Totally Under Control: Trump and Covid-19

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Scrutinising the US response to the pandemic compared with South Korea.

With the US election just around the corner, this investigative documentary from award-winning film-maker Alex Gibney scrutinises the US response to the pandemic compared with South Korea.

Filmed during lockdown, this investigative documentary made by Academy Award-winning film-maker Alex Gibney, with co-directors Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger, includes revealing testimonies from public health officials and senior White House staff, exposing a system-wide collapse.
 
With the US election just around the corner, the film scrutinises the US response compared with South Korea, and how they handled the virus. On 20 January 2020, both countries discovered their first cases of Covid-19. Since then, however, the novel coronavirus has claimed the lives of over 220,000* Americans, while only claiming 447* lives in South Korea (*at the time of publication).

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