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NAMWalks (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) participant in Los Angeles. (undated photo)

Airs Monday, April 13, 2020 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV + Saturday, April 18 at 9 a.m. on KPBS 2 + PBS Video App

An ICU bed at a makeshift, temporary hospital in Manhattan's Central Park East. Throughout New York City, many doctors who usually do plastic surgery or treat children are learning how to monitor people who need to be on ventilators to breathe.

Improvisation And Retraining May Be Key To Saving Patients In New York's ICUs

Pulmonologists in New York hospitals are now supervising doctors from other specialties as they try to keep ICUs staffed, and are deploying equipment in new ways. But COVID-19 is a demoralizing foe.

Health care workers feel unprotected from the disease they're supposed to treat.

'It's Like Walking Into Chernobyl,' One Doctor Says Of Her Emergency Room

Some health care workers say they're exhausted and burning out from the stress of treating a stream of critically ill patients in an increasingly overstretched health care system.

Pisso Nseke left his apartment in Wuhan, China, on Wednesday — the first time since the city at the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis went under lockdown nearly three months ago.

Expat In Post-Lockdown Wuhan: 'Things Will Never Be The Same'

Pisso Nseke, a Cameroonian living in Wuhan, China, describes venturing out for the first time in nearly three months and how grateful he is to be alive. But, he says, he doesn't feel truly free yet.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI arrives at St Peter's basilica in 2015. Benedict has stayed largely silent on the church's sex abuse scandal for the past six years.

Pope Benedict Breaks 6-Year Silence To Comment On Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal

Two popes speaking simultaneously on the most divisive issue facing the church is remarkable. Benedict's letter may well raise concerns that the Vatican can no longer speak with a single voice.

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly testifies before a Senate hearing in December 2019.

Modly Resigns As Acting Navy Chief After Firing Warship Skipper And Calling Him Stupid

First it was his sacking of Capt. Brett Crozier last week; then it was a diatribe he delivered aboard the USS Roosevelt on Monday morning. Now acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly is out.

People in face masks observe three minutes of silence in Beijing, on a national day of mourning for the thousands of patients and medical workers killed by the coronavirus in China.

Heads Bow And Sirens Wail As China Observes Day Of Mourning Amid Pandemic

More than 3,300 people have died of COVID-19 in China since the coronavirus surfaced there late last year. On Saturday, residents expressed their grief for the neighbors they've lost so far.

Bus passengers in Bangkok Friday morning. Thailand's prime minister announced a nationwide 10 p.m.-to-4 a.m curfew starting Friday to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

In Southeast Asia, Governments Exploit Coronavirus Fears To Tighten Grip

As governments in Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar move to mitigate the spread of the virus, they are also enacting measures that stifle journalists and dissent.

Trauma surgeon David Nott, shown above in Bangladesh, has volunteered in war zones and disaster areas around the world. Now he's treating COVID-19 patients in London.

'War Doctor' Says Treating COVID-19 Is Like Fighting An Invisible Enemy

Trauma surgeon David Nott has volunteered in war zones and disaster areas around the world. Now he's treating COVID-19 patients in London. He calls the pandemic a "disaster zone for the whole world."

Dr. Zhong Nanshan has become the public face of COVID-19 containment efforts. Above, he speaks at a press conference on February 27.

They Call Him A Hero: Dr. Zhong Is The Public Face Of China's War Against Coronavirus

The 83-year-old, weightlifting pulmonologist is widely seen as a source of reliable information — although one recent comment seems to have been politicized by the government..

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