♪ amna: goodie. -- good evening. of resurgence as covid-19 cases continue to spike. siofficials re: im restrictions. then, rollbacks. some major policy changes from the trump administration you might have missed. plus, any quality exposed, the racial gap in covid-19 deaths shows a health system that has african-americans >> covid-19 vividlyortrays just how that exists. amna: all tonight's "pbs newshour." ♪

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of international peaceatnd security - carnegie.org. and with the ongoingpo s of these individuals and institutions. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. amna: the list of pandemic ngvictims keeps getting tonight. with 3.5 million cases nationwide in the political fallout keeps growing for president trump. theue i of face masks has become a frontline fight for a key state this november. >> in georgia, a political

collision over life and death decisions. as the virus surges, overnight republican governor brian kemp signed an order banning any public mask requirements. that in direct conflict with several cities and townsedhich have ordasks be worn. today, atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms says she is keeping her mask order in place. >> s it is aple thing to do. it is an easy thing to do. we will continue to push and ask people to do it, despite the disagreements that we may have. >> this one day after president trump visited the state, praising kemp and reopening to a local tv station. >> you have reopened and you have really kept the virus level down, which is an incredible tribute to a lot of good, talented people. >> in fact, the virus has grown in georgia, withse near record otals yesterday. now indications the crisis overall is taking a deeper political toll on presint trump. mr. trump replaced his campaign

manager yesterday with a top advisor. the shakeup comes as his campaign grapples with declining poll numbers. inwe the pas, separate poles put joe biden ahead of mr. trump in four key battleground states. arizona, pennsylvania, florida, and north carolina, all states the president won in 2016. nationwide, mr. trump facesn doubtis top issue -- jobs. his approval rating is down to just 36%. on the white house lawn today, larry kudlow pointed to wall street and expressed c.tious optimi >> theandemic is a temporary natural disaster. >> democratic speaker of the house nanca pelosi ed for republican senators to push for a larger national risk in the white house. >> this is such a massive dereliction of duty. people are dying. so what we are saying to the

senate, join us in asking the president to e executive action f good instead of ill. >> criticism n is openly boiling over from the idprt's own party. in a washington postp- republican governor larry hogan detailed what he called a jarring lack of response and even interference from president trump that he said left governors hopeless and states in danger. hogan wrote, whilsother countr were wasting ahead with well coordinatedeges, the trump administration bungled the effort. the white house press secretary rejected t criticism. >> this is revisionist history by governor hogan and it stands in starkt contr to what he to the great communication the president has had with governors. >> t all ofs as the upcoming republican national cn vention is imurky waters. rathe gnd old party announced it is scaling back, limiting attendance to 2500 people for

nde first three days, about 7000 for the finalay, when president trump attends. that is covid-19 cases in florida surge. today, another grim record, the most daily covid related deaths yet recorded. new data shows that nearly one third of all kids tested in the positive for the virus.n while there are hotspots, the virus isrowing nationwide. in the past two weeks, cases of coronavirus have increased in some 41 states acrosthe u.s. for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa de chardin. amna: georgia governor brian kemp's porter has put the issuef up masnt and center. with me now is the mayor of athens, clark county, georgia, which moved to require masks earlier this month. thanks for making the time. i want to ask you about ns we just gotten about governor brian kemp and the state attorney

general suing the atlanta mayor and the city council for their requirement wearing.lic mask what is your reaction to that? >> this has all been so deeply frusating. weimply want to create a platform for health and safety for the local population. i've been in constant contact with mayor bottoms and other mayors throughout the state. in lieu of action on a statewide basis, as we've seen another republicanli lead state alabama and arkansas, we need to act as local boots on the ground who are keeping people in our community safe. we are going to continue with our order in athens clarke county as mayor bottoms has also indicated she is going to do, and mayor davis in acosta, and mayor johnson in savannah. we understand that as science has demonstrated over the la many months, it is simply safer to have a mask on for those around you. the droplet disbursement, the aerosol disbursement is minished. we are going to follow this. amna: let me just ask you if i

