Response coordinator dr. Deborah burkes emphasized the key role that distancing has played. This was nothing we had ever attempted to do as a nation and the world hasnt attempted to do. Today more protests against locallyissued stayathome orders and other safety restrictions are expected in cities across the country. Heres what the president had to say about the protests yesterday. There is a lot of injustice. When you look at virginia, where they want to take your guns away, they want to violate your second amendment, when you look at, i mean, im getting along nicely with the governor of michigan but she has things dont buy paint or roses. Shes got all the crazy things. I believe somebody sitting in that boat lake should be okay. Also, this morning word from House Speaker nancy pelosi that lawmakers may be closing in on terms of a fourth Coronavirus Relief package. Yes, were close. We hit common ground. One package was something we brought together in a bipartisan way springing from that and making it more effective and stronger so more people are benefitting from it and protected by it. I think were very close to agreement. We begin in the virus epicenter in new york city. Cory is outside new york presbyterian hospital. The number of cases has gone down, according to andrew cuomo, but said were not in the clear yet. Reporter good morning. Absolutely not. Medical workers said they cannot stress that enough. The number ises are still very even high even though theyre going down. 540 deaths reported overnight from yesterday. That number is down off the number we were hovering at during the plateau between 750 and 800. So the good news is governor said he does believe and scientists believe were starting to enter the down slope rather than the plateau we were hovering at for several days. Also, the infection rate is down. The rate of which one person infects another or several other people has gone down to. 9 from the peak. Listen to what Governor Cuomo had to say about that. So lets say one person infects one person. Thats where we are now. When that is happening, the virus is basically stable. Where we were was one person was infecting 1. 4 people. Thats when you have outbreak wide spread open epidemic. We brought it down from 1. 4 to. 9. Reporter Governor Cuomo said that window is very tight. If we get above 1. 2, which could easily happen, the outbreak will start to spread again. So its very important to continue social distancing measures and hospitals said they still need volunteers so new york health and hospital announced they signed up some 2,000 additional volunteers that will come into the hardest hit areas in new york, including new york presbyterian. Were not out of the woods yet. Thank you for your continued reporting. The white house has stressed the importance of testing and Contact Tracing in getting the country reopened. Here is more from new York Governor Andrew Cuomo on the topic yesterday. We did 500,000 tests in a month. Thats great news. Bad news is its only a fraction of what you need. The more you test, the more information, the more you can reopen society. How does testing actually work . And this, again, you have to know the facts otherwise this is a blur and it becomes a he said she said. Joining me now dr. Richard beszer, the former acting director of the cdc and the president and ceo of Robert Wood Johnson foundation. Also joining me former Massachusetts Governor duvall patrick. Thank you for joining us. Doctor, well start with you. The issue about testing is twofold. One, we dont have enough and everybody Public Health experts believe we need more of it. The second thing is, you dont really understand this disease, if you dont have a denominator. If you dont know whose got it or how many people had it then its hard to measure success. Its hard to determine whether youre in a place to reopen your Society Without the correct data. Yeah, you know, testing serves many purposes. As we think about transitioning from where we are now where everyone is on lockdown to slowly opening up society, it leads to a shift in what you want to do with testing. Right now the only people who are really being tested are people who are seriously sick. And thats to determine if they have covid, so you can give them the right treatment. What we want to move toward is having enough testing around. So you can test people with even the mildest of symptoms. The reason you can do that, is because those people can spread the illness, as well. If youre able to test them and isolate them, then Public Health discuss what theyre good at. Contact tracing. You identify every person theyve been in contact with and provide them with a safe place to stay so theyre not going to infect anyone else, if they get sick. That way you can keep the numbers down that Governor Cuomo was talking about below 1. One person who is sick doesnt spread it to other people. In order to do that, you need wide spread testing. The other piece you talked about is trying to understand how much of this is already spread through communities. This is an illness for which, thankfully, most people will do very well and many people will have no symptoms whatsoever. Without the blood testing, its hard to know how many people are susceptible and who may have enough protective factors they can go back to work and be around highrisk individuals without causing any harm. Governor, lets talk about what is going on this last week. The president has said he has absolute authority to reopen the country, that, of course, is in direct contradiction of article x of the constitution. I dont know if i want to call them protesters but theres something going on that feels tea party esque where conservative groups put up people to go and protest democratic governors who have stayathome orders in place including in michigan. The president called for liberating wisconsin and michigan and virginia. This is very different than the general level of cooperation between the white house and governors well, its different than the level of cooperation there