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We look at the impact of the pandemic on schools, universities, students, parents, teachers and professors — and who is at the table to shape what happens next. "We now have an economic crisis on top of the public health crisis, and the ways that we're choosing to educate children is simply unequal and is going to lead to an educational crisis,” says education scholar and Cornell University professor Noliwe Rooks, author of "Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education."
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President Trump calls the U.S. Postal Service "a joke," and as millions face orders to stay home, his attacks on the agency could also threaten efforts to vote by mail, a method Trump has called "a terrible thing." "We're talking now about basic access to the ballot box," says American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein, who notes "the Post Office is the most trusted federal agency."
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President Trump has lashed out at the U.S. Postal Service as the pandemic brings it to the brink of collapse and more people than ever are relying on the mail. Trump claims the agency is only losing money because it is undercharging Amazon and other companies for shipping. "It just isn't true," says American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein.
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U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Tops Number of Americans Killed in Vietnam War, Trump Orders Meat Plants to Remain Open as Worker Coronavirus Deaths Mount, Mayor of San Juan Says Puerto Ricans Haven't Received Relief Funds, Workers Plan May Day "People's Strike" to Demand Safer Workplaces, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Lends Support to May 1st Rent Strike, Report: 90% of Minority-Owned Businesses Shut Out of Paycheck Protection Program, U.S. House Cancels Plans to Reconvene in May as D.C. Remains COVID-19 Hot Spot, Pence Refuses to Wear Face Mask During Tour of Mayo Clinic, Riots, Escape Attempts Reported in U.S. Juvenile Jails as Coronavirus Spreads, Trump Admin Continues Deportation Hearings for Migrant Children Despite Pandemic, Brazil's COVID-19 Deaths Surpass China's Reported Toll, WHO to Slash Humanitarian Aid to Yemen After Trump Cuts Agency's Funding, Protests Erupt in Lebanon as Quarantined Residents Go Hungry, Viral Video Shows White Police Officer in California Punching African American Boy, Southwest U.S. Poised to Shatter April Heat Records; Wildfires Erupt in Siberia, Flooding in Canada's Tar Sands Region Forces 13,000 from Their Homes, Climate Scientists, Environmentalists Call New Film "Planet of the Humans" Misleading & Destructive
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In Her Own Words: Fiona Apple on New Album "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" & Acknowledging Indigenous Lands
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In a broadcast exclusive, world-renowned singer-songwriter Fiona Apple joins Democracy Now! for the hour to discuss her critically acclaimed new album, "Fetch the Bolt Cutters," which was released early amid the pandemic. "I've heard that it's actually making people feel free and happy," Apple says, "and it might be helping people feel alive or feel their anger or feel creative. And that's the best thing that I could hope for." Her record includes an acknowledgment that the album was "Made on unceded Tongva, Mescalero Apache, and Suma territories." We also speak with Native American activist Eryn Wise, an organizer with Seeding Sovereignty, an Indigenous-led collective that launched a rapid response initiative to help Indigenous communities affected by the outbreak.
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President Trump dangerously suggested injecting disinfectants could help patients sick with the coronavirus, then said he was being "sarcastic." But his remarks led to a spike in calls to helplines about taking disinfectants. We look at "What We Know About the Most Touted Drugs Tested for COVID-19" with Tanya Lewis, associate editor for health and medicine at Scientific American.
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As multiple states have moved to further restrict access to abortions during the pandemic, a powerful new dramatic film follows a 17-year-old girl as she travels from her small town in Pennsylvania to New York City to get an abortion without having to notify her parents. "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" director and writer Eliza Hittman joins us to discuss the making of the film, which is being distributed online while cinemas remain closed in most states due to the pandemic.
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As much of the U.S. remains on lockdown, abortion rights are under attack nationwide. We get an update on the fight for abortion access with Alexis McGill Johnson, acting president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "Our bodies have literally been deemed essential," she says, "and yet the control of our bodies and the right to control our own bodies has not."
