captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> nawaz: good evening, i'm amna nawaz. on the newshour to the realities of resurgence-- as covid-19 cases continue to spike, officia are re-imposing restrictions and asking residents to act responsibly then, rollbacks-- some major policy changes from the trump administration you mig have missed. plus, inequality exposed-- the racial gap in covid-19 death rates reveals a health system that's long failed black americans. >> because of the ine of our you know, we're being treated differently than other people. covid-19 just vividly portrays st how that exists. >> nawaz: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

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>> desjardins: in georgia, a political collision, olife and death decisions, as the virus surges. overnight, republican governor brian kemp sied an order banning any public mask requirements. that, in direct conflict with several cities and towns, which have ordered masks be worn. today, atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms sa she is keeping her mask order in place. >> it's a simple thing to do it's an easy thing to do and we will push people to do ite despe disagreements we have. >> desjardins: this one day after president trump visited the state, praising kemp and reopening to a local tv station. >> you've reopened and you're getting close to 100% reopened and you've really kept the virus down which is a tribute to a lot of good, talented people.>> esjardins: in fact, the virus has grown in georgia with near record case totals yesterday. no indications the crisis is taking a deeper political toll on president trump.

mr. trump replaced his campaign manager brad parscale yesterday with a top advisorill stapien. the shake up comes as his campaign grapples with declining poll numbers. in the past week, separa polls put presumptive democratic nominee joe biden ahead of mr.um in four key battleground states: arizona, pennsylvania, florida, and north carolina, all states the president won in 2016.de this as nationmr. trump faces doubt on his top issue-- jobs, where his approval rating is down to just 36%. but on the white house lawnc today, econovisor larry kudlow pointed to wall street and expressed cautious optimism. >> pandemic is a temporary national disaster. the market is now up almost 45% from march lows. >> desjardins: democratic speaker of the house nancy pelosi called for republican senators to push for a larger national response usom the white >> this is such a massive dereliction of duty, people ar

dying we are saying to the senate join us and ask us to force the president to use action for good. openly boiling over from the is president's own party. " inshington post" op-ed, republican govnor of maryland larry hogan detailed what he called a "jarring" lack of response and even interference from president trump that left governors "hopeless" and states in danger. hogan wrote, "while other countries were racing ahead with well coordinated regimes, the trump administration bungled the effort."ho whe press secretary kayleigh mcenany rejected the criticism. >> this is revisionist history contrast where he praised the president. >> desjardins: all of this, as tithe upcoming republican al convention is in murky waters, too. the grand old pty announced it is scaling back; limiting

attendance to 2,500 for the first three days, and about 7,000 for the final day when president trumattends. that as covid-19 cases in host state florida surge. today, another grim record there, with the most daily covid-related deaths recorded. nedata show that nearly on third of all kids tested in the sunshine state have been positive for the virus. while there are hot spots, the prlem is growing nationwid coronavirus have iased inses of some 41 states acrs the u.s. for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins. >> nawaz: georgia governor brian kemp's order has put the issue of masks front and center in that state. with me now is kelly girtz.s hedemocrat and the mayor of athens, clarke county, georgia, which moved to requiret peopwear masks in public earlier this month. mayor girtz, welcome to the "newshour" and thanks for making the time. i want to ask yte about some ews we've just gotten about governor brian kemp and

the state attorney general suing the atlanta mayor keisha bottoms and the security council for their requirement for public mask wearing.ou what is reaction to that? >> amna, this has alleen so deeply frustrating. platform for health and safety for the local population. i have been in constant contact with mayor bottoms and other mayors throughout the state and, in lieu of action, on a stveewide basis, as ween in other republican-led states like alabama and w arkansa need to act as local boots on the ground who are keeping people in our community safe. we are going to continue with ou order in athens-clarke county as mayor bottoms dicated she would do and mayor davis in augusta and mayor johnson in savannah because we understand, as science has demonstrated in the last many months, it is simply safer to have mask on for those around you. the drop disbursement is less.

