04/30/20 04/30/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new yoyork city, thehe epicenter of the pandemic, this is democracy now! the number of u.s. confirmed coronavirus cases has surpassedd one million. the death toll has passed 61,000 in the united steses, though both nbers arerorobablfar,r, far r hier. the numbmber of ses worldwide is alalmost 2 millilion. today we look at t g global economicatastrophe triggered byby the pandemic and d its impt

on the most vulnerable. >> with the factory closed, the my. address -- not without my cost of living, eating. he gave me nothing. food programd once of hunger. more than 100 million people in cities worldwide falling into poverty. could this crisis he a catalyst for change? we will ask french economist thomas piketty. his book has been described as a manifesto for political change. the president trump invokes the defense production act which barred local governments from closing the packing plants around the country. you help do with businesses with liability issues as workers come back in states that have opened up? pres. trump: we just worked with the meat processors and if you think about it, a form of

delivery. we have tremendous product. we have ample supply. but there was a bottleneck caused by this whole pandemic. amy: beef, pork, and poultry processing plants are linked to areas with the highest rates of the coronavirus transmission in the u.s. we will get response from leading global health law expert lawrence gostin. and we will get his response to trump repeatedly attatacking the world health organization during this pandemic. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and -- according report, i'm amy goodman. the worldwide death toll from pandemic. in the hardest hit nation, the united states, the official death toll has surpassed 61,000,

the data from the cdc suggests thousands more have died of the disease and have been officially reported. at the white house, president trump senior adviser and son-in-law jared kushner called the federal response to o the coronavirus crisis a great american success story. >> again, we are on the others of the medical aspect of this. i think we have achieved all of the different milestones that are needed. the fedederal governmenent roseo the chahallenge and this is a grgreat success story. a york, emergency workers responding to 911 calls about a foul odor outside a brooklyn funeral home found dozens of decomposing bodies in a pair of unrefrigerated trucks. new york's daily death toll held steady wednesday, with 330 covid-19 deaths reported in 24 hours. new jersey governor phil murphy said wednesday he'll reopen state parks beginning on saturday and may reopen golf courses. new jersey reported 329 more

people died of covid-19 in just one day. in massachusetts, nearly 70 residents of a home for aging military veterans have died of covid 19, making it the deadliest outbreak in a u.s. nursing home. the superintendent of the soldiers' home in holyoke, a state-run long-term care center, has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. an associated press tally found over 13,700 covid-19 deaths in nursing homes and long-term care facilities around the u.s. at the white house, president trump p predicted the coronavirs would sosoon be e eradicateded m the united states, even if no vaccine is developed. going to go.it is it is going to be gone. it is going to be eradicated. it might take longer, it might be in smaller sections. it won't be what we had. amy: cnn reports president trump anangrily threatened to fire his campaign manager on friday after

he was presented with poll numbers showing him losing ground to presumptive democratic nonominee joe biden. trump's outburst came one day after he suggested injecting disinfectants into covid-19 patients. "the new york times" reports top trump administration officials are pushing u.s. spy agencies to hunt for evidence to support an unsubstantiated theory that a government laboratory in wuhan, china, was the source of the coronavirus and not an animal-to-human transmission of the disease as most scientists suspect. the effort is tied to the trump campaign's bid to deflect blame for the pandemic onto china. meanwhile, president trump said wednesday he's planning to travel to arizona next week, and predicted his presidential campaign would resume holding massivive rallies "in the not-too-distananfuture." on wednesday, dr. anthony fauci said a second wave of coronavirus deaths is inevitable and warned that if states relax stay-at-home orders and social

distancing measures too soon, the united states "could be in fofor a bad fallll and a bad winterer." the food and drug administration will announce emergency-use authorization for the anti-viral drug remsisivir ter prelimarary relts s fr a deral trial showed the dgg could speed cocoveryn papatien infeed with the corovivirus. the fiing, which has not yet been peer reewewed, me a aft another stud p publied i in e lancet medalal joual, , fod no benefit foththe dr in n serely ill patientsn n chin thnew results suesest a derate improveme i in th death ra o of paentsts ting remdisiver who h hospil ststay were shortened on average from 15 daytoto 11. atat t whiteteouse, top conavirus task for scienti . anthonfauci weomed new t the fst potenal treatment r covid-. a 31% improvement does not seem like a knockout

