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of these institutions:support >> this program was made possible by the corporation ford public bsting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: there are new warnings tonight from thc nation's pubalth leaders. the fighagainst covid-19 is r from over, and reopening too quickly could bring it roaring back. the warnings dominat this day, as u.s. coronavirus deaths passed 82,000. amna nawaz begins our coverage.t >> nawaz: on c hill, a sobering message on the >> the number is likely higher. i don't know exactly what percent higher, but almost certainly it's higher. >> nawaz: and a blunt assessment national response so far: >> do we have the coronavirus

contained?>> f you think that we have it completely under control-- we don't. >> nawaz: dr. anthony fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, appeared virtually before a senate committee today, the first such hearing since the pandemic began. amid a national debate over reopening, a stark warning to state leaders: >> there is a real risk that you will tgger an outbreak at you may not be able to control, which in fact, paradoxically, will set you back, not only leading to some ffering and death that could be avoided, but could even set you back on the t ad trying to onomic recovery. >> nawaz: fauci was joined on the panel by dr. robert redfield, direor of the centers for disease control and prevention; dr. steven hahn, commissioner of the food and drug administration; and admiral brett giroir, assistant secretary of health at the department of health and human services. fauci, redfield, and hahn are all self-quarantining, after hicontact with an infected house staffer. the hearing itself was aha

logisticalenge for senators, many of whom are working remotely. >> in a one-time exception, some senators-- includg e chairman-- are participating by video conference. >> nawaz: in a senate first, committee chair lamar alexander conducted e hearing from home, in selquarantine, after a staff member tested positive for the virus. the hearing room remained mostly empty. senators inside the room sat six feet apart, and most wore masks, including makeshift ones, like virginia senator tim kaine. the questions, at times, reflected the nation's political vide. senator chris murphy, democrat from connecticut, slammed the white house response, citing reports they shelved c.d.c. guidance on re-opening.th >> why didn' plan get released?at >> we have gen a series of guidances, as you know, and this outbreak response has evolved.c from a cto an all-over government response. >> nawaz: washington senator patty murrey pushed admiralor

giroirore national testing >> nawaz: while isere was bipa concern about a lack of testing so far, as from utah senator mitt romney: >> by march 6, the u.s. std completed ,000 tests, whereas south korea had conducted more than 140,000 tests. tefind our testing record >>thing to celebhatsoever. az echoed president trump's concern abourmation-sharing from china. >> i'm incredibly concerned about the cover-up and misinformation coming from china, and their efforts to suppress life-saving information at the outset of this outbreak. >> there were discussions with the u.s. personnel engaging with chinese c.d.c. early-- i think c.d.c. did-- as early as january 2, and myself january 3, with the counterpart to discuss this. so at a scientific level, we had very good interactions. of kentucky called into question the warnings around reopening. >> i think we need to have a little bit of humilityn our

belief that we know what's bt for the economy. and as much as i respect you, dr. fauci, i don't think you're the end-all. there are people on the other side saying ere is not going to be a surge and we can reopen the economy. >> i am careful and humble in knowing i don't know everything about this disease, and that's why i am reserved in makingbr d predictions. >> nawaz: meanwhile, at the white house-- where vicet presidnce was seen arriving earlier today wearing a mask-- president tclmp held a ed-door meeting with republican senators. as the number of u.sinfectionsnu and deaths con to rise, a new poll from pew research suggests where the public is looking for answs. a majority of americans, over 60%, say it primarily the federal government's responsibility to make sure there's sufficient tting, before states can safely reopen. still a vocal minority continues clamor for restricto be

lifted, faster. protestors in raleigh, north carolina today demanded the governor accelerate plans to .reopen the state's econo in texas, where restrictions are already easing, the state today required all nursing home residents and works be tested to slow the virus' spread. in california. governor gaven newsome today iled new state guideline for reopening, noting local governments could remain more strict if needed. stay-at-home advisoryid striction could continue through july. los angeles county official said stay-at-home restrictions could extend through jy. back on capitol hill, lawmakers working to mitigate the economic meltdown forged on with plansot for r relief package. house speaker nancy pelosi pushed for another masve spending effort. we must think big for the people now, because if we don't, erow it will cost more in lives and livelihood l not acting is the most expensive course. >> nawaz: sete majority leader mitch mcconnell pushed back. >> we can't spend enough money to prop this economy up forever people need tole to begin