can -- i apologize, i know your time isit l -- even the head of george's restaurant association has said it is confusing for people to have different rules in different counties. what do you s to letting businesses decide? >> it has been interesting. large retailers and very small retailers have said to me, we like a mask order because it standard, so we know from one block toon anothervendor to another the public is going to have the same experience. we are also the flagse p post for iversity of georgia here in the state. just a couple of weeks ago, the university stem indicated that everylt student, famember, and staff member was going to have to wear a mask in interior spaces at the university of georgia and in all other public universitiesn the state. so what we want to do is be able to provide the same, solid foundation on campus an hoff

campe in athens. amna: let me ask you, both your spitals in athens were full yesterda you had to divert patients to other facilities. experts say you are not at your peak. do you have what you need now? >> unfortunately, we don't have what we need. the hospitals are nimble and are able to op up some overflow awards interior to their spaces, but it has taken longer to get test kids here and it has taken much longer to get test results here. people call me every day in my office and say, i'm feeling sick i'veome into contact with somebody who is covid-positive, and it's going to take me ve days to get a test, then i'm hearing it's taking somewhere between four and eight days to get results. that is antithetical to the kind ofhis that need to happen. i sit here in front of you and i wonder if i can get annexed into germany or at least to north carolina. amna: students are coming back

to campus next month. rrare you d about compliance and the virus spiking in a few weeks? >> absolutely. here we are in july and we haven't even had the student population rurn. i wonder very much where we are going to beton september, r, and november, when more people are inside and not intd r spaces. amna: that is the mayor of lahens,rk county in georgia. thank you so much for your time, please stay safe. >> thank y. ♪ stephanie: we wurl r to the full program after the latest headlines. the u.s., canada, and britain accuse russian hackers of trying to steal research on possible covid-19 vaccines. the three nions said a group cenked to russian intellig is targeting academic and

pharmaceutical groups. it is a unclear wheth information was actually stolen. the fbi announced today it is investigating a sweeping curity breach at twitter. hackers accessed high-profile accounts o wednesday, including those of barack obama, joe biden, bill gates, and kanye west, among others. they then sent out tweets promoting bitcoin from the accounts. we will get more details later in the program. in a win for privacye activist, ropean union's top court has avoided an agreement that let big tech companies share data on eu citizens with the u.s. privacy activists hope the decision means users' be a strongly protected in the u.s. as it is in europe. the vatican is telling bishops they should report all claims of clergy sexual abuse to police even if local law does not require it. that new guidance issued tay ai to force church leaders to

investigate such cases. itlso urges them not to dismiss allegations made anonymously or through s ial for the second time this week,ed the untates has executed a federal death row inmate. wesley perky died by lethal injection at a federal prison in indiana. he had been convicted in 2003 of kidnapping and murdering a teenage girl in kaas city. this week's executions are the first in 17 years. the trump administration fired off new warnings aut china today in a growing pressure campaign. liattorney general w barr set americans have become too reliant on chinese goods and services and in grand rapids, michigan, he accused the chinese communist party of mounting a economic blitzkrieg 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

the communist chinese drum will not be a hospitable one for institutions that drkend on free s, free trade, or the free exchange of ideas. stephanie: after a series of moves by the u.s. this week, beijing said today will std up to what it called gangster logic. the u.s. supreme court refused to enter green -- intervene in a fight over fels' right to vote in florida. era lourt had upheld the law and the supreme court has now left that order in place. the head of medicaid and medicare is under fire over alleged mismanagement of $6mu million in ccations contracts. an inspector general's report said she let a republican media consultant have too much authority over federal of ways. she says the findings are based

