PBS NewsHour full episode, May 19, 2020

Tuesday on the NewsHour, the Senate is divided over when to provide additional coronavirus aid -- and to whom. Plus: Sens. Pat Toomey and Sherrod Brown on federal pandemic relief, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on COVID-19 trends in his state, coronavirus infections surge in Russia, grappling with COVID-19 in the most vulnerable facilities, and a NewsHour Bookshelf choice that seems to echo reality.

WATCH TODAY’S SEGMENTS
Senate divided over providing more coronavirus relief
Sen. Toomey on the need to get Americans back to work
Sen. Brown on the risk of new workplace COVID-19 outbreaks
News Wrap: India, Bangladesh brace for tropical cyclone
Newsom: Calif. reopening based on 'evidence, not ideology'
In Russia, doctors treating COVID-19 pay a deadly price
COVID-19 highlights systemic flaws of U.S. nursing homes
Lawrence Wright's prescient novel about a global pandemic


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