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Global Coronavirus Deaths Top 207,000 as Hard-Hit European Nations Start Relaxing Lockdowns, States Prepare to Reopen Economies as Cases Continue to Mount, Doctors See Rise in Strokes Caused by Coronavirus; CDC Expands List of Possible Symptoms, Oakland Police Tackle and Detain Unhoused Outreach Workers, Poison Control Center Calls Spike After President Trump Suggests Injections of Disinfectant, WHO Warns Against Issuing "Immunity Passports", Activists Hold "Cancel the Rent" Protests Around the Country, Coronavirus Outbreak Reported at Tyson Foods Meat Processing Plant, "Larry King Live" Tape from 1993 Supports Tara Reade's Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden, Progressives Demand Ouster of Larry Summers as Joe Biden's Economic Adviser, El Paso Walmart Shooting Victim Dies, Raising Death Toll to 23, Saudi Human Rights Activist Abdullah al-Hamid Dies a Political Prisoner, Separatists Declare Self-Rule in Southern Yemen, Deepening Political Crisis, Brazil's Justice Minister Resigns After President Bolsonaro Fires Federal Police Chief, Insect Populations Plummet Amid Urbanization and Deforestation
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As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."
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We go to Georgia, which is reopening nonessential businesses today — hair and nail salons, tattoo parlors and massage therapists — despite a rising number of COVID-19 deaths. The governor is opening the state over the objections of mayors in Savannah, Atlanta and Augusta. "This order has nothing to do with public health. It has everything to do with the financial health of the state," says George Chidi, columnist for Decaturish, and public policy director for PadSplit, an Atlanta-based affordable housing organization.
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To talk more about how the coronavirus relief bills have affected essential workers, we speak with an organizer in Queens, New York, the epicenter of the epicenter of the pandemic. "Things are being done, but it's not enough to serve the domestic workers who are essential workers and keep this city running," says Riya Ortiz, lead organizer and case manager for the nonprofit Damayan Migrant Workers Association in New York City.
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As the House passes a new $484 Billion coronavirus relief bill, Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the sole Democrat to vote no, saying it falls far short, failing to protect those at greatest health risk, including essential frontline workers, and could let millions go hungry. We get response from The American Prospect's David Dayen.
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U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Nears 50,000, as Pandemic Leaves 26 Million Unemployed, House Approves $484 Billion in Additional Coronavirus Relief Funding, House Members Wear Masks During Historic Vote as COVID-19 Impacts Lawmakers' Families, Trump Suggests Injecting COVID-19 Patients with Disinfectant, Leaving Doctors Aghast, "Trump Lies People Die": Protesters Dump Body Bags in Front of Trump D.C. Hotel, New York Governor Says 1 in 5 NYC Residents Have Coronavirus Antibodies in Blood, As Georgia Reopens Businesses, Hospitals Brace for New Wave of Coronavirus Deaths, Gov. Newsom Keeps Lockdown in Place as California Suffers Deadliest Day of Pandemic, Preliminary Findings Show No Benefits of Remdesivir, Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, Researchers Estimate 28,000 Were Infected with Coronavirus in U.S. Cities by March 1, Health and Human Services Spokesperson Deletes Racist Tweets About Chinese People, Ecuador's Coronavirus Death Toll May Be 15 Times Higher Than Reported, Brazil Coronavirus Deaths Top 400 in a Day; Peru's Hospitals at Breaking Point, Mexican Medical Workers Face Harassment, Attacks over COVID-19 Fears, El Salvador Pandemic Response a "Death Sentence" for Poor Communities, Two Transgender Women Found Murdered in Puerto Rico
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As parts of the United States and Europe consider reopening, most of the world's population remains susceptible to the coronavirus. We look at new efforts to stop the deadly spread of COVID-19 with contact tracing — finding who infected patients have been in contact with so they can get tested and isolated. We'll speak with global health expert Dr. Joia Mukherjee, with Partners in Health, about a contact tracing project she is working on now in Massachusetts.
