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>> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thanyou. >> woodruff: the covid-19 pandemic has now claimed more than0,000 lives in the unite states. that news comes on a day when president trump broke a long spell of confinement in washington and traveled 2,30 miles west. we begin with this report from john yang. >> hello, everybody. >> yang: as president trump left the white house today for his first cross-country trip since the pandemic gripped america, he dismissed an internal government report that projected a steep rise in deaths, even as states ease restrictions. >> it's a report with no titigation. so, based on no tion-- but

we're doing a lot of mitigation. and frankly, when the peopleac report they are going to be social distanci, washing their hands. t they are goibe doing the things they're supposed to do. >> yang: in phoenix, president trump toured a honeywell aerospace plant, now producing n95 masks. but, d not wear a mask himself. >> we're now looking at a little bit of a different form, and a at form is safety and opening, fod we'll have different group probably set up that. >> yang: in washington, lawmakers returned t capitol, but business was anything but normal. a senate cfirmatioing for mr. trp's pick to be director of national intelligence waseld in a nearly empty room. senators rotated in and out to keep their distance from each other.

and in the house, lawmaker wearing masks welcomed their newest colleague, maryland's kweisi mfume. the democrat-controlled house had hoped to hear this week from dr. anthony fauci, but the white house blocked his appearance. today, president trump said fauci would be allowed to testify at a hearing in the republican-majority senate. meanwhile, states are wrestling with how to reopen their economies. new york governor andrew cuomo warnedf the cost of reopening too quickly. the state today reported more than 1,700 previouslylo undid covid-19 deaths at nursing homes. >> in a nursing home, that coronavirus-- and all it takes is one person to bring that virus in. >> yang: in raleigh, north, carolizens gathered to rally against that state's ostrictions. >> we must prote liberty, and it is time to reopen north carolina. >> yang: but similareasures

appear to have paid off in places like south korea. officials there logged just three new cases today-- the lost in nearly three month now, some south korean students are poised to go back in school as early as next week. and, sports-starvefans finally indulged-- albeit from inside their homes. korea's professional basebal league kicked off its new season today, with no spectators in the stan. but similar step toward normalcy in india, where infections are still soaring, backfired. owds flocked to the streets after the government took its first steps to end its lockdown, and soal distancing fell by the wayside as lines outside liquor stores stretched for blocks. in response, the governmentse ima 70% tax on liquor. in europe, new evidence that the virus may have arrived earliervi than psly thought. a paris hospital discovered a covid-19 case dating back to

december-- nearly a month before france confirmed what had been thought to be its first case. a world health organization said it was no surprise. >> it's al possible that some countries retest s from patients who were sick in december or january of unspecified pneumonia er reasons. >> yang: for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: in the day's other news, wall street managed another modest rally as more businesses began reopening. the dow jones industrial average gained 133 points to close at 23,883. the nasdaq rose 98 points, and the s&p 500 added 25. the rally came dpite news that the pandemic caused thservice sector in the economy to contract last month for the first time in ten years. the nominee to oversee federal pandemic recovery spending

promised fair, impartial audits today. brian miller works in the white house counsel's office. as a special inspector general, he would watch over $500 billion in economic rescue funds. president trump has said he would resist oversight ofpa emic spending.s the presidenck to be director of national intelligence pledged today tor stear of political bias. texas republican congressman defender of mr. tran ardent senators-- including someng, republicans-- openly questioned whether he would guard thece intelligommunity against political pressures. >> there are some very experienced analysts within the i.c. that are concerned that you might attempt to shade the conclusions in order to avoid

alienating the president in presenting his daily brief. >> i won't shade intelligence for anyone, whether we're talking about the president, members of congress, a policymakers. >> woodruff: ratcliffe initial nomination was pulled last year after bipartisan criticism of his closeness to the president and lack of experience in intelligence. he was re-nominated in february. in syria, there are reports of israeli air strikes in two different regions of the country.st e media reports israeli planes hit military targets at al-safirah, near aleppo.an a war monitoring group says separate strikes killed 14 iranian and iraqi fighters in eastern syria. the israelis had no immediate comment. the president of venezuela says two americans took part in a failed raid aimed at toppling his government. th d were arrested monday, a after mercenaries attacked a president nicolas says

