“Confronting Coronavirus: A PBS NewsHour Special” to air Thursday, March 19 at 8pm ET

WASHINGTON, DC (March 12, 2020) — It’s been less than three months since reports of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China first made international headlines. With worldwide cases – on every continent except for Antarctica – growing significantly every day, the World Health Organization has now declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.

“Confronting Coronavirus: A PBS NewsHour Special” – to air on PBS stations across the country from 8 – 9 pm ET on Thursday, March 19 – will focus on health precautions for individuals and the public-at-large as well as the pandemic’s economic impact in both the United States and globally. The primetime special, to be anchored by managing editor Judy Woodruff, will include interviews with officials; reporting from NewsHour’s bench of special correspondents throughout the world; and a virtual town hall with curated questions from people across America, to be moderated by NewsHour senior national correspondent Amna Nawaz. 

Expected guests include:

Anthony Fauci, M.D.
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Leana Wen, M.D.
Visiting Professor, George Washington University’s Milken Institute of Public Health

William Schaffner, M.D.
Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University

Cheryl Peterson
Vice President, Nursing Practice, American Nurses Association

Ashish K. Jha
K.T. Li Professor of Global Health and Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute

Austan Goolsbee
Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Former chairman, Council of Economic Advisers

Michelle Singletary
Personal finance columnist, The Washington Post

In addition to its broadcast on PBS stations, “Confronting Coronavirus: A PBS NewsHour Special” will stream at pbs.org/newshour and pbs.org; on PBS NewsHour’s Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter; and on the PBS Video App (available on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, and smart TVs)

“Confronting Coronavirus: A PBS NewsHour Special” is funded by PBS and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.