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VOL. CLXIX . . . No. 58,664 © 2020 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2020 $3.00

EUROPEAN NATIONS
WARILY TEST A PATH
TO REOPEN SOCIETY
Early Bellwether of Reviving Economies
While Minimizing New Illnesses
By PATRICK KINGSLEY
BERLIN — Slowly, tentatively,
LISI NIESNER/REUTERS SAMUEL ARANDA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
a handful of European countries
began lifting constraints on daily
AUSTRIA Thousands of hardware and home stores were permit- SPAIN Workers were allowed to return to factories and construc- life this week for the first time
ted to reopen, as long as workers and customers wore masks. tion sites, despite a daily death toll that remains over 500. since the start of the coronavirus
crisis, providing an early litmus
test of whether Western democra-
cies can gingerly restart their
economies and restore basic free-
doms without reviving the spread
of the disease.
On Tuesday, Italy, the epicenter
of Europe’s crisis, reopened some
bookshops and children’s clothing
stores. Spain allowed workers to
return to factories and construc-
tion sites, despite a daily death toll
that remains over 500. Austria al-
lowed thousands of hardware and
home improvement stores to re-
open, as long as workers and
customers wore masks.
In Denmark, elementary
schoolteachers readied class-
rooms so young children could re-
turn to school on Wednesday,
while in the Czech Republic, a
LAETITIA VANCON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ANDREW MEDICHINI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
restless public relished the re-
GERMANY A nearly deserted Munich subway station. Germany’s ITALYThe epicenter of Europe’s crisis reopened some bookshops opening of sports centers and
reopening would have to be coordinated with others’ in the bloc. and children’s stores on Tuesday, amid confusion over travel. some shops.
When Lukas Zachoval, a sales
manager in the Czech Republic,
Feeling Stuck Review Bumps New York City Deaths Past 10,000 lost a tennis match to his father
this week — in a 6-4, 6-3 drubbing
— defeat had seldom tasted
been in place for nearly a month.
“I cannot live without sports,”
Mr. Zachoval explained.
The easing of the lockdowns
was watched with interest and
trepidation across Europe and be-
yond, and posed profound and
knotty questions.
“How much are we willing to
pay in order to save people’s
lives?” asked Jana Puglierin, di-
rector of the Berlin office of the
European Council on Foreign Re-
lations, an independent research
group. “And when do we do more
damage — when we keep the lock-
down in place, or when we open it
up early?”
The fledgling, country-by-coun-
try loosening, enacted without
any coordination between na-
tions, underscored the absence of
any common agreement, or even
understanding, about the chal-
lenge of keeping economies alive
while stemming the disease.
A similar debate over how to re-
open society is taking place in the
United States, where President
Trump has insisted that he “calls
the shots” on the matter, prompt-
ing objections from the leaders of
several states.
Mr. Trump, under fire and his

