i have noticed. when you don't there's no. every 10. 10000000 people in the world this think they have no nationality and made up alone and. that everyone has the right. everyone has the right. to use. the coronavirus pandemic has brought in the wake of records for the united states record numbers infections record unemployment claimants and record government bailouts new york state's now has more infections than any other country outside the us a new york city which used to bury about 25 unclaimed bodies a week is now bearing that number every day so how is the big apple coping i'm phil

gale in berlin and this is the day. we are cautiously optimistic that we're strong in the infection rate cuts with a number say that's where the data suggests to us as you see a dramatic decline in those numbers and that's obviously very good news the change in i.c.u. admissions is actually a negative number for the 1st time since we started this intense journey and again that's the 1st time we've seen a negative number so that's good the bad news is we continue to lose a tremendous number. of great pain as a state 777 lives lost these lives lost the people who came in at that height hospitalization period. are we losing them.

also on the day where you take a look at musicians who are building bridges despite the coronavirus keeping them out yeah. many. in the united states about 18000 people have died from the corona virus infections putting the u.s. on track to overtake italy as a country with the highest death toll but half a 1000000 americans are confirmed infected new york state has borne the brunt of the country's pandemic i figure it now has more coronavirus cases than in any country outside the us. passengers have thinned out on new york subways but that snow is sure and to many people who need the ride it's really frightening

to hear anybody getting that one right yet like you know there's a lot of them if you want to take. this thing so you can get away training getting fired so that's not. you know new york and we don't miss it that's. keeping your distance from others experts agree that social distancing combined with aggressive testing of suspected cases is the fastest way to tackle covert 19 but there aren't enough tests for the job in new york and elsewhere in the u.s. new york's governor says companies now cannot provide the numbers needed we need. an un precedented mobilization where government can produce these tests in the millions president trump pointed to progress in the numbers of

new cases on the other side you have the numbers of beds being used we're just saying substantially we're just that usually the sign that it's heading in the downward curve but the death toll continues to mount hundreds in new york die every day hospitals are repurpose in refrigerator trucks as makeshift morgues and in the city's reserved sight for on mark graves burials have spiked the weekly average is now being reached every day the rise is being attributed to coated 19. straight to new york city where we're joined by journalist to. welcome bad things that. well phil the numbers unfortunately tell the grim and tragic tale of what's unfolding here and you've heard the governor 777 people lost their lives in just 24 hours alone and the number of cases in new york surpasses that of any nation on

earth aside from the united states and we're still hearing about the shortages when it comes to protective personal equipment to gear that doctors and nurses need as they work the front lines and care for people with the virus and unfortunately we're still hearing stories of the fact that they're really using that equipment for example a mask that they would wear they would change it before going to see the next patient some doctors and nurses saying they're wearing it for the duration of a shift and sometimes reason that for the next ship or for throughout the weeks about still a grave concern unfortunately and in terms of heart island which was recession in your report that island has been seeing burials for decades mostly for people without families or families who couldn't afford private burial and now they're seeing about 5 year 5 days of burials happening with 25 bodies per day and the aerial images have also stunned new yorkers despite the fact that they know what that island has been used for despite those staggering figures that new york state

governor. cuomo says there is reason to hope. yes despite those grave numbers especially when it comes to. governor cuomo certainly looking for beacons of hope and he's saying the number of hospitalization on average the 3 day average have been down that's a positive sign which indicates that social distancing measures physical distancing measures are actually working but it could also be in combination with the fact that many are afraid to go to the hospital considering what they've been hearing in recent days and weeks about 1000 outbreak and possibly being in fact is themselves we also talked about a slight dip in i.c.u. numbers and that dip is about a dozen or so people it seems very small but when you compare it with previous weeks where they saw about 300 people more than 300 people on a daily basis this is certainly a cause for optimism but of course it's cautious optimism because they don't want to let up on any of the measures that are currently in place that have led to these

small successes and fearing that there could be a 2nd wave or 3rd wave of infections if they were to lose such measures so tell us about the lockdown there in the city that never sleeps how has life since it began . yeah tiffany that never sleeps in new york city more than 8000000 people living here residents who constantly bost lang it's very noisy it's basically you can't walk down the sidewalk. but that hasn't been the case for days and weeks now as the lockdown has been put into place the streets are very much empty there's very few vehicles on the road mostly they are delivery trucks and on the sidewalks you see very few people generally essential workers who have to be out there who don't have a choice or joggers unfortunately so while most people are taking the advice the measure is being presented to them in a serious manner and staying home for the most part of there are people you know especially as the weather warms up want to go out for that run who are itching to get out of their apartment so there is a mix happening there while i have noticed that there's been an increase in people