their papers show they were formerreen berets. >> ( translated ): we wereun able tver this terrorist incursion, of which we have been victims. the government of the united states of america is fully and completely invold in this raid, defeated by the solid civic military police union of venezuela. >> woodruff: both president trump and defense secretary mark esper said today, the u.s. had nothing to do with the alleged raid. and, the philippines government ordered the country's top televisi network to shut down after its franchise expired. president rodrigo duterte had targeted the network's news coverage of his administration. a handful of protesters lit candles and held signs outside the network's offices, denouncing the government's move as a crackdown on free speech. still to come on the newshour:

i ask arkansas governor asa hutchinson about the challenges of reopening his state. another dispatch from the "front lines" of the battle against coronavirus. the worldwide battle for personal protective equipmental for me workers. and, much more. f>> woodruff: after weeks businesses being shuttered and unemployment claims soaring, more than half of the states are now beginning to lift restrictions and reopen local economies. earlier today, president trump was in arizona, and told abc news that he accepts that more people could become sick and die as a result of reopening.po >> it'ible there will be some, because you won't be locked into an apartment or a

house, or whatever it is. but at the same , wee going to practice social distancing, we're gointo be washing hands, we're going to be doing a lot of the things that we've learned to do over the last period of time. an we have to get our country ba. you know, people are dying the other way, too. when you look at what's happened with drugs... it goes up. when you look at suicides. i mean, take a look at what's people are losing their jobs. we have to bring it back, and that's what we're doing.n >> woodruff:kansas, republican governor asa hutchinson has laid out his ofan for a phased reopenin houses of worship, gyms,nd restaurants,ther large gathering spaces. governor hutchinson jos me now. welcome back to the news hour, ygovernor. ye have announced the opening of a number of places, hair salon, church, we've talked about in the next few days. and in the next week places like

massage parlors. why do y think it's safe doth ?>> udy, it's good to be with you again. the last time we were together, we were talking abt the fact that arkansas was not a shelter-in-place state. he got a lot of criticism as to whether that wasight strategy. we put restrictions on many of our businesses, but we didn't shut everything down. now that our cases are down, our trajectory is ing in the right direction, we're starting to lift some of those restrictions and just lke we did it differently before, now we're not doing it all at once. we're doing it a step at a time. so you can measure very carelly as to whether you're being disciplined, whether our cases go up, whether our... whether we have any resurgenc so we're being cautious about it. our trajectory is going in the right direction. and we're doing our testing.

we have contact testing capability so i feel comfortable in lifting some of these restrictions now. the key is that wehave to be individually disciplined to do the social discitipline. really hard out there whenever the sun is shining, we're cooped upt we w get outside, but we have to discipline ourselves. >> woodruff: at the same me, governor, you know, the white house guidelines were that states were rdvised stongly to wait until you had 14 days of declining rates. you're not there yet in arkansas. >> no, i disagree with that we've had 14 days of decngli caseload. the trajectory is down. in addition, one of the alternatives was the negative rate or therositivite on your testing, and ours is very, very low. it's been trending down. so we actually meet all of the criteria for entering phase one under the president's guince. we want to be able to stay there

and to continue that trajectory so that in another 14 days we can go to phase two an we can continue to open up and lift those retrictions. >> as you know, governor, groups that do these projections forecast the number of infections and the number of deaths including the most prominent one at the university of washington. they have w in the last day upped their projections. based on the fact that states like arkansas and a number of other states are opening up.le they say peare going to be moving around, they're gong to be touching places that other people are touching andit inly that is going to mean more infections. and frankly for deaths to go up? >> it is a concern. the university of washington, even thothugh they've misseir modeling significant as they made projections for arkansas and other states, it is still a

good warning. certainly it is a concern whenever you look at relying upon individual,ng relpon employers to do the right thing, i think they're being very, very yen uni. we have60 processing plants in arkansas. thank goodness we do't have ny that have shut down because of potive test, but it's crucial it's a risk. they have got to do the right thing every day. but the key is that, sure, we're going to have to have unerstand debts of a positive test or a business or some of this activity. and we have to be ablto no if there. we have to do the tracing, know that, and then be able toand control it. this pandemic anlso be ableugh to continue with an economy that is vital and peoplneed to work so i think we are balancing it right, and theey again is that individual discipline and, you know, not everybody is going to

