zanny minton beddoes, and ian bremer. paul, let me start with you. sometimes feel as though we're even mislabeling this when we talk about a recession or a depression. we have never seen anything like this. this is more like a great paralysis, mark zandy at moody's says if you look at it now, you have had essentially what would amount to a 75% decline in gdp in the united states. how do we comprehend something like this? >> the metaphor i've been using is that this is -- it's like a medically induced coma where doctors deliberately shut down a lot of the brain's function in order to give a patient a chance to -- a chance to recover from severe blow. what we have seen so far is mostly not a recession in the normal sense. recessions happen when there is not enough spending, there's not enough demand more goods. what's happened instead we have deliberately shut down a large part of the economy because we're trying to avoid activities that can spread the disease. we have done that way too late. but it's what has to be done. and overwhelmingly what we're

better into his lungs a corona virus infection can lead to fight for survival i thank you she says by minton this but with intensive care patients you're supposed to be ready for an emergency 247 on the alert around the clock i believe that the disease is simply unpredictable. and that his profession that. she hears the constant beeping sound throughout a working day right now there are 6 coronavirus patients in the intensive care unit the nurses here are working up to 20 hours of overtime every week but despite all efforts they sometimes lose patients and this can be tough. to model this cognition i mean when we feel powerless we stand there and don't know how to treat them. divison it should be come up there haven't been any proper studies this is something totally new and we do our best sometimes it's not enough my father walked out as best. as the model described i'm. alexandra webb is not allowed to let relatives visit the coronavirus patients and this makes a sad. moment at the time and with time we learn how to cope with it but honestly this is overwhelming it's hard. alexander webb a

allowed out for an hour a day with a special permit the very urgent needs for example oh food as minton's that calls we also had some of the latest figures here in france and in the last 24 hours probably has now surpassed the $10000.00 death toll so very critical figures very worrying figures indeed for the french government that is why most people in france expect the french government to extend this lockdown even further beyond to april to 55 how long no one knows it's really something that seems to develop and change state but the french president tomorrow michael is due to speak to the nation on french television on thursday evening french time and perhaps that would be something that he will touch upon natascha about for there for us and under len and fronts thank you natasha. still ahead on al-jazeera in nicaragua the government is actively encouraging people to go out. conspicuous by his absence. and just when the. right. to the rescue. rises. the seasonal rains the really heavy across the good parts of indonesia or at the moment is the usual scattering of showers for much of sout

aaron minton became appointed with nature. and she actually learned to love it. she became very familiar with the herbs need it for the healing of wounds for finding of illness. and medical assistance was rarely given to enslaved people but became a very valuable skill set. she also learned the geography of the eastern shore of maryland. her strength and success, and agricultural work allowed her to hie herself out so eventually, estimate sort of moved into a young adulthood, she sort of strikes a deal with their owner. and he had agrees to let her hire herself out. to do this agricultural work and she paced him 50 to $60. a lot of her name. that was in the 19th century. anything else that she earned, she could keep. and so we think about this sort of active autonomy and figuring out a time he was in the institution of slavery and what to do with that her name she was able to save from working other farms. it is kind of unimaginable. she actually saved that her na name. and she hired a lawyer. this is an enslaved black woman. and who is the 1840s, from the easter