to be productive again. nawaz: as the rest of the country awaits much-needed helpa here in thon's capitol, the debate over how to hel hoges on. for the pbs news, i'm amna nawaz. >>oodrf: wnow rn to two key members fromoday's hearing. first up, republican sator bill cassidy, of louisiana. he is one of two medical docrs on the health, education, labor and pensions committee. senator cassidy, thank you so much for talking with us. did you come away from todheay's ing more or less confident in the administration's handling of this pandemic? >> i came away more confident. my specific questions, for example, were that we have a whole group of folks callede children who being impacted far more than anyone else relative to their risk of having symptoms from coronavirus infection. dr. fauci acknowledd that was an issue. he mentioned, though, he had not

worked out the tension. i accept there's uncertainty. i just want people thinking about the problems, how do we get kids back too school,ers and dads able to go to work with theidren safely cared for. as long as they're working toward a solution, i don't owmand a solution right. >> woodruff: well, we did hear about the dynamic that they are seeing among some children right now. it's clear tha hs somethi and other scientists are focused on. doeshat give you pase about when schools should be open? >> it does give me pause. the question i asked him, what is the risk-benefit ratio forw ildren are being treated. at that critical point when someone is five, their brain is exploding. that's when they need to be in school. it's in the like their brain continues to learn like that ery year of their li noth whet arly learn. there is a huge opportunity. e concerns about kawasaki disease, it is real, but the

bijuer concern in terms oft sheer numbers, millions, are the children who are missing out educationally, andtially other means from everything that school offers. >> woodruff: senator, let meu also ask ybout testing. president trump said yesterday, anybody who wants a test should bt isne, a right now. you said earlier today you had questions about testing availability. what do you believe right now? >> i think that what's most important is not the sheer using the test wisely.hat 're i just got off the phone withch thcellor of the university of nebraska medical center. and so when they have 200 people working, they will pool thele sa they will check, okay, all 200 of them are checked at oncte. if comes out positive, then they go to 100/100, and then 50/50/50 until they get one person who has it. it may only take five tests tohe findne person, but you've

found one out of 200, so thenu overaler isn't important. it's the strategy by which we implement. himself in the midle of the by desert is not important. checking a child going to schooh who infect others, very important. that's where we should focus our efrts. >> woodruff: bottom line, is it accurate to say anybody who wants a test now can ge one? >> well, i'm not sure what we mean by a test. i suspect most people what want a swab up their nose it, but if you want to see et gif ye been preheviously infected, is a shortage of those and also a shortage of antigenests, but they are increasing in their volume. >> woodruff: i think we heard there's a long way to go in tes of testing, but louisiana, your home state is preparing to reopen on friday even though stewide you have not reached wh was a c.d.c. goal ogf hav 14 straight days of declining cases.

are you ncerned that it's too early? >> new york i think if you look at a state, you may have a concern, but what you really need the look at is regions o the state. so it's easier to explain with texas. i looked a coplweeks ago at where the infection was in texas. a lot in harris county, housto there was none south of san grtoanted very few people live there, but the point being, a state is a set of rgions, a set of smaller regions and then a set of commuties and microcommunities. i'm more concerned what's happening in aco micunity, which could spill out, than i am at the state as a whole. if we have adequate testing which is able toero inn those places with more infections, that's more important than atatewide lockdown in which this region is doing well and folks rightly wonder why tey can't go se their barber. >> woodruff: but if the o governthe state says, "we are opening up," what's to stopn hose communities where cases are increasing from going

ahead and opening up and letting businesses go back to something closer to where they were? >> i go back to you have to have strategy on testing. if you open up and say fare thee well, that's not good. but if you have strategy and yor follow up your cases are coming up, and you go to those areas where you have a lot of people at risk if they get infected or a lot of people at where you focus your testing. that's how you can simultaneously open up your it has to be about a strategy for testing. sei ngmbaerep oftyiists necessarily. but a strategy. that's what we need. >> woodruff: finally, senator, a question about senator randpa 's comment that dr. fauci, that he is not the end all, and other criticisms we're hearing. i heard one today from a former advisor to president trump,ja n miller. he said, "anthony fauci is good

at moving the goalpost. he's the undisputed king of moving accountability away from himself." is that your view? highest respect for anthony fauci. period. end of sto do sometimes facts on the ground change and perceptions change? absolutely. fauci said today that he was not the end all. so he's bringing a certain humility to it. i have had my differences with uci. but what i'm after here is not a definite answer, because facts change, i'm after people pursuing the truth.uf >> woo senator bill cassidy of louisiana, we thank you very much. >> thank you.dr >> wf: and for a democrat's take, we turn to the committee's ranking member, senator patty murray. she joins us from washington state, one of the first areas thy est hit by the coronavirus. inks t mtoo vre onfident after today's hearing of the administration's handling of this pandemiu? are