ought to be. You know this is a national, indeed, a Global Crisis and we need coherent and consistent leadership at all levels. The governors have been doing terrific jobs, i think, here in massachusetts and new york and in california and michigan and in ohio. Wonderful examples of strong leadership that is about our collective good and safety. The president has zigged and zagged, as he often does, from showing leadership from the white house and then deferring to governors and undermining governors in all the examples you have said. I think one of the most hopeful things is governing are starting to engage with each other and coordinate regionally, which, i think its important in the absence of consistent and responsible leadership from the white house. By the way, doctor, you are on the new jersey governor bill murphy announced youre part of the multistate counsel response to what is going on. Youre part of the group in new jersey dedicated to reopening the state. Some of these signs and i want to dwell on this for a second, its gotten to being ridiculous. There are reasonable discussions when the country should open and how much economic pressure we can take. Im an economic journalist so i get how damaging this is. There are people with signs saying fauci is wrong. Social distancing is communism and the president is encouraging that. He didnt back down from his tweets. Again, becomes part of a larger discussion of Public Health officials are having whether the briefings, including the ones with fauci and birx are actually dangerous. People are taking cues from the president that could affect their health or the health of others negatively. You know i lead Emergency Preparedness and response at the cdc for four years. There was through a lot of Public Health outbreaks and crises. One of the things critical in the response is try to keep the Public HealthNational Emergencies from becoming partisan and political. One of the keys to that is to ensure were hearing from Public Health scientists and im concerned that were not hearing from cdc every day in terms of what are they learning, what they still need to learn. You know, at the johnson foundation, were concerned to make sure that everyone in america has the ability to protect themselves. Yet were not getting as much data about how this is impacting lower income communities, communities of color, and data were seeing is showing high rates and high rates of death among black and latino americans. These are things we need to address as a nation. Especially as we start opening up. We dont have a good data picture of what is going on in communities and we release people, certain populations will get hit harder. If were not able to talk about it every day with the Public Health scientists, well be in a bad situation in america. I know. 8 30 this morning yeah, yeah. [overlapping speakers] i was going to say, governor, at 8 30 this morning i was speaking to representative deb holland, one of two native members of congress about the effect on native communities and weve been talking about the affect on latin american communities. In states like massachusetts with tb and other infectious diseases, this has had a disproportionate impact. Right. In some ways its exposed now. One of my hopes is not only will we gather the data to show that case at scale and be specific about it, but we will move toward resuming our normal operations with how to deal with the conditions weve been neglecting for a long time. You know, everybody wants to get out of the house to get back to work. To get back to school. I understand that. I understand that sentiment among some of the people who are out protesting today. Encouraged or not by the president. The problem is they are only expressing the risk they are willing to take and not taking account of the risks they are imposing on others. And this is part of our challenge. We have to understand we are responsible for each other. The neglect were talking about, that im referring to, its not just the neglect in the ways weve been supporting government and policy makers over the decades but the neglect in the ways weve been supporting each other. We need to call that what it is and respond to it. 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The death toll in china from coronavirus has risen to 4,632. On friday, the Chinese Government reported that 1290 more people have died of the coronavirus in wuhan than they originally reported. These are new deaths. These are newly reported deaths. Thats a nearly 50 increase bringing the number of fatalities in wuhan to 8,369. The deaths were initially unreported. The release of the latest figures coming as the Chinese Government faces growing scrutiny of the release of the information and handling of the epidemic. Its happening as u. S. Intelligence agencies continue to explore the origins of covid19. I think we need to continue to work this. Once we get beyond the pandemic, well have a chance to look back and find out what happened and take the proper precautions to make sure we prevent it in the future. We questions about chinas transparencies reemerging with the death toll numbers out of wuhan, how does america and chinas relationship move forward with regard to the pandemic and maybe even more importantedly economically . Joining me now economist linda yu and bobby ghosh is with us. Bobby, let me start with you. I want to show the politico headline its called biological chernobyl how chinas secrecy fuelled coronavirus suspicions. Saying china has yet to share data on covid19. And the larger point here, bobby, which you understand is that regardless of what you think our relationship is with china or should be with china, historically when china says something, weve had to confirm it independently or differently. When china said theyve had strong economic industrial production, we look at satellite images to see what the ele electrical output in china has been to that. Were not sure if china is telling the truth. It matters more than it has in the past. Yes, it does. People