [Music] my in spain children aren't allowed to leave the house at all and concerns are mounting about the impact on children's mental and physical health el nino [Music] [Music] so at this point it's maybe like five weeks without seeing each other my kids are okay but benoit is starting to get really really annoyed basically at the beginning he was like please don't come you know you might be contaminated and all that but at some point he called me and he told me you know i don't care if you are contaminated but just come now because i cannot take it anymore [Music] [Music] suddenly you know suddenly life is taking another rhythm [Music] now i am in the countryside the only thing we have to do is homeschooling and getting the meal [Music] just to be there for my kids and adapt to this very slow motion [Music] just try to penetrate their [Music] world foreign [Music] one day parimetric called me and say you ready for a job like in three four days i'm like yeah okay i'm ready and then it's like well okay you you go to brazil brazil was all over the news being the new epicenter of the epidemic did look like it was going to be massive in brazil bolsonaro was completely pretending that it was not happening making things worse [Music] for the first time the country's daily death toll reached 1 000 people endless fresh graves for the dead who also seem to never stop arriving i was horrified everybody presumably died of kovid was in like kind of mass grave and they don't start the burial before they are five you know otherwise it's not worth making the thing work so they wait for five coffin then they put the five coffin well the whole five coffins like like in two minutes is done [Music] it was very shocking to me that the digger not even stopping during the the five minutes of little ceremony so you know it's like really like a factory or industrial barrier with one after the [Music] other [Music] and the chaos of you know these all everywhere and the machine digging digging digging digging you know [Music] there's no time to i see there's no time to die even yeah going to the graveyard we passed through a protest pro bolsonaro which were so they were like yeah we don't want to lock down we are with you bolsonaro so they were basically you know denying completely the the virus it's like if it is a disease very dangerous for the poor and annoying for the not so poor hey chris yeah he's still safe you're essential or not [Music] these protesters were not interested in social distancing as activists held their rally outside the state capitol building here many are openly dismissive of the science and increasingly seething at the economic cost that they are paying i can turn the media turned around and saying hey don't you care about about sick people and do whatever it's like what are you talking about everybody hears well thousands descending on michigan's capital in lansing to protest the governor's current stay-at-home rules these are people expressing their views i see where they are and i see the way they're working they seem to be very responsible people to me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Music] may 25th becomes another date that will forever mark the spark of this incendiary social thing that we live in i don't really always know how to describe it because i feel like as a black person you always know it's there people all across this country watched a man have the life gleefully gleefully choked out of him was it heartbreaking was it surprising no this happens every day across this country and finally in this time during a pandemic black folks said enough is enough [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i don't think that black lives matter would have had the traction had it not been for corona they are inextricably linked the president's uh tweet an extraordinary line when the looting starts the shooting starts when this president talks about whole countries he is talking about us we are the whole country make america great again great again for who because it was never great for large groups of people i think i understand some piece of the anger you're feeling i'm still beseeching you we are still all in this together let's go no more talents they have to be off the street in eight o'clock curfew we gave them to nine o'clock this area has been hurt enough this business is here suffering the residents here have suffered we've taken 60 arrests for violating the curfew we're just not getting taken in new york city there was like all of these coordinated protests and my daughter wanted to go and she was going to go with her friends and i was like absolutely not that is like ray charles leading stevie wonder i was like girl no like because the police had already been bugging right a curfew had kicked in i was not gonna allow my 17 year old daughter to go out there by herself and so i went with her and we got our asses kicked police have us surrounded right now police got us trapped and we ain't do nothing wrong at about 7 45 they intentionally started cornering us they have us pushed in in a pin we're peaceful protesting they are pushing us they are pushing us stay tight hold on hold on [Music] let me throw my daughter i got pepper sprayed i got straight pepper spray my daughter got pepper sprayed y'all i don't peed on myself do you understand how terrifying it is like yo look at that buzz half those people are teenagers we were doing nothing taylor you got to calm down mama you got to calm down you got to calm down they're not letting us go that way here they go here they go coming look look look go go go go go go go go go go go this way let's go let's go let's go [Music] this is terrifying here baby drink that water drink that water it's terrifying you had able-bodied armed white people in front of courthouses threatening law enforcement for their right to be able to get a haircut the same people that they wanted a haircut from were now in the street unarmed asking demanding that cops and white folks stop killing them do you see how different it is to be white and black in this country [Music] my name is carol monsour i'm a filmmaker i like to document anything that's happening around me not only empty streets but interactions and things happening [Music] it's important to document it's important to know what we went through what you know people went through [Music] in lebanon we were at state where pandemic or not it was [Music] before covered the country was falling apart [Applause] you see the corruption you know about it and it just drives you mad you know the protesters are angry they see hard lives stretching before them while political elites keep the power and the money the pandemic accelerated the country going downfall there are financial crises now all over the world jobs gone livelihoods lost but here in lebanon it is on a different level we have shortage of electricity we have shortage of water you know everything everything we have absolutely nothing nobody gives about us about the people and then to top it all you know up we had this explosion on the 4th of august so [Music] oh i'm good i'm good [Applause] the government says the blast was caused by two thousand seven hundred and fifty tons of ammonium nitrate stored unsafely in a warehouse of the city estimates that three hundred thousand people have been left without a place to live come [Music] you foreign right now honestly when you walk on the streets here you don't feel that there is a pandemic because people are so worried about so many other things eating getting money living sleeping so covered is in the back of of their minds coffee is almost inexistent [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign it's foreign [Music] next russian ladies and gentlemen the performance will start in two minutes [Music] please [Music] m we cannot continue to exist in the way that we have but i do believe that it's going to get better i do believe that at least for my grandchildren that we are going to get through whatever the muck and the mire and the foolishness is so that my little grandbabies whether i'm here to see it or not are going to be better off than i was in this lifetime is [Music] we are all in this together [Music] next time [Music] foreign if this election doesn't go my way then i'm going to spend time behind bars the conclusion of the virus that shook the world [Music] for more on this and other frontline programs visit our website at pbs.org frontline to order the virus that shook the world on dvd visit shop pbs or call 1 800 play pbs this program is also available on amazon prime video [Music] you

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Published: Mon Apr 26 2021