>> no, i'm not, and here's why h e been hearing from this administration forger. we're go have 100 tests by friday, a million tests. most of the time, in fact all of the time they dn't reach it. ustwwhda se'eninarew g yhoypen,j two weeks from now, but next september, a year from now, they are not ving us that number. we need to know how many tesd, we nhat the capacity is, what the supply chain is, so we can build up to that and make sure we have it. they're not transparent about that. and they're not rl about it. >> woodruff: so when the admiral, the assistant secretary at h.h.s. was saying in the hearing that there wld be 40 to 50 million tes being done in the month pof setember, are you saying that doesn't sound like enough? goal is, but i will also tell you that i have heard them throw tiose numbers out time anme and time again nowing since the middle ofd february, never

having reached them. so the answer that you really need is how many will we need in september, and how are you going to produce them? and that's what we don't se no transparency into that. >> woodruff: we heard fromve. senator cassidy just now. he sai "i'm more concerned about testing protocols than i am about the sheer number ofat ? >> well, i think it's close. i think we need the knowledge. what testing is it really gives yoe the knowledge to make decision you need if you're just saw if it'sy and you want to your elderly mother or whetherar yoa business and you need it to know it's okay to open your doors, your employees are safe, if you're a school, are your employees, are your kids free of the virus so they don't give it to anybody else? that's what testing is important. it's knowledge.h and that is it's so critical in a pandemic where w do not

have a vaccine and we do not have a cure for this very aggressive virus. it's the tool we need. >> woodruff: senator, i don't want to interrupt, but i want to ask you about k-12 schools. a lot of people are concerned about whether schools are going to be open in sateor cpassidy getting especiallyren fromout low-income families back to school in the fall. he's more concerned about that than he is at this point aboutew this inflammatory disease that's been identified among a small number of chiren. >> well, i don't think that that'she right way the look a it. i think we obviously all want kids back in school, every single parent does. anthe answer to at rally is we don't know yet, because this is a new virus, and it has been different and we're learning every singth kay. i thin question we should all be asking is how do we make sure our ks get an education next year if this pandemic is

raging at any time or the whole year and make sure they get an e 're making. how do we plan for that? and there is no plan for that. there is no help from c.d.c. who should be issuing guidelines or the department of education, knowing that we are in this, a wh their best recommendations and how do we get people ready for whate don't know in the fall, either to have kids back at school safely or to be ale to educate them if we can't have them backo >>uff: snator, what's your best understanding of when a vaccine may reistically be available? >> well, i'm not an expert, but i listen to thtse expand i have watched this for a long hope is that we will have a vaccine in the next year. but there's a lot of wish to s safe, that there it'ctive, araten't any by-thprod that that are more dangerous, and how

do we ramp it up. what is it going the take? do we have the shots, do we have the manufacturing capppenn ail e 10 we have to know whate ne to do between new and then. and that is thege knowl that's why i talk about testing. if you have it, you stay hoe. if you know your employees are sick, they are not at work, what's the precautions we need the take, what's the protocol that works so that it's not passed around, and how do we make those tough decisions that inevitably we're going to be faced with in thcoming year and maybe longer. >> woodruff: ygo mentioned g back to work. the governor of your state, governor inslee of washington state, has extended the stay-at-home order at least until the end of this moth of may. and yet you have something like what, 800,000 folks in washington state who have filed unemoyment claims. what do you say to people who

are worried about their livelihood who are saying, yes, i know, we all have to bere l, but i don't know what kind of life i'm going to have if this goes on much longer. >> what i say to those people is heat it's exactly why t federal government needs to step in right now and provide the supported for people so they don't have to make that horrific choice of being able to put food on their table or be able to pay their rent or be able torv e. that's what our role s to be right now. because the other coices to send people out in dangerous situations and impact their lihealth and perhaps theife. it's an impossiblquestion -- economy rsus health -- but therare things we can do it is not so impossible. that's wgot the federal rnment needs to be doing. >> woodruff: senator patty murray, ranking member, democrat, on the senate health committee. thank you so much. >> thank you.