on "unsubstantiated assumptions and income analysi" the pro football team in washingt is facing allegations of long-running sexual harassment. "the washington post" reports 15 former femaleay employeeshey suffered suggestive comments, verbal abuse,, a sexual overres. they say it was routinely ignored or condoned. post reports three top employees with the franchise who have resigned the past week are among those accused. the team says it has hired a law firm to investigate. legendary foreign news correspondent chris dickey has died beast, where he was foreign editor. he was a prolific reporte and author who covered wars and conflicts around the world for more than 30 years. he died suddenly at age 68 in paris, where he was based. still to come, the trump administration rolls back environmental reviews to speed a widespread hack of high-profile twitter accounts

exses big tech's weak points. the racial gap in covid9 death rates revealslt a heacare system failing black americans and much more. ♪ >> this is "pbs newshour west" from weta studios in washington altern the west at the cronki school of journalism at arizona state university. amna: over the last few monthnd the global ic and worldwide protests for racial justice have dominated lihes, but at the same time the trump administration has been pushing through campaign promises to roll back environmental regulations, scaled-back immigration, and scrap financia protections. president trump held an event today to tout his progress. >> before i came into office, american workers were smothered by a merciless avalanche of waeful and expensive and intrusive federal regulation.

these impressive bird andend burdens and mandates cut take-home pay, suppressed innovation, surging the cost of good, and shipping millions of american jobs oversea we ended this regulatory assault on the american worker and launched the most dramatic regulatory relief campaign in american history by far. amna: we want to take a step back and take a deeper look at some of those big pericy shifts he last few weeks. for that, i'm joine by our white house correspondent. let's s what we reported on the president rolling back a long-standing environmental regulation. >> we are really living throughn a chaotihistoric time. the president has been laser focused on ticking off a conservative to do list. envital rules.erse some 100

yesterday, he focused on the national environmental lessee ac, a policy that dates back 50 years. president nixon signed for slot. it said federaagencies are designed -- required to look at nvw an infrastructure project would impact theonment and climate before approving the project. toesident trump that it i read -- too much red tape and led to delays and as a result he is doing away with that role. opponents say this is really bad because communities, including low income communities, won't have a say over whether or not a highway goes through their neighborhoods and may be hurts the environment around them. the president is adamant that deregulation is a top priority for him. today, he talked about h deregulation was a key part of why he felt like he was doingd all the things conservatives elamted him to do. : you just mention some 100 other environmental regulations.

what else should people know out? yamiche: the president has really been ticking off so many things with environmental deregulation. i wa to focus on two. the first has to do with commercial fishing. w about 5000 miles 130 miles off the coast of cape cod. president obama there should be no commercial fishing in that area to protect animals like whales and others from being hurt. commercial fishermen really pushed back and said this was about their livelihood. president trump said that fishing can continue on people should be allowed to fish in that area. the other thing i want to point toto is another role that ha do with alaskan bears andal how anin alaska can be hunted. the obama administration said you should not be allowed toly bake gri bears with things like bacon or doughnuts and you shouldn't able to blind hibernating mother bears and then shoot them or even shoot swimming caribou, but the trump

administration isth saying those gs should be allowed. for them because they see thisng as an infringement on their rits, but environmentalists say this isruel to the animals in the trump administration is allowing inhumane ast to happen to the -- things to happen to these animals. amna: another central campaign immigration.o reform what has the administration been doing? yamiche: of course, the president has made immigration a central part of his raadminion and it is a central part of his reelection campaign. th president has been looking at building the wall on the houthern border and the head of the department oland security said they will be bypassing some 26 or more environmental rules as they seek to build more of the wall. as a result, the clean water act and other things are not going to be things thag will be look.

