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Lockdowns in the US have caused unemployment to skyrocket/
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Nxxx,2020-03-27,A,001,Bs-4C,E2
CMYK
Late Edition
Today, clouds giving way to some
sunshine, morning rain, high 63. Tonight, clear early, increasing clouds
late, low 44. Tomorrow, rain, high 52.
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VOL. CLXIX . . . No. 58,645
$3.00
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2020
© 2020 The New York Times Company
JOB LOSSES SOAR; U.S. VIRUS CASES TOP WORLD
Nearly 3.3 million
unemployment
claims were filed
last week, a record
number.
New Data Shows
Staggering Toll
of Outbreak
This article is by Ben Casselman,
Patricia Cohen and Tiffany Hsu.
VICTOR J. BLUE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Since the coronavirus descended on Brooklyn Hospital Center three weeks ago, the staff has handled over 800 potential cases.
Courage at a Brooklyn Hospital,
Under Trump, Online Class
At the Front of an Invisible War
Unfilled Posts With No Way
Hinder Action To Get There
With Supplies Waning,
By SHERI FINK
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
and ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS
WASHINGTON — Of the 75
senior positions at the Department of Homeland Security, 20 are
either vacant or filled by acting officials, including Chad F. Wolf, the
acting secretary who recently was
unable to tell a Senate committee
how many respirators and protective face masks were available in
the United States.
The National Park Service,
which like many federal agencies
is full of vacancies in key posts,
tried this week to fill the job of a
director for the national capital region after hordes of visitors
flocked to see the cherry blossoms
near the National Mall, creating a
potential public health hazard as
the coronavirus continues to
spread.
At the Department of Veterans
Affairs, workers are scrambling to
order medical supplies on Amazon after its leaders, lacking experience in disaster responses,
failed to prepare for the onslaught
of patients at its medical centers.
Ever since President Trump
came into office, a record high
turnover and unfilled jobs have
emptied offices across wide sections of the federal bureaucracy.
Now, current and former administration officials and disaster experts say the coronavirus has exposed those failings as never beContinued on Page A11
By NIKITA STEWART
Allia Phillips was excited about
picking up an iPad from her school
in Harlem last week. She did not
want to miss any classes and
hoped to land on the fourth-grade
honor roll again.
On Monday, the first day that
New York City public schools began remote learning, the 10-yearold placed her iPad on a tray she
set up over her pillow on a twin
bed in a studio that she shares
with her mother and grandmother
inside a homeless shelter on the
Upper West Side.
And then, Allia saw nothing.
“I went downstairs to find out
that they don’t have any internet,”
said Kasha Phillips-Lewis, Allia’s
mother. “You’re screwing up my
daughter’s education. You want to
screw me up? Fine. But not my
daughter’s education.”
The Department of Education,
which runs the largest school system in the country with more than
1.1 million students, began attempting to teach all students
through remote learning this
week because schools were closed
to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Shuttering the vast system,
which includes 1,800 schools, was
a serious challenge for the city,
and the large-scale, indefinite
school closures are uncharted territory, altering the lives and rouContinued on Page A16
It was not even 9 in the morning
and Dr. Sylvie de Souza’s green
N95 mask, which was supposed to
form a seal against her face, was
already askew.
In freezing rain on Monday, she
trudged in clogs between the
emergency
department
she
chairs at the Brooklyn Hospital
Center and a tent outside, keeping
a sharp eye on the trainee doctors,
nurses and other staff members
who would screen nearly 100
walk-in patients for the coronavirus that day.
Inside her E.R., more than a
dozen people showing signs of infection waited for evaluation in an
area used just a few weeks ago for
stitches and casts. Another dozen
Workers Soldier On
lay on gurneys arranged one in
front of the next, like a New York
City car park. One man on a ventilator was waiting for space in the
intensive care unit.
Minutes before paramedics
wheeled in a heart attack patient,
Dr. de Souza pointed to beds reserved for serious emergencies,
separated by a newly constructed
wall from the suspected virus
cases. “This is our safe area,” she
told a reporter. Then she corrected herself: “This is thought to
be safe.” There was really no way
Continued on Page A14
More than three million people
filed for unemployment benefits
last week, sending a collective
shudder throughout the economy
that is unlike anything Americans
have experienced.
The alarming numbers, in a report released by the Labor Department on Thursday, provide
some of the first hard data on the
economic toll of the coronavirus
pandemic, which has shut down
whole swaths of American life
faster than government statistics
can keep track.
Just three weeks ago, barely
200,000 people applied for jobless
benefits, a historically low number. In the half-century that the
government has tracked applications, the worst week ever, with
695,000 so-called initial claims,
had been in 1982.