exercise that and that is the work. but i think we're doing it the right way and as nation, every state is different and every stat a so the governors have a lot of discretion. we're exercising it here. look at the statistics. we're gointhe right direction, and i think we're one of 15 states that moving down in our caselo. >> woodruff: governor, i watched your news conference today.gs one of the thyou said in the next couple day, you expect there to be a spike in casin arkansas's correctional institutions. you talkedabout having stte employees who work at these ntioneees and you also me nursing homes. people who have tested positive may still be exected to show up for work if they're asymptomatic state, it's more important that they take these jobs, that these jobs are filled. then thatey stay away. explain that reasoning.

>> well, let's look at the prisons. in the prison system, we had an outb ak, the maximecurity unit. it was a large outbreak. so some of the staff testedbu positive.. so we allowed some of the staff that idewoally d be quarantined in their home to come back to work, and they would only be working with those inmates that tested pot'tive. sonot going to be a spread issue. it's going to bee fulfilling need that was there. so because it's a hard-to-fill job, because it's a very dangerous place to work, we needed those guards there. in a similm way, in soe nursing home, if a strson ed s pthstrigoht pffosition, becauu have to have people in there to care for these positi patients, as well. it's not ideal, but you work through it and that's how we

handled it. >> woodruff: and very quickly, governor, you said you were opening up restrictions on if you will around country spots to be able to travel into arkansas, but my question quickly i how are you going to check that? are you going to have checkpoints at the state brd center are you going to have people at airports? just quickly, how does thathavee checkpoints, but, for example, those that come here and seek lodging, if they're from one of required to quarantine for 14 days. that in and of itselobably will keep them moving, because no one wants to stay in the sme hotel for 14 days. and so it's checked by our lodging industry, and it is measured there, and if there is a different hot spot that arises, then our department of health can make the changes. >> woodruff: governor, asa hutchinson of arkansas, thank you very much. good to see you. >> good to be with you.

>> woodruff: as we've been reporting, amerid 's regional ral hospitals are sometimes overwhelmed and el-equipped to deal with influx of more serious coronavirus cases. william brangham recently spoke with a woman who's pedt of a uniquecal team that comes to help these hospitals and their patients. >> brangham: that's right. at the cleveland clinic in ohio, which is a huge hospital system that serves many different counties and states, setimes when critically ill patients need hp, jennifer adamski comes and gets them via helicopter. adamski is a critical care nurse practitioner with the cleveland clinic, and she joins me now. jennifer, thank you very, ve much for being here. could you just give us a sense now, how many would you esmate of your patients currently are coronavirus patients? >> i would say what i'm seeing

in my role is maybe an upwards of 50% to 60% over the last month or two or so. we're seeing very ill covid-positive, or suspected covid-positive patients, most requiring mechanical ventilation and/or high levels of oxygen therapy and support. you know, a little bit about what i do: before covid, we would fly inly and sand quickly get the patient out and have really minimal interaction with thede staff, and olop that deep connection with the staff-- >> brangham: this is the staff at the local hospita >> exactly. but now what we're seeing is when we arrive at these facilities across the state or even across the country, whether it be freestanding e.r. or a level-ontertiary centerl, a big i.c.u., we instantly become part of their covid team. you know, each facility has really determined a ocess that

difficult time, annstantlys are assimilated into that fold. and what i mean by that is we may take more thoughtful and deliberate time to interact with the nurses and the support staff, whether it be taking parr in tonning and doffing buddy systems, helping them with their i.v.s outside the room, or even making sure that facetime families before we go, because they may not see their loved one for a while-- or at all, actually. and for me personally, i just really make sure that i take the time to let the staff know that there is such a se pride from the nurses at the bedside my 20-plus years as a nurse.in you're doing a lot mores than transporting. you're doing full medical interventions up there.

