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With two major candidates left in the democratic president ial hocontest, we look at w the campaign will change in the wake of the coronavirus. Nada for all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. President donald trump has declared the u. S. National emergency over the coronavirus, ening access to 50 billion in funds for the fight against the tbreak. Cases in the United States have climbed and 41 people have died, but the real number infected is likely larger given th lack of testing. I spoke earlier to th bbcs Gary Odonoghue from the white house. Whatxactly does this national emergencyo r states and localities . Gary well, it frees up a certain amount of money, 50 llion under the legislation, and would also allow various agencies to ive regulations around the way hospitals and clinicians operate, put more flexibility into the system. It would allow the secretary of health and Human Services to have much morelebility in the way they operate to make sure that tests are carried out, for example. There is a whole slew of different measures. On top of all that, the president is talking about waiving the interest on Student Loans for the time being and tapping the Strategic Petroleum reserve becae of the price of oil. He mentioned during the press conference that he m consider including the United Kingdom in the travel ban that comes in at midnight tonight them the press conference, quite extraorinarily,e seemed to move from position where he was not going to have a test himself to an posithere he said he most likely would have a test because of the proximity he had to the brazilian president and his aide in particular who developed coronavis the aide, that was they are working out a schedule for that the president does look like he will havnaa test for corus. Nada the president is going to have a test, when just two weeks ago he said this was a hoax to hurt his presidency. Do you get a sense he is taking this more seriously now . Even in thpress conference you saw him shaking hands with officials. Gary yeah,ot and i think af people will be very surprised at that, because it does seem to be a couple of instances where that happened. The advice is very clear thato you should not that, then you should not really get into big gatherings or anything like that, regularly wash your own hands. In some sense it is an extraordinary thing for the president to be not taking that advised given that he is a self admitted rman folk. Germaphobe. He said that himself in the past. On the testing question, he said at up to 5 million testsavill be made lable. Two big labs in america, they are the people that effectively do all the testing around this nation blood tests, etc. The two big businesses that do that, got them on board. Beanuse this is america, there will be drivethros. H test center nada Gary Odonoghue joining us from the white house, thank you much. Experts still predicted that the worst of this virus is yet to come, with the number of cases expected to grow in the coming days and weeks, hospitals and mecal officials are trying their best to prepare. Emergency physician and Public Health professor at George Washington university. She pre commissioner for the city of baltimore. The key issue for thes administrationsting. President comes that they will have half a million additional test spresident trumd they will have half a million additional tests xrayed and 5 million at some point. Are you really figure that . Relieved to hear that . Well, im really to hear that there will be more test because right now there are not nearly enough, and we are a whole month behind. We have no idea the degree of cofmunity spread ovid19 all over the country because people cou be spreading this disease who have mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. Clinicians like myself dont have test kits. Patients may be exhibiting symptoms. We just dont have enough tests for them. Until we have tests can we wont be able to properly eat the patients who are already here or figure out what is the extent of the spread in our community. We could be missing hundreds if not thousands of cases in communities all around the u. S. Da absolutely, and i think the last f days in particular have shown people just how upending this virus can be. How long do you expect this will last . There are different estimates, and many peopho are wondering long schools will be closed, how long businesses will be closed, and what the impact of this will be longterm. We ve entered a new phase in the u. S. , wheregeople are gohrough a challenging time. Tiits disr to our everyday life to have schools be closed and all these events being canceled. Ani dont know, i dont big any experts know how long this is going to last, because we dont know dixon thenote the extent of theroem right now already, but we do know that things are going to get a lot worse before there is any chance of it getting better. There are many undiagnosed cases in u. S. Theris Community Spread throughout thedo. S. We jut know how bad it is. If we look at the expense of china and italy ansouth korea, we know that the big escalation inof cases will be c up. Nada absolutely. You mentioned italy hospitals have been overwhelmed. Prepared . In the United States will we have enough ventilators, what we have in a hospitaldreds . Wen if we