>> nawaz: even the head of orgia's restaurant association said it's confusing for people to have different rules in defense counties. you need one set of gliens. let businesses desite if they shouldequire masks. what do you say to that? >> it's been interesting because large and very small retailers said to me we like a mask order cause that setsa citywide or so we know from one block to another, one vendor to another, the public will have the same experience. we're also the flagship host for the university of georgia here in the state, and just a couple of weeks ago the university system indicated that every student, faculty member and staff member was going teo h to wear a mask in interior spaces at the university of georgia and all other beelike universities in the state. we want to beble to provide the same solid foundation on and

off campus here in athens. >> nawaz: mayor girtz, both werehospitals in athens full yesterday. you had to divert to other facilities. experts say you ar not yet at your peak. do you have what you need to meet the moment t and handle influx of patients? >> unfortunately, at don't have e need. the hospitals are very nimble and are able to open up overflow wards innterior spaceut it's taking longer to get test supplies and test results here. people call me every day and say i feel sick, i've come itinto contact someone who's covid positive and it's going to be five days to get a test, then between four and eight days to get results after that test. that's antithetical to the kindt ofngs that need to happen. i sit here and wonder can i get annexed into germany or ateast north carolina. >> nawaz: mayor girtz,

students are coming back to the campus at university of georgia next month with all this confusion over which rule stands on face masks. in a matter of seconds, are y worried about compliance and the virus spiking in a few weeks? a olutely. here we are in july, and we haven't even had the student population rerurn. i woery much where we're going to be in september, october, november, when more people are inside and not in outdoor spaces. >> that is mayor kellyirtz athens-clarke county in georgia. thank you so much for your time. please stay safe. >> thank you, amna. >> nawazin the day's other news, the u.s., canada and britain accused russian hackersl of trying to sesearch on possible covid-19 vaccines. the three nations said a group town as "cozy bear," link russian intelligence, is targeting academic and

pharmaceutical groups. it is unclear whether any information was actually stolen. the f.b.i. announced today it is investigating a sweeping security breach at twier. that comes after hackers accessed high-profile accounts on wednesday, including barack obama, joe biden, bill gates and kanye westamong others. they then tweeted from those accounts, promoting the crypto- rrency bitcoin. we'll get mo details on this, and the alleged russian hacking of covid research, later in the program. the european union's top court has voed an agreement that let big tech companies share data on e.u. citizens with the u.s. privacy activists in europe welcomed the decision. austrian activist max schrems said he hopes the two governments will guaraee that users' data is protected in the u.s. as strongly as it is in europe. >> silicon valley willy realize that either u.s. laws are going to be changed to a certain extent or they will o terally have to move a lot of their operationsrope and even split their systems into

two parts. >> naw: the case grew out of disclosures by edward snowden, a former contractor at the u.s. naonal security agency. in 2013, snowden revealed that facebook was giving u.s. security groups access toda european users. they should report all claims of clergy sexual abuse to police, en if local law does not require it. aims to force chuaders totoday, investigate such cases. it also urges them not to dismiss allegations made anonymously or through social media. for the second time this week, federal death row inmate.ted a wesley ira purkey died by lethal injection today at a federal prison in indiana. n convicted in 2003 kidnapping and murdering a teen- age girl in kansas city. this week's federal executions are the nation'sirst in 17 years. the trump administration fired off new warnings about china

today, in a growing re campaign. attorney general william barr said americans have become too reliant on chinese goods and services. and in grand rapids, michigan, he accused the ruling chinese communist party of mounting anmi "ecoblitzkrieg" to get ahead of the united states. >> globalization does not always point in the direction of greater freedom. a world marching to the beat of communist china's drums will not be a hospitable one for instutions that depend on fr markets, free trade, or the free exchange of ideas. >>heawaz: alrey this week, u.s. stripped hong kong of hieferential trading status. it also rejectedse claims in the south china sea, and imposed travel curbs on employees of the telecom giant huawei. beijing said today it will stand up to what it called "gangster logic." the u.s. supreme court today refused intervene in a fight over convicted felons right to vote in florida. eystate law requires that

pay all court costs, fines and restitution before they could. vo a lower court had upheld that now left that ordelace.urt has the head of medicaid and medicare, seema verma, is under fire over alleged mismanagement of $6 mill communications contracts. an inspector general's report says she let a republican media consultant have too authority over federal employees. vermsays the findings are based on "unsubstantiated assumptions and incomplete analysis." "the washington post" reports tonight 15 form employees, female employees say they suffered suggestive comments, verbal abuse and sexual overtures. they say it was routinely ignored or condoned. the post-reports three top employees with the franchise who resigned in the past week are among those accused. the team sayst has hired a law firm to investigate. n economic news, another

1.3 million in economic news, another 1.3 million americans fiund for ployment benefits in the last week. that's unchanged from a week earlier. on wall street, the jobless news helped to push stocks lower. the dow jones industrial average lost 135 pois to close at p,731. the nasdaq fell nts, and, the s&p 500 dropped 11. still to come on the newshour: the trump administration rolls back environmental reviews to speed up construction.re a wide hack of high profile twitter accounts exposes big tech's weak points. the racial gap in covid1s death raveals a healthcare system failing black americans. and much more.

