60 Minutes
Stopping the Coronavirus | Neel Kashkari | A Populist Movement
Season 52, Episode 22 · Aired 2020-03-22
Synopsis
Stopping the Coronavirus – Bill Whitaker reports on the urgent scientific race to develop a vaccine and find drugs that can thwart the coronavirus and the deadly illness it causes. It's a global effort unfolding at breakneck speed. Neel Kashkari – Scott Pelley interviews the banker who oversaw the government's response to the Great Recession in 2008. Now the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Kashkari provides insight on the economic impact of COVID-19. A Populist Movement – Hungary's populist government is spending billions to encourage women to have more children to solve its demographic problem. At the same time, it has built fences to keep immigrants out. Critics of the right-wing government are outraged. Jon Wertheim reports.
In the series
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Key cast
- Mike Wallace as Correspondent
- Morley Safer as Correspondent
- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
Also in season 52
- S52E01 The Impeachment Inquiry | Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman | Great White Sharks
- S52E02 The Impeachment Debate | The Ranger and the Serial Killer | The Farmer's Advocate
- S52E03 Hong Kong | Nadia | Psychedelic Science
- S52E04 Tree of Life | Madame Lagarde | The Columbus Letters
- S52E05 Joe Biden | The Emerald Triangle | Giant Panda
- S52E06 Maria Butina | The Battle of Brexit | The Wright Way