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Woodruff hundreds more names have joined the list of the pandemic has now claimed more than 80,000 lives, including more than 12,000 in the uned states. And, new york city has surpassed its own record, set by the worst terror attack on american soil. Adill, there are new suggestions that hope lies a stephanie sy begins ourco rage. Reporter another grim milestone reached. Ot af pain again today, for many new yorkers. Reporter . Deaths in new more than died in theeded 9 11 attack on the world trade0 3,20 center. But, the number of new patients being ferried to hospitals is dropping and Governor Andrew Cuomo says that is a sign of progress. Right n were projecting we are reaching a plateau in total number of hospitalizations, you can see the growth and you can. E its starting to flatt reporter other states are also seeg early signs of containment. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy urges staying the course. but we cannot be happy with only reaching a plateau. We need to keep strong, and keep determined, to see that curve begin to fall and ultimately get to zero. That going to require many more weeks at the least of our being smart and staying at least, at all times, six feet apart. Reporter but in wisconsin today, staying six feet apart presented a new challenge for voters. The state Supreme Court orderedo the primarake place as scheduled, after an 11th hour legal battle to delay inperson voting. Lines outside polling stations stretched for blocks. National guard troops stepped in to r sites where poll worker failed to show in fear of catching the virus. Meanwhile, t pandemics effect on migrants detained at the southern border came into sharper focus. Io amnesty ternl reported that detention facilities have failed to adopt adequate measures to prevent outbreaks. Theyre not suring basic hygiene and sanitation, or enforcing social distancing practices and quarantining people with symptoms. Amnesty says the u. S. Immigration detention system is the largest in the world, with advocates have asked ic provide alternatives for detention. They may start doing so for certain detainees, including those er 60 and pregnant women. But the trump administrations efforts to control the virus have ben called into question, even outside closed quas. R the New York Times reported today that warnings about the scale of the crisis circulated wes tidou ht hitrheumpte iousec pu downplayed the threat. Mes from trade adviser pet navarro warned the virus could take millions of lives and cost the economy trillions. Rg who had been chosen by peers to thersee the rollout of mor 2 trillion in Coronavirus Relief funds. And, in britain today, londoners woke up to newPrime MinisterBoris Johnson had been moved to intensive care overnight, battling worsening coronavirus symptoms. It is quite worrying for the country, for people inal, because whats going to happen. He is the leader, rif the cotry, so i think it is quite worrying reporter officials said johnson relied on oxygen support but without the need of a siventilator, and with no gns of pneumonia. British foreign minister dominic raab, now at the helm, sai johnsons diagnosis came as a shock. Hes not just a Prime Minister, for all of us in the cabinet, hes not just our boss, hes also our colleague and our friend. Im confident he will pull through because if theres one thing i know about this Prime Minister is hes a fighter. Reporter and, in wuhan, china, the original epicenter this crisis, upbeat residents flocked the streets, ready for an 11week lockdown coming to an end. China reported its first day since january with no new deaths. For the pbs newshour, im stephanie sy. Woodruff wall street oallied for muthe day, on hopes that the pandemic is easing. But, Oil Prices Fell sharply, d the rally died. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 26 points to close at 22,653. Na thaq fell 26 points, and,0 the s p ipped four points. At a time when everyone is looking to understanhethe scope ofandemic, and how to minimize the threat, one of d e best inforices is that of businessman and philanthropist mill gates. The cofounder oosoft has spent the last few decades focuse through the bill and Melinda Gates foundation, on improving global health, includinreducing the spread of Infectious Diseases. We spoke earlier this evening. Bill gates, thank you very much for joining us. You were one of th prescient few years ago who sad that an Infectious Disease outbre was coming that could kill millions of people. How is what is happening now different from what you expected . The economic damage is much that gr tter. I put illion for a respiratory virus spreadingo around the gbe and, you know, clearly were going to go well beyond that. Thu know, e whole goal of speaking out then wasnt to be able to say, id tolu so when it hammond. Rather, it was to make sure we did the right thingo diagnostics would come out right away, the timeline for a vaccine would be very short. And, sadly, not many of those ings were doe. So now were scrambling to come up with thrapeutics, scrambling to try to figure out how to get de. S vaccine but people are arising to the occasion, but its a very bad situation. Woodruff well, speaking of things that werent done, testing. This has become one of the United States right now. President trump said, i thinkwe thres ago, that there would be some sort of rapid testing. He mentioned google. He said that wast. Immin it hasnt happened. Why is this so hard . And what do you think its going to take to get a rapid turnaround test in place . Yeah, we need a variety of ngsts. The