>> woodruff: in the day's other news, the u.s. sreme court heard two cases on whether president trump can ke his tax returns and financial records private. congressional committees and district attorney in new york have subpoenaed the documents. the day's arguments were made over the phone, and we'll have the news summary.oser look after in the presidential campaign, the presumptive demoatic nominee, joe biden, denounced president trump's claims that anyone can get tested for covid- 19. in an interview, the former vice president charged that mr. trep continues to show what called "needless complacency." >> he knew about this crisis all the way back in nuary and february. he's been incompetent, the way he responded. we have 80,000 deaths.

we have more deaths, more of the virus, than any nation in the world. what's the story here? mean, come on. this is just fantasy land, what trre-ecteffo rdout.eanwle, th uf w m nedrarly $62 million. the biden campthgn raised more $60 million. in moscow, dmitry peskov, the spokesman for russian president vladimir putin, has be hospitalized with the coronavirus. he is the latest senior kremlin figure to be infected. meanwhile, france began reopening schools today, with physical distancing and limits on classize. and in india, trains resumed limited service ashe government continued easing a lockdown. itleas been a day of unspeak violence in afghanistan.rm gunmen s a maternity hospital in kabul, and killed 16 people, including new mothers and their babies. afghan security forces and nurses alike carried newborns out of the hospital. inside, blood stained the floor

under baby beds, and a doctor told of hiding out from the attackers. >> ( translated ): when the firing started we went to the safe room. there were nine of us inside the safe room, for four hours. the attacker came at the back of the safe room door and fired, but he couldn't enter the room. alr colleagues were unhu there, but there were casualties amongst the patients inside the wards. >> woodruff: in eastern afghanistan, a suicide bomber killed at least 24 people in nangarhar province at a police commander's funeral. back in this country, the georgia state attorney general asked for an investigaecon of how prors handled the wmaud arbery case. he was killed byte father and son in february. they were charged withr last week, when video of the inandent emerged. sl wall street, stocks aronpes w too soon. the dow jones industrial average lost 457 points to close at 23,764. the nasdaq fell 189 points, and

the s&p 500 slipped 60. r:ill to come on the newsh the supreme courhears two arguments over access to lesident trump's financia records. inside therrest of two american vetans in an attempted coup in venezuela. a clearer picture emof the disproportionate impact of covid-19 on communities of color. and, much more. >> woodruff: the supreme court heard arguments today inpr ident trump's legal battle to keep his personal financialco s secret. as jn yang reports, the justices' decision could have

epofound implications for the government powers.ation of >> yang: arguing befe nation's highest court to try to keep president trump's financial records private, mr. trump's personal attorney made a broad claim: a sitting president is immune c from aminal process, even a grand jury subpoena. justice ruth bader ginsburg said that would put a presiw.nt above the >> is the grand jury right to every man's evidence exclusive of the president? >> this court has long recognized that the president is not to be treated as an ordinary citizen. he has responsibilities. he is, himself, branch of government. he is the only individual thatis branch of government in our federal system. >> yang: today's conference-ll oral arguments-- which ran longer than scheduled-- centered on subpoenas from congress, and a new york city grand jury tomr trump's accounting firm and banks that finance trump organization businesses for

tax returns and other financial records. fewel dal hassmentcourt allo civil suit against president bill clinton to go forward while he was in office, the justices have never ruled on a criminal investigation. today, justices pressed the president's atrney why this was different. >> how is this more burdensome, though, than what took place in clinton versus j tes? >> yan houseays its subpoenas are for a legislative purpose.us but, severalces-- including chief justice john roberts and samuel alito-- asked whether that justification was too sweeping. ve>> you were not able to he chief justice even one example otof a subpoena that woulde pertinent to some conceivable legislative purpose, were you? >> as i said, your honor, that's correct, because this court itself has said congress's power to legislate is extremoad. >> yang: justice stephen breyer worried about the effect on

future presidents. >> what i hold today will also apply to a future senator mccarthy aing a future franklin roosevelt or harry truman exactly the same questions. that bothers me. >> yang: the immediate effect of the court's decision will be on whether financial records that democrats have long wanted, and mr. trump has long fought sclosing, will be turned over. the house oversight committee made its demand after hearing last year from former trump mr. trump inflated his totalasss purposes, such as trying to be stedmo theeaest people in "forbes," and deflated his sets to reduce his real estate taxes. >> yang: the house financial services and intelligence committees want trump records to examine possible money laundering in property deals,s and whether loom overseas have made the president