100%, it is a very important proof of c concept. because what it has provoven is that a drug can block this vivirus. amamy:n los s geles, mor eric garctiti saiwedndnesy that a los angeles resident who was s a coronavirus stst canet o one for free, atitity-ruteststin sites. the sts are appointnt onlyt 3535 tting s ses acros los angess countnty. alady peop are finng it ve difficult to ma an appotment. the labor department is releasing the latest weekly unemployment numbers today with economists expecting another 3.5 million jobless claims. about 30 million people have filed for unemployoyment in just six weeks. joining the surge are an increasing number of state and municipal workers whose jobs are threatened by an unprecedented drop in tax revenues. without more federal aid, local governments say they'll soon be forced to lay off millions of public employees, affecting health, sanitation, education, transit, and other public services.

the e united natioions labor agy on wednesday warned that some 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, nearly half of the world's workforce are in immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed by the economic catastrophe triggered by the covid-19 pandemic. this comes as the world bank and other groups say some 100 million people living in densely populated cities around the globe will likely fall into poverty dudue to the pandemic.c. in related news, the world food program and unicef are urging -- wanting some 370 million children missing out on school meals amid school closures due to the pandemic. the world food program earlier this week issued an alert about a potential massive rise in global food insecurity as a consequence of the pandemic, particularly in east african countries. >> 20 million people are now food insecure in nine countries in the region. rwanda,e a, somalia,

djibouti, eritrea. amy: south korea reported no new domestic coronavirus cases wednesday for the first time since january 20, the day the first cases of the virus were detected both in south korea and the united states. the korea centers for disease control and prevention did report four new coronavirus cases, saying they were imported from international travelers. south korea reports just 247 people have died of covid-19 after the country took early and aggressive action to control the spread of the didisease. in britain, the death toll from covid-19 has passed 26,000, surpassing france and spain and making the u.k. second only to italy among european countries in the total number of coronavirus deaths.. in switzerland, health officials say it's now safe for children under the age of 10 to hug their grandparents after concluding that young people do not transmit the virus. the recommendation contradicts medical advice of doctors in

other countries, who say there's no data to support the conclusion. russia reports it's confirmed over 106,000 coronavirus cases, with over 1000 deaths, making russia the eighth-most affected country in the world. this week president vladimir putin admitted russia has a severe shortage of personal protective equipment for medical workers and warned the worst is yet to come. in mexico, nearly 1000 women were murdered in the first three months of the year -- a rise of nearly 10% in femicides compared to the same period in 2019. this comes as advocates warn mexico is seeing a spike in domestic abuse during the pandemic as people are tolold to remainin at home, ofteten leavig women and gigirls in lockdown wh their abusers. kenya has banned all entry and exit from a pair of vast refugee camps, fearing an outbreak of covid-19 could prove catastrophic for thousands of people living in cramped and squalid conditions.

the camps house some 400,000 refugees from somalia, south sudan, and eththiopia. baback in the united states, iowa's republican governor has warned furloughed workers they will lose their unemployment benefits if they refuse to return to their jobs once remain-at-home orders are lifted. even if the workers. or death from covid-19. nebraska republican governor pete ricketts has issued a similar warning. i what is planning to allow some restaurants, bars, shops, and gems to reopen at have capacity beginning friday. and nebraska will begin loosening restrictions next week. many of the affected workers are employees of giant meatpacking plants that have become the largest coronavirus hotspots in the country. scores of workers at smithfield plant in nebraska walked up the job wednesday in an unsanctioned work stoppage after midfield reversed the decision to close and clean the facility.

and a norma's jps pork plant has reopened even though they fit employee has died from covid 19. the plant reopened even though jps managers have not teststed l of its employees for the disease as they had promised. here in new york, transit officials are teaming up with the nypd to force unhoused people from the subway system. under a new policy, people will not be allowed to remain in a subway station for more than an hour, and will be removed from trains that reach the end of a subway line. on tuesday, new york governor andrew cuomo attacked unhoused people for sheltering in subway cars. disisgusting what is happening on those subway cars. it is disrespectful to the essentntial workers who need to ride the subway system. amy: coalition for the homeless responded -- "more policing won't stop homeless individuals from taking refuge in the subways because it

doesn't address what people actually need -- safe, private space so they can take the advice of health officials to maintain social distance. the city could open up thousands of hotel rooms and offer every single person on the subway access to them, if only mayor de blasio had the political will." new york governor cuomo has repeatedly rejected the idea of raising taxes on wealthy new yoyorkers toto pay for servicesr the unhouseded. a new survey of georgia hospitals finds more than 80% of covid-19 patients are black, even though african americans make up just 30% of georgia's population. it's the latest evidence that the coronavirus is disproportionately affecting people of color in the united states. meanwhile, native american tribal governments report they haven't received any of the $8 billion in direct emergency payments promised by congress in last month's $2 trillion coronanavirus relief bill.

