Throwing exception with coroutine crashes app instead of handling failure

From my viewmodel I'm launching a coroutine that could fail and throw an exception, in my coroutine I'm explicitly doing this and instead of catching the exception my app crashes

ViewModel

viewModelScope.launch {
 try {
    repo.getData()
  catch(e: Exception) { print(e) }
}

Repo

 suspend fun getData(): Int {
        val productId = getProductId()
        if (productId == 0) throw Exception()
        return productId
    }

This crashes my app instead of handling the exception inside the viewmodelScope, I tought that any exception should be propagated to the caller and handled there