opponents say they will hurt the community and the environment. another thing the president and the trump administration is doing is looking at asylum-seekers. this is targeting legal immigration. they are usi the coronavirus pandemic and saying that asylum-seekers might be denied asylum ife they en as a publ health risk. that could mean that they went through a country that has an outbreak of the coronavirus. it is important to note that the comes to coronavirus cases and opponents of the president they this is the presidentay chipping t legal immigration. he has done so much when is co asylum-seekers, but this is focusing specifically on asylum-seekers and their health. amna: you have been tracking another of underreported -- a icyber of underreported p changes.yamiche: one other big e that happened is tha consumer financial protection bureau, they are doing away with

this obama era rulthat said payday lenders, short-term high interest loans that people take out if they are in need, that these lenders ll know longer have to -- no longer have to look at whether tho will be abley these loans back. ntoppoof the action say this is going to put low income people and people of color a single parents, it is going to t them in a cycle of debt because they are not going to be able to pay back these loans. tople who are supportive president's rule and his changes , they say this is going to allow more credit to be to low income people who need it. it is a controversial rule, something that senator elizabeth is blasting the trumpand n administration for doing away with it. amna: what can you tell us about why president trump is making these moves.

yamiche: president trump is focused on giviso conservatives thing they feel good about. he has been facing bacash about the handling of the coronavirus. republican governor larry hogan wroteth a sg op-ed. in this case, these rules are meant to throw a little red meat to the base. this is all happeng is the president is changing up his administration and campaign. and that is hintithe factager that he is worried about his standing in the race. polls in battleground states show that the president is behind joe biden. the president is trying to make sul that conservatives f is being loyal to the things he promised. deregulation is a big thing he promised. and he s done some of these things that make cservatives feel that even if i don't like brashness in between, the president is in some ways doing what conservatives want him to

do. amna: all with just monthfoto go bere the election. thanks. ♪ amna: we returned to the two cyber intrusion stories, the hacking of twitter and the allegations russians try to access vaccine rs earch. what dis mean for the upcoming election is to mark william: a stark warning came last night from the u.s., the u.k., and canada. not only were russian operatives trying to steal information about the development of a coronavirus vaccine, but it was being done by the same russian intelligence unit that hacked into the democratic national committee back during the 2016 presidentie election. itish foreign secretary also said russian agents attempted to interfere in last

year's british general election. twitter suffered a serious intrusion last night. the accounts of barack obama, warren buffett, michael bloomberg, and other over by hackers.en they tried to get people to pay money to them in the cryptocurrency known as bitco. we look at these broader issues that are brought up by these with two experts who are familiar with the methods used, the possible damage, and the threat to our democracy. the author of "how to lose the information war" and a fellow at the wilson center, agt wash-based think tank. and the person who traced the 2016 dnc hack to russia intelligence. welcome to you bothan you very much for being here. about this twitter hack, can you

give us a sense, what is it that we know happened? >> we have some breaking news to reveal in the last few minutes before we went on the air. that is that we may have possible attribution to who may have been behind this attack. this is the worst breach of a social media platform on record. it was quite devastating to twitter itself.na the attackers d to get access to an internal toolth twitter known as god mode that allows internal twitter employees to manage accounts of anyone on the hot form. edit allttackers to take over an account, be able to send out tweets. reset their passwords, chain gmail addresses, and the li. what looks like happen to someone had gained access to that internal tool by social engineering and getting access

to that internal twitter network and then started reselli access to individual accounts in twitter. we may have a number of criminal organizationand individuals at may have used that access to try to take over accounts ofh elebrities and major political figuresn order to perpetrate this bitcoin scan, but also potentially to do other nefarious things. william: that is obviously some interesting developments we are learning about this evening. this is not the first time twitter has been breached. we saw jack dorsey got his this does not look good for twitter, which is obviously enormously important as a social media platform. >' doesn'look good, but twitter is not the only company that is dealing with poor data stewardsp right now.