wisconsin state e health officis say more than 50 people who either worked at polling places or voted in n wisconsin's presidential primary earlier this month have tested positive for the coronavirus. democratic governor tony evers tried to delay voting in the april 7 election, but was overruled by the conservative majority on wisconsin's supreme court. wisconsin state assembly speaker robin vos -- who wore a surgical mask, gloves, and hospital gown to a polling place -- declared the risk of in-person voting was minimal. wisconsisin is planning another rounund of in-personon voting oy 12 in a special electition to fl a vacant congressional seat. in el paso, texas immigrant , six women suffering from underlying health conditions have been freed from an ice jail. the women had sued ice demanding to be released from el paso

processing center during the covid-19 pandemic, as at least 7 immigrants have tested positive for the virus. in louisiana, mother jones reports two guards at the richwood correctional center have recently died of what colleagues say were complications from covid-19, although, tests are pending. at l least 45 peoplele in the custody of ice at t richwood hae tested positive for the virus. newly obtained emails have revealed details in immigration and customs enforcement officials systematically retaliated against immigrant rights activists in recent years. one name that appears repeatedly is that of maru mora villalpando, an undocumented activist and leader of the grassroots organization la resiststencia based in washingtn state. the group has recently held severacar rallies outside the northwest dention center in tacoma in support of hunger strikers inside who demand their immediate release amid the pandemic. in the messages, ice agents sign they hoped initiating deportation proceedings against mora villalpando would "take away some of her clout."

the uncoverered emails are partf an ongoing federal litigation led by la resistencia against ice's continuous targeting of immigrant rights advocates across the country. and former georgia gubernatorial candidate stacey abrams on defended democratic presidential tuesday candidate joe biden as he faces sexual assault allegations from former aide tara reade. >> i believe thahat women desere to be heard and i believe that they n need to b be listenedd tt ii also bebelieve thatat those algagations haveve to be investigated by credible sources. a deepw york times" did investigation and found the a deepion was not investigation and found the accusation was not credible.

i believe joe biden. amy: new developments of the alleged assault emerged monday as two more people who knew tara reade in the 1990's came forward to corroborate details of her account, including a former colleague who said reade had spoken of being sexually harassed by her former boss in washshington, d.c. the alleged assault happened in 1993, when readede was working s a staffer in then-senator biden's office. to see our interview with tara reade, visit democracynow.org. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, demomocracynow.orgrg, the quarae report. when we come back, we will be spspking with the great frfrench ececonomist thomas p piketty. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

singingnch opera singer from his balcony in paris, france.. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman in new york city, the epicenter of the pandemic. joined by my co-host, nermeen shaikh, who is staying home to help stop cocommunity readad. hi, nermeeeen!

nermeen: good morning,g, amy. welcome to all of f our listenes and viewers fromom around the country and around the world. today we look at how the coronavirus pandemic has shone a light on inequality around the world. the world food program warns the pandemic could lead to a massive spike in global hungnger, and a new report predicts more than 100 million people in cities worldwide will likely fall into poverty. the united nations labor agency said wednesday some 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy "stand in immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed" by the global economic catastrophe triggered by the pandemic. well, for more on how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted the most vulnerable and whether this crisis could be a catalyst for change, we are joined from paris by french economist thomas piketty, whose work focuses on wealth and income inequality. his 2014 internationally

best-selling book "capital in the twenty-first century" looked at economic inequality and the necessity of wealth taxes. his new book, more than 1000 pages long, is called "capital and ideology" and has been described as a manifesto for political change. thomas piketty, welcome to democracy now! great honor to have you with us. can you talk now about how this pandemic is likely to trigger the sharpepest recession in the united states since the great depression, perhaps the depression? can you talk about the long-term effects of the crisis and perhaps whatat can be done to te urate it? booook isshow in my new thatat this kind of crisis [indiscernible]

