about boris johnson president trump has been talking about borisjohnson plasma ‘s health based on a phone call the two menny had earlier this week. do we have a ny clear had earlier this week. do we have any clear idea of when borisjohnson is going to fully return to work? well, not yet. but we have heard that a fungal to president trump is one of the things that boris johnson has done this week. —— phone call. he has had its weekly audience with the queen over the phone. he has been speaking to deputy dominic raab. he is not doing government work. he has made the phone call to president trump. president trump was asked about that conversation he had earlier this week. he called me a few days ago. i will tell you he sounded incredible. i was actually surprised. i thought it would be like, oh, donald, how are you? he was ready to go. i'm very surprised to tell you this. it was like the old boris. tremendous energy, tremendous drive. i was very surprised because he told me almost, pretty close to when he got out of the hospital. i think it is doing great. i think he's doing great. he was so great. i think h

so the three "w"s classify what i call the health care privilege, which are white, wealthy, and wombless, which typically are menree classes of people tend to have better outcomes across the board. >> i talk about three other things, the unholy medical trinity that is responsible for so much of the underlying disease in the african-american community. i've been kind of amazed at the number of people who seem to be hearing this this week for the first time -- heart disease, hypertension, diabetes. talk a little bit about that and this staggering death toll percentage among african-americans. i left out detroit. we're of course seeing it there too. >> right. i mean for me, you can't talk about these health disparities as far as hypertension, diabetes, without speaking about the systemic racism that influences each one of those disease processes. you can't talk about obesity and diabetes without talking about food deserts that exist within the black and brown communities. you can't talk about even chronic illnesses like asthma and chronic bronchitis without talking about environmental racism and the industries that

forward to 1930's, i know many people have heard about the tuskegee syphilis study, but that is a study that was commissioned by the u.s. public health service were uneducated black mennrolled in a study without informed consent, meaning they did not know why they would be in the study. they were known to have syphilis, but they were told that they had bad blood. and even once a treatment, penicillin, had been discovered andsyphilis, the enrollees participants were never told her there was a treatment and they were never treated. so they were promised free meals, free medical care. and several other promises. in order to get them to be in the study, and the only reason the study was interrupted and ended was because there was a black epidemiologist who discovered the study was taking place. all that to say that there are cases, there are situations in our history where black communities have not only been neglected, but violated by the health care system. so even fast-forward to thinking about hiv. we have some of the highest rates of hiv in this country among -- they are in black communities, specifically black women. and thinking about the structural barriers in pl

state health department. 86% of those who died had some type of underlying illness statewide. 61% were men and 63% were over 70. officials warned new yorkers should not be complacent. the governor 'sust heard for those who violate the rules on social distancing, also extended the times schools and businesses will remain closed until april 29th. new york continues to try and find more hospital beds. president trump agreed to the governor's request to treat coronavirus patients on the navy ship the comfort and the episcopal church is now helping with the battle and is joining forces with mount sinai hospital at the cathedral of st. john the divine. back to you in the studio. >> sandra: david lee miller, thank you for your reporting on the ground there in new york. now to albany where the governor is now speaking. >> three day averaging of these numbers, the three day averages down, which is good news. this is the three-day hospitalization rate. we tend not to look at any one day, day-to-day is up somewhat but if you look at the three-day average, it is moving down, which is good news. we talk about the apex and is the apex of plateau, and right now, we are projecting that we are rea