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'As the C****-** p******c rages on globally, a new documentary Totally Under Control is sounding the alarm on the Trump administration’s failures in responding to the spreading infection.

Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, along with directors Suzanne Hillinger and Ophelia Harutyunyan, try to answer questions about what went wrong in American p******c efforts, which resulted in the country seeing well over 200,000 deaths and more than 7.8 million confirmed cases.

They indicated that they decided this film had to be made in April, right in the middle of the New York C****-** nightmare. The filmmakers also admitted that there was a sense of responsibility to get this information out to the public before the U.S. e******n.

U.S. President Donald Trump was diagnosed with C****-** just a day after the film was completed.

The subjects interviewed, revealing their personal experiences with the U.S. response to C****-**, include Dr. Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), former director of the CDC Dr. Tom Frieden, Dr. Eva Lee, infectious disease specialist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Max Kennedy, a White House C****-** supply-chain volunteer, among many others.

‘Not easy’ to come forward with the Trump administration

Dr. Rick Bright and director Alex Gibney on Trump's handling of C****-** p******c
Bright explains his distrust in the Trump administration and Gibney, director of "Totally Under Control," reacts to the president's c****av***s diagnosis.
One of the many captivating moment comes from Dr. Bright, the v*****e expert and whistleblower who recently called the messaging from Trump following his C****-** diagnosis “reckless” and “deadly” in an interview with CNN.

In Totally Under Control, you see the pain Dr. Bright still feels for making the difficult decision to break protocol and push back on the government’s commitment to using hydroxychloroquine to treat C****-**, with limited research. In the film, he stresses that it is “not easy” to come forward in this administration.

“The plan was in front of us but leadership would not do it,” Dr. Bright said in the documentary. “It is time to lay our careers on the line and push back.”

Dr. Bright, in his former position, was hearing from Michael Bowen, executive vice president of the medical supply company Prestige Ameritech, daily as he was “sounding the alarm bells” on the country’s limited mask supply. The former BARDA director also tried to alert the national stockpile and others that the U.S. needed to reactivate N95 manufacturing.

Bowen said around 2005, all major mask makers left the U.S. and put supply in the hands of foreign control, which he said could be subject to diversion during a p******c.

20-year-old volunteers responsible for procuring PPE

RFK grandson who worked on Kushner's C***D task force confirms he was whistleblower to Congress in interviewer
Max Kennedy Jr., 26, a grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, spoke to the New Yorker Monday about breaking from the Kennedys' Democratic dynasty to work for Jared Kushner’s c****av***s task force.
Totally Under Control also tells the fascinating story of Max Kennedy Jr., 26-year-old grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, who volunteered for the White House C****-** supply chain, under Jared Kushner’s oversight.

When Kennedy arrived in D.C. he was shocked to discover how much of a role 20-year-old volunteers were actually expected to play in the procurement of critical supplies. They were all held together in a room with televisions showing Fox News, watching the death count ticker increase every day.

Kennedy revealed these volunteers used their own personal email accounts and looked online for international companies that could possibly provide healthcare supplies to the U.S. While he was a volunteer, the team Kennedy was with was not able to procure a single mask.

The volunteer ended up ​breaking his NDA and filed an anonymous whistleblower complaint to Congress, and has since quit his position.

Totally Under Control comparison of the U.S. response to C****-** vs. South Korea, is an incredibly frustrating display of a variety of preventable blunders. You even get to hear from Dr. Kim Jin Yong, infectious disease doctor at the Incheon Medical Center in South Korea, who reveals that most of the textbooks she studied as a student were from the U.S., and how the CDC was a wealth of health education.

It also highlights the politicization of public health measures, like wearing masks, which were initially put in place to prevent the spread of the v***s.

Everyone around the world has been impacted by C****-** but Gibney, Hillinger and Harutyunyan crafted a narrative that also shows the human side of the people involved in the U.S. p******c response. They have just been doing their best to keep Americans as safe as possible and feel a sense of responsibility for the failed response, although many things were out of their control, and certainly not “totally under control.”