This is bbc world news america. The coronavirus outbreak has killed more people in america than in china. The value of testing. How germany is ready for a surge in cases. Throwing out the Business Plan to help in the crisis. How Companies Big and small in the u. S. Are helping to fight the outbreak. For all obsf you watching on and around theom globe, weto world news america. The International Crisis intensified today. More than 3600 people have been killed in the United States. 900 have died in new york city. Doctors and nurses say that they are desperately shortal of crit equipment. A powerful symbol of the nations effort toe combat coronavirus. Covid19 has claimed the lives of more than 3000 americans, surpassing the numbeed of people kin the 9 11 attacks. Health care workers and Emergency Responders continued to work overtime to meet the challenge. They do so at great personal risk knowing that the toughest weeks lie ahead. New yorks gornor andrew cuomo said that the virus has proved to be more dangerous tha expected. I is the great equalizer. I dont care how smart, how rich, how powerful that you think you are. I dont care how young, how old. This virus is the great ualizer. The next phase of recovery should focus on infrastructure. In the meantime, governors and mayors across the country are learning from new york. A drivethrough testing site. Three of four americans will soon be under stayathome orders. Soci distancing guidelines appear to be working. Mr fauci we are starting to see that the daily increases are not in that steep incline. Athey starting to flatten out. You look at it cefully, hope it is going in the right direction. Thats what you are trying to attain, that multiphase ent wheret starts to down. Thats not the only good news. John krzyzewski launched a newscast to share uplifting stories called some good news. Steve carell even joined in. Steve i guarantee that the bottom half of what you have on does not match the top. [laughter] i am definitely weari jams. A nice distraction for those eager to reminisce about simpler times. To talk more, im joined by an epidemiologist d senior fellow at the American Federation of scientists. More than 3600mericans have been killed by conavirus. More than 180,000 are affected. What is your reaction to the staggering scale . I first reactioul is that it have been so preventable had we had testing and surveillance dating back to early february. These numbers are low because there is an enormous amount of under diagnosis. Even in new york city, they are only testing those who are hospitalized or health care workers. They are not doingommunity testing. They are discouraging it. That sho we are not going to be able to stop this virus. Laa we lost you there for a minute. Howhen dr. A fauci says that maybe we are flattening the curve, what do you make of that . What he is saying is that it is becomin less exponential. It is still going up, but it is going up less steeply. If you look at the t graph, deaths are still going up quickly. New york city is still the highest rate of any region in the world,urpassing spain, italy, france. In terms of cases, they are bending aittle, bke i would not o see that bend with a south koreanype of testing. Anyone shows a couch, immediately quarantined, tested, contact traced. Thats how you stop the epidemic. Im notd encoura when it is bending down and new york city says stop doing community teing. We need more frontier o testing cases that just developed. That is how you stop it. Laura the president isth saying he hnt heard about problems with testing. Is that credible . It is not credible at all. He has had advisors tellin him about this pandemic risk for a long time but he dismissed it as the corona flu and as a democratic hoax. Right now the president changes from closing or opening business at eastero the end of april. I dont think we will able to open up until at least may, if not june. Th is not going to slow down enough, and we are not going to capture it enough because it is the community spreading that is worse thanhe hospital cases. That is what we have to ramp up for. Im hopeful that we can get ere. Laura howbout Wearing Masks . Would that help us if we wore them in public . Think masks is the next phase. These general surgical masks, at or least bandanas or scarves. It has shown that it reduces the air droplets or where your every day can spray these droplets far away. Instead they will be ctained. They do filter out some particleot all. A mask wearing society like a station like east asian countries. Laura t tonight. Or joining us the coronavirus has caused havoc forho american s d colleges. Many have shut down for 55 million students. Replacing in pern classes with Remote Learning has exposed americas wifi divide. My next guest joins me now. Thousands of kids here in new york city and across the count dont have wifi at home or a ptop. How are they supposed to learn remotely . I think crises like this expose the huge disparities that have existed forever beten the haves and the havenots. When you have a crisis, the most vuerable get hit the hardest. Education disruption, the most vulnerable or disadvantaged get hit the hardest. This is all three of those rolled into one. Its a tsunami. It shines aright spotlight on those disparitie i think it is a huge opportunity to force u to grapple with that reality. What you a seeing across the countrys philanthropy, the privat sector steppg up to get hundre of thousands of devices out to their most disadvan sgeddents. Chicago announc 100,000t devices going e door. For once and for all, we can address some of these huge inequities. That could be on of th good things that comes out of this terrible time. Laura should wifi be like electricity . Recogned as vital for all children . Ihink we have to look at this as the new normal. I think children should be able to learn whatever theyant at any time, any where, any place. The idea that learning takes place in a physical building from 9 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. Is an ancient thought. Our children,t whether i is innercity new york or chicago, they should be able to learn whatever they want to validate anything 20 47 24 7. Laura some kids may lose six months of formal learning. Whatat impact could then hav critical time, especially those headed for college . We have to do everything that we can not to let that happen. I am talking to superintendents around the country every wk. They are working very hard. Its not just education. We are trying to get food out to famies. Schools are also Food Distribution outlets. To see them going well is a lifesaving good. Secondly, you have kids who may have Mental Health issues doing telehealth, counseling, socl workers, psychologists. Yes, on the learning side, the short answer is we cannot allow six months of learning loss to happen, particularly those who might be on the verge of dropping out orraduating high school. Making sure teachers are staying in touch with their students weekly and daily, seeking out those students that are harder e contactmaking ou texting. We have to do everything that we n not to allow