>> absolutely. it's funny, ach my students that critical care is a type of care and not a place, and this is the perfectmp exa of that. this is critical care in the air. this is critical care in the air with a few less reso few less handshan what you would have at the bedside in your i.c.u. >> brangham: from your vantage point in ohio-- i know you're traveling around the country,yo bure based in ohio-- have people there been listening to those stay at home orders for the most part? >> i feel like that they have. and if i could share just a quick story? was driving home last week after a long shift of flying very sick patients, and i came upon this multi-car accident that appeared to have just happened. lifeless in the middle of the freeway. and immediately i stopped, and was the fie on the scene to assess the patient. and he appeared to have been thrown from the car and had a bad head injury and bleeding and very shallow respirations. and over the next two minutes, four critical care nurses

stopped, one right after another, each in their scrubs, all from different area hospitals, all different specialties. thankfully, i had some extra r gloves and masks in the at i distributed. i held c-spine and we rolled thi t in unison, like a dance. >> brangham: these were all workers from different hospitami all off their shifts too? >> absolutely. we assessed airway and pulse. he of the nurses had this great idea to use one child's diapers to stop the copious head bleed. and we waited in the middle of what was always a busy highway adfore covid, and now only essential workers on the road. it was very surrea iat patient? thought about it later on that night why it touched me so much. and it wasn't thaty fellow warriors in arms stopped to help, because that's what we do. it was the sense of ownehip and competence that each one of these nurses exuded and the need to keep our communitfe at

all costs, even outside the four walls of a hospital. so despite this visceral fear that i have each day now putting on my flight suit, there is such truth in the quote that the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service ofot rs. and honestly, i can't remember a ti when i was more proud t call myself a nurse. >> brangham: it's a beautiful "essential workers" right there. jennifer adamski of thed clevelinic, thank you so much for your time, and thank you for your work.ha >> you so much. and stay well. >> woodruff: today, president w eyump lehington, d.c. for to visit a new hll factory that makes medical masks. it's part of a massive push by the trump administration to move the production of medi

equipment to the u.s. and, as nick schifrin reports,a it comes amiobal battle for medical equipment, after a worldwide shortage. >> we demand t immediately get p.p.e. tohat u nurses, doctors and health care workers! >> i kid you not-- white aprons. >> ( translated ): our e.colleagues don't have p. and they're being infected. >> we have people coming and sewing things r us, sewing masks, making thingsut of plastics. that would be like a soldier going to war and making a plastic gun to bring with him. >> schifrin: ithis war, the frontline has often fought without protection. doctors and nurses had to create equipment, or p.p.e.rotective the shortage killed hundreds of them. in the u.s., health and human services found "widespread shortages" that "put staff and countries and u.s. states competed for p.p.e. in a worldwide, cutthroat competition. >> we've been competing against other states, other nations, our p.p.e., coveralls, masks,or

shields. >> there is no system of allocation or distribution thatt takes into acche needs of various parts of the world. it becomes kind of a marketplach to thest bidder. >> schifrin: dr. tom ingelsby h directs johnkins' center for health security. bi says the pandemic has exposed a key u.s. vulnety. >> there are many companies that kee based overseas that ma product that comes to the u.s. so we are dependent on overseas p.p.e., manufacturing and shipping. >> schifrin: the global center for p.e. is china. before covid-19, chinese, u.s., and other companies based in china produced approxitely 50% of the world's supply, and china is now increasing its production. but in january, as chinese doctors stggled to confront the country's covid-19 peak, they didn't have enough p.p.e. so chinese companies dispatched employees around the world to

buy supplies-- including in australia, as seen in this australia "60 minutes" story. >> if you have time, please drop by your local pharmacy to check if there are any 3mn95 or 8210 masks for sale. >> staff bought up what they could from pharmacies in eastwood to penrith, tsby to mona vale. >> schifrin: at the same time, the trump administration was facilitating american p.p.e. for china-- 17.8 tons of it. secretary of state mike pompeo v tweeted theo in early february.in but wasn't only accepting american p.p.e. in january and february, it blocked u.s. factoomes in china xporting masks back to the u.s.y china effectivtionalized some of these companies, including american com, product inside of china. what was the impact of that? >>"n you say "nationalize in a crisis, any country would do that. that tt was unavoidable.

we didn't need the products then.ek >> schifrin: dcissors focuses on china for the american enterprise institute. he says the bigger problems getting american- and chinese- produced p.p.e. out of china today. chinese television has promoted the export of billions of medical supplies around the world. senior u.s. officials say those exports slowed after countries complained about quality, and china introducedore quality control. but, tre is another reason why china is slow-rolling exports t. th, says scissors. >> i don't think the chinese are hurrying to supply the unit states. they have countries they think they can win diplomatic points with, a lot of them ahead of us. and so, in addition to the problem of low quality production, aition to the problem of bureaucracy, there's definitely an element of "we're not rushing to fix those problems for the u.s." >> schifrin: the chinese government says it's doing all it can to increase production and distribute supplies around the world. >> ( translated ): china is transporting protective supplies to countries and regions thatin arrgent need, at the fastest speed, every day. >> schifrin: but, senior u.s.

