and when blue cross welcome to the program for the 1st time in centuries the pope has held an easter sunday mass largely alone a live stream was made available for those who want to watch as most of the world's 1300000000 catholics celebrate the holy day under coronavirus lockdown pope francis called this year in easter of solitude. he swapped his normal audience of thousands for empty pews and the echoes of an empty suit peter's basilica. pope francis delivered his message behind closed doors amid the ongoing lockdown in corona virus hit bitterly. cold for global solidarity to fight the virus. in light of the present circumstances. may international sanctions be relaxed. since these make it difficult for countries on which they have been imposed. to provide adequate support for their citizens. and may all nations be put in the position to meet the greatest needs of the moment. if not the forgiveness. in the balance sheets of the poorest nations. also expressed particular concern for the future of europe saying innovative solutions were needed to get through this tough period. europe

i'm when blue cross welcome to the program the united states has overtaken italy to become the country with the highest death toll from the corona virus pandemic more than 20000 people have now died in the u.s. according to johns hopkins university now italy's death rate is still considerably higher than america's that's because the u.s. has more than triple the total confirmed cases then italy nearly 530000 public health officials have said this is no time to think about easing restrict. which could drive the death toll far higher. debbie used correspondent oliver sol is in washington oliver a long way we are from those more optimistic predictions that donald trump was making about virus not being such a big deal in the u.s. what accounts for these really grim numbers well if you were to ask president trump himself and he's trying to blame china hero for not being on a stove all the the threat and the intensity of the pemmican the 1st place he also tries to blame the world health organization for not calling it a pandemic early enough and of course trump gets a big share of the critic

blue cross blue shield. this is the benefit of blue. >>> welcome back.ork state is planning to randomly test thousands of residents this week for covid-19 antibodies as a move to think about reopening the state's economy. but in addition to still falling far short of the number of tests that would be needed to truly get new york back to work, there are a lot of other potential pitfalls, including that we don't know fountain tests are reliable. here is dr. fauci this morning. >> the problem is that these are tests that need to be validated and calibrated. and many of the tests out there don't do that. so even though you hear about companies saying, flooding the market with these antibody tests, tloleav a lot of them ar validated. when you have an antibody protected against reinfection but that has not been proven for this particular virus. >> still so much we don't know. dr. clayton dalton is an emergency room doctor at massachusetts general hospital. and dr. patel is from the brookings institution and a former health policy director in the obama administ

blue cross blue shield. this is the benefit of blue. >>> welcome back.s afternoon the house oversight committee released an hhs document that according to the committee shows the critical medical supplies from the national stockpile were not distributed to states based on their requests. the oversight committee also says the national stockpile is depleted of personal protective equipment for front line workers. a shortage of ppe has been one of the top concerns for health care workers and hospitals across the country who are putting themselves in harm's way and many of whom are now facing the illness themselves. joining me now two of the doctors on the front lines of the crisis. we have dr. ranney an emergency room physician and dr. austin also an emergency physician and president of the government services chapter of the american college of emergency physicians. she has also served in iraq. so welcome to you both. dr. ranney, let me start with you. on one hand i guess i should be relieved to know that the stockpile is deplated on one end because it does

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here is about to invade so taking rain across france and cross the border into germany low countries and this will be welcome right now the blue is obvious the rain is spread all over it cities come up to spain and portugal you go to drawing scene here for the rain invoke is heading in that direction and example then the forecast for vienna for tuesday wednesday and thursday increasingly like to get rain obviously when see the hit day it's still quite warm on cheezy above average that's been the case throughout austria germany denmark for example so this is a big change tempered down to around about the average and rainfall is what you might expect to spring and just haven't seen it and that's the case for wednesday is also the case for thursday which means that the few showers you see druggy across the as mountains and now geria are on their way out this is been a fairly wet period recently and i think that also will change was more sunshine and slightly rising temperatures the breezes coming down through egypt is larger than it was the temps in the sahara still in the middle forty's and the showers a study coming up in west