have a mild outbreak, we will probably be fine because it will result a bad flu season. But if we have a moderately ze outbreak, we will be completely overwhelmed. Even in a moderate outbreak we will need Something Like 200,000 intensive care beds. Crying out in the u. S. We have less than 100,000, and most of these beds are already occupied with other patients. We could be facing a worstcase scenario whereld patients c get sick all at the same time and we just dont have enough intensive care units or ventilators to be able to treat all these ill patients. If that were to happen, we would have to ration, care raition care, and doctors would have to be in the untenable position of deciding who gets these precious reso aces who dont and die as a result. We have to ftten the curve, so that people dont get samk all of thetime. Even if the same number of people get sick, at least the lness will be spread out over time and we dont overwhelm the healna care system. certainly. Dr. Wen, thank you so much for your insight. Now, this week the stock market had one of its roughest decades. N while most indexes made back some of the losses today, over hae course of the week the dow jones fell more 10 . The s p and nasdaq declined more than eight points as well. I spoke to the bbcs michelle ckeury from the new york s exchange. When the president spom the oval offic last wednesday, the market didnt react kindly to his statements. How do they react today after he spoke . Michelle it was astonishing to sethe sort of graph suddenlyas spike up as he speaking, and it carried on in that direction pretty much until trading ended the session, with all three than 9 . S. Indices all the volatility we have seen this week it is worth running people, it goes both ways. Awon thursday we she biggest drop black monday, the crash in 1987. Today at the end of the trading session, the biggest jump since 2008. All of this intervention hopes amongst investorsis driven by hopes amongst investoon that help ihe way. You have a comment by President Donald Trump declaring a national emergency, partnering with private industry to address the crisis. You have hopes that congress will come up with the stimulus plan. This is at was buoying investors today. Rsof c from what we have seen is that each hour brings new headlines and that seems to move markets. Na part of the work is that nobody knows how long this could go on for and how businesses will be impacted. What do you think the likelihood of a recession is ithe country . Michelle lo look, if you look at what has been announced inhe last 24 hours, major sporting events being canceled think about that for a w moment that means for the parking attendants, concession stands, ticketholders. All of these peopleme are sent nd are sitting idle. That has a real Economic Impact on peops lives. What is going on behind me here, all in the last few weeks, is that you have essentially wall street trying to figure out what e knockon effecpawill be on c profits. We dont really know since we are in some ways only at the ing of this in the unite states we dont know how long it will last, how severe things could get. That is why we continue to pect more of this wild stock market ride. There is some hopeehat perhaps ecovery, once we are through this, will be quick. At this point it is very difficult to anticipate. Nada michelle, im sure we will be speaking with you as the days and k eks go on. Thu so much. An added complication to dealing with the coronavirus in the United States,ompared to most her developed countries, is Financial Access to care. More than 27 million americans live without Health Insurance and may opt out of testing over concerns aboutost. Add to that millions more whose immigration stas means they are scared to get medical help, and you have the potential for the spread of the virus being eatly exacerbated. Aleem maqbool reports from tucson arizona. Aleem this mobile clinic really is just a drop in the ocean, trying to help at least a few of who cant Access Health care. S ive not seen any evidence that anything will be different with the coronavirus. For years and decades we have been ok as a society knowing that there are so many in oure community who ninsured or underinsured. We have been ok. And we are going to pay the Public Health price because these individualsut witccess to care are going to get sicker, are going to spread the disease more frequently, because they are not getting care, they e not getting diagnosed and treated. Aleem even americans who do have insurance dont seek help because of the additional costs involved. We are getting sick a lot, and taking my children to see their pediatrician, it is like 100 each visit, just for a check. And then to tell the or for them tell me that they cannot prescribe anything, that it is just a virus, go home andl h from that. Aleem as well is tof huge numbereople across the United States who dont have any Health Insurance,nd the many more who even though they do are still worried about the cost of seeing a doctor, in border cities therere millions of people who are aaid to seek medical assistthce because of r immigration status. Many have been here since they were children, but still dont have u. S. Citizenship. Some told us they were scared to go to a doctor. Being undocumented for sure is hard itself, just seeking medical attenti, but there is also