that happen. Apwhatns in the summer is a wide open question. If we are able to go back to school, i would love to see mandatory Summer School across the country, to put teachers back to work, get students back in school. Let teachers teach and get the income. Th may be possible anday not. Laura lets hope so. Artie duncan, thank yor being withs. Thank you. Laura turninghe to europe germanyshief Health Advisor has warned that the rate of deaths from thricoronavirus is ng. So many have beent tested t the authorities may be ready for the surgeon cases. Our berlin correspondent jenny hi reports. They are working day and night in germanys laborde tories. Laboratories. Positive cases picd up early. People were asked early months agole pe are escalated as well. Europes ski resor closed now but many early german cases were skiers, returning from eir brakes. The average age of ainfected person in germany is 47. Thisee 17 people, elderly and vulnerable, died here. The government acknowledged that the death rate is rising. People did not appear in ouru test now w see cases in care homes. We have to expect that the death rate will rise. Germanys relatively low death rate has intrigued experts and politicians alike around the world. While the suggestion ishe, it is far too soon to say for sure whether theass testing strategy will pay off. On french soil, a patient bound for germany. The are still early days. The real crisis is yet to arrive. Laura de spain has recits worst daily figure yet for fatalities. 849 have died bringing the National Death toll thousand. Struggling hospitals in madrid has started transferring patientso a Convention Center which has been transformed into a makeshift hospital. The Cabinet Office minister admits that the government needs to go further faster to carry out more tests but says thousands more ventilators will be available in the weeks. The duke and duchess of sussex formallytepped down as senior members of britains royal family. From now on, prince harry and his wife meghan will no longer use the term royal in their titles. Ther psay they look forward to reconneing with their followers soon. Officials across india are searching for hundreds of people who attended a religious event linked to thousands of coronavirus cases. Officials are now clearing the ebuilding where m than 1000 people are stranded since the people at a religiouskdown. Gathering are being evacuated and sent to isolation centers. Dozens have tested positive for the coronavirus. Some have died. The days after, a large number of people remained at the mosque. Manyhe are showing symptoms of disease. India is grappling with the spread of cora. There is also anger about its treatment. A group of people sprayed with chemicals in what appears to have been an attempt to sanitize them as theyur tried to retto their villages from the cities an investigation has been hundreds of thousands of daily wage earners have been left shelter. Money, food, and we are laborers. We have nothing now. T they say thaty be one or two months without work. We cannot even go back to our villages. Around india, the government and private organizations have been trying to hp. Many are asking why tre was no plan in place before the shutdown was announced. The attempt is to stop corona from spreading here. It will be used to sanitize roads. By grinding the leaves of tumor rick, of turmeric, they ve sanitize the entire village. Chwhoever enters has to wis hands. This is a strict edict. In the cities, streets being cleaned. R the numbe infected continues to rise buts not a rapidlys it wis for many around theld. The Global Impact of coronaviru when even a handshake makes news. When russiasredent finds itself at the center of coronavirus concerns. Theorld bank says that the coronavirus pandemic will wipe out any Economic Growth in east asia preventing almost 24 Million People from escaping poverty. Here is our Business Reporter whoe has m on the story. The Federal Reserve released a report in which they estimate that some 47 milli americans will lose their jobs in the coming month that would push the Unemployment Rate in this country to 32 . A Staggering Number on its own. If you compare that to lt month when we saw that the Unemployment Rate was 3. 5 , and for the last several years we have seen thenemployment rate in the United States has been at it is unbelievable to see these kinds of projections coming from the economists at the Federal Reserve. In russia,he number of coronavirus cases has jumped by 500 in 24 hours. That comes as the Russian Parliament approved lawso slow spread of the virus including up to seven years in prison for breaking rules. There is now a fearen that presidt putin may have been exposed. It began with a handshake. Vladimir Putin Meeting this dc ago to inspect the hospital. Now the doctor himself hae tested posit for covid19. He and the preafdent spent the rnoon together in close cont act. No one is safe was the headline on russian tv. This virus haso come s close to all of us, she says, even our president. Russia is looking down. These will be tough penal for breaking quarantine. Up to seven years in prison. For the president , its business as usual. The kremlin says there is no need to panic. The president is fine. In a country where the whole system is built around one man, vladimir putin, any suggestion at his health may be put at risk makes those in power very nervous. In russia, it is not just a virus tt is spreading, so his this biologist has been telling russia media that the coronavirus could be a u. S. Ological weapon and that the americans took out a patent for it. Where is the evidence . But conspiracy theorists cannot mask the reality that to fight a vus the Worlds Largest country is sg do. Nxiety and rums aboun in russia. We have seen countries around the world lend their expertise to the fight against the coronavirus. General motors is making ventilators. So many businesses as changing ge do what they can. Ran across the globe with so much would grinding to a halt, people doing what they can to adapt. Their mmunity fight the virus. I built this 3d printer a couple years ago. I use it in regular life to print out different magic props. Th is something that i saw people doing on the internet to use 3d printerso make masks. He is working around the clock to donate them t nurse for fe. With no festivals to provide for, this distillery has been forced to lay off workers. We started small, hoelping locals in the community, especially people who could not getup anywhere the first of days. We set up a tent in the parking lot. We wou have lines of 300 people before 8 00. At fashione houses around th country that would otherwise sit idle, have become essential suppliers of basques. Of masks. If i can supply these masks to pediatrician, offices, people who clean nursing homes, it would allow more stringent attic on masks to be saved for the more intensive care required, for thepl peowho need them. Car manufacturers like ford are switching production. There is anger and many countries at the shortage of medical equipment. 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