Covering Catastrophe — At Home

 

“We journalists are in the accountability business. So we’ve published a short film tracking how the United States bungled Covid-19, looking as far back as 2003 and culminating in the summer of 2020. We hope it helps you understand the backdrop of this national failure and offers context for the competing narratives. Most of all, we hope it helps establish a measure of accountability.

“It’s always a challenge to explain a long-running news story while it’s still unfolding. We hope this video offers some clarity in the face of so much tragedy, chaos and misinformation. As Nick [Kristof] says in the video, some of us at The Times have covered mass deaths in the developing world — but we never imagined witnessing such a tragedy in our own country.”

—Adam B. Ellnick, executive producer, NYT Opinion Video, “How Lost 200,000 Lives to COVID-19,” NYTimes, Sept. 29, 2020.

 

 

• Editorial Comment: “We’re doing great.” —D. Trump

 

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