And by contributions to this pbs station from s like you. Thank you. Anchor reporting from newor, the economic despair deepens. Almost 6 million americans file for unemployment. Nearly 17 million have lost their jobs. Britains Prime Minister is out of b the intensive care un still in hospital. Borisly johnson is an extre good spirits. Taking selfisolation to new heights. Th crew o the International Space station may be in the face safest place to avoid coronavirus. For all of you watching around the globe, welcome. The coronavirus is marching through the American Economy g d causvastation. Another 6. 6illion peopl filed for unemployment last week as all of this is nearly 16,000 americans have now died. Heren new york, the state saw its highest death toll yet. Theeoumber ofe going into hospital is slowing down. Repoer the sound of the sirens has become the sound ofrk new a ceaseless noise, for many a terrifying noise. The city under a form of siege. People here have become scared of ambulances and scared of the hospitals. To a city normally associated with hope and ambition, the coronavirus has brought an overriding sense of fear. The past 24 hours alone have suffered nearly 8000 deaths. Bereavement on a scale that has brought back all full memories. 9 11 was supposed to be the darkest day in new york for a we have done everything we can since 9 11 to make sure that it did not happen again. If we louvre lose these many lives, that is so shocking and painful and breathtaking. I dont even have the words. Reporter this famous cityscape has some new additions. The Military Hospital ship docked at the pier that used to welcome great liv. This is central park in spring. A Field Hospital in an open those sirens again. Hear the normally sound of childrens laughter. America is not just facing its Public Health crisis like t rest of the world, economically it is being hammered. The fear i onot jusa recession but of a depression. In the past three weeks alone, more than 60 Million People across america have lost their jobs. That is the highest number recorded in two years of the grea depression. The Federal Reserve is ready to mppu in the illions of dollars in american relief. It is new yorks poorest districts, heavily populated with africanamericans and hispanics that are being harst hit. Theseei were food parcels b delivered in the bronx. When you are in e of the poorest communities in the country, though small businesses, they caot wait for the fed to help them. They needed today. What people are watching right now is what happens when you do not invest in dresng poverty. Reporter as it confrontshis invisible enemy, there is a Marshall Field to martial feel to life in the city. Americas greatest ever peacetime challenge. Anchor an alarming increase in jobls numbers. Struggling to get mon in the bank. Whd b a tsunami of people laid off. Our business correspondence report. Reporter americas second isidemic, unemployment spreading. In new york, the statt out 600 in extra benefit payments just two weede aft the l rescue package was passed. Many new yorkers are having i was on tour when it happened. The tour got the plug pulled. I went home and filed for unemeroyment. Repo hemo is millions of americans having problems making a claim. I filed online, which is pretty easy, and then in order complete my claim, they advised me to call this number. Reporter he was laid off from his Music Industry job in early march. He went to the website to apply for benefits. Hell was instructed to he state department of labor. That is when he hit a roadblock. One day i made 300 calls. Reporter and you did not get through . No. Human being. Spoken to a reporter he is not the onlueone having i he is a chef and he filed unemployment three weeks ago and istill waiting. He has not been able to get through it all. Im the only one working rayna. Guaranteed. W if my job will be we need some kind of money coming in since we both have to it is frustratd scary. Department of labor is asking people to be patient. They usually get 50,000 calls a week. Lmrecently, theyt got a million. Those in need say patients wil not pay the bills. More americans have lostheir job than in the entire 2 0082009 financial crisis. A Record Number of people across country are filing fo benefits. Confirmation from todays figures. The ran of the unemployed continued to swell. Much of the country still under ders to stay home. Anchor for more on the gloomy u. S. Job picture and the effort to help out americans who are struggling, i am joined by katty kay. Nearly 70 million americans have lost their jobs. Thscale tis sggg. Y when uhink there are only 160 million americansth actually iworkforce, that 17 million figure puts into some kind of perspective. This is much worse than during the crash of 2008. You actually have to go back to the greadepression of the 1920s to find jobless figures like you are seeg at the moment. The number of people who are actually losing their jobs. U havey the treasecretary on television today that the u. S. Economy can hopefully start rebounding and may. Public Health Officials say that is optimistic at best. Anchor realistally, wont it take a long time for the economy to beebound . With so many people struggling benefits. Or unemployment katty thais staggering that it is taking people 700 calls to get through and they still cannot get their money. People are having to make terrible choices between, do you feed youray