officials accuse china of using those exports for coercion. a recent article in "global times," a chinese newspaper that reflects government thinking, said china should consider netherlands, becauimproved the ties with taiwan.>> hen you see other countries stop exporting critical materials like.p.e. for whatever reason, it shows that the u.s. suldn't be reliant on overseas production and shipping of critical material like masks and gowns d gloves >> schifrin: american companies like 3m and honeywell efed up production in the u.s. in january. the trump administration has encouraged that move, day president trump visited honeywell's new plant in arizona. but it will take months, even manufacturers want to maintain their china supply chain, says ott whitaker the c.e.o. of a medical manufacturers trade

association. >> i think there is likely going to be a shift to some degree as well to more u.s. manufacturing. but i think the reality is, you still have to recognize that global supply chain exists today. you're doing both. >> schifrin: fema says that since late march, the u.s. has imported from china more than 163 million masks, gloves, gowns, thermometers, andsh lds. gloves-- have been imported from all over the world. senior trump administration officials describe the air- bridge of suppliesccs a massive s. but, obama administration officials say it shouldn't have been necessary. >> we realized the systems would collapse. >>chifrin: in 2015 and 201 christopher kirchhoff served on the white house ebola task foe, and led the obama administration's "lessons learned" study, that predicted today's p.e. shortage-- and a way to prevent it. >> we didn't make a major investment in p.p.e. that weew e needed. had our testing and surveillance systems worked as it should have in the first place, we ner

would have ended up in a situation where we're this sort. of p.p >> schifrin: today's increased manufacturing should lead to less u.s. dependence on foreign imports. but even today, front line workers are paying the price for the shortage. for the pbs newshour, i'm nick schifrin. >> woodruff: in the best of times, mental health and iness often are under-funded and under-treated in the americanth heare system. those concerns are especially extended period of self-is isolation, quarantines and utdowns. experts say a surge of need is building more widely and is only going to grow in the weeks and months to come. w those issues at people amna nawaz explores some of

need to know. >> naz: the layoffs, the financial pressure, the care- giving, are taking a toll on people across the country. numbers are hard to come by, but a recent survey by the kaiser family foundation found that 56% people said worry or stress tied to these outbreaks have led to at least one negative effect on their well- being. including sleeping troubles, eating, and alcohouse. we turn now to two experts. dr. joshua gordon is the director of the national institute of mental health at n.i.h. and, former congressman patrick kennedy is the founder of the kennedy forum, which focus on these issues. he's also a leader of the national action alliance for suicide prevention. bentleman, welcome to you both, and thank you fog here. patrick kennedy, i want the start with you, because you have warned of what you have called a coming epidemic of suicide and overdose stemming from thisvi 19 pandemic. what have you seen so far at leads you to that conclusion? >> well, fist, we had an underlying epidemic to begin with, a record levels of

increase in suicide d rdose and as you just mentioned, covid-19 is going to exacerbate exponentially the amount of suicide and overdose. you know that because the science from dr. gordon, research shows that with unemployment and the dislocation that it's caused forwe unemploymentee suicide go up. and with this degree of unemployment, it only stands to reason that we'r going tsee enormous suicide rates, and so our job nok is to mae sure that what happened to covid-19, where we knew it was coming but diwe 't really quite do what we needed to do to prepare for it, that that doesn'tp hapen again with respect to the coming epidemic and tsunami of overdose and suicide. >> nawaz: dr. gordon, talk to

me about what you think we will be seeing. millions of americans wiprepandemic struggledh mental health and mental illness. you're talking about a time ofet increased anand isolation. what do you think is ahead? >> we can anticipate over the w comieks and months that those of us who had preexisting mental illnesses may see exacerbations of their conditions, and those of us who have been in relativelgood mental health may see the onset of new mental illnesses. we have to prepare for that, and we also have to do what we can to prevent that. >> nawaz: whatt abeople who happen to be in support or seeking treatment for substance abuse or mental illness. how does this time comeicate thosorts? >> i would say it. cocates it tremendously. we need to figure out ho best to be able to deliver mental health care under circumstances such as social distancing that we are currently engaged in. fortunately much of the mental health community has be to