vulnerable to foreign influence. of particular interest to the only major financialbank, institution consistently lending to trump business. "new york times" editor david enrich is author of "dark towers," which focuses on mr. trump's ties with the bank. >> deutsche bank is holdinaya dizzying af financial information on the president. it has information on money ming in and out of his bank accounts, all the information that trump used when he was applying for loans or opening bank accounts. and on top of that, it has a lot of its own records about its employees' concerns as they were woing on the trump relationship. >> yang: manhattan district attorney cyrus vance wants the president's tax records as part of a probe into "hush money" payments he made to two women with whom he allegedly had sexual relationships. but, the court's ruling could have a longer-term effect on the constitutional balance of power between congress and the president. marcia coyle of "the national law journal": >>f-his is a true separation powers dispute, which generally

had been worked out between the branches over the decades. t this one-- in the face of p boties really hewing to their old positions, is now before the u.s. supreme court. he yang: and there could be consequences forourt itself. >> there's a very real possibility that the general public mig view this decision n-4political, if i i 5 vofa p that's why i also think john roberts very much is a critical player here, and how he can try to find a resolution to this case that will be hopefully bipartisan of sorts. >> yang: a decision ll likely come by june, just in time for the presidential campaign. for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang.

>> woodruff: the trump administration has made no secret of its desire to depo venezuela's president nicholas maduro, as his country spirals further into economic and humanitarian catastrophe. but, earlier this month, an operation to invade and kidnap maduro shocked everyone, it seemed, but maduro himself. nick schifrin reports on a bizarre, botched invasion attempt, and the implications for a country in collapse. >> schifrin: the first sign the secret mission wasn't e secret? nezuelan military helicopter. as soon as operation gn came ashore, it ran aground. more than a dozen captured, eight killed and amg the detained? >> secure caracas. >> schifrin: two americans, paraded on venezuela tv. venezuelan president nicholas maduro showed off their u.s. passports, btrmed president p, and said the authorities knew about the plot all along. >> ( translated ): they came to venezuela. we named tm.

their little game was revealed. >> schifrin: the mastermind of is misadventure? jordan goudreau, whose promotional video shows him as atformer army green beret, c.e.o. of a prive security firm, and provider of security at a trump rally. during the raid, as his men were being captured, he posted a video with his venezuelan co-conspirator. >> at 1700 hours, a daring phibious raid was launched from the border of colombia deep into the heart of caracas. >> schifrin: and in a skype interview with a venezuelan news organization, goudreau bragged about how he'd been training for a year. >> are you familiar with alexander the great? the battle of galgamella, completely outnumbered. he struck deep into the heart of the enemy, and that's how he won. >> there was no u.s. government direct involvement in this operation. it we'd have been involved would have gone differently. >> schifrin: secretary of state peo denied the administration knew, as did venezuelaninterviewed by but the trump administration has waged a diplomatic coupaign to maduro, announcing criminal

charges and a $15 million rewara for hiure in march. >> maduro and his other defendants have betrayed the venezuelan people and corrupted venezuelan institutions. >> schifrin: and in february 2019 in miami, presirump urged venezuelans to rise up. let your people go. set your country free. now is the time for al venezuelan priots to act together as one united people. >> schifrin: the cenrpiece of the administration's campaign is juan guaido, whom dozens of countries call venezuela rightful president. as part of guaido's effort to overthw maduro, he turned to miami-based venezuelan consultant, j.j. rendon, who's usually focused on politics. when you talk about how juan guaido wanted you to use all options, or explore alopons, what did that mean? >> he specifically say all

options are all under and over the table. we're exploring-- and he's used the word "exploring," that is accurate-- every option. >> schifrin: rendon says he we have, according to our constitution, the mandate, not the right-- every venezuelan, invested or not in power, have the duty to do whatever in his power to recover a state of eem and democracy.ch >>rin: last year, rendon hired goudreau and agreed to this 42-page, $200 million agreement-- designed to be paid with maduro's money-- ton/ "capture/detmove nicolas maduro" with a "quick reaction force" of venezuelans. their operations had to minimize "accidental injury to civilians" and use forcsathat was "nec and proportional."f it said "use oall types of conventional weapons i qrmitted." but rendon said uickly grew skeptical, and cuties to godreau last october after paying goudreau'expenses. >> we back off.