animals or do you your bills . Are faced with. Ecisions people a third of employees work fo themselves. State systems are not even set up to try to give those people money who are selfemployed. What i am startg to here is a real concern about theng term. Will americans be prepared even when the economy gets back up and open again to spend in the way they were doing. To do the kinds of things they were doing before. Twiy be confident to get on an airplane to travel. To go to conferences. To restaurants or cinemas to watch a movie. If their habits have changed because of this, thate you h longterm drag on the economy that is really going to take over until there is a texting that vaccine is at least a year anchor does the white house have a plan for how to reopen the economy . Very interesting conversations with people on the Public Health side, both republicans and decrats who have been dealing with this pandemic. Therenot a concrete plan. People are focusing on the medical side of this. Theyay the health and economy cannote fighting against each other. If the economy opens up too into the streets and you will have those numbers start to spike againnd everything will have to be shut down. People are focusing on a test that can reliably test whether people have developedy. Immun so far that does not exist. We need more data and more studies from hiss a places that are hotspots. No one isy vnfident that this will happen at the end of april which is currently with th reporter thank you for that. Lettake a closer look at the state of the economic outbreak. Thank you for being withs. Nearly 800,000 died here in new york state. We are seeing the rate of hospitalization is going down. Indicator. S always a laggi cases and hospitalizations going down is a good sign. At the same time, new york is undercounting a lot of deaths. Home deaths usedo be 25 per da now there are over 250. We have increased tenfold. The are not dropping. Those e likely covid cases. New york will be updating those numbers. New york has not been doing the ki of testing that iceland or south korea has. It is mainly testing people who have come to hospitals. They are not doing the frontier testing of new cases until we have sufficient cases tests for new cases as they emerge, wee will not have full idea of the scope. Anchor there is one widely watched model which suggests the peak day for deaths here in the u. S. Could be this weekend. What do you make of that . The models and assumptions are based on what we can measure. My concern is that the model does not capture what ave not measured. The cdc says potentially 20 percent of all cases will never be picked up because they are asymptomatic. In iceland, they are saying tt is closer 50 . If there are so many cases that are spreading without testing, models can never fully capture the extent. Right now they models in new york are based on the cases we have who come to the hospital because they have severe respiratory. That is not a reliable model. We could still have a second wave of additial cases. Anchor nearly 16,000 americans have died. Was this avoidable . Absolutely. The u. S. Had discovered their first case the same day that soh korea did. South korea went very aggressive. Thousands of tests per day. The u. S. Was stuck with 500 total tests cumulatively for three weeks. It w not until mid february that whistleblowers tested against a federal law that they the u. S. Was too little, too late. They did not ramp up testing. Now we are faced with asis. Anchor could we open up the country in early may i think you will start to plateau in may. But i will not be sure if we will bring it up down to zero. E u. S. Is a big coury. It is not ke italy. The epidemic is in 50 states. I am very nervous. If you take your foot off the brakes, there could be another resurgence. Anor thank you for being with us the u. K. Prime minister has been moved out of intensive care, where he was being treated. We a outside st. Thomas hospital in london where he is being tated. Reporter a statement from downing street said earlier this evening that the Prime Minister has been movedns from ine care back to the ward where he will receive close monitoring p during the earse of his recovery. He is an extremely good spirits. He b wught to this hospil last sunday after suffering the effects of coronavirus or 10 days. There was greathock when the announcement came that he had been brought into intensive care. Uin the rto thate have seen pictus of him really not looking well. He posted a selfie video where to any observers he looked like he was sfering. The statement that has come from downing street is that the Prime Minister has been moved from intensive care ba into the ward where he will receive most monitoring during the early phase of the recovery. The keyword and there is recovery. The is road. Things going in the right direction. But this is the early phase. Y cleame way to go before he makes a full recovery. Some reaction has come from the white house. President trump hasgr sait news. Eed his tweet by saying it well, boris. Anchor spains Prime Minister says the country as close to the decline in th epidemic. He told the nations parliament the fire is starting to come under control. The number of d dailyths slowed on thursday after two days of increases. Spain has more confirmed cases than any country in europe. The head of the imf has warned the world faces s worst economic crisis since the great