the aspect of presenting yourself to the legal thsystem tha even have medical facilities, and sometimes you have to present yourself to authorities, and that runs a risk of potentially being depord. Aleem add to all that the fact that there is no requirement in the west offerin the u. S. To offe paid sick leave, and you have a dangerous backdrop that coe d exacerbe spread of the coronavirus here. Aleem maqbool, c news, in tucson, arizona. Nada with all the uncertainties surrounding the coronavirus, there are serious implications for the president ial campaign underway. Joe biden and bernie sandere have slammeddent trumps handling of the pandemic and used t opportunity to contrast the leadership styles. But with new limitargons on gatherings and states like louisiana choosing to postpone election change inake ofl this the virus . I spoke earlier with julia manchester, a political reporter for the hill newspape thanks for being with us, julia. You have louisianaostponing the primary for two months, you have governors in four states how will this impact voters and particularly the elderly . Julia it is going to impact voters in a huge way going into the states nexteek, florida, arizona, ohio, in illinois. Arizona and florida are interesting because they have such high populations of elderly people. You are seeing Election Officials in all four of those states really urging voters, elrly voters in particula to practice early voting, or if well. Ballots asi in frankn county, ohio, they have seen an increase ever since 2016 in the amount of early voting. were seeing early voting double since that time today ahead of the election. That i one measure we are seeing. Going forward, in terms of how the campaigns really address this, this is a new age of virtual campaigning. It is not only going to impact the president ial campaigns joe biden and Bernie Sanders, with more virtual events, but it is also impacti congressional campaigns. Congressman joe kennedy of odmassachusetts announced he will be suspending all in0 perso inperson Campaign Activities and instead will be focusing our virtual campaigning and only addressing the coronavirus. It is a new age, uncharted territory. We will have to see what happe next. Nada yeah, i wanted to ask you about that, because Bernie Sanders innt particular, presi trump, they rely on these big rallies. Do you think voters by now have made up their minds, or do you think this could have a big impact on voters decisions . Julia in this moment it does seem like the delegate math obviously is in favor of j biden. However, you are still seeing bernieto sanders tryin make an impact in midwestern states like ohio and illinois. He is not going to give up yet. We do have the president ial ,ebate that is going to be held here in washingt d. C. , on sunday instead of arizona. This does ultimately hurt Bernie Sanderss campaign in the long runnd because he deso much onhese rallies. This is how he shows how much support he actually has, especially amongoung people. You are going to see his campaign restrategizing how to forward. His issue going President Trump has it a bit easier due to the fact that he has a largertf pm for some he is able to show off his skills as a leader right now and pontially reassure his political be more. I think this ultimately benefits former Vice President biden. Yesterday he was widely praised for his speech, plan addressing the coronavirus, and he has been called very president ial, cal cool, and collected. In contrast i was talking ttr a democraticegist today and he said that sanders and trump were very campaign like. They did not seem like they were trained to reassure the American People in their addresses, but giving more of a campaign speech. Nada julia manchester, thank you so much. Other news. Ick look at some people have die from the coronavirus in a single day. The countrys worst total so far. It brings the number olydeaths in itao 1,266. There are 1700 infections overall. The canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau says that he has no symptoms and is feeling good after his wife tested positive for coronavirus. Speaking from his home, mr. Trudeau said he would continue to selfisolate for 14 days. Avcanadian authorities he suspended parliament and have advised against nonessential travel. You are watching bbc world news america. Still to come on tonights program, finding music through mourning. Helow classical musped one man come to terms with the death of his mother. Ousands of our viewers from around the globe have been sending us your questions about protect yourself to what iso being done by governments to try to tackle the crisis. Our Health CorrespondentCatherine Burns has been taking a look and givi some answers. What is bei done to create a vaccine for it . When is that likely to be blavaito the general public . Sorry to say thi but dont expect a vaccine anytime soon. We are looking at a year to 18 months. Scientists around the world are working on this and some are doing trialsnen animals. Th stage would be human testing. But even if that goes perfectly, once they have got the vaccine, they have got to maskproduce it, anthat will take time what you will find is that they will prioritize cert in groups fi for example, health workers. I wou t likeo know what effect the virus is having on people with asthma and in particular childn with