Thursday’s figure of nearly 3.3
million set a grim record. “A large
part of the economy just collapsed,” said Ben Herzon, executive director of IHS Markit, a business data and analytics firm.
The numbers provided only the
first hint of the economic cataclysm in progress. Even comparatively optimistic forecasters expect millions more lost jobs, and
with them foreclosures, evictions
and bankruptcies. Thousands of
businesses have closed in response to the pandemic, and
many will never reopen. Some
economists say the decline in
gross domestic product this year
could rival the worst years of the
Great Depression.
And there was fresh evidence
on Thursday of the relentless
course of the virus itself. Cases in
the United States now exceed
80,000, the most of any nation,
even China and Italy, according to
a New York Times database. More
than 1,000 deaths across the country have been linked to the virus.
At least 160 million people naContinued on Page A17
3,000,000
2,500,000
2,000,000
1,500,000
Labeling Regions by Risk
President Trump told governors he planned to classify counties according to the danger of coronavirus infection. Page A11.
No Crowd, but I’ll Take You Out to the Ballgame
By DAN BARRY
Professional baseball greeted a
new season this afternoon with an
Opening Day game for the ages,
an extra-inning masterpiece that
vividly unfolded on the sun-dappled field of the imagination. The
crack of the bat could almost be
heard, the blur of white almost
seen, the communal joy nearly
felt.
2008
RECESSION
A Fan Writes a Fantasy
for Opening Day
From the moment the first batter tipped his helmet — and a bird
flew out — to the walk-off home
run by a faltering pinch-hitter, this
11-inning affair redefined what
constitutes a perfect game. No
one cared about the outcome; the
distraction was reward enough.
Don’t misunderstand: This
game between the New York
Gothams and the Cincinnati
Greens mattered, but in ineffable
ways beyond the columns of wins
and losses. It mattered so much
that complaints about baseball’s
slow pace yielded to the universal
wish that this game would last forever.
“I could’ve played into the
night,” said the redeemed Gothams left fielder Sammy Sosa, who
missed part of last season after
sneezing so hard that he strained
a ligament in his back. “I didn’t
Continued on Page A13
1,000,000
Weekly unemployment claims
500,000
WEEKLY AVERAGE: 345,000
0
’00
’01
’02
’03
’04
’05
’06
’07
’08
’09
’10
’11
’12
’13
’14
’15
’16
’17
’18
’19
’20
Note: Official figures are seasonally adjusted. Source: Department of Labor
THE NEW YORK TIMES
BUSINESS B1-9
INTERNATIONAL A18-20
NATIONAL A21-23
WEEKEND ARTS C1-16
OBITUARIES A24-25
Armed With Sewing Machines
Maduro Is Indicted in U.S.
New Focus on Health System
For Pint-Size Paleontologists
Chronicler of U.S. History
With hospitals desperate for masks,
people are pulling out their sewing
machines to fill the void.
PAGE B4
Federal prosecutors accused the Venezuelan president, whom the U.S. no
longer recognizes, of participating in a
narco-terrorism conspiracy. PAGE A20
The pandemic gives added urgency to a
central issue that was already a main
talking point for Joseph R. Biden Jr. and
other Democrats.
PAGE A21
Like dinosaurs? Have crayons? Take a
peek at two pages reprinted from The
New York Times for Kids.
PAGE C8
Richard Reeves’s books on Nixon, Clinton and others could be as unsparing as
his column. He was 83.
PAGE A24
Starting Over on Foster Care
It’s Virtually Perfect
Globetrotters’ Dean of Dribble
Netanyahu Rival Relents
The Israeli prime minister was set to
maintain power after his rival reversed
course, citing the pandemic. PAGE A19
A lawsuit led New Mexico to remake its
failing system into one advocates hope
will serve as a national model. PAGE A22
Brushing Aside a Slaughter
SPORTSFRIDAY B11-15
Russia and China, which often revel in
grudges against other countries, are
employing selective memory to address
a massacre that occurred on their border in 1900.
PAGE A18
Athletes question why U.S. Olympic
leaders took so long to join calls to
postpone the Tokyo Games.
PAGE B11
A Gusher Can’t Be Contained
A chaotic mismatch between supply and
demand for oil means the world is running out of places to store it.
PAGE B9
Donald Judd’s installation, below, at the
Gagosian Gallery is impressive, in
person or, for now, online.
PAGE C13
Fred “Curly” Neal dazzled fans with his
ball-handling wizardry in more than
6,000 games. He was 77.