>> nawaz: over the last few months, the global pandemic and worldwide protests for racial justice have dominated headlines. but at the same time, the trump administration has been pushing through its caaign promises to roll back environmental regulations, scale back immigration, and scrap financial protections. president trump held an event on the south lawn today to tout his progress. >> before i came io office, american workers were smothered by a merciless avalanche of wasteful, expensive and intrusive federal regulation. these oppressive, burdensome mandates were a stealth tax on our people, slashing take-home pay, suppressing innovation, surging the cts of goods, and shipping millions of american jobovs seas. we ended this regulatory assault on the american worker, and we launched the most dramatic regulatory relief campaign in american history, by far. >> nawaz: we want to take a step back now and take a deeper

>> nawaz: we want to take a step back now and take a deeper look at some those big policy shifts over the last few weeks. r that, i'm joined by ou white house correspondent yamiche alcindor. look yamiche, good to see you. let's start with what we g ported just yesterday on the president rollck a long-standing environmental regulation what exactly happened there? >> reporter: well, we're really living tough a chaotic and historic time, and the presidt has been laser-focused on trying to get conservative wins and ticking off a conservative to-do list. woe saw the presidentin revee 100 environmental rules. yesterday he focused on the national environmental policy act. this is a policy that dates back 50 years. president richard nixon signed this law, and it said federal agencies were required to look at how an infrastructure project would impact the environment and climate before approving a project. president trump said this was too much red tape and led to delays for thingslike highways and pipelines and power plants and, as a result, he's doi away with that rule.

opponents of the president's actions say this is really bad because communities, including low-income communities, won't have a say on whether or not things like a highway rips through their neighborhoods and maybe hurts the environment around them. but the president is adamant that deregulation is a top priority for him and ev today he's on the white house lawn was a key part of why he should be reelected and why he felt he was dol the things conservatives elected him to do. >> nawaz: yamiche, you jus mentioned 100 other environmental regulations. what else should people know about? >> reporter: well, president has really been ticking off so many things when it comes to environmentalgu detion, but i want to focus on two. the first has to do with commercial fishing. this is an obama era rule created. it was about 5,000 miles, about 130 miles off the cape cod. president obamahe said should be no commercial fishing in that area. environmentalists said it was to protect akemals hales and others from being hurt, but

commercial fishermen pushed back an said this is about their livelihood. ident trump said that fishing can continue, that people should be allowed to fish in theiary. the second thing is another obama era rule having to d with alaskan bears and how animals in alaska c be hunted. e obama administration said you should not be allowed to bacon,izzlies with soaked donuts, or blind hibernating mother bears orhe their cubs and shoot them or even shoot swimming caribou. but the trump administration d be all those things sho allowed and they're rolling back that policy. hunters says it's good because they see this as an infringement on their rights. environmentalists sa is cruel to the animals and the trump administration is allowing things that are inhumane to happen to these animals. >> there is another central campaign pledge from presidenmtrump, to ref immigration and our immigration system. what has he beenoing and the

administration been doing on that front? >> reporter: of course, the presidentmade immigration a central part of his administratiee andction campaign. so in this regard, the president has been looking at building the wall on the southern border and the headth odepartment of homeland security said that they will be bypassing some 26 or more environmental rules as they seek to build more and more of t, e wall a a result, things like the clean water act and other things won't be things lay they look at as they put new barrier on the southern border. opponents say it wil hurt the community and the environment to get the goal the president has. the trump administration is also lookin at asylum seekers. this is targeting legal immigration. in this case, they're using the coronavirus pandemic and saying that asylum seekers might be denied asylum in the united states if they're seen as a public health risk, that could utan they went through a country that has aneak of the coronavirus. it is important to note that the

united states leadinn it comes to coronavirus cases and there are opponents of the the president chipping away that legal immigration. he's done so much when it comes to asylum seekers including making tm remain in mexico as we've noted on this show, but this is focusing specifically on asylum seekers and their health. >> nawaz: you have been tracking underreported policyin changehe last several weeks. what else has changed? >> reporter: one other bigt change tappened is the consumer financiaroconsumer finn bureau are doing away with this obama-era rule that said the pay-day letters, short-term, high-interest loa thatpeople take out if they're in need, that these ledgers will no or not the people taking out the loans will be able to pay them back. so look at their income and able to to pay back. opponents say this will put low-income people and people of