make the shift from person to person visits to telehealth and digital health, but we need to more than that. not everyone can use these technologies. not evyone has access to high-speed internet cell phones. so we need to ensure that our community mental health centers and other healthcare providers are prepared with psonal protective equipment and needs of ealnsuring sodistancing waiting rooms, et cetera, so we can open up to everyone who needs help. i nawaz: patrick kennedy think it's fair to say our existing mental health infrastructure has long be underresourced andnderfunded, especially in rural areas, especially in comunities of colors. when you look at the responses you've seen so from the admistration, from congress, what has been done to bolster any of that? >> well, as they take the taly of the dollars that are flowing from whington today to help shore up our healthcare system and ourre economy, w talking

trillions of dollars. anit's a real sign of the continued perstence, stigma against mental illness and addiction that a small, small, infitesimal fraction of tho dollars have gone to mental health and addiction. i think big change, the parigm shift we orr going to have with covid-19 is that since ev is going to be affected by some kind of mental healthsystem, as dr. gordon said, i think that now mental health won't be something of us versus them, oh they're the onat need mental health. i think after covid-19 it's >> nawaz: to follow up on that, what would it take. how much money, what kind ofd effort, you think we have the resources to do that? >> i believe we cousld eay put some dollar numbers to change such as we achieved the vision,

of president kennedy when we coined the community mental health act. we need new beds an more beds in psychiatric hospitals, but what we really need is get a much better prevention strategy. policy of the future.ntal hea and i think that's affordable when y look at theu cost of s >> nawaz: i wanted to ask you, dr. gordon, what's bdone and seen and done by the "frontline" worrs. what are the effects down to line? >> i think the mental healtho burdenour first responders and on our healthcare workers groceryed on our workers and our delivery personnel is tremendous. first, many of them are too busy to seek the help and to maintain their mental well-being. a lot hospitals and healthcare organizations are reaching out toheir workerser and ofg them discussion groups and support, et cetera, but they just don't have the ntme to take advathe second thio whom. areabofout is t those

al hit but don't have those resources, the warehouse workers, the grocery chains, thy delieople. these are folks who are out there every day facing the covid paemic, not from the perspective of trying to help peope, you know, deal with medical consequences, but tryg and they're taking risks everys. day. >> woodruff: you kw, patrick kennedy, you have been very open talking about your and your family's own struggles with substance abe and with mental illness. you sought help. i would like you now if you don't mind to speak to thef millionsericans who might be similarly struggling out there. what is it you can say to them right now. >> well, that we need each other and that we're important to our family and our friends, andat when it doesn't seem that way, often because of our disease, i our diseaone that pushes people ay and makes them angry u wiand set with us, our

disease, you know, jeopardizes our jobs and our relationships with the people we love. it's a terrible disease. the symptoms are awful and those symptoms create anger and shame towwhard peoplo have these illnesses, and dr. gordon can tell you these are physical depression, anxiety, of alcoholism and addiction. when you esent with these that anyone want help.someone it's kind of counterintuitivo that when pple who need the help the most are the ones thaot least want to help, because the symptoms are so awful in terms of interpersonal connection. all i would say the people is there's great help in peer support. there's also great lp in the medical system. spiritual component, which i think is just really a love and

connection. and wherever you can find that connection, that's just sov important to and pecially in turbulent times like we're living in.dr >> wf: >> nawaz: dr. gordon, we want to give pple someplace they can turn if they need help. where can people turn to right now if neede >> there e twoqj lines that people should be aware of, the substance abuse and mental health services addinistration has asaster distress line. and the suicide prevention organization has a national hot line. please use those resources.'r thavailable. >> nawaz: thank you both. dr. joshua gordon of thes national intitute of mental health and patrick kennedy of thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: new data released