PAGE A25
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27
Slow to Embrace a Delay
Paul Krugman
Nxxx,2020-03-27,A,001,Bs-4C,E2
CMYK
Late Edition
Today, clouds giving way to some
sunshine, morning rain, high 63. Tonight, clear early, increasing clouds
late, low 44. Tomorrow, rain, high 52.
Weather map appears on Page B16.
VOL. CLXIX . . . No. 58,645
$3.00
NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2020
© 2020 The New York Times Company
JOB LOSSES SOAR; U.S. VIRUS CASES TOP WORLD
Nearly 3.3 million
unemployment
claims were filed
last week, a record
number.
New Data Shows
Staggering Toll
of Outbreak
This article is by Ben Casselman,
Patricia Cohen and Tiffany Hsu.
VICTOR J. BLUE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Since the coronavirus descended on Brooklyn Hospital Center three weeks ago, the staff has handled over 800 potential cases.
Courage at a Brooklyn Hospital,
Under Trump, Online Class
At the Front of an Invisible War
Unfilled Posts With No Way
Hinder Action To Get There
With Supplies Waning,
By SHERI FINK
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
and ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS
WASHINGTON — Of the 75
senior positions at the Department of Homeland Security, 20 are
either vacant or filled by acting officials, including Chad F. Wolf, the
acting secretary who recently was
unable to tell a Senate committee
how many respirators and protective face masks were available in
the United States.
The National Park Service,
which like many federal agencies
is full of vacancies in key posts,
tried this week to fill the job of a
director for the national capital region after hordes of visitors
flocked to see the cherry blossoms
near the National Mall, creating a
potential public health hazard as
the coronavirus continues to
spread.
At the Department of Veterans
Affairs, workers are scrambling to
order medical supplies on Amazon after its leaders, lacking experience in disaster responses,
failed to prepare for the onslaught
of patients at its medical centers.
Ever since President Trump
came into office, a record high
turnover and unfilled jobs have
emptied offices across wide sections of the federal bureaucracy.
Now, current and former administration officials and disaster experts say the coronavirus has exposed those failings as never beContinued on Page A11
By NIKITA STEWART
Allia Phillips was excited about
picking up an iPad from her school
in Harlem last week. She did not
want to miss any classes and
hoped to land on the fourth-grade
honor roll again.
On Monday, the first day that
New York City public schools began remote learning, the 10-yearold placed her iPad on a tray she
set up over her pillow on a twin
bed in a studio that she shares
with her mother and grandmother
inside a homeless shelter on the
Upper West Side.
And then, Allia saw nothing.
“I went downstairs to find out
that they don’t have any internet,”
said Kasha Phillips-Lewis, Allia’s
mother. “You’re screwing up my
daughter’s education. You want to
screw me up? Fine. But not my
daughter’s education.”
The Department of Education,
which runs the largest school system in the country with more than
1.1 million students, began attempting to teach all students
through remote learning this
week because schools were closed
to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Shuttering the vast system,
which includes 1,800 schools, was
a serious challenge for the city,
and the large-scale, indefinite
school closures are uncharted territory, altering the lives and rouContinued on Page A16
It was not even 9 in the morning
and Dr. Sylvie de Souza’s green
N95 mask, which was supposed to
form a seal against her face, was
already askew.
In freezing rain on Monday, she
trudged in clogs between the
emergency
department
she
chairs at the Brooklyn Hospital
Center and a tent outside, keeping
a sharp eye on the trainee doctors,
nurses and other staff members
who would screen nearly 100
walk-in patients for the coronavirus that day.
Inside her E.R., more than a
dozen people showing signs of infection waited for evaluation in an
area used just a few weeks ago for
stitches and casts. Another dozen
Workers Soldier On
lay on gurneys arranged one in
front of the next, like a New York
City car park. One man on a ventilator was waiting for space in the
intensive care unit.
Minutes before paramedics
wheeled in a heart attack patient,
Dr. de Souza pointed to beds reserved for serious emergencies,
separated by a newly constructed
wall from the suspected virus
cases. “This is our safe area,” she
told a reporter. Then she corrected herself: “This is thought to
be safe.” There was really no way
Continued on Page A14
More than three million people
filed for unemployment benefits
last week, sending a collective
shudder throughout the economy
that is unlike anything Americans
have experienced.
The alarming numbers, in a report released by the Labor Department on Thursday, provide
some of the first hard data on the
economic toll of the coronavirus
pandemic, which has shut down
whole swaths of American life
faster than government statistics
can keep track.
Just three weeks ago, barely
200,000 people applied for jobless
benefits, a historically low number. In the half-century that the
government has tracked applications, the worst week ever, with
695,000 so-called initial claims,
had been in 1982.
