the sequence of the virus. i mobilized my team and said, we can t assume that this is gonna be well controlled. we ve gotta start making a vaccine right now. the first case of china s new and deadly coronavirus has been reported here in the us. [monique] health officials say the man traveled from wuhan, china to sea-tac airport last week, on his way back to snohomish county. now it was official. january 21st, 2020. covid was in the united states at that point, there was no denying it. [dr. fauci] what was likely going on is that that first case was spreading around, and many of the people were without symptoms, but spreading it to others. and that s how an outbreak that has this characteristic starts. [joe] have you been briefed -by the cdc? -i have. [joe] are you worried about a pandemic at this point? no, we re not at all. and we re, we have it totally under control. it s one person coming in from china. and we have it under control, it s gonna be just fine. [maggie] a bunch of peo
i don t know how i m gonna pay my bills. i don t know how i m gonna pay my rent. [nelson] so many restaurants, so many stores. people you knew and had worked with or shopped with forever, gone. never came back. [tony] all across the country, empty streets, as more americans are either ordered to stay home or they choose to do so. new york is like that scene in vanilla sky, with tom cruise, where time square s empty. that was real. the craziest thing was just that a city with that kind of density was empty at rush hour. the societal change that everybody went through is gonna be talked about for next generations. i have granddaughters that will remember not going to school, not going to birthday parties, wearing masks during the great pandemic. there s a generation that s gonna say, yeah, well, let s see, that was, that was, that was back during covid. [brian] around the country, some workplaces are telling their employees, stay home, because of the coronavirus outbreak. it was so i
so, they are really the heroes and the heroines of this outbreak. [dr. smith] the reason we kept going to work every day was because if i didn t go to work, then someone else had to go to work. and so, we needed to be there for each other. [tim] what you saw in new york at seven o clock every night, many people would start making noise. they would either clap, or they would bang pots as a way of thanking the people that couldn t stay home. the people that were out there saving us. that s so nice. [dr. smith] people in this city went out of their way to be there for everyone else. we need to look at the fact that somehow, this plague brought out some of the best in all of us, and try to capture that and bring that forward as we approach the rest of our lives. [music]
[brian] around the country, some workplaces are telling their employees, stay home, because of the coronavirus outbreak. it was so interesting to live through this extraordinary acceleration into the future, where this work-from-home world that we were told for decades was going to come didn t come gradually. it came in a moment. and we had to figure it out. okay, sweetheart. 66 was our high temperature. sweetie, no, no, no, no, no. you gotta be quiet when daddy s talking. [dana] i have a son who had to work from home and do virtual school. that was a challenge for me as a parent, just like every other parent, and most importantly was a challenge for him. but i feel very lucky because i had wi-fi, i had food, i had the ability to pay my mortgage. and not everybody had that luxury. [dr. hayes-bautista] it was clear that certain groups couldn t stay home, or else this economy would literally cease to function. we developed policies and measures that worked very, very well in beverly hi
i m gonna be fine, i haven t slept in a long time. i just wanted to call you to say goodbye. and then his son started talking and i pushed the mask back down on his face so he would get the pressure of that air, and his son said something to him like, i love you, dad. and then, and then i took the mask off and he said, i love you too, mijo. and then i put the mask back on, his son hung up, and i said, okay. and then he looked at me and he said, only one? i can only call one? and i told him, you can call as many people as you want. and i stood with him, he called five people i think, and i did that for five people. he said goodbye to his daughter and he said goodbye to his son, and i think that was his last goodbye. that was it. [dr. fauci] when the history of this outbreak is written, the real heroes and heroines of this are gonna be our healthcare providers. they hung in there, i mean, they got exhausted. many of them got infected, several of them died.