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Despite strong objections of public health officials, governors in Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina still plan to reopen parks, beaches and nonessential businesses. Even Trump reversed his support. Increased testing is critical for the whole country. But where are the tests? We look at the path ahead with Dr. Syra Madad, infectious disease specialist and special pathogens expert, who was recently featured in the Netflix docuseries "Pandemic."
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ACLU Warns Spread of Coronavirus in Jails Could Add 100,000 Deaths to U.S. Toll, Government Scientist Claims Reprisal for Opposing Trump's Unproven Coronavirus Treatment, As Coronavirus Reached the U.S., Trump Admin Tapped Ex-Labradoodle Breeder to Lead Task Force, President Trump "Disagrees Strongly" with Governor's Plans to Reopen Georgia, Scientists Skeptical of Reports of High Rates of Coronavirus Antibodies in California Residents, Funeral Directors Association Warns U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Are Underreported, Doctors Report Life-Threatening Blood Clotting in COVID-19 Patients, More Human Trials of Experimental Coronavirus Vaccines Begin in Germany, U.K., House to Vote on $484 Billion in New Coronavirus Relief; Republicans Object to Remote Voting , Tyson Foods Idles Iowa Pork Plant as Coronavirus Spreads in Meatpacking Factories, Trump Admin to Deny Stimulus Checks to Spouses of Immigrants, Cuba Sends Doctors to Honduras; Mexico Forces Deportees to Traverse "Disinfection Tunnels", Bodies Fill Mass Graves in Brazilian City Hard Hit by Coronavirus, In Uganda, Pregnant Women Die as Lockdown Cuts Off Hospital Access, South African Troops to Enforce Quarantine in Largest Mobilization Since Apartheid Era, In Singapore, Migrant Workers Suffer Most from COVID-19; Detained Chinese Journalist Resurfaces, U.N. Chief Warns Authoritarians Are Weaponizing Pandemic to Subvert Human Rights, U.S. Accelerates Airstrikes in Somalia Even as Coronavirus Spreads, Secretary of State Pompeo Calls Illegal West Bank Annexation "An Israeli Decision", Palestinian Tests Positive for Coronavirus in Lebanon Refugee Camp, Federal Court Allows Arkansas to Enforce Abortion Ban During Pandemic
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Chileans Who Took to Streets Against Inequality & Climate Crisis Say Virus Lockdowns Won't Stop Them
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Months ago, the streets of Santiago and other Chilean cities were alive with a vibrant mass protest movement that drew hundreds of thousands and even led the U.N. climate summit to be relocated to Madrid, Spain, last December. Now the public spaces of Santiago are largely empty as citizens shelter in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. But the protest movement against austerity and right-wing President Sebastián Piñera lives on as activists find new ways to organize online. We go to Santiago, Chile, to speak with Angela Valenzuela, a 350.org organizer who has been active both in the country's uprising and in the global youth climate strikes and is a former coordinator with Fridays for Future Chile.
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke in an Earth Day live stream hosted by the Nobel Prize Museum about how the Fridays for Future school strikes movement she launched is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. "Within the Fridays for Future movement, there's still this sort of big sense of resistance, and people are thinking, 'We will get out of this. And when we do, we will continue, and we will do everything we can that is possible in that situation to continue to push even harder,'" says Thunberg. "I feel like many people have not lost their sense of hope. We have just changed the way we do things. We are maybe just saving it for later at the moment."