As Shutdowns Those Not Tested, but

Curb Abortion
Presumed Positive,
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
The 31-year-old from Houston
knew she did not want another
baby. She already had three — her
youngest, a boy, was just 6 months
old. And she had just been laid off
from her job in a medical billing of-
fice, another casualty of America’s
growing unemployment crisis.
So she scheduled an abortion at
a local clinic. But when she ar-
rived for her appointment four
weeks ago, the doors were locked
and a sign was taped inside the
glass: The clinic was closed.
Abortions in Texas were off af-
ter the state included them on a
list of medical procedures that
were not essential and needed to
be postponed during the coro-
navirus pandemic.
The woman, who asked that her
name not be used to protect her
privacy, walked back to her car,
took out her phone and immedi-
ately started Googling her op-
tions.
Her search would eventually in-
volve four states and six clinics.
Last week, she was 18 weeks preg-
nant and considering driving nine
hours to a clinic in Wichita, Kan.,
with her infant son in the back
seat.
“I’m just kind of overwhelmed
and frustrated and stressed,” the
woman said last week. “I just
know I can’t handle another baby.
I just know. I know physically,
emotionally, financially.”
The fight over abortion rights,
rather than receding into the
background during the pandemic,
Continued on Page A11
By J. DAVID GOODMAN
and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
New York City, already a world
epicenter of the coronavirus out-
break, sharply increased its death
toll by more than 3,700 victims on
Tuesday, after officials said they
were now including people who
had never tested positive for the
virus but were presumed to have
died of it.
The new figures, released by
the city’s Health Department,
drove up the number of people
killed in New York City to more
than 10,000, and appeared to in-
crease the overall United States
death count by 17 percent to more
than 26,000.
The numbers brought into
Flowers for four different memorial services arriving at Aievoli Funeral Home in Brooklyn.
Are Added to Toll
clearer focus the staggering toll
the virus has already taken on the
largest city in the United States,
where deserted streets are
haunted by the near-constant
howl of ambulance sirens. Far
more people have died in New
York City, on a per-capita basis,
than in Italy — the hardest-hit
country in Europe.
And in a city reeling from the
overt danger posed by the virus,
top health officials said they had
identified another grim reality:
The outbreak is likely to have also
led indirectly to a spike in deaths
of New Yorkers who may never
have been infected.
Three thousand more people
died in New York City between
March 11 and April 13 than would
have been expected during the
same time period in an ordinary
year, Dr. Oxiris Barbot, the com-
missioner of the city Health De-
partment, said in an interview.
While these so-called excess
deaths were not explicitly linked
to the virus, they might not have
happened had the outbreak not
occurred, in part because it over-
whelmed the normal health care
system.
“This is yet another part of the
Continued on Page A15
DAVE SANDERS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
sweeter. After all, it was his first
match since the Czech govern-
poll numbers falling as the dispute
intensified, said Tuesday that he
would halt funding to the World
ment began lifting sweeping re-
strictions on society, including a
ban on communal sports, that had
Health Organization, which he ac-
Continued on Page A6
Governors Insist
The Next Moves
Belong to Them
By JULIE BOSMAN
CHICAGO — In Oregon, Gov.
Kate Brown said the move toward
reopening her state would be cau-
tious and incremental, guided by DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
data on transmission of the coro-
navirus, availability of personal President Trump has ordered a
protective equipment and testing halt to funding for the World
capacity, among other factors. Health Organization. Page A7.
Gov. J. B. Pritzker of Illinois
said he has begun reaching out to
leaders of other Midwestern NEWS ANALYSIS
states to form a regional coalition
to help make decisions on opening
businesses and schools when the
time comes. Experts Reject
In Mississippi, where a state-
wide shelter-in-place order is set
to expire on Monday, Gov. Tate
Trump Claim
Reeves said parts of the state
could soon prepare to see other re- By CHARLIE SAVAGE
strictions lifted.
The nation’s governors and WASHINGTON — President
mayors on Tuesday proceeded Trump’s claim that he wielded
with their own plans for how com- “total” authority in the pandemic
munities will reopen public life, in crisis prompted rebellion not just
many cases ignoring President from governors. Legal scholars
Trump’s declaration that he alone across the ideological spectrum
has the authority to decide when on Tuesday rejected his declara-
to “open up the states.” tion that ultimately he, not state
Just as the governors were the leaders, will decide when to risk
ones who shut the country down, lifting social distancing limits in
order to reopen businesses.
they will be the ones to decide
when to open it, they indicated. “When somebody’s the presi-
dent of the United States, the
“He might want to read the Con-
stitution,” Mr. Pritzker, a Demo- authority is total,” Mr. Trump
crat, said of Mr. Trump. asserted at a raucous press
In many parts of the country, briefing on Monday. “And that’s

Invisible Hand of Obama Nudged Primary Toward Amicable End
By GLENN THRUSH
Over the past year, Joseph R.
Biden Jr. and former President
Barack Obama practiced a politi-
cal distancing of sorts, with Mr.
Obama maintaining a posture of
public neutrality in the Democrat-
ic primaries, offering counsel to
any candidate who called (most
did), and Mr. Biden saying he
wanted to win on his own.
But with calibrated stealth, Mr.
Obama has been considerably
more engaged in the campaign’s
denouement than has been previ-
ously revealed, even before he en-
dorsed Mr. Biden on Tuesday.
For months, Mr. Obama had
kept in close contact with senior
party officials, in hopes of pre-
venting a repeat of the protracted
and nasty 2016 primary race.
Then, in the weeks after it be-
came clear that Mr. Biden was the
Subtle Mediation From
a Political Distance
party’s near-certain nominee, Mr.
Obama — telling a friend he
needed to “accelerate the
endgame” — had at least four long
conversations with his former
vice president’s remaining rival,
Senator Bernie Sanders. Mr. Oba-
ma’s efforts to ease the senator
out of the race played a significant
role in Mr. Sanders’s decision to
end his bid and endorse Mr. Biden,
according to people close to the
Vermont independent.
By that time, Mr. Biden and Mr.
Obama had already begun hash-
ing out the thorny questions of
how, when and where to deploy a
former president thrust into an
Continued on Page A19
governors from both parties said
they were a long way off from
telling Americans to go back to
work and to their normal lives, but
they also said it was not too early
to make plans for that eventuality.
“We have some very difficult
days and weeks ahead,” said Gov.
Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a
Republican.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of Califor-
nia avoided providing any time-
line, but he offered a glimpse of
what his state’s “new normal”
would be like. Face coverings are
Continued on Page A8
the way it’s got to be.”
But neither the Constitution
nor any federal law bestows that
power upon Mr. Trump, a range
of legal scholars and government
officials said.
“We don’t have a king in this
country,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo
of New York said on Tuesday,
adding, “There are laws and
facts — even in this wild political
environment.” He rebutted Mr.
Trump’s claim by citing a line
from Alexander Hamilton, ob-
serving that presidential en-
Continued on Page A7