teshats currently being done, which is a p. C. R. Based test, there was a advance that our fouovndation that now you can do a selfswab, so you could veryqu kly do the test without having the Health Care Worker have to wear protective equipment and having to change that. Soaventually, well hav home test that you can just swab and woodruff so what is the most immediate thing that needs to be done with regard to teing . W you can imagine having a website where you enter in the criteria o your symptoms, are you an essential worker, where you are, and it gives you back priority levd so all the Testing Operations make sure that theyre only taking in enough highpriority stuff that they can mainlt a very quick s turnarouyou dont have stale results. Tthat should be reasonab put together. O go rallel, weve got fast as we can on thesrapeut and go as fast as we can on a vaccine. Lot of lives and avoid theave a overload. And with luck, some of those will be proming in the next three to six months. The vaccine is critical because until youave that, things arent really going to be normal. They can open up to somereeg but the risk of a rebound will be there until we have very broad vaccination. Woodruff and youve saidit ay take, according to the scientists you work with and you talk to all the time, it take up to a year and a half to get that vaccine. Whatre you saying, literally, that it could be the fall of 2021 before americans can be safe from this cov bid1 . Fore you can be completely safe eye mean, byng doihe Strong Social distancing that most of the countrys engaged with right now, that allows you to level off the cases and bring it dann. You want to bring it down to a level that your capacity to test, to concitact tra, to make sure the quarantine is maintained, so you dont see a big rebound, even though youve allowed most work to continue u know, school, you know, certainly in the fall youd thriek see thago in. So we want to have that period have the economy not as damaged as necessary this extreme period where the numbers are so bi and theyve been growing ve got toally, that w get that down so that its much lower. Woodruff but when yo talk about returning to some semblance of normal what, are we saying tht looks like . I men, you mentioned keeping up social distancing. What cod life look like, say, six months, a year from now . Theres still some of theseme f these steps were taking now, they would remain in effect . Yeah. Im working to write about that. E closest model today is you look at china. Di they are se people ck to work, but theyre wearing masks. Theyre checking temperatures, theyre not doing large sporting events. And so, theyve been able to avoid a large rebound. There areu contries like sweden that arent locking down quite as much and seeing, oay, do their numbers go up . If so, you can trace back theac vities that are causing that. We need to learn from all the untries. Our partner, International Health metrics and evaluation, is looking atforecasts where they compatriot different countries. Thats helping us to understand, okay, which policies in which countries seem to be working . Anso well b far closer to normal once we ge those case numbers down. But there will be some things where the benefit to the risk, like large puc btherings, may not resume until broad vaccination has taen place. Woodruff meaning conventions when you say large public gathering, over 10 people. Ea well, well have to figure out how to draw that and we may even understand agespecific risk at that point. So having a classroom with 30 young people in it may be just fine because their re in transmitting the disease well understand in the next month or so. It may be so limited, that ure far more liberal with young people getting together than you would be with a woodruff a couple of questions about the economy. The wall street firm evercore, is projecting 50 that is 50 percent drop in g. D. P. This quarter, an Unemployment Rate of 20 , twice as high du ng the financial crisis. Theyre projecting ano ther 5 drop in the third quarter. And thats fore we begin t come back. R assessment . Well, again, im not as deep an expert on that as i am on vaccines. S if you have t a threemonth period of extreme shutdown, and then you were able to d a large the end is the best thing from a medical point of view, and an economic point of view. One thing that will be very trky, though, is when wepen up, you know, peoples psyche in terms of their wealth and their willingness to go out o things has been deeply affected. So even once you fix these supply side by allowing people to go back too wrk, factories to t n, then youll still have this huge question abe demand side, you know, taking trips, buyng new houses, even g a car this is very unprecedented. And although that model you one of theooks li more negatives, the uncertainty is such that its not out of the realm of psibility. Woodruff the continent of africa is a pace that you and your wife, melinda, know very well through your foundation. Youve done so much work there. Hohmuch do you worry aboute effect of this pandemic in a place like thawhen it hits there . Yeah, sadly, it seems likely at this point that even thugh the deaths in the developing world have baen very smll as yet because not that many people with the disease wenthere as moved around in between rich countries, that because their Health Systems are so limited, because the social distancing it much harder to do where you live in a slum right next to each other. You have to go out to get your food. There isnt the capacity to run the Food Distribution sys jm wist a small percentage of the workforce, like