and we didn't like the guy to keep talking to us any mome. there werered flags, too. i told him, look, if you have some expenses, i will pay myself. and i did. so we said okay, you have that $50,000, it's good for you? fine, bye. >> schifrin: guaido denied any personal knowledge, and shifted the blame to muro. >> ( translated ): we have nothing to do with any company, for obvious and evident reasons, but we have to make it very clear right now: nothg the usurper can say will change the reality and the situation that our country is going through. >> schifn: venezuela isfr sufferin debinatilg in a covid-19 outbreak. duro used arrested american luke denman... >> i was helping venezuelans b tak control. >> schifrin: ...and arian bjrry... >> what were thetives of the mission? >> i believe it was to obtain

maduro. >> schifrin: ...to shift the focus to condemning the trump administration. >> ( translated ): donald trump, mike pompeo, were directly behind this. it was a contract ordered by the statpartment as a covert operation against venezuela. >> schifn: goudreau launched the operation, even after colombia intercepted some of his weapons. he did not reply to pbs newshour requests for comment. the opposition and trump administration officials speculate maduro might have co-opted it. >> there was a push for some patriots to get slaughtered and killed, to stage a theater and victimize himself, in the middle of the worst moment country. ( cries ) sorry about that. >> schifrin: on monday, after 20 years in the venzeulan opposition, rendon resigned as an unpaid advisor to guaido.ly >> spiritulet's say, in myself, yes, i will love to go back in time, not talk to him, and not be related to this craziness, and the sacrifice of people like slaughter.

>> schifrin: the trump administration and the opposition are trying to ensure the operation isn't a setback. t, murusinita distraction, and his regime remains in power, despite the campaign to overthrow him. for the pbs newshour, i'm s niifrin. >> woodruff: we now return to co toll it's taking.mous eevenpa co o bhalo virus. nearly 30% of covid patients in the u.s., where raceas identified, are black. that, despite african americans making up only about 13% of the on how these disparities are playing out in communities on

the ground. >> there's just is huge weight that lays around my shoulders. >> alcindor: cieraates chamberlain is seeing up close the devastating impact of covid-19. e virus has torn through her family. >> my grandmother, my father, my cousin and my aunt, they're all hospitalized. >> alcindor: at hospitals across chico, theve all been on ventilators. >> i've never told my dad i lov much. and i don't think we've ever told each other that we love each other this much.nn honis lcmo>>urning a his ar:unt, minat after two weeks in the hospital, her kidneys and liver shut down. her family wasn't able to visit her. >> we don't know what the finalk saw her again.thhospal, we never never had a conversation with her again. 15>> alcindor: he now fearf

his family members may have the virus. >> i sll don't know the exact number. you know, a lot ofelatives weren't ableo get tests. it's one thing to sit and watch things on tv a say "that's-- that's sad. it's different when you're living it. >> alcindor: as the number o cases and deaths continues to mount, a clearer picture is forming of the disproportionate toll covid-19 is having on black people and communities of color. in new york city, the u.s. epicenter, blacks and hispanics are dying at roughly twice the rate of whites.bl in chicagoacks are dying at nearly three times the rate of whites. and in new mexico, nativeamericn despite being only 1 theof lation. >> the disparities that existed, that are being unearthed during covid, they existed before covid. >> alcindor: dr. andrew marshall is an emergency physician at beth israel deaconess medical >> there's a long history of

disadvantage in this country. when you think about accs to health care, when you think about access to healthy food,en ou think about job, securie things that many of us enjoy and we take for granted, they make it really hard for certain communities tot be hea. >> alcindor: experts point to long-standing social and racial inequities bates chamberlain's loved ones who ended up hospitalized suffee fromiseases that run i her familydiabetes or high blood pressure.am africaicans as a whole suffer disproportionately from those same chronic inesses, which can make covid-19 more deadly.ni blacks and his are also less likely to have health insurance. and, people of color in general are more likely to live dense cities than whites.they also hao high-quality food. at the same time, working from home isn't an option for many. home and quarantine themselves. that's great. i'm happy for them. you know?

i'm t ofs not.noenckt hay tt.ough o >> alcindor: ruby quintanilla works an amazon warehouse in chicago. a number of her co-workers have tested positive for the virus. for her, social distancing is a privilege she doesn't have. it's next to impossible sometimes, to be honest with you. to.really is, it's really hard the aisles inside the cells in the clusters are really small and tight-knit. you over-think absolutely everything. oou go wash your hands, come back out, you goat this water station and you're like, "do i really need that glass of water right now?" >> alcindor: quintanilla works from 8:15 p.m. to 4:45 a.m. so she can spend the day taki care of her parents. her mom has osteoporosis. her dad is anemic and has diabetes. >> he could work all day to give us the world. that's my father. t it's on. it's our turn to take care of, our turn to give the world. our turn to ensure that they're safe.

