Until its taken away. The signs of what was coming were out there. France, portugal, and belgium have also an entire country on lockdown. Now to the crisis in new york city. We have seen this in other countries. This is queens new york. Covid19 wasnt just another cold. The worst Global Crisis since world war ii. The u. S. Acted, but only after waiting. They all have covid. We knew it was coming. Its too little, too late. The world has never seen anything like this. There will be a lot of death, unfortunately. Its only a matter of time before it hits your community. This isnt going to get any better. America is not prepared. Even as some places see signs of hope, the question remains will life ever be the same again . This is what one of the most vibrant nations in the world looks like in 2020. Italy was the First Western country hollowed out by the coronavirus. A clear warning of what a pandemic could do to an open democratic society. And to a people who love life. Love to socialize. And love their cities. With no vaccine, italy faced the outbreak the only way it knew how. It delved into its history, becoming the first country in the world to put its entire population in quarantine. A medieval practice first introduced into the battle of acclaim. The word quarantine comes from italian. For 40 days of isolation. At the start of this year, no one here had heard of the coronavirus. At 6 00 each evening the Italian Government announces the latest numbers of infections and deaths. The news is almost never good. To divert their eyes and maybe to save their souls, when the 6 00 p. M. Bulletins come, many italians respond with defiance and solidarity, expressing an almost primal nal need for hope the face of news that no one wants to hear but no one can afford to fully ignore. We knew in advance it was likely not going to be good news, it was going to be really bad news. Mattia is an Italian Journalist base in the rome. It was a moment based in dread, a moment people try to avoid. Psychologically it is a lot of pressure on that moment of the day. The covid19 pandemic that began in china and swept through asia took several weeks to fully impact europe. It meant italy had some time to prepare, but like most nations, italy didnt appreciate the full scale of what it was about to face. Unfortunately, italians like me, myself included, we started to take it seriously when we were forced to do so, when the lockdown was a decree from the government. Sports events were canceled. Schools and universities shut. And italys famous cafe culture disappeared from the sidewalks. But italys attempts to stop covid19 came too late. The first recorded case was on january 31st, when two Chinese Tourists from wuhan became ill. Almost two weeks later two clusters emerged in lombardi and the numbers blew up after that. 51 days after reporting its first case, italy replace china as the epicenter of the global covid19 epidemic. One thing was admissible as the world watched italy suffer, even one of the best resourced Healthcare Systems in the world simply couldnt cope once covid19 took hold. Nobody thought theyd be treating so many people so quickly. In the very beginning its been tough just because we see the number of patients which was absolutely unbelievable at the same time. So for example i spent four or five days without going home. This is the end of the day after 12 hours of continuous duty. Theres a lot of patients here. Dr. Enrico starti is an intensive care unit director. We have a huge number of patients with severe respiratory distress, and we receive a sort of tsunami of patients emerging. We are living in a mass casualty scenario. That means that theres a huge disproportion between resources and number of patients were treating. The virus hit the city of bergamo with such sbeed on such a wide scale the cemetery quickly hit capacity. Churches filled with coffins. The army was called in to move the dead to neighboring towns. In a few short weeks, italy was utterly transformed. Just this past week, the italian authorities declared a nationwide lockdown. In milan, american student anna engle suddenly found herself caught up in the lockdown. I am here in lombardy which was known to be the coronavirus pandemic in the last two months. I want to send a message say to take this as seriously as possible. Anna wasnt alone in trying to sound the alarm. Mattia who lived and worked in new york feared that other countries would soon be suffering just like italy. On march 13th he wrote a column in the boston globe urging other countries learn what would become the italian lesson. We wasted time. We wasted few precious weeks in which we could have explained and understand bet fter the importance of social distancing, the importance of staying home. Many countries did follow italys lead. In london after initially resisting a lockdown, prime Minster Boris johnson closed pubs and restaurants and advised citizens to stay home. The government has a lockdown enforced. You must stay home. France and spain did much the same. Even india, with its population of 1. 