depression. She says we will only see a partial recovery next year. Many economiesn the world have grounds a to halt as government restrictions have shuttered businesses. In yemen, a ceasefire has come into force it will put a halt to military operationsgainst rebels. The coalition wanted to create space for the start of you and brokered peace talks. Th. Rebels have yet to respo still toome, irans death toll is rising. The official figures tell one story but there are fears the actual number is higher. We will have a special report. E rld bank is projecting that subsaharan aa will go in repression depression for the first time in 25 years. Economies could contract up to 5 . Our deputy african editor has more. Reporter Food Security is the big issue. There are fears that because countries hav b closeders, farmers are not able to import fertilizers. Food production will be severely hampered. Uices are global prices are ing up. That will affect countries here in africa. The worl bank and imf has recommended to lenders to put a frze on debt repayment. That would free about 35 billion to go into the economy. They are also recommending distribution to the poor. Anchor ira is the epicenter of the outbreak in the middle east. The official death toll is 4000. There concerns the figure could be higher. We have been looking into this. Sing report contains distr images. Reporter gearing up to treat the dead. These men are studying to be clers. They have volunteered to do a job that professiols are reluctant to do. Cleansing the bodies of coronavirus victims so they can be bd according to islamic tradition. Sit iot just fear that is causing a shortage. It ishe sheercale of death the country isacing. A tre the dead bodies. The numbers are so huge. Reporter b some of theodies had been there for five days. Eshe was later arrd for spreading lies. Look at this. A similar story. These volunteers drafted in to clean the dead. Since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, unofficial reports and anecdotal evidence have raised questions abofi irans al figures. Some estimate the number of deaths and infections to be higher. Official statisticthat just over 50,000 have contracted the virus and around 4000 have died. But a group of uranian researchers in t u. S. Are sktical iranian researchers in the u. S are skeptical. They estimate the number of closer to one million. En more than 15,000 people have lost their lives. This is just one study. We may never know the true extent of the crisis and iran. The science of the scale are dug into the earth. Instead of individual graves, bodies of multiple victims are being placed sidebyside in long, tren like areas unheard of in this part of the world. Anchor irans agony and anguish. We have all been seeking safety. Llif you r want to get away, how about space . A new crew blasted off to the inte one of the cosmonauts said right tow it is the safest plac be. Sweeping the world, heres an idea. Leave a russian soy use rocket blasts into space. Soyuz rocket blasts into space. Inside, cosmonauts and a nasa astronaut. The new crew for th International Space station. Coronavirus had affected preflight preparations. The three men have been in tight quarantine. Contact kept to a bare minimum. That meant no family members present for liftoff. We would love to have our families herwith us. But it is important. Reporter you dont want to come down with covid19 appear. Up here. Assuming they stay healthy the crew will be well away from the drama back on earth. Althoughs carries risk, we understand for ththe next few m the International Space station will probably be the safest place. Reporter me selfisolation co naturally to a spaceman. No popping to the shops or jogging to the park. 250 miles above the surface of the earth, the crew will be setting an example to us all. They will be staying home for the next six months. Anchor w that is oneay of getting out of lockdown. 6. 6 million americans filed for unemployment last week. The Federal Reserve will reload trlion. Release more than 2. 3 the british Prime Minister has care. Med out of intensive Boris Johnson is an extremely good spirits and will receive ose monitoring. We started the program talking about new york and we will end towhght wit has become an uplifting ritual. People take a moment in the evening tolap and cheer for th amedical sta essential workers on the front lines. In a city that eerily quiet apart om the wailing of sirens , the applause is a welcome soundtrack. [applae] it happens every night at 7 00 p. M. A certainty in these precarious times. New yorkers lean out the windows, stand of the fire escapes, eager to share their applause for the essential workers. Itol is active chorus for a city otherwise punctuated by isolation. It is a heafelt tributeo those who are pulling us through these tough times. I look forward to clapping tonight along with everyone else. You can find much more on our website. Do make sure to check us out on twitter. Thank you so much. Take care and have a good night. Narrator funding fothis presentati of this program is provided by. Language specialists teaching spanish, french and more. Raymond james. The Freeman Foundation by judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; ng solutions for americas neglected needs. D by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank u. Narrator yo re watching pbs. 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