dying in china as well as around the world. China has a problem. Chinese people are never entirely sure when their government says something whether they can believe it. We know theres been a conspicuous effort to try to conceal information. Whistle blowers in this particular context with the coronavirus. Doctors who early on sounded the alarm disappeared not heard from again. We havent heard from them again. These are not good signs. There is satellite imagery over wuhan, that one city that suggests that, for example, the cream or crematoriums are working at a faster rate than justified by the numbers than the government so far released. So every country, as it goes, a couple of months, into this crisis will do a little bit of reassessment of the data. Sure. Because reporting becomes better. But with china, there is an enormous gap in credibility that it has not been able to produce. Linda, when we last had a crisis, an economic crisis 2008 and 2009, china was a major player in the world but wasnt the player it is today. We had some level of global coordination with other democratized or modernized economies in order to solve the Global Crisis. We now have a much bigger Global Crisis, both medical and economic. To some degree, were going it need chinas cooperation in rebuilding our economy. Do we have the relationship and the ability to do that with china . Its tricky at the moment. Theres a lot, as you said, a lack of trust. Its absolutely the case that the worlds second biggest economy is going to a role to play in terms of rebuilding the health of the Global Economy. The example is Debt Forgiveness for developing countries. China needs to sign on and not use political cohesion. Can you rebuild the system that protects more of the supply chain and investment linking it to National Security purposes while at the same time keeping open commercial channels. In other words, you dont want to roll back global zailgszation, but what the crisis has shown theres a lot of reliance on china and supply chains, especially around ppe. China supplies nearly half of that market. And it produces a lot of ingredients that go into pharmaceuticals. All of those things suggest that countries need to look at the lack of trust that china isnt a democracy. Its not as transparent and rethink supply chains. Thing will come and it will be done in a cooperative global way as long as everyone understands the aim is to get to a place where you can transact knowing everybodys system is different. Bobby, what is your sense of, you know, linda is talking about Debt Forgiveness to developing countries. We havent seen coronavirus hit some of these developing countries yet because many of them are in the Southern Hemisphere where it is still autumn and its going into winter. Theres been some speculation that warm weather is not this infection is not conducive to warm weather and vice versa. As we get into summer in the Southern Hemisphere, we might see greater spread that spends less on health care than we do in the developed world. Thats an unknowable at this point. Theres also the other factor if the Global Economy is slowing, which it is, those countries, even if they dont face a huge humanitarian crisis will face a massive economic one. Their markets dont have the sam appetite for the goods and services anymore. The door nors may not be able to help them as much as they have done in the past. Their ability to pay off their debts in the Southern Hemisphere countries, subsaharan africa, for example, their ability to pay off the debt will be heavily comprised even if they dont get the full blast of the pandemic. Theyre going need that help and a lot of them are very deep with china. They owe enormous amounts of china. China has an opportunity to show leadership and to step up and say well forgive debt or allow a new schedule of payment of debt. It has not yet done so. Historically china tends not to do so. It has signed on with the g20, the worlds leading economies but its not showing leadership in this matter. This is an opportunity, i think, that is lost. Thank you to both of you. Linda is an economist and author of the book what would the great economists do . And bobby ghosh is a member of the Editorial Board at bloomberg. The coronavirus is devastating Navajo Nation. Americas largest native american tribe which already faces insufficient health care and remarkable poverty. Congresswoman deb holland joins me next. Heres a razor that works differently. The Gillette Skinguard it has a guard between the blades that helps protect skin. The Gillette Skinguard. When you think of a bank, you think of people in a place. But when you have the chase mobile app, your bank can be virtually any place. 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But native americans are looking to the federal government to do more and a group of tribes are suing for control of 8 billion in coronavirus funding. Joining me now is new mexico representative deb haaland. Congresswoman, thank you for joining me. I appreciate your time. Lets talk about the factors at play here. Particularly with native americans living on reservations. Even if theyre not, they often have high rates of diabetes. In some reservations theres a scarcity of Running Water and high concentration of People Living in some households which make the spread of the disease more likely and harder to treat. Yes, absolutely. Thank you so much for having me, ali. Yes, its i mean, look, theres a pandemic going on right now, and so the communities of color who havent had the best health care or infrastructure or just the fundamental things that people need to live. Youre talking about the Navajo Nation but tribes all over the country dont have Running Water, electricity, they dont have Broadband Internet services. Those are issues we need to work on as a country. Not just because theres a pandemic. So theyre already behind the eight ball when we come into this pandemic and, yes, its devastating. Here in new mexico, the population of native americans is 11 . The infection rate