facebook has had a number of breaches. in one, 90 million accounts were affected. e list is very long. i think this points to a need for some really good regulation, regulation that has teeth, so that our social media platforms that have so much information about our, lik our dislikes, our habits of engagement and information are held accountable when this data goes miss ag or when the texting to the gree they oughto. william: is that your sense? arobviously, thesengs have been shooting off like red players. e at are we not doing to encourage and foe hands of these companies to try to tighten up their security? >> dthink when it comes to twitter, they have had plenty of

warnings. they wereng wornd providing the saudi government providing access, so twitter had plenty of warnings that nationstatesere interested. so they really needed to get their security out and monitor access to these internal, powerful allocatio, but also to take over accounts. clearly more needs to be done. lliam: let's turn to this allegation that the russian security forces have been trying to penrate the computers of countries that are developingva coronaviruines. what do we know about what happened and what might have gone down? >> what we know so far is that

the same russian group that hacked the democratic national committee was trying to gain to intellectual propert and supply chain and from nation related to the vaccine development for the coronavirus. so far t we don'tnk any public health was affected, likely just economic impact, but this is rely a scary indication of where we are in riterms of coun russian information operation. we have had for years to get it together and we have done very little to deterussia and other better, of which there are many, from these kind of exploits. not only are they tryin to do with coronavirus vaccine information, they are trying to influence elections. the trumpas administration said that he has trusted putin's

word over the word of his intelligence community. we all need to be very worried in w terms oft is to come in november. william: dimitri, you are familiar with this particular russian unit. what is your sense otrwhat they arng to get at? were they trying to look at the development of the vaccine, steal something? what do we know about that? >> this is one of the units responsible for the hack of the dnc and not the one most well-known. russian military intelligence, oey did not attack the males, they link to the. this is a differentntnit that wentthe dnc a year or higher and was not responsible for any leaking of information, it was probably engaged political espionage in campaigns

and it is believed to be tied to russiacivilian intelgence agency that was sort of the precursor to the -- successor to the kgb. i'm a lot le concerned about this particular attempted hacked because the reality is every country in the world right now, probably tasked wiingency is information on vaccine developments and i would certainly hope that the u.s. intelligenceommunity is doing the same thing. it is in the interest of every country a to develoaccine and solve this crisis is ugly as possible. inousands of people are every day. of all the things to be concerned about andhe russians are doing nefarious things, this isng ranery low on my list of concerns. william: all right, thank you both very ch for being here.

♪ amna: now, the second of a two-part race matters report on how past and present inequality is have sapped the wealt and health of black americans. last night, paul focused on economic matte. tonight, he looks at health imtcomes magnified in the of covid. his route as part of our ongoing economic series. paul: whin 48 hours, desmond told bert lost mother and father to covid-19. back in april, black rural georgia where they lived had some of america's moic highest acad -- america's highest pandem death rates. black americans are at least twice as likely 19 die of covi than whites, almost four times more likely when you control for the fact that the

erblack population is you y i've never dealt with so much death infe in such a short period of time as this. paul: a long time droit's civil rights activist had covid-19 himself in march. he recovered, but his congregation has been decimated. >> we allxperience death in urban settings. pele who are killed before ng like thisnd all that. at all, ever. ul: prison guard david felton one of his parishioner >> i was in the hospital five days. off work 30 days. after contracting covid. >> i had a relative that pasd fr covid-19. ul: hey fellow >>ngregants -- he was 51 years old. >> i lost myviusband to the s. i also had it myself. paul: her husband was 47. >> he died. paul: why if he is only 47?