3 billion, decided on lockdown. Everywhere, covid19 was imposing a new reality. Im in my house all alone. I cant go to my grandchildren. I cant see my children. Hi, my name is brook. I live in sydney, australia. I have been inside now for going on three weeks. Its a bit weird being out here because it feels like nothing else is happening in the world until you log in online and see the crazy news thats happening. This is wednesday today . Am i starting to forget the days of the week . Im in my house all alone for the remainder of this period, and that all of a sudden hit me. But not all countries took the italian lesson to heart. Well into the crisis, mexicos president continued to meet and greet supporters. In belarus, the president said the people could be protected by their prapeutic saunas and drin vodka. They werent the only one who seemed to think the virus would come and go without much harm. Its going to disappear one day. Its like a miracle. It will disappear. And from our shores, you know, it could get worse before it gets better. Could maybe go away. Well see what happens. Nobody really knows. We werent in the car business. At lexus, we were in the people business. We needed to be helpful. Respectful. And compassionate. To treat people like guests. Its what we all signed up for. And now when people need this most, we will do what weve always done. Take care of people first. The rest will follow. 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I want america to understand this week, its going to get bad. President trump seemed to be in denial. Its one person coming in from china, and we have it under control. Its going to be just fine. Looks like by april, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away. We have a very small number of people in the country right now with it. Its like around 12. Many of them are getting better. Some of them are fully recovered already. Its a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for and will have a shot for this in a fairly quick manner. Within a couple of days its going to be down close to zero. On march 17th, the president changed his tune. This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. It was deadly serious. A hospital ship steamed up the hudson river. And makeshift field hospitals were set up in central park. Funeral homes couldnt cope with the number of dead. Meanwhile, the virus that scientists believe originated in bats in china then jumped to humans, had crossed another barrier and found a new victim, the global economy. Gold being down, rates going up, stroks getting drilled. Its the lowest point for the dow since june 2017. Breaking overnight. High volatility out there. Retailers across the country, layoffs max. There were immediately comparisons with the 2008 recession when banks collapsed. Other economists reached further back to the 1997 Asian Financial crisis. Or the oil crisis of the 1970s, sparked by an arab embargo during a war with israel. Or the big one discouragement, fear, depression. The Great Depression of the 1930s that ultimate wily led to economic deprivation and out of it, fascism and world war. If this runs for much longer then youre going to get all of those consequences and aberrati aberrations we got. Sellwyn is a historian. Do you see parallels to the Great Depression . Yes, its the contagion thing. Contagion always finds the vulnerabilities. The 21st century is like a supercomputer. Its interconnected and magically fast when it works but one errant bit of code, one tiny virus, can bring the whole thing to a halt. How bad is this for the economy . What do you think is the real economic costs of this pandemic are and are going to be . In a word, enormous. Nobel prize Winning Economist jose jose Joseph Steiglitz is in lockdown. He sees the impact clearly. Well in excess of 20 . Numbers we havent seen since the Great Depression. There was word about Companies Going bankrupt. Once youre bankrupt you dont quickly go unbankrupt when the economy recovers. President trump who often tied he is performance to the stock indexes, tried to reassure the markets. Look, we were set to hit 30,000 on the dow. This is a number no one came close to. Even though its down 10 its still the highs by far. It certainly might have an impact. The more he spoke, the more he contradicted himself and the more the markets tanked. President trumps approach seems to be, well, all over the place. I think he is viewed by most responsible people as just out to lunch. He doesnt know whats going on. No one takes him seriously. Most states did impose lockdowns. But that comes with a cost that could kill the retail lee sure and hospitality sectors. Were already living paycheck to paycheck. Already behind in bills. Our Profit Center drop by 92 . Unemployment would not cover our mortgage payment. It would be terrible if i lost this job. I dont know. I dont know how long we can withstand this. Its a bit like chemo therapy, i suppose. Its horrible but works in the long run. If this thing isnt shut down quickly youre going get a mess of economic consequences as well as a mess of health consequences. We could be the authors of our own distriestruction. This was a medical problem. Were not going to let it turn into a long lasting financial problem. If it were up to the doctors theyd say lets keep it shut down. We cant let the problem be worse than the cure. The u. S. Reported the staggering weekly jobless claims on a staggering increase im not aware has ever happened before. We are definitely seeing a huge collapse in the Economic Activity very quickly. Jim oneil was chief economist for goldman sachs. Hes now a chief member of the house of lords. Are you talking about a global dip in about 20 gdp . I think a global dip of something in the vicinity of at least 10 baked in the cake. What is completely unknown is how long its going to go on for and that of course is with the presumption we can get this thing under control. Congress did act quickly, passing a 2. 