Airdate: Cracking COVID

Upcoming ABC documentary Cracking COVID tracks the real-time story of Australia’s scientific response to the pandemic, told by researchers, clinicians, and patients.

Cracking Covid is a rollercoaster real-time journey through Australia’s unique pandemic experience.
As teams of scientists race to unlock the secrets of the virus, researchers work at breakneck speed to build a vaccine from scratch, and three patients confront very different symptoms of a terrifying new disease.

Professor Peter Doherty – who won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries about the human immune system – joins Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Sonya Pemberton, providing warm and witty expert insight. We discover how, in uncertain times, we often have little choice but to improvise. Cracking Covid is a surprisingly intimate story of Australia’s race against the virus – as it happened, in the moment.

Production credits: A Genepool Production. Produced in association with the ABC, with the assistance of Film Victoria. Executive Producer, Genepool Productions: Sonya Pemberton. Commissioning Editor ABC: Stephen Oliver.

8:30pm Tuesday July 13 on ABC.