>> he didave high blood essure. paul: thus the puzzle that prompted the story. why are african-americans dying at a much hier rate than whites? >> factor i would be essential worker employment. paul: economics explains a lot. >> a second factor would be density of living arrangements and higherates of public transportation use. paul: -- >> if you don't have a car, yo've got to get on something. paul: there are a number of other problems that threaten the health of black americans broadly, like the food desert which is this neighborhood. in this area.ot a groce the urban farm up the street is closed. whathe people supposed to do? they have to eat. >> where i grew up on the east i side, not uncommon to see coney island, mcdonald's, restaurant.fast food and then you see the liquor

stores everywhere. cigarettes, alcohol, every single thing that you would not see in a white neighborhood. >> we know thaco socialnomic status has a huge impact on a whole host of a health outcomes. paul: public health physian lisa cooper is a professor of medicine at johns hopkins. >> african-americans are at greater risk for developi chronic diseases. paul: all contribute to a health condition among blacks sometimes been linked to cumulative stress. >> the body responds as if it is trying to defend itself ando s there are elevated levels of stress hormones. paul: which everyone knows are no good for you. >> it leads to premature aging. w would explain a lot of the phenomenasee among african-americans. >> another study looked at telomeres. paul: they are the protective caps at the end of chromosomes that get shorter with age.

>> what the research found is that black teenagers who are living in neighborhoods that are underserved and have high levels of crime, there telomeres are the same length as elderly men, suggesting the ways in which weathering and chronic stress has impacted. paul: for black americans, economic stressors are just part of the story >> america has recently awakened a steady drumbeat of unarmed black man being shot by the police. paul: a ted talkt by sociolog david williams. >> what is even a biggerry s is that every seven minutes a black person dies prematurely in the united states. paul: why? >> reseah has found that higher levels of discrimination are associated with an elevated risk of a broad range of diseases and evertpremature moality. paul: and that is separate from

the effects of econom disadvantage. >> racism has an independent impact on health. you can have african-americans who are upper-middle-class, who are experiencing much higher rates of disease then you would see among white americans at the same level of socioeconomic status. >> we feel this is a very important cause. paul: in 1968, "black ragerewas co-autho >> all black people are angry. fnot just a militants.eo blacke in this country have had it. paul: by 2020 -- >> it fills up and fills up and at some point you just explode. >> let's stop shooting our young men. paul: myers hardlneeds to lip read tonderstand a knot in typical encounter with police in minneapolis, where he has been a professor for decades. >> put your hands up.

it's dangerous to reach into your pocket to get your wallet. paul: outrageous, arguably. and raging, for sure. >> what we have done is we h ae moved to ter internally because we believe we have a job to do with respect to proving that we are 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 life. i think it is impossible for anyone who has lived as an african-american in this country to say tha they haven't experienced racially specific stress and that stress will have

physiological consequences. paul: which may explain why by age 55, more than % of black americans have hypertension, blood pressure higher than 130 over 80, compared to less than 50% of whites. >> do you have high blood pressure? >> yes. >> thats why thi covid-19 has been such a menace in our community. because people werthalready unhe paul: and less access to health care makes matters worse. >> black men are less likely to utilize heal b careause of discrimination embedded within the health care system. for covid-19 shows that blacks were six times more likely to be tued away from testing once they even went to the hospital. >> this family's story is so made national news, gary fowler died at him having been denied a test at three spitals. his father had died of covid

hours earlier. his wife was hospitalized the same d. his children later tested positive, including his stepson. >> i understand now why people test black people of the highest affected mortality rate, because we are being pushed home to die and effect our family. paul: that is one reon why reverend chatfield has started a testing program that has already served thousands read >> we understand that because of the view of our skin, we are bein treated lee s treated differently than other people. covid-19 vividly portrays how paul: and continues to. for the pbs newshour, paul soan. ♪ amna: by some estimates, the global economy will take a $12 trillion hit from the covid-19 pandemic. it is already happening in

italy, the third largeste.conomy in eur from a town on the adriatic coast, our special correspondent reports. >> four-year-old angelo looks contented. he has no age -- idea how vulnerable he is. his nigerian mother is worried about where his next meal will come from, which is why she's lined up outside this food bank. she didn't want to get her name -- give her name. >> it is a little but difficult to feed my son, so just came g et some food to feed my son. >> it is not just disadvantaged immigrants reliant on food banks. italians who had managed to cope for the pandemic are seeking help. before covid struck, this woman was supporting her sister and mother. now all three are virtually deitute. >> i used to be a babysitter, but inw i can't find any >> this food bank in a disused