is close to 40 . So wow. I was on a Facebook Live event last night and hes doing a great job as the leader of that community and everyone is working hard. So yes, were trying to make sure that the federal government lives up to its responsibility to tribes during the pandemic. And you make a point about a lot of people a Digital Divide. A lot of native americans dont have the same access to Broadband Internet that everyone else does, which is everything we depend on. Our conversation now is happening on Broadband Internet. So access to certain information, access to banking is more limited for native americans. You fought to have provisions in the last bill for native americans but its a little bit different. Native reservations, for instance, are not treated like states or like cities in their ability to get money out of the fund. Yes. Well, theres 574 recognized tribes here. Federally recognized tribes here in the United States. That means that if theyre federally recognized, the United States has federal trust responsibility to those tribes. Meaning that theyre responsible for health care, education, law enforcement, housing. So, yes, these are tribes theyre sovereign nations. Nations within our nation. I want everyone to realize that at one time it was all indian land and when the United States made provisions or, you know, agreements for tribes to live in smaller communities so the u. S. Government can take the larger pieces of land, there were agreements made through treaties and executive orders and acts of congress. So the United States absolutely has this trust responsibility and thats part of what were fighting for. To make sure that they live up to their obligations for health care during this pandemic. You center to realize have to realize lot of tribes over the country or in rural communities, stoom sometimes itll take them 80 miles to get to a hospital or kliclinic. Its not an easy issue to deal with. So we are as members of congress, were absolutely want to make sure they have what they need during this terrible emergency. Congresswoman, i want to ask you to standby for a second. A lot of thing use describe not only happened in the United States but are happening around the world with indigenous nations and Indigenous People. I want to bring in our nbc news correspondent who is reporting on the coronavirus has the potential to wipe out entire cultures around the world. Willhem, were not talking about just Indigenous People in the United States. Youre looking into a similar situation in brazil and russia and china. Yeah, thats right. If you look at the amazon groups, in particular, about 800,000 Indigenous People in that massive region. Largely in brazil. And talking to immunologists there, like youve been pointing out, congresswoman, its not theyre innately more prone to contract infections like covid19. It may be poor sanitation, lack of access to health care, potentially some of the chan change challenges weve seen historically in that region could happen again. I was talking to an historian and author in the region in the last 50 years or so and he was describing the 1560s you had priests walking along the coast of brazil and leaving a trail of death being wiped out by things like smallpox. You had uncontacted groups inside the amazon falling prey within a couple of years due to the contact with the outside world. He said it could be catastrophic. If you listen to the africans for these people, theyre saying the brazilian government is, to some extent, at fault in terms of the provision of health care. Take a look at the executive director of amazon watch o. There is no Adequate Health services. There is no adequate there are no adequate hospitals and Resources Available to treat the people or even provide, you know, emergency, you know, canoes or helicopters to fly people out. The threat of covid19 into the amazon, to Indigenous People and the people in isolation is a very real threat of possible that threat exists, of course, with people in places like russian siberia. You can see the Russian Health care system having huge amounts of strain over the past few days. People weve been speaking to from some of the triable groups in the siberian region saying the remoteness makes it dangerous for people if it gets inside their communities. And people live in very close communities with one another. That makes things like social distancing incredibly difficult and the necessary education, the idea you need to wash your hands, you need to keep a distance, a lot of those weve been speaking to saying thats not information that is necessarily filtering through from the government to these groups. Wilhelm, im thank you for your reporting on this. Hes been reporting on brazil, russia, china, and native groups in ecuador and canada. Congresswoman, thank you for the work you did in getting protections for americas Indigenous People into the c. A. R. E. S. Act. We have to think about some of the things you talked about including that Digital Divide and the effect it has on our native communities. Thank you to both of you. 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Lawmakers originally agreed on a 13 billion grant for the agency but it was blocked by the treasury secretary steven min knew chen who said you can have a loan or nothing at all. Workers facing a crisis of possibly losing their jobs and trying to function with the, quote absolutely paralyzing fear of coming into the contact with the virus. They touch all of our mail. Joining me now now is mark diamondstein. His union represents more than 200,000 postal workers. Thank you for joining me. Lets underscore this president has been on a bit of a tear about the irresponsibility of the Postal Service and the financial mismanagement. Thats a bit of a lark. The Postal Services problems, notwithstanding the reduction in mail because of other services, shipping services, has actually got to do with the fact that the government was poking around in the Postal ServicesPension Funds . Well, this system strictly covidrelated