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Some 265 million people are expected to face acute hunger as the coronavirus crisis could trigger a second pandemic of hunger. The crisis is projected to disproportionately affect Africa, where there is already widespread hunger. This comes as the World Health Organization estimates the number of COVID-19 cases in Africa could rise to 10 million in the next three to six months. Ten African countries don't have a single ventilator. "This is an extremely terrifying and frightening moment for the people of Africa. … We were already facing a major food crisis — that was before the coronavirus hit," says lifelong South African human rights and climate justice activist Kumi Naidoo, former secretary general of Amnesty International and former head of Greenpeace.
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, when more than 20 million Americans joined in actions to protect the environment — 10% of the U.S. population at the time. Half a century later, in the middle of a pandemic, protests planned around the world have moved online, and the Trump administration has gutted the Environmental Protection Agency — established not long after Earth Day — rolled back fuel economy standards and eased the enforcement of pollution regulations. "The countries that flattened the coronavirus curve early on are doing far better than those like ours, which delayed," says Bill McKibben, author, educator, environmentalist and co-founder of 350.org. "That's a pretty perfect analog to the 30 years that we've wasted in the climate crisis."
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U.N. Warns Pandemic May Unleash "Multiple Famines of Biblical Proportions", $484 Billion U.S. Coronavirus Bill Won't Fund Relief Checks, Food Stamps or State Aid, Trump Organization Asks Trump Administration for Rent Relief for D.C. Hotel, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Trump Agree to Expand Coronavirus Testing in New York, Wisconsin COVID-19 Cases Linked to In-Person Voting During April 7 Election, More Slaughterhouse Workers Contract COVID-19, Anti-Quarantine Protesters, Backed by Far-Right Groups, Flout Social Distancing, At White House Protest, Nurses Read Names of Colleagues Who Died of COVID-19, California Confirms February COVID-19 Fatalities, Earliest Known U.S. Deaths, More Deaths, No Benefits Found in Study of Trump-Touted COVID-19 "Miracle Cure", Amazon Workers Hold Wildcat Strike, Demanding Paid Leave and Safety Measures, Trump to Suspend Green Card Applications for 60 Days, Immigrant Prisoners in Arizona Must Sign Liability Waiver to Receive Face Masks, 60-Year-Old Michigan Prisoner Dies of COVID-19 Days Before Scheduled Release, 148 Asylum Seekers Test Positive for COVID-19 at Migrant Shelter in Greece, U.S. Factories in Mexico Remain Open Despite Surge in COVID-19 Cases, President Trump Pledges Fossil Fuel Bailout as Oil Prices Fall Below Zero, Oxford to Divest from Fossil Fuels; Harvard Will Follow, But Not Until 2050, Iran Launches Its First-Ever Military Satellite into Orbit
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We look at the mounting number of COVID-19 cases inside immigration jails across the country and one of the largest outbreaks at the Otay Mesa Detention Center near San Diego, run by private prison company CoreCivic. Prisoners were told to sign contracts, written only in English, in exchange for receiving face masks. When some refused to sign, guards pepper-sprayed them. This comes as activists say hundreds imprisoned in detention centers in California are on hunger strike. We get an update from Ruth Mendez, community activist and volunteer with Otay Mesa Detention Resistance.
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As the White House and Democrats near a deal on a $450 billion coronavirus relief package, members of the Progressive Caucus say it bails out businesses once again and fails to protect working people. "In general, there's been kind of a disproportionate response that is reflected in the CARES Act. For individuals, for small businesses, it's very hard to get relief," says The American Prospect's executive editor, David Dayen. "But if you're a big corporation, the Federal Reserve has $4.5 trillion in reserves ready for you."
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We look at how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting undocumented people here in New York City, where the coronavirus has hit immigrant communities the hardest, even as the numbers of daily deaths statewide has declined in recent days. As reports of widespread poverty and hunger continue in the immigrant communities, people are also organizing and helping each other through mutual aid despite extraordinarily difficult circumstances. We are joined by Juan Carlos Ruiz, Lutheran pastor at Good Shepherd Church in Brooklyn and co-founder of the national New Sanctuary Movement and the New Sanctuary Coalition here in New York City, and Cinthya Santos Briones, a Mexican photographer, anthropologist and community organizer.