wearing masks the c.d.c. has recommended that people cover their faces when they go outside not necessarily with medical masks the 4th because that is what hospitals in the right now but using a covering from home so that's also happening aside from what we're seeing fell is what we're hearing it's eerily quiet here unnaturally quiet here but you do hear the wails of sirens and for most of us who are not in a hostile environment there is a constant reminder of the situation that this city that this state that this country is currently in and facing with this outbreak. look at the why the u.s. take the country is a federal system means that a lot of city and state authorities another page as the white house. yes and there has been a great deal of cause for concern i should say in terms of the fact that still an early april now mid april i should say that there isn't a unified and coordinated national response the president has sort of left in the

hands of the state while saying that his administration is willing to help them for example when we look at stay at home order this is not being implemented across the board by the federal government it's been left up to the states where as california implemented it rather early or on march 13th florida didn't do it until weeks later on april 2nd after spring break new york did that on march 22nd so varying states taking different measures some states even today have implemented that measure and infectious disease experts like dr pao chief say and nationwide lockdown is what's needed here because a pandemic an outbreak of virus doesn't see stateline so there has been some confusion with that and in terms of how the governors are dealing with trauma there's also been some confusion there for the drowner all public because when trump says you know things like testing are not something that he's really concerned about governor or even republican governors are saying they don't have enough tests on the ground so there are conflicting messages coming from elected officials right now to the american people and it's a number of tests

a increases some tough questions are being asked about the initial response to this pandemic. certainly and here in new york you know we see governor cuomo his daily briefings and he has been praised heavily has been heralded has become the face of the response perhaps because many feel that president trump isn't filling that void but that is not to say that governor cuomo is without criticism he is being criticized and questioned especially in recent days about his initial response and whether the new york cause came too late he says that he's been criticized actually for acting prematurely we have to remember the state stay at home order came on march 22nd many are saying that was a week or 2 too late he says no not at all that this was actually early and he did what he had to do so that's the criticism that he is taking and saying i've actually done better than you would have expected in terms of the federal government trump has said in recent days that he blamed the world health organization for not warning the united states we have to remember that it was on

january 30th that the w.h.o. declared a global health emergency they held briefings beforehand but it took the u.s. about more than a month after that to declare its own state of emergency and we know that trump was initially downplaying the coded 19 outbreak has also gone into some arguments with governors based on what they've been saying that they needed with regard to ventilators and other protective gear so there has been perhaps people looking to blame others and this is the middle of the outbreak we haven't reached the peak in this state but already we're seeing those kinds of concerns good talking to thank you for that i because i have a son in new york city. well a new study is predicting that europe will say more than 150000 covered 19 deaths in the 1st wave of this pandemic the institute for health metrics and evaluation in seattle as crunched the numbers and released a country by country breakdown they're predicting nearly 9000 deaths here in

germany by the start of august significantly fewer than in other major european countries including the u.k. france italy and spain so let's take a look at what they're expecting for the united kingdom a similar shape to the curve but look at the headline figure much higher than germany's with more than $66000.00 deaths over the same period and that prediction from the institute is particularly concerning when you see the projection for the u.k. remember more than 66000 deaths that's even higher than for the united states take a look at this here they believe the deaths will reach around $60000.00 despite the fact that the u.s. population is 5 times that of the u.k. fear of vos is a professor of global health metrics and evaluation at the university of washington's department of global health he's one of the researchers behind those

stats welcome to d w professor the comparison between the united states and great britain that seems well good at fighting but why are you predicting the so many more deaths in the smaller country. ellen we start with explaining what we do is so we look at the daily counsel of that that are being reported as to fit and we look at the pattern of those deaths they increase when did they start and then with the information that we have from epidemics that have gone further ahead and some of them have to start it to peak of course 1st in china that's in parts of italy and spain as well as some of the states in the u.s. we're seeing already a decline off deaths due to cold fit to make use of that information to them predict what's the we think the most likely scenario is that will play out in other

countries ok so as far as you can tell from the figures that you compile the way that the a pandemic has gone in britain is much higher than it has in the united states despite the disparity in size. it and you know our websites provide the detail in absolute numbers but indeed if you take those numbers and relate them to the population size then the size of the epidemic in the u.k. is considerably larger than in for instance in germany and all but also compared to d. u.s. as a whole however if you you know would subset us to new york or more specifically to new york state then you would see similar very steep increase in the numbers wolf that right it's very interesting that this probably produced the click

through lots of different countries it's interesting that it doesn't include china whether corona virus was 1st identified why not. well for now the number of deaths in china have trumped 2 very very low levels or so there isn't a lot to project for china. but of course we have learned a lot from what what happened in china but as i mentioned increasingly we don't just rely on chinese that to predict for other countries and states within countries what the likely hood is of the shape of the have to demick her friend you know importantly initially is when will it peak and the 2nd thing that is offered has peaked how much time will it take until we see numbers of death return to very low levels from this 1st wave of the epidemic but when i