Financial Impact. The pandemic is having a huge Financial Impact on the country. We all know that its having a dire impact on the public Postal Service itself. The post office is a public institution. It does not run with taxpayer dollar. It only works on revenue from post dama postal. And this pandemic is causing a drop in mail volume and revenue. Think about it. Small businesses arent mailing. Advertisers arent mailing. Those sending birthday cards cant get them to mail them. So the postmaster general is right. Without relief, the post office could see a reduction of 40 to 50 of revenue, which will make it impossible for the post office to carry out the mission to the people of this country. Universal service, no matter who we are or where we live, 160 million addresses a day, that would cease unless there was genuine relief to the Postal Service, which is genuine relief to the people of this country. You have weve had more than 900 postal workers who have more than 900 workers test positive for the virus. 30 postal workers have died from this. The concept about running out of money by september has somebody communicated with you what it means for postal workers. Does it mean the mail stops . Your workers get laid off . Well, you know, thats unknown territory and lets make sure that doesnt happen. I dont think the people of the country will allow it to happen. If congress doesnt act and the post office runs out of money, they will be unable to carry out its operations. Again, its ironic, the pandemic that has postal workers shining like so many other front line workers out there doing their job under difficult conditions, getting medical information to peoples homes, essential goods to peoples homes, and so on, the same pandemic, if its not addressed by congress, could cause the demise of the Postal Service and the ceasing of operations. And then those who want to sell off the Postal Service, the public Postal Service, to private corporations will see an opportunity and maybe able to get their way and that would be a crying shame for people of this country. Mark, thank you to you and please convey your thanks on our behalf to all the postal workers in this nation. Its unbelievable every day when we hear in manhattan at 7 00 p. M. Go out and clap and thank the people out there, we also mean the postal workers who come out every single day and do their jobs. Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for having me. And if i may add quickly, please Call Congress and make sure the post office carries forward into the future. I would agree with you. Thank you, sir. Ahead, the tug of war between science and politics. A new documentary examines the state and federal responses to the pandemic. 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Joining me now is my very old friend and colleague myles obrien, writer, producer and correspondent for a documentary thats risen erm on the west coast. My old friend, you were a science oriented journalist before it was cool to be one. You covered many other things including politics over the years. This is one of those instances in which you say the politics particularly between the president and governors is actually coming in the way of the science that could be helping us solve this cry miss cyst. Enough with the old stuff. Lets march forward. I will tell you this. The politics and science has not been a pretty place for a long time now. We can go on and on and talk about Climate Change and how its influenced science ask science has been ignored. In the pandemic, its no different. You have this scenario in washington where leaders seem to discount the good advice of the smart scientists and the data they bring to them buzz theres an ulterior motive. Thats what brought me to seattle. This is where patient number one was discovered here in the United States. I found it very interesting how that whole first case unfolded. Turns out they had been preparing for this for quite some time. The Political Leadership was dialled in. The scientific community, the medical community, knew this was was coming and they handled it in a way stands in contrast to the way were seeing things unfold in the other one. So as i have gone through this process, this feud between governor inslee and donald trump escalated into something much broader. It speaks to how do we respond to Something Like this if were not going to listen to the the goods of our people are telling us we need to do certain things to make this better. That is the question of this crisis. Thank you. The coronavirus pandemic is the special. Its a twopart special that will air starting on april 21st. Thank you as always for join in us. And that brings this hour to an end for me. Were just a few moments away from the release of a new nbc news wall street journal poll which is taking the temperature of how americans feel about the leadership of the pandemic. Were going to dive into those numbers with tom styier after this. And talk about the staut of the economy. More straight ahead on msnbc there are times when our need to connect really matters. To keep customers and employees in the know. To keep business moving. Comcast business is prepared for times like these. Powered by the nations largest gigspeed network. To help give you the speed, reliability, and security you need. Tools to manage your business from any device, anywhere. And a team of experts here for you 24 7. Weve always believed in the power of working together. Thats why, when every connection counts. You can count on us. Welcome back. Im ali velshi. A new nbc news wall strewall s journal poll reveals how americans think President Trump is is handling the pandemic. A majority of americans disapprove of trumps approach. 44 us approving and that is down slightly from last month. Americans are also saying they dont trust trump when it comes to the pandemic. 52 saying they dont trump trust the president s statements about the coronavirus. When it comes to the 2020 race, more more thanes think joe biden is better equipped to hnd the a crisis