cinema is the tip of the global iceberg. stimated that one millio more italians have fallen beneath the poverty line aa result of covid-19 and around the world, according to oxfam, it is estimated that 500 million people are now considered to bel poor as a resof the pandemic. this distrution center serving 100 food banks on the central adriatic coast is depended on gifts. the pandemic has stimulad generosity, with supermarkets and restaurants donating food that otherwise would have gone to waste. the contributionsen have be esntial because of the increased demand from the streets. the operation is run by francesco. >> [speaking italian] this is certainly a very sad situation seeing people struggling. especially children.

we have had alerts children a really in need of food aid. it is estimatch one million ildren need food aid because they are going hungrin ita. >> it is collectionor dayhe parish of the 16th-century pope saint pius the fifth. the church is feeding 50 families, which means about 150 people in total. the collection is being supervised by a parish priest. >> with covid-19, poverty hasea ind. the poverty that existed has become more profound. those who were poorbecome even poorer. those who were not poor are on the verge of becoming the new poor. >> 65-year-old shoemaker giuseppe is one of the new poor. mivorced and losing his home before the pandec were bad enough, butis hroubles are

just beginning. when covid struck, his temporary contract with a shoe factory was canceled. he has no idea when he might work again. >> how do you e i can't describe it. i can't find the right word. i feel the moralized. i'm not used to this kind of thing. because i've always had a job. >> like other food bank plants, so social distanci beappointment applied. he collects staples such as pasta and cooking oil. he has fixed expenses and has to keep his car running in case of job surfaces. >> it they help. it means i can save some money. but it is the bare minimum.

you get given some stuff, but it >> but giuseppe's dependence on food aid could last longer than shoe industry is in trouble. dithis shoe factory is tr water. half of his staff are furloughed. omlast year, theny grossed $7 million from shoes like these that retail for $250 to 00. before the pandemic began, the company had hoped to expand. now, he feels disaster. >> unfortunately, when the prime minister told us to shut down, persally my dream was shattered. our objectives were no longer obtainable. it is the world totally collapsed on us. >> other shoe factoriesre experienciil a simar downturn. unless he gets a lip break,

giuseppe must concern -- conserve his hand out for as long as possible. >> it certainly is a help. i can't tell you iit is going to last me 10 or 20 days. it depends. >> the elderly helpers at the food bank are shy about their volunteer work. they don't want to get their fullames. >> we are concerned. wheng you see people go hungry, you can't be untroubled. >> the catholic church is that the heart of italian society. in this parish, charity is essentiar because of what fat e n federico believes about the inadequacies of ate. >> what needs to happen is that the promises of aid needs to become reality. unfortunately, bureaucracy is slowing things up.

ople are struggling because their needs are not satisfied. >> over the past week, an average of 11 italians have died every day from covid, down from 900 a day in march. if that trend continues, the economy stands a betr chance of recovery and so do the new poor. but if a second wave comes, then across the world and in italy more people will go hungry. ♪ amna: since the very beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, we have heard stories of loss and lasting illness, but for most the virus is not a death sentence. tonight, we wanted to bring you some of those stories of survival and hope. >> i'm a covid-19 survivor. >>d i survironavirus. >> i'm 91 years old and i survived coronavirus. >> i'm a nurse practitioner, i'm

a frontliner and a coronavirus survivor. >> i'm also a covid-19 survivor. >> i'm a coronavirus survivor and i donated plasma. >> i had a i fever, bwas never as high as they stated on the news. li was vehargic. >> i'd gotten sick, but it felt like i was at a sauna or a sweat e,lohere i was just like wet. >> body aches, fatigue, and then a little bit of nausea. i did not have any shortness of breath. no fever at all. >> i was apt satically -- asymptomatic and i didot feel any different than i did normally. >> they did a che x-ray. i had a severe bilateral pneumonia. >> i was gasping forreath probably about every 20 or 30 times a minute and a couple of