let let's see if we can answer those 2 questions that when do you expect they have to pay. it depends on where you are it has peaked in the most affected parts in northern italy in in parts of spain it has peaked in the state of washington in the us but we are somewhere between a few days to a bit more than 2 weeks away from the peak in for instance in any of the other states in us and even if we do even if even if these pigs happen does it look like we are going to get a significant a 2nd wave as as countries start to to come out of lockdowns is inevitable but because of goes down and then back up again sht. well it's hard to predict because we apart from

a wrist surgeons of cases that currently are it is being. reported from singapore hong kong taiwan which initially fault they had to deal epidemic while under control we don't have a lot of. knowledge as yet about. the occurrence of a secondly my hunch is that given how infectious this disease is is that without careful mishmash measures being put in place it is a very likely scenario that we'll see an uptick of cases if we just lift restrictions ones to cut the numbers of deaths that come down and do not have appropriate measures in place to contain a 2nd wave if so important thing will be that we need to move on to

a phase where we're going to put all our efforts on finding new cases right once does the 1st wave has subsided we want to be able to find as quickly as possible any new cases and do aggressive context to tracing of anyone they may have come in contact with test everybody and then apply appropriate isolation methods. into base i think we understand that having about me that's not very intimate right next question which is as you as you look at the figures from around the world what does your modeling tell you about best practice who what should we learn from who. there's still a lot we need to learn and i think we'll learn quite a bit from hindsight but there are some pretty striking examples the countries that have been most. aggressive in their testing like south

korea initially china as well but certainly within europe i would. take out germany as having had a much more extensive testing system put in place early on. we can see that those countries tend to have much flatter curves and less of the alarming day to day increases that we've seen in the in other places so starkly it seems there's a lesson to be learned that you know when you do that and you're able to isolate cases and cases that may have been infected by the ones that you for i identified is a good strategy right ok good talking to you thank you for that fair of foss from the university of washington. and finally one of the few things that consumes the soul in times of trouble is music especially if you

can make it together which is not at all easy in these days of enforced social distancing but i don't as a the music director of adam's bait that's the only mosque youth choir in the u.s. well she's been called collaborating with the artistic director of the jerusalem youth chorus make a handler together they've produced this bush named jewish tribute to bill with us who died last week. you know then. leave.

me. with. a clip and he joins us now from washington d.c. welcome mike tell us more about the chorus i'm sure so the jerusalem youth chorus is a coral and dialogue program for israeli and palestinian young singers from east and west jerusalem so if you think creation music in the sharing of stories we empower our singers as leaders in their communities and inspire folks all over the world to work for peace justice inclusion and equality. your in washington away from your fellow has been doing this with a coronavirus restrictions well obviously health is the most important things everyone has been staying home but we've come up with some creative ways to stick together anyway and also to bring our global family with us so we started mungo's things we started a patriotic platform such

a way for people from all over the world to join our creative community and our 1st project is actually a global music video of our version of home by philip phillips where will be singing home with anyone from anywhere in the world obviously each of us from our homes all right well you have a global platform so perhaps you could perform some of your signature for us. similar here so home obviously resonates with all the themes that i think our values are really relevant in this times because like this settled then oh no hello be clear you don't pay no mind to the demons they fill you with fear trying. drag you down if you get lost you can oh yes be found just know you know no. more room because i'm gonna make this place you know hall why did it.

why it really resonates with the chorus it's one of our anthem as an ensemble because it really talks about how you can create space together for everyone and obviously we now have this additional physical challenge where we can't be physically in the same space but we're thinking ok how can we share space anyway how can we create togetherness and so we're hoping that this project can be a way for all of us to do that together and we would love anyone who is listening to this are watching us we love for you to join us in this video so there should be a link either on screen or on the bottom of the screen or you can just e-mail info at jerusalem youth chorus dot org or just look for us on line and we'll send you any information you need you can sing you can dance you can hold up a message you can do whatever makes you feel at home and whatever you want to send out into the world isn't good enough for you to join us from home and want to give

every clip of a great project especially. between members of the jewish face a muslims beyond the members involved can you look at things that you have done or perhaps projects that you've been involved in the and say yes we made a difference we made a change by doing this. for sure so we've had obviously a great impact on the people who have sung in the chorus as you mentioned in terms of what they have taken from their experiences but they also go out into their communities and really have an influence on their families sometimes on their teachers on their friends on their neighborhoods in really creating a sense that people don't have to be at odds just because they're different. and that may sound really obvious but it's not and in practice it's really the opposite

unfortunately in many in many parts and times in jerusalem people just think all because you're different therefore i must be existentially threatened by you. and so we really creating it not just inside the chorus but in jerusalem and then through our performances all over the world this opportunity to see that things can be different and through music through really getting to people's hearts and past sort of the cynicism but really straight to the core that things could be different and that all of us actually have the power to be part of that change well we wish you well thank you for joining us mike found a director of the jerusalem youth chorus thanks for having. and that was the day as ever the compensation continues online you'll find us on twitter i've outstayed w.

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