asthma. Catherine we are dealatg with a respy infection. Take your inhaler as you are prescribed to do. Make sure you haven onese you have some kind of flareup. If you think coronavirus is making her asthma worse, get in touch with health professionals. Neyou mentchildren. There is positive news they dont tend to be too highly affected by this virus. I had been wearing a face mask in public spaces and i get what should i do . Should i wear want to protect myself . Catherine i think we are getting que used to seeing ople walking down the street wearing face masks. But if you want to protect yourself, this is not the best way to do it. The evidence just is not there to show they are effective. The thing we keep sing over and again is true wash your hands, wash the well, and watch them often. Was them often. Nada y now to a st how a grieving art critic turned to the music ofh b find solace. Philip kennicott is the author of a new memoir the documents his efforts to learn the composers greatest works. Jane obrien has more. Philip when my mother was dying about 10 years ago, i found myself assessed with the music ofobsessed with the music of bach. After she died, i felt this need to do something. S i a state of not profound grief, but a kind of listlessness. I needed to make sense of this composer who i always liked. Jane e you descrry disturbing moments in the book. What was your relationship with your mother . Philip my mother was very unhappy, and her unhappiness increased throughout my childhood and reached a kind of peak at the point i was a teenager. By the time i was 13, 14, 15, i was keeping her very much at a distance, and for many years after that we had quite formal relationip,ecause it felt necessary as a kind of selfpreservation to keep a distance. It was a difficult relationship. Philip but the 25th is in a minor key. Philip when you are learning a piece of music, you are fighting with so many Different Things your fingers cut your brain, your memory, your eyes, to gain controof these tiny little motions here. Ch gets as far from a g maj he can get in this language. If this is g major, he is going here. The place he does that is just heartbreaking. For me it was learning about accepting my inadequacies in a relationship is something i could about very deeplycared abounevery deeply. So does that help you resolve your relationship with your mother . Philip part of the book deals with bach and who bach was. E you study bach, you realize there is a possi material. It is like shakespeare. We have this enormous volume of his place in aleiny bit of kne who he was. I was going to a similar process with my mothok. I was g at photographs, i was going back and reading tters, i was talking to family. In a way i was trying to construct a biography of her, because i had not known the most essential things about her in the way that biographer needs to know those cap the details to make sense of life. Jane what do you hope people reading the book will take away from it . Philip i hope they will listen to this infamousmportant greatest achieveme western civilization. Second, i hope they will think about their relationship to art. You can increase it c increaserief, it can increase feelings of sadness. I dont think we think enough about that. The darker side and the more complex ways that art iacts us, does that is where the power and the value lies. It is not a tylenol you take when you are feeling badly. Meit is ing else, something that intensifies life rather than suitsoothes us. Nada before we go, lets return to our main story. Ases countround the globe continue to feel the effects of the coronavirus, these mre some of tt stunning images from the week that was. As more cases continue to appear, World Health Officials and governments have and lamented intense mea to crack down on the spread of covid19, leaving many iconic locations and large venues ne. Ly emp remember, you can find more on all of that and the days news at our website. Plus, to see what we a working on at any time. Check us on twitter. Presentation of this programro isded by. Woman collette guides travelers to experience the world in more than 160 destinations across five travel styles, like small group explorations. Their inclusive tours feature local guides, cultural experiences, meals and accommodations. Since 1918, collette has guided travelers around the world. Learn more at collette. Com smallgroup. Man babbel, an Online Program developed by language specialists teaching spanish, french, and more. Narrator g was also provided by, the freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solecions for americas ned needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Narrator youre watching pbs. Captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc woodruff good evening. Im judy woodruff. D the newshour tonight i am officiallaring a national emergency. Woodruff the state of the pandemic. Utnancial markets rally, b major shutdowns continue to cascade. A federaaid package is still up in the air as covid19 touches every aspect of american life. Then, coping with the coronavirus. P we examine thesychological effects of the pandemic how to address our fears, and finding a healthy state of mind in a crisis. Ha i thinkwere getting into is a spiral of fear that is leading people to engage in responses that arenvery helpful. Woodruff and, its friday