today shows that britain now has the worst covid-19 toll in europe: at least 32,000 dead. that's second worst in the world, after the united states. amid the crisis, health authorities there are probing why people of color are being disproportionately id, and dying in greater numbers than whites. special correspondt malcolm brabant visited a community with one of the highest death rates in britain, and he has this intimate portrait of how tragedy struck one family. ( mourning ) >> reporter: rukshi lee has said goodbye to her husband of 14 years. dave lee was a 62-year-old martial ts instructor with aut formidable repion. just weeks before his death, lee was sparring with men half

his age. >>tor someone who was so fi and healthy, to be a victim of thto disease, it was shockin me. even when he first went in, i thought,t least in the initial stages, i thought he'd recover. there was no reason or no underlying health ndition. >> reporter: befe the funeral, son aidan and the family opened their hearts to show theth humanity behinfaceless statistics of death. >> just to give you some context: at the start, therend was only himne other person in the i.t.u. ward. and towards the end, a week before he passed, there was 21. and at that point, they said n more visitors. so from that point ul he passed, i couldn't see him. >> reporter: besides being a personal tragedy for family and friends, lee's death adds to the growing list of fatalities amongst british thople of color.

e's widespread concern that ethnic minorities have a higher mortality rate than whites. 35% of all britons criticallyid ill with c9 are either black or asian, whereas those people just comprise 10% of the overall population. the british health authorities have launched an investigationin toout why those numbers are so disproportionately high. the most at-risk category appear to be people who have caribbean roots. >> you are just as likely to get this thing and indeed the die from it if you are an indian hospital surgeon as if you are a hospitalorter. >> reporter: veran racial equality advocate trevor phillips is a lead member of the inquiry team. is inequality a factor? >> caribbean are older to an average, s think age is part of it. the other thi we think is probably very significant ispa occuon. the groups who work in

customer-facing occupations, like people who work on the opublic transport system r retail, are probably more vulnerable. >> reporter: slough, a town of 160,000 people, has britain's fourth-highest rate covid-19 infections. many of its minorities live in crowded accommodation and work in fnt line services. councillor akram says they were slow to embrace social distancing. >> you've got over a hundred languages that are spoken in this town alone. so slough would be particularly vulnerable to that, i

>> the lee family still doesn't know how he was infected. they opened their home to show the humanity behind the faceless statistic of death. eldest son ryan only managed to talk to his father on phone. >> once or twice, just before he had lost his voice because of the virus-- yeah,before that. it was a very brief conversation. it sounded like things were moving fast on the ground, in the hospital, so it was a very, very brief chat, unfortunately. >> reporter: were you able to say goodbye? >> no. i seriously thought he'd make it out, so it didn't cross my mind to say such a thing. >> reporter: by the time aidan goodbye, it was too late,ay >> he was already cold to touch. but i spent some time there, trying to make the most of seeing him o last time. and i guess that, one thing that

lowed me to have some form of peace was that he was restful, he looked calm, he looked ine ped he didn't look as in distress as he was before, when i used to see him, when he wasan intubateon the ventilator. >> reporter: rukshi and dave married in sri lanka. this was his second marriage. how do you want people to remember dave? >> he's a good husband to me. he looks after me so well. and he loved the lord. those are the memories i will have. and the last memory i want to keep is that he said bye to me in the hospital. that's the only memory i have, sir. >> reporter: as a kick-boxing trainer, he propelled some to national and world tits, saved others from a life of crime, and neighborhood.ng women in his >> for me, it was about building my resilience and really being confident, as a woman.

glass ceilings, talked about reaching for the stars. and that was his principle, i think generally in life. he always made us believe that actually anything was possible, >>eporter: dave lee believ in giving back, and was a pastor in an evangelical church, th kingdom come temple. here, he was preaching about the importance of keeping promises. y>> as parents, we make m promises to our children. but when we break them, they adult-- not just their parents-- every adult is the same. they will never keep theirpr ises. but god is different. hallelujah. (♪ "amazing grace" ♪) >> i really love you for the rest of my life, i promise you. i will live for yoe i give you. with all your memories, i will live.