5 trillion bail yut, the biggest in u. S. History. Its a big day. I signed the biggest Economic Relief package in american history. This funding will enable us to recover. What worries me is having passed this, in three, four months time, we may need a second dose. Thats all got to be paid for. In the long run, governments cant keep on governments cant keep on spending it. Eventually you have to but the fundamental question remains how could a virus do so much damage so quickly . We tend to think of our economy as relatively strong, globally. But in a few weeks, a virus brought world to a standstill. I think this exposes the lack of resilience. Many Auto Companies were seeing cars without spare tires. They said, you dont use the spare tire very often, so why have a spare tire . Of course the reason you have a spare tire is when you have a flat tire, a spare tire makes a very big difference. Americans are discovering that the cost of not having a spare tire, not being prepared for such a pandemic could be devastating and brings an entire way of life into question. Youre part of the inside crowd when it comes to capitalism. Does this expose some real systemic problems with the free market system . Ive become a passionate believer that the sort of movement of what i call responsible capitalism or profit with purpose is the way of the future. Profit obviously is an important part of conducting business, but it cannot be the sole purpose. The cost in dollars and lives will be felt for years to come. What we dont know is whether the pandemic will change us permanently. In a way this is our alien invasion them virus is essentially mall ware attacking the source code of humanity. Co. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Thousands of women with metastatic Breast Cancer, which is Breast Cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, are living in the moment and taking ibrance. Ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for postmenopausal women or for men with hr her2 metastatic Breast Cancer, as the first hormonal based therapy. 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Get ready for the drop wait for it wait for it come on man hit me wait for it just do it already one more time yeah. The World Premiere is now in your home. 2020 will forever be remembered as the year when the world fell silent. As the virus footprints spread across the globe and governments ordered their citizens inside. In no time at all, people had to adjust to a new antisocial way of life. You know this city better than anyone i know by far. What do you think about what youre seeing now . Its devastating. And its heartbreaking. I mean, generally this is full up. Everywhere you look, there is people. In my lifetime, never, ever seen it like this. I met an old friend of mine, pete mulcahy, a black cabdriver and london tour guide and former boxer. Like many others hes facing an uncertain future. When was the last time you picked up a fare shh. Two weeks ago. The last time i drove a cab as a cab drive was two weeks ago. How long can you keep going if it stays lake this. Like this, three months. Most people have got nothing. Three months, four months and then i have to start digging into money ive put away for my longterm, but the longterm is is you dont want to think about it. Thinking about the longterm is precisely what professor amy webb spends her time doing and she says a shift in everyday patterns can be the biggest challenge. I think we have to be willing to confront our cherished beliefs right now and be tlwillg to imagine alternative futures. We are on a different path into the future than we were last month. And that impacts everything. That impacts transportation, that impacts school. That impacts our economy. That impacts investments. That impacts everything, everybody, all of us. Because lets not forget, you know, you may not die from this, but your way of life might be dead. This is soho in the center of london. Ever since the swinging 60s, this district was londons noisy, beating heart. But just listen now. The only sound, your own footst footsteps. And the man who reluctantly hushed britains streets to fight the coronavirus has now become one of its victims. Uk prime Minster Boris johnson carried on working a full schedule after being diagnosed with the virus. First of all, in my own case although im feeling better and ive done my seven days of isolation, alas i still have one of the symptoms but were working the whole time on our program to defeat the virus. But after his condition worsened, he was moved to an icu. Now making a recovery, he serves as a reminder of just how vulnerable we all are to covid19. There is now