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We get an update from Democracy Now! co-host Juan González about his mother and wife, who were infected with COVID-19, and discuss how right-wing Trump supporters are brandishing automatic weapons at protests to demand an end to coronavirus shutdowns and are being egged on by the president. "We should make no mistake, that this country is edging closer and closer to neo-fascist authoritarianism," says González, expressing concern these actions will become normalized in the lead-up to a bitter national election in November.
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Trump Says He Will Shut Down All Immigration to the U.S. Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Southern States to Reopen Businesses Despite Mounting COVID-19 Cases, Coronavirus Cases Surging in Massachusetts , NY Nurses Sue over Lack of Protection Against Coronavirus, MTA Moves Ahead with Increase in Police Force Despite Financial Hardship and Drop in Riders, Federal Judge Orders ICE to Consider Releasing Immigrants Vulnerable to COVID-19, SCOTUS to Consider Crucial Role of DACA First Responders, Airline Industry Receives $3 Billion in Gov't Funds as Flight Attendants Denounce Working Conditions, Disney to Stop Paying 100,000 Workers as Executives Rake in Millions, Smithfield Foods Blames Immigrant Workforce for Coronavirus Outbreak, 5-Year-Old Michigan Girl Dies from COVID-19, WHO Warns "Worst Is Ahead of Us" as Some Countries Relax Restrictions, Cases of COVID-19 Among Deported People Spreading the Virus Beyond U.S. Borders, Kim Jong-un Reportedly in Critical Condition After Surgery, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz Agree to Power-Sharing Deal , Hong Kong Arrests High-Profile Pro-Democracy Activists Amid Coronavirus Crisis, Oil Price Drops Below Zero for First Time Ever, NYC Councilmembers Unveil Resolution to Divest from Banks Financing Fossil Fuel Industry
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Grocery stores are one of the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, with store workers and gig economy shoppers often working without protection, as demand for groceries soars and millions of Americans stay home. "At first, when the adrenaline was still there, we were essential. We were prideful. And now, as we get more into it, that's wearing off, and it's seeming more like expendable," says Matthew Telles, a member of the Gig Workers Collective, who is a personal shopper who helped organize a strike by Instacart workers in March to demand the company implement appropriate safety measures and give them hazard pay.
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We continue our conversation with Dr. Armen Henderson, an African-American doctor in Miami who was handcuffed outside his home while preparing for a volunteer shift to help protect homeless people from the spread of COVID-19. The encounter has sparked widespread outrage, and Miami's police chief has now tested positive for COVID-19 and is in self-isolation. Dr Henderson has taken a test himself and is waiting for results — and accountability.
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U.S. Fatalities Top 40,000; Nursing Homes Hit Hard as Death Tolls Soar, Trump and Governors at Odds over Coronavirus Testing as Uneven Reopening of States Commences, Right-Wing Groups Organize Anti-Lockdown Protests Around the Country, New Deal on Relief for Small Businesses Could Be Imminent But May Lack Key Democratic Provisions, Immigrant Prisoners at Otay Mesa Launch Hunger Strike, Denounce Inhumane Treatment, Michael Cohen to Be Released from Federal Detention as Prisoners Nationwide Face Mounting Coronavirus Risk, Italy Records Lowest Daily Death Toll in a Week; Spain & France Also Show Signs of Progress, Report Reveals Boris Johnson Skipped Early Gov't Meetings About Coronavirus Threat, Fire Rips Through Packed Greek Refugee Camp After Protest over Death of Iraqi Asylum Seeker, Thousands in Tel Aviv Protest Against Netanyahu's Coronavirus Response, WHO Warns Severe COVID-19 Cases in Africa Could Reach 10 Million , Afghan President Self-Isolates After 40 Palace Employees Test Positive for COVID-19, Brazil's Bolsonaro Coughs into Crowd at Anti-Quarantine Rally, Mumbai to Test Hydroxychloroquine on Some of City's Poorest Residents, 100,000 Bangladeshis Defy Lockdown to Attend Mass Funeral, South Korean Infections Fall to Single Digits, But Questions Remain over Relapse Risk, Canada Gunman Kills at Least 16 in Nova Scotia Shooting Rampage, Trump Admin Rolls Back Regulations on Toxic Mercury Emissions, West Coast and Northern Mexico Headed Toward Record-Breaking Mega-Drought
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A new policy at New York City's public hospitals requires medical workers who call in sick to produce a doctor's note. "We know that people just need a mental health day," says Sean Petty, a registered nurse at a public hospital in the Bronx who is organizing a protest against the policy. "Thousands of us have been exposed. Health workers are the least tested group of people in this city." Petty is a member of the board of directors of the New York State Nurses Association.
