An investigation into the U.S. response to COVID-19, from Washington State to Washington, D.C.
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How did the U.S. become the country with the worst known coronavirus outbreak in the world? FRONTLINE and veteran science reporter Miles O’Brien investigate the American response to COVID-19, and examine what happens when politics and science collide.
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Can never watch anything without political bias. Everyone’s blaming one another for everything, always fomenting hate and division. How pathetic can we get? Both sides always claiming they know best.
This virus was funded by the u.s and China, it was used to win the 2020 election, The scientific community and medical community failed big time, it was a sime virus not a pandemic threat, sad they lost so many people for no reason Dr Falsey is to blame for all his lies and corruption, Families lost valuable time with loved 1s and kids lost school and being normal , America lost to this man made virus
it was crazy. I live in Kansas and every day I would check the COVID map that John's Hopkins had on their website. To see the red dots getting closer and closer was surreal. All of a sudden it jumped from the west coast to Denver, and we knew we were in trouble.
It always was a 99.2% chance of survival according to the cdc website so the news blew it up
If people would stay on their country this would have never got out of control
In late 2019 I went to Texas for a job interview and when I got there I was feeling very wired I thanked that I had Covid I had all of the symptoms but lost of taste and smell and fast forward to 2022 I came down with Covid
BS!
@fbi
I come back to this documentary regularly. It’s good for my soul. Appreciate life everyday because tomorrow is never guaranteed.
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I have a strong feeling this will happen again with bird flu.
Scamdemic
It was here prior to patient #1. He just was the first to be confirmed. NY, I had it mid January of that year. Public wasn't informed until March. Government knew what was happening in China.
I am sorry I think that was a kidnapping disease and it’s scary
Satan witch craft wicked evil people
Cardi b it the water
I know what I saw the satanic temple doing it’s in that building
Trump is the worst president EVER. MAGATS are part of the problem and they are all inhuman creatures from hell.
Perfect for when you just want to sleep. Too boring to stay awake to, too much boring nonsense politics ^^
It was a very sad day when people lost their jobs that they loved and ended up in new jobs wanting to go back to their original job but can’t because someone else took their previous positions
Trump is an imbecile
…. de verdad, que clase de presidente tienen….?
This documentary twists what the president did. He banned airplanes from China and Pelosi called him xenophobic as she appeared in Chinatown to encourage people to visit there. Bloomberg made fun of Trump and said there is no pandemic in NYC and people should visut. Trump cut through FDA red tape to fasttrack vaccines and treatments too. The reason he wanted people to keep a cool head early on…..China did not disclose to any other nation, or WHO that individuals could be contagious for up to 14 days before they showed symptoms. That's why it was so hard to trace through contacts. That's why it seemed like people who caught it hadn't been around others with it. Trump got US manufacturing companies to produce ventilator and PPE including masks, because Fauchi told people to mask up, after he had originally said masks wouldn't help. So people began panic buying.
Also, the very first patient had returned to Washington state. In the days after he got home, he was following news in Wuhan and read about this mystery virus. Then he got sick. When he went to get checked out he told the staff he had recently returned from Wuhan and that he had read ofca mystery virus there.
I knew that it was spreading and that it was spreading though most people weren't showing symptoms around the end of February. This was because I heard of an Australian man (their first case) who had just returned from a vacation in Colorado. This was on Australian news. So my family decided to limit our contact with others. The shutdown happened in the middle of spring break as second week holiday students were returning home from the Texas coast, up IH 35, and at the same time other students with a third week holiday were heading to the beach. So they were stopping in at gas stations, fast food joints, and restaurants. So we stayed away from those places. Then the lockdown happened and me and my husband were furloughed for an entire month. Finally in May we were allowed to return to work. My husband was vaccinated for work, and I got vaccinated so if the local government decided people couldn't go in stores without it (like some states and countries were doing) so thst my parents could stay home and isolated. My husband and I, and my parents got covid December of 2023. We were just very careful. My boss was vaccinated, but he got two different strains of covid about a month apart.
This was orchestrated by united Kingdom illuminati abu dhabi terrorists of everything. This was their way of getting us in solitary confinement to monitor and feed off our white life force spirit power.
Remember civil war and 911 since antiquity
6X6 6X6 6X6
Wow this doesnt age well for liberals and their extreme stupidity.
Inslee is a snake
COVID was horrible we caught it three times during quarantine 😢
watching this documentary now is weird because it seems quite hopeful but it got so much worse
So why know are we not wearing masks anymore because this is all bullshit and we're stupid puppets to the cocksuckers in charge
I'm from ASIA by the way. Imagining the FUTURE GENERATIONS will watch this. This is so scary for real. Having a total lockdown only 1 person per household is allowed to go.This documentary is so important it's a PART OF HUMAN HISTORY. Thank you.
Dr Fuchi and his bunch of liberals are responsible for these millions of people being dead…
Dr Fuchi and his bunch of liberals are responsible for these millions of people being dead…
Hopefully the two lessons that human beings learned from this is 1.) You absolutely cannot/should not count on your government to save you or your family in a crisis.
2.) Appreciate the time you have with your loved ones, and treat every single day on this earth as a gift, no matter how brutish this life can be.
COVID 19 was nothing more than a distraction. Plain and simple.
I worded in a nursing home kitchen for 11 years and I remember covid hitting our nursing home pretty bad I remember having to wear mask and face shields at the same time. We would be reusing masks for a awhile and the whole paper bad thing. Our dinner room got converted to holding all staffs ppe during that time. Got covid myself atleast 2 or 3 times. It was heartbreaking to see family members trying to talk to their parents through windows trying there best to cheer them up telling them everything was ok. We all chipped in and tried our best to help as much as we could. I even having to jump in as a stna to help because of covid spread.
I lost my dad to covid in 2020 in Washington State 😢
Here in July 2025, got diagnosed with Covid in 2022, I was in shock! Even infected my fiancee, but thankfully we both recovered. Don't know anyone who died of COVID but I'm saddened that so many people had to lose their lives! God's prayers!
I still remember the day my mom caught it she was pregnant i thought she was gonna come back that night but everything went wrong all of a sudden they found out she had covid while being pregnant they send her to a different hospital because she had to get a c section she said she was gonna be back soon eventually i took her 2 months to come back home she died 2 times but they brought her back to when she came out the hospital she couldn't even walk cause of how long she was coma i really thought she wasn't gonna come back home all i could do is watch her go through that couldn't even hug her had to see her behind a glass window it’s heartbreaking.
I really don't understand how Trump is president now when he couldn't even take this serious it’s disgusting.
just a reminder that he sent the ventilators to Putin.
Yet Americans voted this clown into office again😂😂😂😂😂😂. How the hell they forget what an imbecile he is
I almost died in Dec 2020. Took me 3 months to feel better!! Thanks Jehovah!!❤
Trump is the reason covid hit us like a bomb. He's so stupid he doesn't even know how stupid he is. I hate his guts. I hated his guts b4 he was president.
Trump didn't show the kind of leadership this country needed during covid. He's a clown and a moron.
my symptoms were extremely runny eyes.! I tested negative for 5 days. Morning and night I tested. I went to a clinic where I tested negative again until they did the PCR. Everyone I went on vacation with had different symptoms and one without any symptoms at all. This was a crazy time
I went into my local Asian market in December 2019. Every Asian who worked there and every single Asian customer had a mask on. I am not Asian myself. That haunts me to this day! Its like all knew something the rest of us did not know.
This came out a bit too soon- I’d like to see another retrospective from our current timeline