This week on "Sunday Morning" (March 22)
Guest Host: Lee Cowan in Los Angeles
WATCH THE FULL MARCH 22 EPISODE!
FIRST THINGS FIRST: Coronavirus and flattening the curve: "This is no time to be selfish" | Watch Video
Dr. Jon LaPook on the part we must all play to reduce our exposure to the virus and minimize its spread to others.
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COVER STORY: Coronavirus and the contagion of fear | Watch Video
While stress and anxiety can drive us to take healthy precautions in trying circumstances (like a pandemic), our irrational fear can become dangerous when it goes off the rails. David Pogue talks to psychologists and researchers about how emotion, in contrast to facts, can steer our response to danger and the unknown.
For more info:
- David DeSteno, professor of psychology, Northeastern University, Boston
- Rajita Sinha, director, Yale Interdisciplinary Stress Center, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
- Albert Ko, professor of epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health
CORONAVIRUS: CBS News' Seth Doane, diagnosed with COVID-19, on living under quarantine | Watch Video
CBS News foreign correspondent Seth Doane is currently under quarantine at his home in Rome after being diagnosed with COVID-19. He speaks about how life has drastically changed in a country hard-hit by the virus, and how he and others struggle to maintain normalcy in an abnormal time.
FINANCE: The economic fallout of coronavirus | Watch Video
As the global economy enters an unprecedented shutdown during the coronavirus outbreak, CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger talks with Nobel Prize-winning economics expert Joseph Stiglitz; Michael Goodman, president of the investment management firm Wealthstream Advisors; and Jake Dell, owner of New York City's venerable Katz's Delicatessen, about weathering the economic storm. She also talks with improv actor Ed Herbstman, whose Magnet Theater – shuttered by the pandemic – is now being forced to improvise.
WEB EXTRA VIDEO: Coronavirus economics: Should you tap your 401(k) right now?
The COVID-19 pandemic has created tremendous economic uncertainty. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger talks with Michael Goodman, president of the investment management firm Wealthstream Advisors, about how people should strategize when considering dipping into their retirement savings.
WEB EXTRA VIDEO: How the coronavirus pandemic exposed deficiencies in our economy
CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger talks with Nobel Prize-winning Columbia University professor Joseph Sitglitz about how efficiencies in our economy, aimed at increasing short-term profit, have made us more vulnerable in the crisis we face today with the COVID-19 pandemic.
For more info:
- Katz's Delicatessen, New York City
- Magnet Theater, New York City
- Magnet's Virtual Improv Show Schedule
- Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University
- Michael Goodman, Wealthstream Advisors
PASSAGE: Kenny Rogers (Video)
"Sunday Morning" remembers singer Kenny Rogers ("The Gambler"), who died Friday at age 81.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Kenny Rogers profiled by Russ Mitchell on "Sunday Morning" (9/3/2006)
HISTORY: Bellevue, the storied history of America's oldest public hospital | Watch Video
The New York City medical institution became renowned for turning no one away, and for treating the worst of cases with the best of care. Mo Rocca reports.
For more info:
- Bellevue Hospital Center, New York City
- "Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital" by David Oshinsky (Anchor), in Trade Paperback, eBook and Audio formats, available via Amazon
LIFE UNDER QUARANTINE: Movies as an escape from pandemic | Watch Video
Critic David Edelstein on the new streaming reality for the forcibly homebound, offering opportunities to see the world more deeply as we practice social-distancing.
For more info:
- Turner Classic Movies
- The Criterion Channel
- Amazon Prime
- Netflix
- Hulu
- CBS All Access
- "Emma" (Focus Features)
CORONAVIRUS: Physicians and bioethicists on a pressing question: Who lives, and who dies? | Watch Video
As COVID-19 cases increase, hospitals are preparing for a situation in which the number of patients needing ventilators exceeds their actual number of ventilators. Senior Contributor Ted Koppel looks at the agonizing life-and-death choices hospitals may be facing.
For more info:
- Dr. Maria Raven, University of California San Francisco Hospital
- Dr. Tia Powell, director of bioethics, Montefiore Medical Center, New York
- Professor David Williams, Harvard School of Public Health
COMMENTARY: Jim Gaffigan on family life under lockdown | Watch Video
The comedian, who has been in quarantine with his wife and five children, on the new normal.
Watch "Dinner With the Gaffigans" on Jim Gaffigan's YouTube channel!
For more info:
- jimgaffigan.com
- Follow @JimGaffigan on Twitter
- Jim Gaffigan's special, "Quality Time," is available on Amazon Prime
SUNDAY PROFILE: Alicia Keys on her struggle to know herself | Watch Video
Alicia Keys might be the reigning queen of cool. But in the past few years, even as she was rocketing to new heights of fame, the private Alicia Keys was struggling with profound doubts about what she was doing, why she was doing it, and even who she was. Now, the multiple Grammy-winner has paused for a little self-reflection in a new book ("More Myself: A Journey") and a new album ("Alicia"), which she discusses with correspondent Tracy Smith.
WEB EXTRA: Alicia Keys: In life we don't get what we ask for (VIDEO)
Singer Alicia Keys reads an excerpt from her upcoming audio book of "More Myself: A Journey" (coming March 31), in which she talks of self-actualization and self-doubt.
To watch Alicia Keys perform "Underdog," from her upcoming album "Alicia," click on the video player below:
For more info:
- aliciakeys.com
- Pre-order Alicia Keys' new album "Alicia," released on May 15 via Amazon, Google Play and iTunes
- "More Myself: A Journey" by Alicia Keys (Flatiron Books), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available March 31 via Amazon
- Pre-order the audio book of "More Myself: A Journey" read by Alicia Keys and special guests, available March 31
LIFE UNDER QUARANTINE: Chef Bobby Flay on food as a retreat | Watch Video
Chef, restaurateur and Food Network star Bobby Flay on the fallout from coronavirus on the food service industry, and how preparing comfort food becomes a familiar retreat in unsettling times.
RECIPES: Comfort food for discomfiting times
Bobby Flay offers his recipes for Spaghetti & Meatballs with Ricotta, Chicken Soup, and Chicken Salad.
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ESSAY: No, the world is not ending | Watch Video
Thoughts from Lee Cowan on what changes have been brought to our lives by the coronavirus outbreak, and how social distancing may actually bring us closer together.
NATURE: Cherry blossoms (Video)
"Sunday Morning" visits the nation's capital for a view of blossoming cherry trees, a hopeful sign of spring. Videographer: Danny Farkas.
WEB EXCLUSIVES:
NATURE UP CLOSE: Allowing nature to tend to our souls
"Sunday Morning" contributing videographer Judy Lehmberg offers a break from the virus.
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