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We continue our conversation with world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky. He responds to President Trump's cuts to U.S. support for the World Health Organization and the surge in deaths in the United States to another record high, and discusses conditions in Gaza, the rise of authoritarianism around the world, and the progressive response. "This is typical behavior of autocrats and dictators. When you make colossal errors which are killing thousands of people, find somebody else to blame," say Chomsky. "In the United States, it's unfortunately the case, for well over a century, century and a half, that it's always easy to blame the 'yellow peril.'"
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U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Surge to New Record High as 4,500+ People Die in 24 Hours, New York COVID-19 Death Toll Surpasses 12,000 While Hospitalizations Continue to Fall, CDC Investigating SD Pork Processing Plant, Single Biggest COVID-19 Hot Spot in U.S., Nurses Suspended in CA for Refusing to Treat COVID-19 Patients Without N95 Masks, $349B Paycheck Protection Program for Small Businesses Exhausted, USAA Will No Longer Seize Stimulus Checks; ProPublica Finds Landlords Violated Eviction Ban, NY Gov. Cuomo Rules Out Relief for Undocumented Residents, UnitedHealth Group Profits Surge as Coronavirus Spreads, Report: COVID-19 Cases in U.S. Amazon Warehouses Will Likely Skyrocket, China Revises COVID-19 Death Toll in Wuhan Upwards by 50% Since Outbreak First Emerged, Brazil's Bolsonaro Abruptly Fires Health Minister for Urging Social Distancing , Guatemalan Indigenous Communities Fear Country's Health System Unprepared to Respond to COVID-19, Nigerian Security Forces Have Killed at Least 18 While Enforcing Social Distancing Rules, Puerto Ricans Protest Gov. Vázquez Coronavirus "Propaganda," Demand More COVID-19 Testing on Island, U.N. Warns of Pandemic's "Potentially Catastrophic" Toll on Children, Lila Fenwick, First Black Woman to Graduate Harvard Law in '56, Dies of COVID-19, Vice: Ex-Michigan Gov. Snyder Knew About Flint Water Crisis as Early as 2014 & Lied About It to Congress, Alaska Says Surgical Abortions Could Be Banned During Coronavirus Pandemic
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Officials in India say six major cities are coronavirus hot spots, including the capital city, New Delhi. We go there to speak with writer and activist Arundhati Roy, who has a new essay on how "The Pandemic Is a Portal." She says, "You have the sense that you're sitting on some kind of explosive substance," and describes how the government of Narendra Modi is using the pandemic to crack down on opponents and dissidents.
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"Pure Baloney": Zoologist Debunks Trump's COVID-19 Origin Theory, Explains Animal-Human Transmission
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With the largest one-day death toll in the U.S. yet — 2,400 in just 24 hours — President Trump is trying to deflect attention from his handling of the pandemic by waging a war on public health experts and science, threatening to cut World Health Organization funding and fueling a theory that the coronavirus came from a lab in Wuhan, China. We speak to a zoologist who has been sounding the alarm about a coming pandemic for years. "The idea that this virus escaped from a lab is just pure baloney," says Peter Daszak, disease ecologist and the president of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit that works globally to identify and study our vulnerabilities to emerging infectious disease. "These pandemic viruses that emerge originate in wildlife."
