
MetroFocus: May 19, 2020
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What can we learn from Italy's fight? NYC Education officials played down virus threat.
Tonight Frontline gives us a firsthand look at survival from inside a region at the epicenter of Italy’s coronavirus outbreak where doctors are forced to make life and death choices among the young and old. Did officials at the Dept. Of Education minimize the threat of COVID-19 in the early days of the outbreak? That’s the conclusion reached by non-profit news outlet "The City."
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MetroFocus: May 19, 2020
5/19/2020 | 28m 43sVideo has Closed Captions
Tonight Frontline gives us a firsthand look at survival from inside a region at the epicenter of Italy’s coronavirus outbreak where doctors are forced to make life and death choices among the young and old. Did officials at the Dept. Of Education minimize the threat of COVID-19 in the early days of the outbreak? That’s the conclusion reached by non-profit news outlet "The City."
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