a significant portion of the World Population living at home. Is this what you expected . This has really been unprecedented in terms of impact its having. Certainly early on a lot of signs were very troubling with this virus. To have this combination of something that spread between people and have a severe impact is something we were always really putting at the top of our list. Adam is a hen epidemiologist. He uses mathematical models to tra, and prepare for outbreaks. Were not in a situation where we can sit back and let this spread. In the moment, a lot of countries this is the only way we can prevent our Healthcare System from being totally flat out. The reason goes like this. On average an infected person with coronavirus passes it to two or three others and the cases grow exponentially. If that one infected person doesnt stay home, over 1,000 people will have the virus within six weeks. But if that person stays quarantined, the number falls to just over 100. So were going to need to get average contact in a population down potentially by about 70 to have a hope. Is this going to be with us Going Forward . I think this is going to be an impact on our behavior for potentially the next year or two. Hopefully not at the level it currently is in terms of interactions, but i think certainly until we have a vaccine or some other, yeah, effective way of controlling this, we are going to have to change. Already a new behavior has become Second Nature for billion. Social distancing, keeping six feet apart from others to help stem the spread of the virus. In a matter of weeks, covid19 fundamentally changed the way people interact with each other, and most people have been willing to play their part. Although some countries have taken the measures and messaging to the extreme. In rome, mattia is breaking his lockdown for his hour of daily exercise. All part of the rules of the new normal. And he says he can see an upside. It is a strange feeling, but in some sort of way it makes me proud whenever i have a glimpse. It gives me a little bit of hope because we are really understanding the best way to show solidarity and love is not touching and seeing each other. Italy still has a very family culture. People know their grandparents, live close their grandparents, eat meals together. Has that helped . I think so. In my case, for sure. Im getting together more with my family now than i ever did. It is also an opportunity to rediscover that. Social distancing forced us to rethink how we work and how he play. In historic firsts, the Olympic Games have been postponed in peacetime. The ideal of the games to bring nations together, suddenly not matching the new spirit of the age. We are fighting multiple issues here. There is the virus. There is the healthcare sector. There is the economy of course. You know, not to mention things like, what does it mean if we have kids out of school for an extended period of time . What does that do for their Cognitive Development . Was whats does this do for the birthrate . Does it go up or down . We dont know yet. How does that affect the work force . Some airlines are starting to lay off employees. Nba, mlb, nhl, and mls are set to go quiet. The coronavirus has forced us all to adjust overnight to a world turned upside down. Well, almost all of us. In parks, at marks and on the court, reckless defiance in the face of a deadly new threat. All be guaranteeing an extended era of social distancing. What has this stress revealed about america . In a way this is our alien invasi invasion. This virus is essentially malware attacking the source code of humanity. This should be something that brings us all together. Its strange to me that its not. This is the time, this is the cause, this is the reason to get Silicon Valley and wall street and washington, d. C. Working in lock step together. Thats going take leadership, courageous leadership, and unfortunately, we are not seeing collaboration coming out of washington, d. C. Covid19 isnt the first pandemic and it wont be the last. For those working to fight it, its already changed everything. Im tired. Im stressed. Im scared. Im an icu doctor and i dont really scare that easily. It is a medical war zone we were unprepared for. Running out of room and vents and ppes. We are caring for the sicken population for covid patient and are preparing for numbers to grow. I never felt so sad and deeply distraught because so many patients die without loved ones. I walk out to the ambulance bay and cry. And their hard work isnt going unnoticed. Formula that helps it pass through the tough stomach acid. It then works to turn down acid production, blocking heartburn at the source. With just one pill a day, you get 24hour heartburn protection. Prilosec otc. One pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. Amid the fltrauma and suffering from covid19, there have been some moments of humanity at its best. The kind of spontaneous demonstrations we saw in italy, mirrored around the world. People giving Health Workers on the front lines the kind of support usually reserved for troops returning from war. Intense pressure, it seems, can either crush what it touches or sometimes make diamonds. So today is march 17th. I dont know how many days