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Trump Pushes to Reopen Economy by May as Doctors and CEOs Object, 22 Million U.S. Workers File for Unemployment in Just Four Weeks, Tax Loopholes in Coronavirus Relief Bill to Overwhelmingly Benefit the Wealthiest, New York Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 11,500 as Governor Orders Wearing of Masks in Public, Medical Workers Demand More Safety Measures as COVID-19 Deaths Mount, Michigan Protesters Defy Social Distancing Rules, Demanding End to Quarantine, Mexico Faces Shortage of Medical Workers as COVID-19 Spreads, French Aircraft Carrier Evacuated as Nearly 700 Sailors Test Positive for COVID-19, Swedish COVID-19 Cases Multiply as Public Spaces Remain Open, Asylum Seekers Protest in Immigration Jails as COVID-19 Deaths Mount, Prisoners at Chicago Jail Report Desperate Conditions as COVID-19 Spreads, Pennsylvania Prisoner Dies of COVID-19 Days Before Scheduled Review of Innocence Claims, Political Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal Reports No COVID-19 Symptoms, Worker Dies of COVID-19 at South Dakota Pork Factory Where 640 Tested Positive, African-American Pastors Call for Equity in Coronavirus Testing, New Jersey Rolls Out First Saliva-Based COVID-19 Test, Sen. Elizabeth Warren Endorses Joe Biden, Says She Would Serve as Vice President, South Korean President's Party Wins Landslide in High-Turnout Election, New Research Confirms Greenland Ice Sheet Suffered Record Melt in 2019, U.S. Judge Revokes Crucial Permit for Keystone XL Pipeline, Transgender Woman Murdered in Baltimore; ACLU Sues Idaho over Trans Athlete Law
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We speak with Dr. Armen Henderson, an African-American doctor who was handcuffed and detained outside his home Friday as he was wearing a mask and preparing for a volunteer shift to test homeless people for COVID-19. "I want the officer held accountable. There's no way that you racially profile me and then you arrest me, detain me, during a pandemic, when you have no mask on, where hundreds of police officers throughout Miami-Dade County have tested positive," says Dr. Henderson, who is an internal medicine physician, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Miami and an organizer with Dream Defenders.
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COVID-19 & Indian Country: Pandemic Exposes Navajo Nation's Water Access Crisis & Health Disparities
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As the COVID-19 death toll continues to rise in the U.S., fear is mounting that the spread of the virus could devastate tribal communities. We look at how the coronavirus is impacting Indian Country with Dean Seneca, a citizen of the Seneca Nation and epidemiologist who spent nearly 20 years as a senior health scientist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Navajo activist and artist Emma Robbins, director of the Navajo Water Project, a community-managed utility alternative that brings hot and cold running water to homes without access to water or sewer lines. "One of the hardest things right now is being able to wash your hands in the Navajo Nation," says Robbins. The Navajo Nation is the largest tribal nation in the United States and the hardest hit by the outbreak, with nearly 30 deaths and more than 830 confirmed cases.
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Trump Cuts Funds for World Health Org as Oxfam Warns Pandemic Could Push Half a Billion into Poverty
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As the confirmed cases of coronavirus surpass 2 million around the world, President Donald Trump says he will cut U.S. support for the World Health Organization. Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet medical journal, called it a "crime against humanity." Oxfam America said the cuts slash "any hopes for the responsible international cooperation and solidarity that is critical to save lives and restore the global economy." This comes as a new Oxfam report estimates the pandemic's economic fallout could push more than half a billion more people into poverty. We get response from Paul O'Brien, vice president of Oxfam America.
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