Three days. Oll doubles in just nearly 3000 hav lost their hospitals are overwhelmed. Police are containingeoples movements as the number of cases keeps rising. Plus, why a nurse in new york felt she had to go back toork soon after giving birth. I would have cut my maternity short if there wasnt wouldnt have cut my maternity short if there wasnt a pandemic, i m i didnt heary coworkers crying, telling me whry life is like eay. Laura for all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to bbc america. The coronavirus has intensified here. More than 11 people 1100 people died in america in the last 24 h total so far. T daily here in new york city, ventilators could run out after sunday. The longest streak of job creation in u. S. History has come to a grinding halt. Dry, finally allowed to dock dryland at last, finally allowed to dock after beingse stranded a this was supposed to be an waforgettable holiday, and it , but not the way passengers expected. They were quarantined in their cabins as some fell sick from the coronavirusnd some died. Port after port turned them away in the end, a safe harbor for still others waiting. There are it was a voyageo back t a changed land, with an economy in deep freeze. More bad news on that ont 700,000 jobs lost in march. At captured only the beginning of the shutdown. The true picture is far worse. On10 mileople have already applied for an women ha already applied for unemployment benefits. Staggering numbers. In new york, deaths continue to climb rapidly. The state is still scrambling for scarce medical equipment to ride the wof cases before the epidemic peaks. The governor announced he will use his authority to take ventilators and proctive gear from companies that are not using them. Mr. Cuomo it would be a slow day if i didnt get sued,th buti want to sue me for borrowing access theyvees l lets go. As fears m mounted, a nao sent a memo a navy captain sent a memo pleading for help. He was fired for his efforts. The pentagon said he created panic and showed poor judgment. Crewmembers cheered his judgment. They gave him a heros sendoff as he left theenhip. A diffkind of casualty in a different kind of war. Bbc news, washington. Laura forut more on theeak in the u. S. , i am joined by a physician from massachusetts general hospital. Thank you for being witus. Here in new rk city, we are aboutfo run out o ventilators. What is the situation in boston . I am atncerateful a mildly embarrassed that here in boston we are among theuckier. Our hospital has not been exhausted yet exhausted our supply of ventilators, although there is impatience from our governor thats suppl of n95 masks and other personal protective equipment is on the way. The kraftamy, Jonathan Kraft in particular, arranged the delivery of 1. 2 million n95 masks to boston hospitals yesterday. I think right now we are ok. However, every day, there is growing concern that we will exhaust that supply. That brings home the importance around the defense productann ac the action the federal administration has taken in recent days to require Companies Across the country to step up production of critical breathing machines. Laura meanwhile, doctors and nurses are on the frontline. And you are all getting sick from the exposure. What is morality in your profession question what is morale like . Emotions are changing every day. It is a veritable imbroglio of emotions every day. Simultaneously fear, anxiety, hope, gratitude, a sense of purpose. Right now,verwhelmingly, my i colleagues are grateful to be standing on the front lines handinhand with people who have placed patients firste and mmitted to fight this fight. But i do want to call out an important distinction. Respiratory therapists, embers of the militarorce we are calling ourselves on the front line, calling us heroes at times absolves society and in particuleadership of acknowledging our humanity. We experience such a mley array of emotions because we are human beings. We are not heroes. We did not train for this kind of emotion. Returning to the hospital every day, we have real needs as well. And we would like leadership at every level to recognize that. Laura lets turn to the impact of coronavirus on the economy. Nearly 10 Million People have lost their jobs. Speake nancy pelosi called for another sweeping government aid bill tod. A former advisor to gege w. Bush joins us. Nancy wants something bigger. Can congress agree . Good evening. I thi in these very difficult reans and democrats totant for stop replaying to their respective partisan sides and put the interests of the americ people first and foremost. I do believe that the speaker of the house working in concert c with hleagues in the senate can provide aid and assistance to americansost impacted by this terrible virus. Laura dr. Fauci says weeed a nationwide stayathome order. Do you think the president should order one . I believe the president has many things he has to keep under consideration. Fit, what are we t goingo do to protect the American People . Number two, we needk to l at the economic impact. We have lost i so many jobsn the last two weeks and are projected to have double digit unemployment. That could cripple america. When i wked in the white house , that was a priority. At this i juncture,m looking for more information. Laura governor larry hogan, are blican, said its critically important that the president s message on i coronavir straightforward and factbased rather than tweeting whatever comes to mind. Would you agree with that . 