color and single parents who take out the loans in a cyc of debt because they won't be able to pay bk the loans and will have to take out another loan to pay those back. but people supportive of the president's rule and changes, say this will allow more credit accessed to low-income people who need it. it is sething that elizabeth warren pusd to get and is now blasting interest trump administration for wanting to d it. >> nawaz: why can you tell us about why president trump is making these moves? >> reporter: president trump is focused on giving conservatives something they feel good about. the president has been facing backlash on his handling of the coves. reefntsly, republican governor larry hogan put out acathing op-ed where he said the president is not taking care o governors across the country but these are meant to throw red meat to the base. this is happening as the president is changing up his

traition and campaign. this is hinting that he'sager, worried about his standing in the race. polls show the president is behind joe biden in battleground states. the president is trying to make sure conservatives know he's being loyal to the thing he promised including judicial nominees. he has done some of the things that make conservatives thinken f i don't like the brashness and tweets, the president is doing what theco ervatives want him to do. >> nawaz: all months to go before the election. white house correspondent yamiche alcindor thanks yamiche. >> nawaz: we return to the n cking of twitter, and the separate allegatat russian agents tried to hack information related to a coronavirus vacce.

what does all this mean for the search for a vaccine, the security of major social mndia platforms,he upcoming election? here's william brangham. >> brangham: amna, a sta warning came this morning from the u.k., the u.s. and canada: not only were russian ives trying to steal vaccine development informatut it was the same unit that hacked into the democratic national committee during the 2016 election. the british foreign secretary also said russian agents attempted to interfe in last year's british general election. and twitter suffered a serious intrusion last night: theco acunts of barack obama, joe biden, bill gates, warren buffett, michael bloombe p and other hifile people were all taken over by hackers who sought to have peoplpay them in cryptocurrencies. we look at the broader issues raised by these breaches with two experts on the methods used,

the possible damage, and the effects on democracy. nina jankowicz is the author of "how to lose the information war," a fellow athe wilson center, which is a washington think tank. and dmitri alperovitch traced the 2016 d.n.c. hack to russian intelligence while he was at a cybersecurity firm hired to investigate at breach. he's now starting a non-profit that focuses on cybersecurity and trade. welcomanto you both. you very much for being here. dmitri, to you first. about this twitter hack, can yos just givea sense, what is it that we know happened? >> well, we actually have someki br news to reveal just in the last few minutes before we went on the air, and that isy that we have possible attribution to who may have been behind thttk. this is the worst breech of social media platform on record, and it was quite devastating to twitter itself because what the attackers did is they managed to get access to an internal tool

within twitter known that allows internal twitter employees to mage accounts of anyone on the platform. what it allowed the attackers to do is take over an account, being able to log in as that user and send out tweets, also to potentially look at direct messages the person may be engaged in. we sent their passwords, changed email addresses and the like. looks like someone had gained access to the internal tool potentially by social engineering internal twiemer oyees and getting access to the internal twitter network and start reselling access to individual accounts on twitter. so we may have a number of criminal organizations and individuals that have used that access, that have bought it for about $250, in the underground channels, to try to take over accounts of both celebrities and major political figures in order to ppetrate this bitcoin scam but also potentially to do other nefaous things.

>> reporter: that'om obvious interesting developments we're learning about this evening. first time twitter has beenhe breeched. we saw c.e.o. jack dory of twitter got his account hacked. this does not lookoo for twitter which an obviously media platform.t social >> no, it doesn't look good for twitter, butly frawitter is not the only soal media platform or tech platform or company dealing with d poora stewardship right now. facebook has had a number of breaches, and 190 million accounts were affected as peopld he view-as function to exploit a loophole and gain access to accounts. the list is very long, and i think this points to a need forr solly good regulation, regulation that has teeth, s that our social media platforms that have so much information about our likes, slr es, our habits of endpaiment and

consumption, our personal information, are held accountable when this data goes missing or when th protecting it to the degree that they ought to. >> reporter: dmitri, is that your sense? is there sometoung that we do to -- obviously, these warnings have beent shooting off like r flares for years now. what are we not doing to encourage d force the hands of these companies to try to tighten up their security? >> well,n do think, w it comes to twitter, they have had plenty of warnings. rjust last year, a num of individuals were indicted by the f.b.i. that were working incitef twitter on behf the saudi government and were providing saudi government with private information, using their access on various dissidents that the saudi government was interested in. so twitter had pley of warnings that not just criminal groups but nation states were interested in the data that the company has on individuals all over the world. so they realy needed to get their security up andonitor

