NR | 52min | Documentary, War | 16 August 2022 (USA)
See if this sounds familiar.
A highly contagious virus is discovered in a densely populated city and without proper attention it could spread to the rest of the continent, if not the entire planet. Those affected are quarantined or isolated while selfless caregivers put their own lives at risk while frantically working on a cure and/or vaccine.
This particular disease was not hatched in Wuhan, China in 2020 but rather at the Fatebenefratelli Hospital on Tiber Island (Italian: Isola Tiberina) in Rome, Italy in October of 1943. Primarily used as a hospice at the adjoining San Giovanni Calibita Church since it’s founding in 1535, the facility was expanded into a full-service hospital in 1934 by Dr. Giovanni Borromeo and Catholic priest Father Maurizio Blalek….