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amy: thomas s piketty, i hate to cut you off but will have a minute ago and i want to ask you, the u.s. labor department has just released its latatest unemployment numbers as you were speaking. three point 8 million people file for unemployment benefits in the last week, so tot brings the total number 30 million people who h have fid for unemployment in just six weeks. i want to go back to two months ago, bernie sanders was the democratic runner for president, a man u supported, the unemployment rate was threeee point 5% and the was just reported its first coronavirus death. thent to ask you about significance of this. last month you tweeted a graph showing voter turnout from 1945 to 2020 which revealed that far fewer americans over that period

have voted in elections than the electorate in either britain or france. you tweeted -- "sanders to the aid of u.s. democracy. only a full-scale reorientation of the type proposed by sanders would eventually rid american democracy of the inegalitarian practices which undermine it and deal with the electoral disaffection of the working classes." that is what you wrote then. talk about what has happened in this two months, what you think needs to happen, this as the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says states should simply go bankrupt unless they agree to republican austerity plan, and then they might get some u.s.s. governmentnt aid. statement -- [indiscernible]

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amy: i want to thank you so much, thomas piketty, and there's so much wawant to talk about the people can read a lot about your thoughts in your new book. thomas piketty is a french economist whose work focuses on wealth and income inequality. his new book is just out called "capital and ideology." when we come back, president trump invoked the defefense production act to bar local governments from closing meatpacking plants around the the, even though they are major hotspots for ththe cocoronavirus. what does this mean for the thousands of w workers who have gotten sick? we wilill get response frorom gl health experert lawrence gostin. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: mozart's "the marriage of figaro" performed by the national orchestra of ill du france while socially distancing in their homes. playing alone togethther. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, , the quarante report. with nermeenman shaikh. this week president trump on tuesday invoked the defense to bar localt governments from closing

meatpacking plants around the united states. his executive order comes as u.s. beef, pork, and poultry processing plants are linked to areas with the highest rates of coronavirus transmission in thee country. topping the list is a region around sioux city, iowa, where confirmemed coronavirus casesese momore than dodoubling every da, with outbreaks at a massive tyson foods beef plant and a seaboard triumph foods pork plant. trump's order declares meat planants critical infrastructur. he announced it on workers' memorial day, an international day of remembrance and action for workers killed or disabled on the job. at least 20 meatpacking workers have died from covid-19 and thousands have fallen ill from the disease. this comeses as federal guidelis for social distancing are set to expire today, leaving states to determine their plans for reopening. the iowa governor kim reynolds has threatened workers who don't want to return to work because of the coronavirus, saying they will not receive unemployment benefits. nebrbraska wororkers also risk

losing unemployment if they refuse to turn to their jobs. this is trump responding to reporter in the oval office wednesday. >> mr. president, what can he do to help businesses with liability issues as workers come back in states that have open up? pres. trump: we just worked with the meat processors, and if you think about it, a form of delivery, we have tremendous product. we have ample supply. but there was a bottleneck caused by this whole pandemic and it was potentially pretty serious. i just got off the phone with the biggest in the world, the biggest distributors there are, the big companies you've been reading about. they are so thrilled, so happy. we solve their problems. we unblocked some of the bottlenecks. amy: in a statement, stuart appelbaum, president of the retail, wholesale and department store union, said -- "we only wish that this administration cared as much about the lives of working people as it does about meat, pork, and poultry products."

well, for more, we're joined by lawrence gostin, a professor at georgetown university where he -- and directs the world health organization center on national and global health law, and has served as a senior adviser to the who for three decades. he is also the global editor for jama: the journal of the american medical association. he joins us from his home e in washington, d.c. lawrence gostin, interestingly, last time you joined us on democracy now! several years ago, it was to discuss the obama administration caving to the meat lobby in its dietary guidelines despite who findings that processed meat can cause cancer. i want to welcome you back to democracy now! in a minute, we want to ask you attack on the world health organization, removing its funding. but right now i want to ask you about this massive decision he has made as thousands of workers have taken ill with covid-19,

president trump issues this executive order saying states cannotot close meatpacking p pl. talk a about the s significacanf this. the defensemember production act was relieved to kind of martial ouour production for kind of a warlike state. if you think about if we are in we need isweapons not meat and pork. the weapons we need are testing equipment, ventilators, and early personal protective equipment for our brave health workers, doctors and nurses and others in hospitals. so that is what the act should be used for. actually quiteng andalthy products like beef pork. but that is even a sideshow. amy: not to mention the very concern of the workers as they