very, very closely access to these internal powerful applicions that allow you to getprivate information but also to take over accounts. clearlyomething went wrong here, and more needs to be done. >> reporter: nina, let's turns to t other allegation of cyber intrusion which is the alletion that e russian security forces have been trying to penetrate the com tersof companies that are developing coronavirus vaccines. what do we know about what happened and what might have gone down there?e >> well, what know so far is that the same russian group that hacked the democratic national committee in 2016 was trying to gain access to intelctual property and supply chain tnformation related to the vaccine developmor the coronavirus. so far, we don't think any publ health was affected, likely just economic impact.s but this really a scary indication of where we are in terms of countering russian

information operations. we have had four years to get it together, and we've done very, very little to deter russiaan other bad actors of which there are many from these sorts of ploits. not only are they trying to, you know, deal with coronavirus vaccine information, they're also, you know, still trying to influenceur elections which are approaching ever more quickly. the u.s. government hasnot done enough to deter these organizations, and the trump cministration, instead, h idea favor with putin and trustedut's word over the word of its intelligencey. commun i think this is a dereliction of duty and we should be worried for what's to come in november. >> reporter: dmitri, you're obviously familiar with this particular russian unit, you've had dealings with them, so to speak, in the past, what is your sense of what they were trying to get at? were lhey trying tok at the the development of the vaccine, steal something? what do we know about that.

>> so this isctually one of the units that was responsive for the hack of the d.n.c., ands not the most well-known unit. ane one everyone thinks of was indicted by the justice department a few years ago was known as g.r.u., russian military intelligence, that didn't just hack the e-mails but also leaked them publicly and provided them to wikileaks. this is a different unit that went into the y d.n.c.r prior and, as far as we know, was not responeable for anyng of information and was probably engaged just in political espionage on campaigns and is believed to be tied to s.v.r., russian civilian intelligenceth agency was sort of the successor to the k.g.b. honest with you, about this particular attempted hack because the reality is everyin countrhe world right now, every intelligence agency is probably tasked with getting information on vaccine developments and, you know, i would certainly hope the u.s. intelligence community is

doing the same thing against russia, china, and anyone else that's working on vaccis because it is in the interest o every coun develop a vaccine and solve this crisis as quickly as possible. we have thousands of people dying every day. so of all the things to be concerned about, and there are certainly plenty and the russ lns are doing of nefarious things that we should be confronting, thiss ranking very, very low on my list of concerns. >> reporter: all right, dm alperovitch and nina jankowicz, thank you both very much for being here. t >> nawaz: no second of a two-part paul solman "race matters" report on how past and present discrimination and inequality have sapped the wealth and health of blacks. americ last night, paul focused on economic matters. tonight he looks at healthal outcomes, magnified in the time of covid. his report is part of ourin

g series, "making sense" of economic news. >> reporter: within 48 hours, desmond tolbert lost bh mother and father to covid 19. >>oth parents at the same time? it's hard. >> reporter: back in april, black rural georgia, where the tolberts lived, had some of eaerica's highest pandemic rates, foreshadowing today's stunning statistic: at black americans are at least twice as likely to die of covid 19 th whites, almost four timemore likely, when you conol for the fact that the black population is younger. >> i've never dealt th so much death in my life in such a short period of time as this. >> reporter: longtime detroit horace sheffield, 65, had covid- 19 himself in march. he recovered. but his congregation has been decimated. >> we've all experienced death in urban settings. people who are killed before their time in violence and all that. but nothing like this at all, ever.

>> reporter: prison guard david felton is one of sheffield's sprishioners. >> i was in the al for five days, off work for 30 days after contracting covid. >> i also had an, a relative that passed from covid 19. >> reporter: fellow congregant k.c. wilborn-snapp. >> he was 51 years old. >> i lost my husband to the virus. i also had it myself so it's been pretty tough. >> reporter: shafina che's husbane-juan wiggens was 47. >> he died march 31st. >> reporter: aon why, if he's 47? sureell, he did have high bl.d >> reporter: and thus the puzzle that prompted this story: why are african americs dying at a much higher rate than whites? >> factor one would be essential worker employmen >> reporter: economics explains a lot, says professor trevon logan. it the second factor is de of living arrangements and higher rates of public ansportation use. >> reporter: as marcus thorpe put it of his 90-minute new york bus commute:on