>> reporter: dave lee, born sri lanka december 1958, died wexham park hospital april 2020. one british life. among 32,000, and rising. for the pbs newshour, i'm malcolm brabant in slough. >> woodruff: in this difficult time, millions of americans are finding themselves stuck at as jeffrey brown reports, many have turned to new hobbies and do-it-yourself projects to pass the time and redirect their energy. this story is part of our ongoing arts and cultu series, "canvas." >> brown: it's not your normal workout space.on by one, all that was familiar in zach skidmore'swa worlsuddenly out of reach: furloughed from his job, unable

to see his friends and extended family. >> i have a couple nephews, and a niece, really little. and, i love them. i can't spend time with themt riw. >> brown: the gym, where he spentuch of his free time, was closed. att, skidmore did somethin surprised no one more than himself: he built his own. >> i just kind of got an idea that i could at least make a bench. so i grabbed the chainsaw. and i actually never made anything with a chai daw before. sos were nine hours, and a couple days i actually was working from when the n came up until the sun ce down. >> brown: he used big slabs of timber as weights, designed his own pulley system, constructed a treadmill from small rolling logs. good for his physical health. better, perhaps, for his psyche. >> i had expected myself to fail in making this gym. but i tried anyway, because iti had the me and it took my mind off of things. >> brown: new emotions. new experiences.

people everywhere are struggling to cope. ir we just fished the th and final season of "star trek." >> brown: watching old tv. >> to ldly go where everyone has clearly gone before. >> brown: sometimes through new hobbies, do-it-yourself projects, a whole variety of activities that, often, they've never before considered. >> when you are confined,le there' environmental stimulation to keep the mind legaged. there' to do, unless you your situation.ve responses to >> brown: astronauts in space. rearchers spending long periods at the south pole. lawrce palinkas, a medical anthropologist and professor at the univerty of southern california, studies the impact of extreme isotion. we may not be at those extremes, he says, but the way people fill their time now, taking on something new, can be similar.

south pole, for example, thee crew decided to produce their own science fiction movie, their own variation of t classic sci-fi thing, where they were chasing aliens. many of these projects and activities, which are designed t to make use e, that they feel somewhat obligated to make use of because it's no available, can produce a great de of positive results. >> brown: positive results, from negative emotions, as with chicago teenagers krishita dutta and lauren tapper. >> i think that it started out with ufeeling sort of overwhelmed with everything. we were just in shock, and we dn't know how-- what to turn that into. >> and i also felt a bit cheated, just because we'd always learned to leave it up to the adults, i guess, to deal withhis and make sure this never happened. >> brown: they also realized there was a whole world of teens

who felt as they did, krishita and lauren learned to code. an by the end of march launched "covid-tv," a website where young people around the world cashare their quarantine experiences. >> it's reallyust an exciting and uniting experience, to know that someone in india is experiencing the samexact thing as me. >> brown: of course, sometimes "d.i.y." is less gloore living room putt-putt.bi 62-yea underwood of fishers, indiana found himself at home and utterly bored. >> when i had the carpet shampooer out and i was shampooing in the dining room and it dawned on me that i've just done that about a week ago, that's when i realized i nsoded thing else to do. >> brown: an avid golfer, he resolved to build his ownco nine-hole se, made of old sippy-cups, th winds around his living room, tucks against a piano bench and a cat scratch d. >> now 7, 8 and 9 could be the

>> brown: he even studied the work of famed designer pete dye, the man behind some of the world's celebrated golf courses. >> i'm sort of the pine dye of or golf courses now, i think. >> brown: all over the place, pe painting, photography, learning to knit. or fly a drone. it's a great way to cope. but lawrence palinkas also reminds us not to be too hard on ourselves in these anxious times. he points again to researchers in long-term isolation in antarctica. >> people would come down to stations like the south pole with the expectation that they were going to master a newng ge or study the principles of biomechanics or some other complex subject. and after a couple of weeks, they lost interest and energy. and we would frequently counsel them not to feel guilty about it, because it was a natural process that, given the stress that is placed on us by

isolation and confinement, wee ing to feel fatigued over time. we are going to feel less motivated. >> brown: in other words, try something you've never had time to do. but also: relax and be kind to for the pbs newshoi'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and now, your turn. and tonit, online, we a new original podcast seriesd," that looks at all of the ways the coronavirus pandemic is changing our communities, our jobs and life as we know it. in our latest episode, hosd by william brangham, we hear from frontline workers who have been handling outbreaks in more rural parts of the country, where hospitals were already the crisis hit.tay open before you can listen on our website, r,that's www.pbs.org/newshr you can subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. and that is the newshour for

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