we have been in quarantine. I have been making friends with the people closest to us, with our neighbors. Delia and gianna. With two months left in her exchange program, like everyone, anna from buffalo new york is adjusting to life through a laptop. Are you wearing your face mask . Yes, i am wearing my face mask. Continent ace part, anna and her family sharing the. We have hit our plateau. Hopefully this will prevent a rebound. I dont know where to go. Milan was the epicenter. It was place in the new york and now its not u. S. We do miss you. And its your birthday coming up. I miss sharing a room with you. I miss you too, yeah. One of the most interesting features about pandemic disease is that it manages to reflect our whole essence as human beings. Frank snowden is a history professor at yale, specializing in pandemics through the anyones. Theres no aspect to us the as human beings that is not tou touched. Amazing grace while at times bringing out the best in us the virus has also brought out the worst. Ive just come out the supermarket. Im a Critical Care nurse. Just finished 14 hours after work. Just wanted to get something for the next 48 hours, and those people were just stripping the shelves for basic foods. A lot of people are really feeling the panic now. You go to the super markets and there are you know, canned goods are all gone. On behalf of american truckers, slow down, people. Just get enough for a few days for your family. You dont have to load up on all of this stuff. Youre making your jobs harder. Things are pretty desperate. Were trying to save lives. Were all just doing what we can to save peoples loved ones, and i want you to see me like this because i want people to realize how serious it is. You noeed to stay indoors and yu need to stop spreading and it people need to stop catching it, because were on our knees here. Panic in the face of a pandemic is nothing new. In the 14th century, people fled from their homes to escape the black death, only spreading the plague as they went. In just four years, half of europes population died. What do pandemics bring out in humans, historically . In a sense it brings out either or simultaneously, our dark and our better sides and some of the aspects of negativity that come out frequently in the history of pandemic disease have to do with escape scapegoating. Jewish people were burned during the black death. It was a time of great xenophobia. Do you think thats happening now, when trump says, this is the chinese virus . I think that is exactly what happens happening. It specifically says not to attach locations or ethnicity to this or any disease. Not even got the message. I would like to begin by announcing some important developments in our war against the chinese virus. Why do you keep calling this the chinese virus . There are reports of dozens of incidents of bias against Chinese Americans in this country. Why do you keep using this . Because it comes from china. A lot of people say its racist. Its not racist as all. It comes from china, thats why. It comes from china. Thats where the [ bleep ] disease came from. China. Everything comes from china. Soon the president s words were being echoed beyond the white house. Tell him to move. Because hes standing right [ bleep ] next to me. Leading to an alarming increase in antiasian hate crimes, especially in the United States. I know that you have been trying to track reports of antiasian incidents. How frequently are these things happening . There are at least 1,000 hatecrime incidences being reported against asians due to the coronavirus in the last five weeks and now the hate incidents are coming in at about 100 per day. Calling this the chinese virus is a rejection of International Public health and the World Health Organization and saying we are not going to follow their lead. Were going reject that. The Trump Administration didnt just reject the guidance. It tried to make the rest of the world see things this way at this years g7 meeting of foreign minister sfwls todays virtual g7 wasnt the format we envisioned. The grouch seven ministers reportedly failed to agree on a joint statement because of a Trump Administration sticking point. Ambassador spiegel was saying at the g7 that he wanted them to use the term wuhan virus and that perhaps caused some rift. The response . Secretary of state repeating the very language in question. Everyone in that meeting this morning was very focused on making sure that we not only solved the Health Crisis associated with the wuhan virus, but also the economic challenges that face the globe as well. At every press conference, by calling this a chinese virus you know, just because it originate in the china doesnt mean it was only impacting Chinese People or only spread by Chinese People. Continuing to do that is doing no good for the United States. In late march, President Trump changed his tone and started following the World Health Organization guidance buck only after a phone call with chinese president xi jinping. If china wants to retaliate by shutting off key supply chain and manufacturing areas, that puts us at significant harm, not just economic harm. If the Global Supply chain is significantly disrupted more than it is. We wind up potentially with food short anna shorta shortages. I hope that cooler heads will prevail. Theres opportunity here. 