>> you have a car you gotta get on something, you know what i'm saying? >> reporter: and there are a number of other problems that threaten the health of black americans broadly. like the food desert which is l'tanya holley's d.c. neighborhood. >> there's not a grocery store in this area, the urban farm up the street was closed down. so what are the people supposed to do? they have to eat. >> where i grew up on the east side, it'sot uncommon to see coney island, mcdonalds, whatever the fast food restaurant. >> reporter: that's mainza snapp of detroit. >> and then you see the liquor stores everywhere promotinges cigarealcohol, every single thing that you wouldn't see in a white neighborhoo we do know that socioeconomic status has a huge impact on a whole ho of health outcomes. >> reporter: public health physician lisa cooper is professor of medicine at johns hopkin >> african-americans are at greater risk for developing chronic diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease.or >> rr: all contribute, says dr. cooper, to a health

condition among blacks sometimes called "weathering," which has been linked to cumulative stress. >> the body responds as if it's, you know, trying to defend itself. and so there are elevated levels of stress hormones. >> reporter: which everyone knows are no good for you. >> also leads to premature aging. and so it would explain a lot of the phenomena that we see among african americans.>> here was another phenomenal study that looked at telomeres. >> reporter: telomeres are the c protectis at the end of chromosomes that get shorter with age, explains sociologist rashawn ray. >> and what this research found is that black teagers who were living in neighborhoods that are underserved, that have high levels of crime, their telomer are the same length as elderly men, suggesting the ways inic weathering and chronic stress is impacting them. >> reporter: but let's be clearc for black ams, economic stressors are just part of the enory. >> america has ry awakened

to a steady drumbeat of unarmed black men being shot by the police. >> reporter: a ted talk by sociolist david williams. >> what is even a bigger story is that every seven minutes a black person dies prematurely in the united states. >> reporter: why? >> research has found thatof higher leveliscrimination are associated with the elevated risk of a broad range of diseases and even prematuremo ality. >> reporter: and that's separate from the effects of economic disadvantage. >> racm has an independent effect on health. you can have african-americans who are upper middle class, who are periencing much higher rates of disease than you would see ong white americans at the same level of socioeconomic >> we feel it is a important cause. >> reporter: in 1968, psychiatrists wiliam grier and price cobbs co-authored a book called "black rage."

>> all black people are angry, not just a few militants whomon e may see on television. black people in this country 20ve had i >> reporter: by says economist sam myers... >> it just builds up, it builds up. and at some point, you just explode. >> and so, i embrace the idea of otying, "let's stop sg our young men!" >> reporter: myers, born deaf, understand a not ualread to encounter with police in minnen apolis, where he's b professor for decades. >> put your hands up! on the dashboard. i mean, i learned very quickly at it is dangerous to reach into your pocket to get your wallet, that the police officer instinctively believes that you're reaching for your weapon. >> reporter: outrageous;ng arguably; enrafor sure. >> and so what we've done is we've kind of moved our anger internally bause we believe

that we have a job to do with respect to proving thare worthy, that we e capable, that we are productive citizens. but what happens when that builds up. >> i have been pulled over by the police more than 10 times in my own life. eporter: again, economis trevon logan. >> i think it's impossible for anyone who's lived as an african-american in this country to say that they haven't experienced racially specific stress. and that stress will have physiolocal nsequences. >> reporter: which may help explain why, by age 55, more than 75% of black americans have hypertension, blood pressure higher than 130 over 80, whites.d with less than 50% of you have high blood pressure? >> yes, definitely. >> that's why this covid 19 has been such a harassing menace in our community, because people already were unhealthy.

>> reporter: and less access to health care makes matters worse, says rashawn ray. >> black men are less likely to utilize health care because of discrimination that's embedded withinhe health care system. there's a recent study, really important for covid-19, showinga thats were six times more likely to be turned away from testing once they even went to the hospital. >> this family's story upsetting. >> reporter: in a detroit case that made national news, 56-year old gary fowler died at home on april 7, having been denied a testt three hospitals. his father had died of covid hours earlier. his wife was hospitalized the same day. his children later tested positive, including h epson kembrell. >> i understand now why black people are the highest affected mortality rate with this because we're being pushed home to die and affect our family. >> reporter: that's one reason why reverend sheffield's arted a testing program that's already served thousands. >> we understand tt because of the hue of our skin, you know,

we're being treated differently than other people.d covi just vividly portrays just how that exists >> reporter: and continues to. for the pbs news.ur, paul solm aw >>: the international monetary fund says the global economy will take a $12 trillion hit from the covid 19 pandemic, and the world bank is warning of rising poverty levels as a result. it's already happee ng in italy, ird largest economy in europe. from grottammare, on the, adriatic coastecial correspondent malcolm brabant >> reporter: four old angelo looks contented. at this tender age, he has no idea just how vulnerable he is. but angelo's nigerian mother iab worriet where his next meal will come from. which is why she's lined up queuing outside this food bank. she didn't want to give her name.

