60 Minutes
Putin's Public Enemy | Dr. Fauci | Hell Flight
Season 53, Episode 5 · Aired 2020-10-18
Synopsis
Putin's Public Enemy – The Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny tells Lesley Stahl that President Vladimir Putin poisoned him with a banned nerve agent that's said to be 10 times more powerful than sarin. Dr. Fauci - The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases gives Dr. Jon LaPook the latest information on how the U.S. is faring in the pandemic as the number of new cases of COVID-19 begins to increase. Hell Flight – Early in the pandemic, dozens of cruise ship passengers sick or infected with COVID-19 returned to the United States on a hellish charter flight. As Sharyn Alfonsi reports, they were inexplicably allowed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to mix with unsuspecting travelers in the world's busiest airport and risk spreading the virus.
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 53
- S53E01 The Battle for the Ballot | H.R. McMaster | Coach O and the Sideways Season
- S53E02 Florida's Amendment 4 | The Wall | Sir David
- S53E03 Fire! | Talent on the Spectrum | Seinfeld in 2020
- S53E04 Treating COVID-19 Today | The Lincoln Project | Grizzlies
- S53E06 Election Edition: The Candidates
- S53E07 Ask Ohio | Arizona Counts | The First Outbreak