the u. S. Has. And so trying help those countries get their testing capaty up, figure what tactics work for them, that maye ifferent. The kind of social distancing rich countries do may not work. And so how do you tune that . Sadly, you know, i do think tht most of the deaths will be in those countries and the most extreme economic pain. Un, theyre not able tor borow of the rich countries are ma engaged if that exercise. They just don have the creditworthiness, the sense that will drive hyperinflation would so even though its super important that we deal with the domestic numbers and get those down, as we think about innovation, as we think about the rest of thi year, the suffering in those countes, we also need to be thinking about that and help as much as we can. Woodruff dihear you say you think most the deaths will come in developing countries, yes. Woodruff and finally, a personal question. U certainly know this issue better than most anybody else, and, yet, has shaken a lot of people. Has caused people whore normally, you know, together in their lives to be quite rattled. How do you think do you think youve been affected by this . Well, im deeply shaken. I you know, every day im like, rwe really in this situation . Wow. You know, there are things like polo eradication tha you know, was we felt like were making able setback for that. You know, people are tking the resources that are fundedinar and shiftinthem o this priority. So, you know, who knows where well be on those other effort fort. We have some great h. I. V. Breakthrough drugs that we want to get out into trials. Those trials arent happening. T, in fhe top people who were going to work on that have been reassigned to work on the coronavirus vaccine. So the foundation is scrambling because as a lot of the key understandings a relationships to accelerate some of these solution, but our normal work, you know, is is suffering. And, you know, you just look at people whoatre isolate home or, you know, overcrowded inei home or kids who are going to lose three months of ouarning. The of pain involved in this thing is gintic. K and, yw, so its deeply troubling. But we need toc stillt to minimize all of that. Woodruff well, bill gaerkts we thank you very much for spending the time talking with us today. Thank you, and we wish and you what youre doi at the foundation the very best. Thank you. He woodruff in the days news, acting secretary of the navy homas modly resigned after a tirade against the captain of a warship thats been hit by the coronavirus. Modly had fired captain brettir crozier of theaft carrier theodore roosevelt, for sending out an email plea to evacuate the crew. Then, on sunday, the secretary lambasted crozier. In guam, and it was my opinion that if he didnt thinkhat information was gonna get out into the public in this Information Age that we live in, then he was, a, the Commanding Officer of a ship like this. Woodruff modly apologized last night for his comments about crozier, but the calls for his ouster mounted. President trump designated James Mcpherson to succeed modly. He was confirmed as undersecretary of the army just last month. White House Press SecretaryStephanie Grisham is leaving, after nine months. At President Trumps direction, she never held a formal press briefing, and she will now becomehe first lads chief of staff. Her successor as press secretary will be kayleigh mcenany, whos now spokeswoman for e trump reelection campaign. Fg innistan, the taliban says it has broken off talks with thn afovernment over a prisoner exchange. Thlmilitant group said it w not take part in what it called fruitless meetings. The u. S. Reached a troop Withdrawal Agreement with the litants in february. The deal also called for a prisoner exchange, as a step toward a broader settlement. Australias top court today threw out the criminal convictions against roman caolic Cardinal George pel for sexually abusing children. The judges found there was reasonable doubt about his guilt. Pell was released af months behind bars, and driven to a monastery in melbourne, as abuse survivor groups condemned the decision. Ou feel angry and then you just feel really sad. Because, the emotions are just so vast. Theres so much to think about and to take on in all this. Woodruff pell had been the most Senior Catholic Church official to be jailed in the longrunning abuse scandal. The university of michigan is sending letters to nearly 6,800 formertudentathletes in a sexual abuse investigation. The school wants them to speak to a law firm investigating allegations that go back to the 1960s. A former campus doctor, robert anderson, is accused of molesting students for decades. He died in 2008. Al a federal apcourt allowed texas today to limit most abortions during the coronavirus pandemic. State officials have classifiedr ons as nonurgent procedures during the crisis. Ur a lower blocked the policy last week, but the Appeals Panel ruled the state is protecting a black pioneer inine publishi has passed away. Earl graves senior died monday after a long struggle with alzheimers disease. 1970, he launched black enterprise. It was the First Magazine about black entrepreneurs to be owned byn africanamerican, and he used it to champn black business. Earl graves was 85 years old. And, a socalled supermoon will light up the y tonight over much of the country. The moon will be full moon, and closer than usual, less than 220,000 miles from earth. That should make it the brightest and largest lunashow of the year. Still to come on the newshour speaking with the governor of maryland on how his state ise coping with isis. Front lines what Eme