>> ( translated ): with the covid it's a little bit f difficult d my son. i just came to pick up a few things to feed my son. >> rjueporter: it's not disadvantaged immigrants who are reliant on food banks. italians who'd managed to cope before the pandemic are seeking help. before covid struck, samuela paoloni was supporting both her sister and motr. now all three are virtually destitute. >> ( translated ): i used to beb a baby sitte now i can't find anything. >> reporter: this food bank in a disused cinema is the tip of a global iceberg.im it's eed that an extra one million italians have fallen beneath the poverty lia result of covid 19. angaround the world, accord to oxfam, it's estimated that 500 million people are now coidered to be poor as a result of the pandemic.e thstribution center serving 100 food banks along the central adriatic coast is dependent on

gifts. the pandemic has stimulated and restaurants donating food that would otherwise have gone to waste. their contributions have beenl essentbecause of the increased demand from the streets. the operation is run by francesco galieni. >> ( translated ): this isa certvery sad situation seeing people struggling, especially children. we've had alerts that childrene really in need of food aid. italy, it's estimated that a milln children need food aid because they're going hungry. >> reporter: it's collection dao for the parithe 16th century pope, saint pius v. feeding 50 families, which means about 150 people in total.ll the cotion is being supenised by parish priest do federico pompei.

>> ( translated ): with covid 19 poverty has increased. the poverty that existed has and those who werehave become even poer. those who weren't poor are on the verge of becoming the new poor. >> reporter: 65-year-old shoe maker giuseppe is one of the new vorce and losing his home before the pandemic were bad enough.bl but his troues were just beginning. when covid struck his temporary contract with a shoe factory was cancelled. he has no idea when he might work again. >> ( translated ): huh, how do you expect me to feel. i can't describe it. i can't find the right word. s feel demoralized. i'm not use to tnd of thing. because i've always had a job.

>> reporter: like other food bank clients, giuseppe has been given an appntment so social distancing can be applied. he clects staples such as pasta and cooking oil. giuseppe has fixed expenses including $400 monthly rent and has to keep his car running in j case surfaces. >> ( translated ): it's a help. it means i can save some money. but it's the bare nimum. you get given some stuff but it's not everything you need. >> reporter: but giuseppe's dependencen food aid could last longer than he expected because the italian shoe in.dustry is in trouble giampietro melchiori's shoe factory is treading water. half of his 30 staff are furloughed. last year, the company grossed $7 million from shoes like these that retailed for 250 to $400.

before the pandemic began, the company had hoped to expand. now melchiorri fears disaster. >> ( translated ): unfortunately on the 21st of march when the prime minister told us to shut do personally, my dream wa shattered. our objectives were no longer attainable. it was as if the world totally collapsed on us. >> reporter: other shoe factories are suffering ar similawnturn in fortunes, soss onle he gets a lucky break, giuseppe must crve his handout for as long as possible. >> ( translated ): it certainly is a help. i can't tell you if it's going to last me for ten or s. it depends. >> reporter: the elderly helpers at the food bank are shy about their vonteer work. they don't want to give their full names. >> ( translated ): we are concerned, when you see people

going hungry you can't be untroubled. >> reporter: the catholic church is at the heart of italian society, in this parish, charity is at its core. because of what father federico believes are the inadequ, ies e state. >> ( translated ): what needs to aid need to become reality. of unfortunately bureaucracy is slowing things up a lot. people are struggling because their needs aren't satisfied. >> reporter: over the past week, an average of 11 itaans have died every day from covid, down from 900 a day in march. if that trend continues, the economy stands a better chance poor.covery and so do e new but if a second wave comes, then itacross the world and in aly, more people will go hungry. for the pbs newshour, i'm malcolm brabt in grottammare.

>> nawaz: since the very beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, we've heard stories of loss and lasting illness but for most- the virus is not a death sentence. t ight we wanted to bring you some of those stories of survival and hope. >> i am a covid-19 survivor. >> iurvived coronavirus. >> i'm 91 years old and i survived coronavirus. >> i'm a nurse practitioner, i'm a frontliner and also a coronavirus survivor. >> i'm also a covid-19 survivor. >> i'm a coronavirus survivor and i donated i donated plasma as wl. >> i had a fever, but it was never as high as they ated on the news. i was very lethargic. >> i've tten sick, but i've never like it felt like i was at a sauna or sweat lodge, like

