liz byrnes blames the us government for not responding to the coronavirus threat quickly enough big could have done a lot more at the beginning. i think we should have learned from the pandemic that had happened and asia and we saw how other countries good morning very quickly and unfortunately. went to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin today with the dead in italy 3405 that is today's official death toll from the corona virus pandemic it is a record high for any country in the world meaning if today surpassed china in the number of lives that have been lost to the virus it comes amid reports of scenes no one in italy thought possible just a month ago coffins stacked to the ceiling and hospital morgues that are filled to capacity. firing 247 quarantine to patients dying alone while the exhausted nurses and doctors are now falling ill to the same virus killing so many of their patients our 1st report takes us to northern italy tonight which is now the epicenter of this pandemic the front line between humans and the viper's. the city of ber