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Byes shuttered, as Convention Centers are transformed into hospitals and with military check points in the land of the free. It came up so suddenly. We were surprised. We were all surprised. In fact, experts had been sounding the alarm for decades. One of the things that anybody any historian, any futurist would have said is that we are looking at more pandemics, not fewer Going Forward. In january 2000, u. S. Intelligence agencies released a 60page report highlighting their collective assessment of the greatest threats to the nation. Top of the list, pandemics. New and reemerging Infectious Diseases will face a rising Global Health threat, it said. Its not a question of whether, but when the next killer pandemic will occur. But the very next year, americas attention was pulled away. And the United States went to war. A decade later, we had another Warning Health officials identified a severe shortage of ventilators in the national stockpile. But by the time covid19 hit, there were still far too few. While we cannot predict exactly what the next pandemic can look like we can at least prepare or response. The truth is the United States government did not engage in longterm planning and that is part of the reason why were in a predicament now. In the place where the covid19 pandemic began, life is starting to return. The virus has been defeated. At least thats the message from chinas ruling communist party. How has it been . Two months of being all alone in total isolation, but safe. Thats the important thing. Steve mcclure, an expat living in china is one of the few americans whos remain in the wuhan throughout the crisis. I can see the ambulance taking people away. Disinfection squads going around spraying. You know, its scary. But i think people have to take responsibility to isolate themselves as you do everything. Dont go out and the curve will get lower the hospitals will get back in control of things and we can start to get back to normal again. But regaining that normality costs freedom. Chinas incredibly stringent, draconian, authoritarian surveillance state apparatus is ultimately what stopped the virus from spreading. Chinese officials are telling the world, they got it right. That their system was able to stop the coronavirus in its tracks. Are they right . Theres no question. China got part of the coronavirus very, very wrong. And theres a piece of this that they got right. People, governments in the future going to say, hey, we should be like china in a time of crisis . Weve already started to see some governments using the virus in an exploy way. Do you think the democracy is in danger . I think its being put to the test. Authoritarianism isnt the only way to stop a pandemic. Democratic south korea managed to contain the first wave of the virus with preparedness, swift action, and wide scale testing the same story in germany, in denmark, and in singapore, where earlier this year i visitsed viralologist. We spoke it feels like ten years ago. It was not so long ago. I wouldnt have thought that it would get to be this bad. Whats surprising you now . I guess the thing thats most vising is the rate of spread. Its not only the speed of the spread that has her concerned, but its ability to reemerge. In many asian countries, this virus seemed to be contained, and now the numbers are going up again. Whats going on . So the numbers went down first when containment measures were put in place. Now we have we have other countries then locking down. People are wanting to return back to their home country or to te their place of work. These people are coming from different epicenters of infections so along with their suitcase they bring the virus back with them. While america remains in the pandemics grip, the nation may benefit from learning about those once overwhelmed by the outbreak but who now appear to have contained it. What would you say to americans who are going through tough times right now . My recommendations for americans is to protection yourselves. This is a highly contagious virus, so it can spread within the community very, very quickly. What happens if you stop paying attention to this . In hong kong, the second wave is actually bigger than the first wave. We are already over the peak of the second wave, but we are not over it for good yet. People can get in the streets of hong kong. People are starting to walk in the streets without any protective measures, thinking that everything is going to be fine soon because numbers is coming down. Then in a couple of days time we see huge numbers of patients. You get come placative it bites you. Indeed. I first met dr. Alfred wong in february. 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Hey there, im Joshua Johnson at nbc news World Headquarters in new york. Good to be with you after that phenomenal virtual concert. How connected we can be in times like these. Look at coronavirus across america, explore the push for more testing, see how two of the biggest states are dealing with the crisis now, and dive into latest reporting where covid19 came from. Later in the hour,