where i was just like wet. >> body aches, fatigue, and then a little bit of nausea. i didn't have any shortness of breath. no fever at all. >> i was asymptomatic and i had no-- i didn't feel y different than i did normally. >> they did a chest x and i had a severe bilateral pneumonia. >> i was gasping for breath, probably about every 20 or 30 times a nute. and a couple of nights i said my goodbyes to the world and woke up in the morning not knowing that iould. >> in the hospital, i sang songs to myself. i tried to comfort myself. videos on facebook to let people know, you know, this is what's going on with me, but trying to encourage people too. >> knowing my stat as a-- it gave me some relief in some ways.go

this is no news, i'm news in a sense that i can focus my body on on where i need healing. >> i would take in a very, verye deep breath and hold it for five seconds. and then i would breathe out very slowly and i would do that over and over. during those moments i just to get well for my kids and that i had so much to live for. >> even if you're someone who'si rely healthy, living an active lifestyle with no underlying illnesses and relatively young, you know, your life can really be impacted by this virus. >> some patients are kind of t kind of fence sometimes when reaching out to their primary care doctor. if there's something that's off and you're concerned, definitely seek medical advice, don't wait. >> just take it one day at a time. don't worry about the future and just be grateful about the past. >> i always thought that at the end of my life, i would have time. to say goodbye.

and maybe not. and so i guess i'm going to, you knowspend my time to make su that the people i love know that and why? >> i had no idea how much people cared for me. you just never know the difference that you make in someone's lives. d i've heard people say that to me, lik wow, we really need you to get better because you're, you're an inspiring person to me. ani'm like, really? thank you. >> i made it. i got my double negatives. i'm so excited. thatas the first time i got hug my daughter. i got to touch her face. i got to feel like mom againd inst like some just big ball of germ. >> i just feel lucky to be alive. >> one thing that has helped me throh this process is having hope. and so, like, i'm taught througc everything youin your life, you always have sihasin or hope. >> so what if we're in phase three ore have to say it in another week or whatever?r we have oualth. we have our mily. and it's only going to get uphill. it can't get any worse because

you've, you've come out of this. >> hope is on the way. i always believe that hope is on the way. this will not last long. >> the morning igoing to come. if you can just make it through those tough moments. hang on, stay strong, you can do it. >> nawaz: studies show health outcomes across the board are tonight's brief butaculars. features a doctor who is trying to change that. pediatrician lucy marcil integrates free tax and financl services into her care for patients and their families as a way to help improve their overall health. >> people trust their doct, we ask them really intimate seestions all the time. we ask them abou about mental health, about alcohol use, but i bet if you think about your own experiences, you've probably never had your doctor ask you how much money you make.

if you have less money, you havo e health outcomes, in almost any disease you can think of. poor children in the u.s. e at higher rates, they are one and a half more likely to die, they're twice as likely to be hospitalized. so it really is a health issue and it's negligence on our part not to be asking about it.a i ham in clinic last week, who is trying her best to ise two lovely kids, but she's beene homeless, she' in several abusive relationships, she's encountered mental health problems, and as a result it's been hard for her to keep steady jobs. with her for instance i asked know, "have you fil your taxes?" she said, "i'm not going to, i only made $3,000 last year," and i was able to explain to her how if she did file, the u.s. g government woue her $1,200, which would be a third of her annuaincome, so that's just a small example of the way in which we try to prescribe tax preparation as a health intervention in pediatric clinics. we found that 60% of the families we serve have never

heard of their income tax credit. it's not just about getting the money back that's been withheld from your paycheck.go thrnment is going to give you extra money and often it's thousands of dollars, for people who do know about it and are filing their taxes. they might not know that free tax preparation exists in the community, so it's a huge relief to them often when i say, "we can do this right here in the office for you," and they say" you're not gonna charge me?" we've done over the last three yes, about 2000 tax return and returned over $4,000,000 to families. the very first family th we served was a great grandmother who had custody of a two year old, and after we got her back several thousand dollars, she said to me, "i was able to buylu ries, i bought a winter coat, and fresh vegetables," and america.inhe united states of a winter coat and vegetables should not be luxuries when ldu're trying to raise a c the patients that i have that have used streetcred, i feel i have a deeper more trusting relationship with, you know i think they recognize that i'm someone they can tell anything to, that i'm really going to

listen, and that i'm interested their problems, not just interested in telling them about how their kids should drink less juice. which they should.d no one sho drinking juice. unless we show that we really care for people, they won't trust us and let us help them. my name is dr. lucy marcil, and this is my brief but spectacular doctor's visit looks like. >> nawazand that's the newshour for tonight. i'm amna nawaz. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, please stay safe, and we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> since our beginning, our business haseen people, and eir financial wellbeing. that mission gives us purpose, and a way forward. to ada always.

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