nights, i said my goodbyes to the world and woke up in the morning not knowing that i would. >> in the hospital, i sang songs to myself. i try t comfort myself and prayed a lot and i made videos on facebook to let people know, this is what is going on with me, but trying to encourage people. >> knowing my status gave me some relief in some ways. positive, but it is good news in e sense that i can focus my body on wher need healing. >> i would take in a very deep wrath and hold it -- breath and hold it for five seconds and then i wouldathe out very slowly and would do that over and over. ,during those momen i would think about how i needed well for my kids and i had so much to live for. >> even if you are someoneve relati healthy living and active lifestyle with no underlying illnesses and relatively young, your life can

really be impacted by this virus. >> some patient, but if there was something that is off and you are concerned, definitely seek medical advice. don't wait. >> just take it one da at a don't worry about the future. just be grateful. >> i always thought that at the end of my life, i would have time to say goodbye and maybe not.g i'm go spend my time to make sure that the people i love know that and why. >> i had no idea how much people cared for me. you never know the difference you make in someone's life. i've heard people say that, we really need you to get better cause you are an inspiring person to me. i was like, reall thank you. >> i made it. i'm so excited. i got to hug my daughter, touch her face.

i got to feel like mom again instead of some big ball of germ. >> feel lucky to be alive. >> one thing that has helped me through this process is having hope. through everything you face in your life, you always have hope. >> so what if we are in pha w three have to stay in another week, we have our health, we have our family. it is only going to get uphill. it can't get anyorse because you have 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 is going to come if you can just make it through those tough moments. hang on. stay strong. ♪ou can do it. amna: and tonight's brief, but

spectacular features a pediatrician who integrates pretax and financial services into care for patients and families as a way to improve their overall heal. >> people trust their doctor. we ask them intiml e questions e time. we ask them about sex, mental health, alcohol use.but i bet it your own experience as you probably never had your doctor ask you how much money you make. ♪ if you have less money, you have worse health outcomes in almost any disease you can think of. poor children in the u.s. die at higher rates. they are twice as likely to be hospitalized. it really a health issue and it is negligence not to be asking about it. i had mom in clinic last week who is trying her best to raise two lovely kids, but she has been homeless, she has been in several abusive relationships, she has encountered mental health problems. it has been hard for her to keep steady jobs.

with her, i asked her have you led yo taxes? she said, i'm not going to, i onlye m000. i was able to explain to her that if she did file them, the u.s. government wouldive her $1200, which would be a third of her annual income. that is a small example of the way in which we try to prescribe tax preparation as a health intervention in pediatric clinics. we fnd that 60% of the families we serve have never heard of the earned income tax credit. it is not just about getting the money back that is being thheld from your paychec the government is going to give you extra money and often thousands of dollars. for people who do know about it and are filing, they might not know that free tax preparation exists in the commuty. it is a huge rief when i say to them, we can do this right here in the office. they say, charge me?ot going to xver the last three years, we've done about 2000 returns and returned over $4 million to families the very first family we served

was a great-grandmother who had custody of a t-year-old. after we got her back several, thousand dollae said to me, i was able to buy luxuries. igh bone inter coats and fresh vegetables. we live in the united states of america. a winter coatre and vegetables should not be luxuries when trying to raise a child. i feel iave a deeper, more trusting relationship with my patients. they recognize i'm someone they can tell anything to end i'm interested in their problems, not just interested in telling them how their kid to drink less juice. which they should. no one should be drinking juice. unless we show they -- we really care for people, they want trust us or let us help them. spectacular take on reimagining what a doctor's visit looks like. na and that is the newshour for tonight. for all of us at "pbs newshour," thank you. please stay w safe. wel see you soon. [captiong performed by the national captioning institute,

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