just like they didor us. but it's really hard right now, really are to do that wi. >> i think we were grossly unprepared. th alcindor: back in boston, dr. marshall saymessaging for the under-served-- especially in a time of crisis-- often falls short. >> we forget that their pockets in the city don't have as much means. we also forget that when we tell somebody to go home and self isolate, we take for granted that you can do that.av that youa room in your house where other people don't livewhere you can self isolate. >> alcindor: back in chicago, glenn harston sees his aunt's death squarely as a failure on the part of government. do you think your aunt's death was prevenutble? >> i absy think it was preventable. i think that there were some missed opportunities for leadership to really impress upon us that this is a seriousd disease at we needed to be mindful. he didn't take it very seriously. therefore, why should anybody else? i know that absolutely.

if i turn on the tv and i see the president of the united states wearing a mask, i'm absolutely going to tune in and, and think that something is-- is pretty serious.eanwhile, president trump has appointed ben housing and urban development, to lead a council focused on looking at how the virus is impacting communities of color. but lawmakers, including members of the conessional black caucus, have been pushing the administration tdo more. they say officials need to take immediate steps to address disparities and improve the way racial data is collected. >> we're angry and we're hurting. >> alcindor: for ciera bates chamberlain, life is still a daily all four of her family members were released from the hospital. but just this morning, her be rushed back. she believes her experience, anh countless others like it, must a serve ake-up call for the country. >> we can't continue just blaming black people for their thn deaths.

but it also fuelfire to that we have to address.hing and i also demand some type of equitable response. >> alcindor: for the pbs newsho, i'm yamiche alcindor. oo >>uff: one of the best ways to prevent spreading coronavirus is hand washing. but, in some places-- like flint, michigan-- that is not a simple task. flint-- which is majority african american and largely naor-- is still reeling from the 2014 water contaon crisis, and now it's grappling with a new public health emer john yang is back, speaking with the ctor who helped expose t water cris about how this pandemic is hitting the city. >> yang: judy, in flint, michigan, the conavirus pandemic isn't the only health problem the folks there are dealing with right now. it com on top of the ongoing issue of elevated lead levels in the drinng water, a problem

at marked its sixth anniversary recently. flint pediatrician dr. mona hanna-attisha was one of the earliest to sound the alm about the water problem. she joins us by skype from her home. dr. mona hanna-attisha, thanks so much for joining us. and i should note, one reason why you are at home and not seeing patients right now is- that you havu have recovered from coronavirus. how are you feeling now? >> knock on wood, i am feeling so much better. i still can't taste or smell,sc, tht buess of breath, those thin are all gone. >> yang: i was just looking at these statistics at the genesee health department's website. they say that 40% of the cases in genesee county-- which is ciere flint is-- are in th of flint, even though flint accounts for only about 25% ofpu the tion. why do you think that is? something to do he waterd have

crisis? >> that's really being throughout the country in terms of the disparities of who is getting most impacted by this crisis. we are also seeing very much in detroit, michigan's kind of one of the hardest-hit states and this pandemic outside of the detroit area. it's genesee county that has seen a significant number of cases and deaths, including our hospital security guard and many of our loved ones that we workil th on a basis. so why is this happening? why? why are we seeing these disparities? and absolutely, we cannot rule is in flinter cr and also in detroit. many families, and up to 5,000 families in flint could not even wash their hands. they did not have running water to wash their hands. and i mean, what is the most important thing to do to kille rus right now? look, we can actually kill the virus with soap and water, butat we can't do thn many places, including in flint. >> yang: when we were in flint, we met a young boy who had had developed rashes and blisters heom being bathed in the water .whtor

he doesn't waneal with the water. how do you deal place where you don't trust what's coming out of the tap, and yet, people are being told wash their hands? >> you know, it's-- it's very difficult.kn yo, we are just beginning to recover from our last public health crisis.th and then is an added public health crisis that isim straining veryed resources and exacerbating preexisting chronic disparities. last few years, in our recovery from the water crisis have been able to bume of the public health infrastructure to support families. for example, the flint registry is supported by the c.d.c., funded by congress, is exactlyed what we ight now. and it helps families get connected to nutrition, education, water, all these different, all these important things that we need right now. for example, just this week, the flint registry connect family who did not have running water to the services in the city that now can get em back connected. so in some respects, the hard