Thursday’s figure of nearly 3.3
million set a grim record. “A large
part of the economy just collapsed,” said Ben Herzon, executive director of IHS Markit, a business data and analytics firm.
The numbers provided only the
first hint of the economic cataclysm in progress. Even comparatively optimistic forecasters expect millions more lost jobs, and
with them foreclosures, evictions
and bankruptcies. Thousands of
businesses have closed in response to the pandemic, and
many will never reopen. Some
economists say the decline in
gross domestic product this year
could rival the worst years of the
Great Depression.
And there was fresh evidence
on Thursday of the relentless
course of the virus itself. Cases in
the United States now exceed
80,000, the most of any nation,
even China and Italy, according to
a New York Times database. More
than 1,000 deaths across the country have been linked to the virus.
At least 160 million people naContinued on Page A17
3,000,000
2,500,000
2,000,000
1,500,000
Labeling Regions by Risk
President Trump told governors he planned to classify counties according to the danger of coronavirus infection. Page A11.
No Crowd, but I’ll Take You Out to the Ballgame
By DAN BARRY
Professional baseball greeted a
new season this afternoon with an
Opening Day game for the ages,
an extra-inning masterpiece that
vividly unfolded on the sun-dappled field of the imagination. The
crack of the bat could almost be
heard, the blur of white almost
seen, the communal joy nearly
felt.
2008
RECESSION
A Fan Writes a Fantasy
for Opening Day
From the moment the first batter tipped his helmet — and a bird
flew out — to the walk-off home
run by a faltering pinch-hitter, this
11-inning affair redefined what
constitutes a perfect game. No
one cared about the outcome; the
distraction was reward enough.
Don’t misunderstand: This
game between the New York
Gothams and the Cincinnati
Greens mattered, but in ineffable
ways beyond the columns of wins
and losses. It mattered so much
that complaints about baseball’s
slow pace yielded to the universal
wish that this game would last forever.
“I could’ve played into the
night,” said the redeemed Gothams left fielder Sammy Sosa, who
missed part of last season after
sneezing so hard that he strained
a ligament in his back. “I didn’t
Continued on Page A13
1,000,000
Weekly unemployment claims
500,000
WEEKLY AVERAGE: 345,000
0
’00
’01
’02
’03
’04
’05
’06
’07
’08
’09
’10
’11
’12
’13
’14
’15
’16
’17
’18
’19
’20
Note: Official figures are seasonally adjusted. Source: Department of Labor
THE NEW YORK TIMES
BUSINESS B1-9
INTERNATIONAL A18-20
NATIONAL A21-23
WEEKEND ARTS C1-16
OBITUARIES A24-25
Armed With Sewing Machines
Maduro Is Indicted in U.S.
New Focus on Health System
For Pint-Size Paleontologists
Chronicler of U.S. History
With hospitals desperate for masks,
people are pulling out their sewing
machines to fill the void.
PAGE B4
Federal prosecutors accused the Venezuelan president, whom the U.S. no
longer recognizes, of participating in a
narco-terrorism conspiracy. PAGE A20
The pandemic gives added urgency to a
central issue that was already a main
talking point for Joseph R. Biden Jr. and
other Democrats.
PAGE A21
Like dinosaurs? Have crayons? Take a
peek at two pages reprinted from The
New York Times for Kids.
PAGE C8
Richard Reeves’s books on Nixon, Clinton and others could be as unsparing as
his column. He was 83.
PAGE A24
Starting Over on Foster Care
It’s Virtually Perfect
Globetrotters’ Dean of Dribble
Netanyahu Rival Relents
The Israeli prime minister was set to
maintain power after his rival reversed
course, citing the pandemic. PAGE A19
A lawsuit led New Mexico to remake its
failing system into one advocates hope
will serve as a national model. PAGE A22
Brushing Aside a Slaughter
SPORTSFRIDAY B11-15
Russia and China, which often revel in
grudges against other countries, are
employing selective memory to address
a massacre that occurred on their border in 1900.
PAGE A18
Athletes question why U.S. Olympic
leaders took so long to join calls to
postpone the Tokyo Games.
PAGE B11
A Gusher Can’t Be Contained
A chaotic mismatch between supply and
demand for oil means the world is running out of places to store it.
PAGE B9
Donald Judd’s installation, below, at the
Gagosian Gallery is impressive, in
person or, for now, online.
PAGE C13
Fred “Curly” Neal dazzled fans with his
ball-handling wizardry in more than
6,000 games. He was 77.
PAGE A25
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27
Slow to Embrace a Delay
Paul Krugman
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