100 . The aftermath of 9 11 andse president bush se showed gret results. While i understand President Trump enjoys using twitter as a mechanism toet to his face, this is about the American People and the citizeno get to his base, this is about the American People and the citizens of the world looking to us for leadership at this critical tim he should be offering more facts and more reassurance about the challenges we face laura there are so many aspects to the coronavirus. We are hearing voters in wisconsin should m vote l rather than in person for next weeks primary. Is it possib we will see in all vote by mail election in november . I dont think s in wisconsin, a Federal District judge has ruled that folks have until next friday at 5 00 p. M. Fileor an absentee ballot and all those received by april counted. Bellowed to will be wisconsin originally was going to have a witness, so that if i voted byou mail, would witness it and say yes, i watchedca ron his ballot. Now they have a provision that you dont necessarily have to have witness, which has a lot of people concerned about the integrity of the ballot system. Laura thank you for being with us this friday. Europe remains the hardest hit region in the world. The death toll is rising in france. Paris, police are strictly enforcing top quarantine measures. It is n only nations that thrive on liberty, academics, too. At stationscross paris today, every journey began with a police check. Freedom of movement a new national threat. He made it through. He is on his way home aft two years abroad, but even the smallest mistake means being turned away. I wrote the wrong date and they told me a need to go back home and ppare another form. I have to go to wo. , but i cann france carried out almost 6 million checks during the first full night of confinement, fhb more than neing italy. It has issued fines. But questions over when the confinement will and are growing. France runs the risk of losing public support ifs conditi remain too strict too long. E minister says police operate differently in the countryside compared to big cities and in suburbs compared t towns, but the paris police chief was forced to apologize today after taking a different tone. The ones hoitalized today, the ones on life support now, e the ones who did not respect the quarantine when it began. This is not a video game. It is real. With few life support beds left in paris, patients are being sent across the country for care. This is now the worst hit region of france, b there is light at the end of e tomo. Tuel. If you had asked me two days ago, i would have said no. Laura he said there were no new admissions to his intensive care unit today, the first day since the virus began. This ishe first sign that confinement might have worked. Laura encouraging signs from paris. In other news around the world, the u. K. Has opened a temporary hospital in london. It has been set up init ths Biggest Convention center, which took just nine days to buil it will be able to hold 4000 patients. Quee elizabeth will addrs the u. K. And commonwealth nations this weekend about the coronavirus outbreak. Experts say these broadcasts only happen at moments of national significae. American singersongwriter bill withers has died of heart complications. He was 81. He shot to fame in the early 1970s with the huge hit aint no sunshine. Lean on me and lovely day were also blockbusters for him. In brazil, schools and shops are closed. President bolsonaro is worried about the economy. With mixed messages, people are taking matters into their own hands. We report fromao paulo. The biggest city in the Southern Hemisphere has now fallen silent. These deserted streets tell only part of the story. As with everything in this divided country, those in slums live a very different life. Coronavirus is seen by many here as a rich persons disease, but they worry that the poor will suer the most. People in one of sao paulos biggest slums feel forgotten. In a world where homeoffice doesnt exist, peopleinre preparing heir own way. Training volunteerso become street president s. Ensuring householdsd understan the need to stay indoors. His toughest task isnf debunking mimation coming from the prident. He sa coronavirus is just the sniffles. The next day, peoplere out on th street. He will be partly responsible for any debts here because he has created this situation deaths hereecause he has created this situation. In a neighborhood wheree people lano mouth, how do you tell them to shut up shop . People depend on the economy to may not be coronavbiggest fear she had a tapioca store befor the shutdown forced her to stop. The 110 a month the governor government is promisings not enough. To sleeping. Sleep think. I ll not be able to aord my rent next month. I dont know how i will do it. She works two days as a cleaner. She says her employer will not derecommendations that coming. Nonessential workers day home, she feels she has stay home, she feels she has little choice. They dont take care covering their mouths, but i need to put food on the table. When i was a single mother,to