The Virus (working title) 1x60

On December 31, 2019, as millions of people around the world celebrated the coming of a new year, a highly infectious virus was already rapidly spreading among us. FRONTLINE Correspondent Martin Smith (The Storm; The Quake) travels via Skype to interview top officials, scientists and first responders in China, Iran, Italy, South Korea and the United States.

The Virus examines why officials from the President of the United States to local officials in New York were slow to respond despite repeated early warnings of the inevitability of a potent contagion capable of killing hundreds of thousands, if not millions. What went wrong?