don't have p protective equipipt that t they need. >> exactly. that is a really gooood point. thank you. also, when congress passed that act, it certrtainly did not have in mind that the president had the powower or the rightht to pt workers lives and health at risk. remember, it is not just the workers that are being put at risk. it is the workers spouses, their wider families all being placed at risk. no president does have the right to endanger the people of the united states, and certainly not to produce an unhealthy product. so what do we do now?? while theye states might still want to close those

meatpacking plants noun and let the federal government try to litigate it. but if not, they certainly should exercise their public health powers. because congress clearly did not fromd to prevent states assuring the heaealth and safety of the population, in particular, the workforce. just first start to mistake public health departments anand governors should slap on really major sanctions against firms that don't ovide adequate rsonal ptetection equipipnt, adequate social distancing, a to take every posossible rigigos manager to ensur that -- measure to ensure the safety of these women and men. go amymy:of you want to these memen and women n are overwhelmingly immigrants and

african americans. >> they are. to say we can just trust the meatpackcking o operators in the industry to do this, self-evidently, we can't. if you go back into history, there's a long history of abusing immigrant labor in meatpacking plants. and also self-evidently, safety precautions haven't been taken because people have died and they're getting sick in the thousands. why would we -- why would we want to put hard-working americans and their families at risk? why would we want to have them choose between their livelihood and their lives or the lives of their chchildren? -- it has no heart. it has no compassion. foremost, the and

first responsibilitity of anyny leader, any g government, is the healalth and safety and well-beg of its popopulation. so this is really unfororgivabl, i think. nermeen: p professor gostin, we need to turn now to the world health organization. you advised the who d decades. president trump first accused china as well as the who for being responsible for the pandemic. could you respond to that? of course, then trump cutting funding to the who. could you respond to his decision to dodo that as well as ththe fact that you have said repeatedly that whatever the failingsgs of the who and chin, the u.s. is responsible itself for r its lack of preparedness r the pandemic? could you talk also about what the u.s. should have done differently and should do now?

levels the so many re.. i i have worked with the world health organization under many director generals s for many years, and thehe current dirirer geneneral, the first african hed of the world health organization , i know w him well. he is a man of great integrity, great compassion. he cares a lot. wworking with the whwho, can sometitimes be maddening. yes, thehey can be slow, they cn be bureaucratic. but my god, what they've done for the world. they have eradicated sllllpox. they aren the verge of eradicating wild polio. they work in child and maternal health. they save the lives of under five children. they save the lilives of women undedergoing childbirth. they work i idiet and obebesity

and cancer and h heart disease, mental health, injury prevention .. i could go on and on. kick theey just try to world healalth organization aftr all it has done on a budget around the size of one large u.s. hospital, i mean, rather than criticizing the who, we should be dropping our jaw and taking them fofor all the things they have done -- thanking them for all the things they've done. so what about this particular episode with the coronavirus in china? president trump has said the who took china's side but there is no sides to a pandemic. yes, dr. taters did praise china but he is also praised trump. that is just diplomomacy. i don't think he thinks either president or xi jinping have done a particularly great job on

this. and basically, the who has been caught in a geopolitical power struggleetween the world to superpowers. and at a time of a once a message republic health c crisis that could not be more destructive. so what should the united states do? it shohould lead a global coalition to at least double and at least double the funding of the world health organization. right now we have the who we deserve bebecause we have provid .t with pitiful financing we havave given it controlol ovr less than one quarter of its budget because we just earmark all ofof the f funds that we wat for our pet p projects. we don't give it any political backing. print positive is as soon as s u get on the e wrong side of the amererican president, he withdrs funding.

thes that providing political capital, the d directr general needs to speak truth to power? once inis as -- it is a a titime crisis but it is alsosa once in a time -- lifetime opportunity that every major catastrophe. for me t the opportuninity woule to prorovide an embolden strengh and, well-funded pololitically backed world health organization . so in future pandemics come and for future health cririses, wee have the who we so richly need, which is a powerfull one that will stand u uto big governments and stand for science, health, and equity. and that is what the who was therefore, and that is why the united nations agency -- johohn amy: i want to thank you so much, professor lawrence gostin,

founding o'neill chair in global health law. director of the world health organization center on national and global health law, and has --

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