i ha get food from rubbish bins on the street. I never want my kids to go through that again. Locked down or otherwise, these neighborhood have been battered in the countrys fight against coronavirus. Laura the choices facing those with the most difcecult circumst in brazil. You are watching bbc world news still to come, the cinematve ion of ourdemic. Yes, there is already a movie e coronavirus outbreak. Laura u. S. Billionaire and philanthropist bill gates ss there is still time for the world to take action to help contain the spread of the pandemic. Speaking to e bbc, he compares cthe currentsis to a military scenario. Mr. Gates its hard to be ready for something nov the way we do it in terms of war ise ve fulltime soldiers, they do wargames, they come up with scenaos to try things out, they see problems, there is no group of peoplening. Prepared for this epidemic who thought through ok, how do you approve testing, how do you make millions of doses of the vaccine . So, there just wasnt the staffing or funding, almost as if people wought itld not happen. But in my view, it was the biggest risk of something very, very negative happening. Ura traditionally an in north america, friday is when because of the pandemic, there is nothing to see. Wever, one movie has been completed in record time. Believed to be the worlds first coronavirus trailer, it is called course corona. Cinemas might be closed, but the worlds first coronavirus trailer has been completed. Somebody yells, we are all going toay die, andm ensues. The characters display bigotry and racism toward a chinese f woman thr is infected. These are thehemes the iranian born filmmaker wanted to explore. He wasted no time putting his film togher. It came to me in the beginning of january. When it was known as the chinesu virus on virus. I didnt know it was going to be that big. Valentines day was our last shooting day. Within a month of having the idea, i made the film. Much of the dialogue in the film is improvised. It was very intense. It was like a real experice. He hopes his film will be on a streaming platformhe end of the month. He believes in this projec others might see it as an on peoples fen the face ofing the pandemic. I dont think there anything unethical about making a film about this pandemic right now, but i also think we need time to process traumas like what we are going throu, and i dont think a movie made on the fly like this gives people time to process,nd i would be surprised if it had anything ally substantial to say about what we are going through right w. The film raises significant questions. It will help the audience ok at each other. I hope it will make us more united. This thriller is just one response by the director to the coronavirus outbreak. 10 short films have also been completed. In the industry, many fear and onslaught of virus themed movies. Tom broke, bbc, new york. Laura a very timely movie there. We have been talking about the strain doctors and nurses are under in this pandemic. At least two n isesnew york city have died. Many others have becomein ctious. She came back earlyy from matern leave just so she could serve on the front lin. Here is her story. How can i describe it . There i so much tension, son much anxiety ithe air. Its like a heavy blanket over everyone. Hospitals are being overwhelmed. We are hearing stories fromere about the death, the disease, the sadness, the stress. I just had a baby. She is almost 100 days old. I was planning to spend a good fo or five months with her breastfeeding. As this pandemic hit, i had my own anxus nightmares, waking up, thinking aboutor my crs, thinking about how this is happening. I cant stay home anymore. I am heading into the hospital now. We wilha seeits like tonight. We are all finding out about our sick. Kers tting sick, gravely we have heard there are two nurses in new york city, our colleagues, working in hospitals with the same conditions, same shortages of ppes, staffing, testing, who are dng. We are afraid for our patients. We are so sad to see folks dying in icus because of t no visitor policy. At this point, many of us are enraged. This is exposing nurses. Its putting al u ofs in danger. We already lost our first nurse in new york city. We are going to lose more. I walked in and they gave me onbig shield, one and 95, 1 surgical mask, and i used those all day. I would not of cut my maternity short if there wasnt a pandemic , if there wasnt a severe shortage of nurses, if i didnt hear my coworkers telling me how they are crying every day. There is a lot of fear of talking because we have oures lice and we have our jobs, but this is such a serious issue. Thats way nurses are coming out to speak. There is he if we see that our strength is in ourselves and in our collective power, and if we unite. Mother and a nurseion is as a you can find more stories like hers on our website. That isan just one ofreports on the outeak here in america and around the globe. To see what we are working on any m time,e sure to check us out on twitter. I would love to hear from you. Thank you so much for watching bbc world news america. Take care. Presentation of this program is provided by. Man amabbel, an online proeveloped by language specialists teaching spanish,ench,. 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