work that we have been doing in our recovery the last few years, the building of that disinvested public health infrastructure has enabled us to more quickly respond to this crisis and further support families.ha however,infrastructure, just like that public health infrastructure throughout our nation, needs more support and needs more funding. and foexample, that flint expire in a year. >> yang: are there other ways that the water crisis is sort of making the pandemic more complicated in flint? t's actually what keeps up at night. so, our previous public health crisis, the flood crisis, was an exposure of a neurot pin on top ofulation that had a lot of risk factors for health and development. so we potentially have a population of children who will have long-term health and education deficits. and now we have this pandemic

which creates significant gaps in education and nutrition and health care. our kids can'to to high ality child care anymore. they can't participate in literacy services. the home visiting programs, alln these that we have put into place to buffer, to mitigate the impact of the water crisis with the flood exposure are gone right now. another thing that we have to recognize with this pandemic is the mental health issues that are-- that are happening. people, especially in low income areas, they're stressed just like we're all stressed. they're anxious. they don't have the luxury of, r example, staying at home in big, spacious homes and doing remote work and getting paid. they're on the front lines. they are delivering our mail. they are working in our grocery stores. ey are driving our buses. they are keeping america running. >> yang: when we were in flint lastear, we found a lot of continued distrust of the government. the way the leadership isabout

handling the coronirus pandemic. how is that affecting people? >> there's been significant loss od trust of every level of government becauthe betrayal from this water crisis. kthey were essentially, yw, lied to by people whose job was to keep them safe and make surew that their wat safe to drink. th wasn't lost trust. you know, it was a-- had really been built on decades of lost trus because flint as a city just like many of our urban centers, many of our post manufacturing communities had suffered from disinvestment and neglect cism for quite some time. and then our water crisis happened, and now we are in the midst of this other pandemic where were oureaders also failed us. >> yang: dr. mona hanna-attisha from outside flint, michigan. thank you very much.

>> woouff: today is there probably has never been a more importnt time to stop and recognize this profession. betty ferrell of city of hope national medical cenalr in southernornia, has worked in nursing for more than in tonight's "brief but spectacular," she reminds us how nurses show up for us, and howwe an show up for them. >> across america, and around the world, nurses are delivering excellent care. is a nurse who is in that room holding the phone as a family member is saying goodbye to a patient that they can't even see. it's the nurse who will be in that room when the ventilator is withdrawn, and it is a nurse who will be bathing the body of that patient and calling thatamily to comfort them after the death. nurses are really the predominant workforce across all settings of care, for every populati impacted by this

disease. illness care that's focused on quality of life. i've been an oncology nurse my enti career. our project, elnec, is the end-of-life nursing education consortium, an intnational effort to try to provide this training for nurses to help them acquire these skills. t's nurses at the bedside 3:00 in the morning, when the patient asks the question, "am i going to die?" it's so importanfor nurses as the front lines in every setting of care to have d is knowledge ills and support. because the end of life, even in the midst of crisis, should be a sacred time. right now, nurses don't have time to stop and go through training. fortunately, our elnec project

has trained about 24,000 nurse across the country who are another key princi ouragues. elnec training is, how do we take care of the nurses?e thrses are so busy. they've just cared for a wonderful, loving, kind, amazing , andfather who just died. but, you know whve minutes from now, they're going to fill that bedith another patient. so there's no time to grieve. there's no time care for themselves. my daughter is a pulnary critical care physicia she is on the front lines d she is working in a covid i.c.u. and so, i'm afraid. i'm fearful for my daughter's but i'm also very proud of my daughter. i'm proud that my daughter has made a commitment to care for really sick people. i think everyone in the country is very well aware of the fact that one of the greatest tragedies of this curren pandemic is that mothers like me gve had to see our childr into their daily work without

protective gear. i hope that we take the time to think of, how can we support every first responder? whether i'm putting on my hat as mother, as grandmother, as a rse myself-- we first need to say, let's all celebrate what we have done. let's celebrate the good care, because at the end of the day, what we all have to say is, we showed up. you know, nurses, doctors, everyone has showed up for this pandemic, and it's our obligation now to see how we can better support them for the future, because they've donewo amazin. i'm betty ferrell and this is my "brief, but spectacular" take on showing up. >> woodruff: thank you to all the nurses out there.

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