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WGVU presents FRONTLINE: Inside Italy's Covid War

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Tuesday, May 19th @ 10pm on WGVU Public Television, FRONTLINE (PBS) is airing Inside Italy’s COVID War, and it’s the first full-length documentary filmed inside a hospital battling COVID-19.

From Emmy and BAFTA-winning Italian producer & director Sasha Achilli, the documentary offers a visceral look inside a hospital battling COVID-19 cases in Northern Italy at the height of its crisis, as doctors are forced to make life and death decisions.

In Inside Italy’s COVID War, Sasha follows a charismatic ER doctor, Francesca Mangiatordi, through the darkest days and weeks of the pandemic. Through Sasha’s immersive filming inside the hospital, you watch Dr. Mangiatordi make impossible choices – such has having to choose the life of a younger person above older patients.

Patrick joined WGVU Public Media in December, 2008 after eight years of investigative reporting at Grand Rapids' WOOD-TV8 and three years at WYTV News Channel 33 in Youngstown, Ohio. As News and Public Affairs Director, Patrick manages our daily radio news operation and public interest television programming. An award-winning reporter, Patrick has won multiple Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter/Anchor awards and is a three-time Academy of Television Arts & Sciences EMMY Award winner with 14 nominations.