NATIONAL A18-21 BUSINESS B1-6 ARTS C1-6

INTERNATIONAL A16-17
A Tradition in Peril
Every year, students in a central Japan
village put on an elaborate Kabuki
show. But it could vanish soon. PAGE A16
School Meal Rollbacks Voided
A federal judge ruled that the adminis-
tration’s easing of nutritional standards
violated regulatory law. PAGE A18
Warnings From Wisconsin
The surprise defeat of a conservative
justice buoyed Democrats, but there is
little reason to doubt that President
Trump retains strong support. PAGE A18
SPORTSWEDNESDAY B7-8
Seeing a Big Downturn Ahead Artist Remains Missing
The International Monetary Fund ex- No answers have surfaced to explain
pects the coronavirus crisis to push the what happened to Peter Beard, 82, last
global economy into its worst slump seen at his Long Island home. PAGE C1
since the Great Depression. PAGE B1
Pirouetting in Place
Requiem for a Whistle-Blower FOOD D1-8 For the dancer Megan Fairchild, work-
Dr. Li Wenliang tried to warn China ing remotely isn’t as simple as moving
about the coronavirus but was silenced. Pasta for Your Shelter from office desk to home laptop. PAGE C1
People now mourn him online. PAGE B1 Want something good, fast and easy for
the lockdown? Here are five recipes to EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
twirl around a fork. PAGE D8
OBITUARIES B9-12 Amy Klobuchar PAGE A23

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Russia wanted more control over a Instead of a knock at the door, athletes Hank Steinbrenner had his father’s Digging deep into the food pantry
Libyan strongman. The White House will get a call from U.S. antidoping bluster but ultimately ceded the spot- lately? Maybe it’s time to trash that
helped by allowing a civil war. PAGE A17 officials during the outbreak. PAGE B7 light to his brother. He was 63. PAGE B9 paprika you bought in 1983. PAGE D1
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COLUMN ONE
Dialect
of disease
proves
infectious
From ‘asymptomatic’
to ‘Zoombombing,’
the pandemic has led
to the super-spread
of a viral vocabulary.
By Mark Z. Barabak
O
n Feb. 11, in Ge-
neva, the head of
the World
Health Organi-
zation unveiled
the name of a new disease.
“I’ll spell it,” the director-
general, Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, said: “C-O-V-
I-D hyphen one nine.”
It was a portmanteau, a
mash-up of “coronavirus
disease 2019,” and it landed
just over a month later in
Merriam-Webster’s online
dictionary, the fastest jour-
ney from conception to
formal recognition in the
company’s nearly 200-year
history.
COVID-19 has sickened
almost 2 million people
globally and yielded a death
toll surpassing 125,000. It
has cratered the economy
and turned much of the
world into a collection of
reluctant shut-ins.
It has also transformed
and expanded the vocabu-
lary of our daily lives.
Words like “asymptom-
atic” and “droplets” and
“super-spreader” have
become a part of regular
conversation, along with
phrases such as “red zone,”
“social distancing” and
“flattening the curve.” Sud-
denly we’re all epidemiolog-
ical savants.
“‘Zoonosis’ is a word that
if you once played in Scrab-
ble, you were some kind of
genius,” said John Kelly,
senior research editor at
Dictionary.com, another
online repository of defini-
tions. “Now,” he said, “we’re
all familiar that it means
spreading from an animal to
a human,” the path the
novel coronavirus may have
traveled.
It’s not just scientific and
medical terms, such as
“pathogen” and “incubation
period,” that sprang from
[See Vocabulary, A6]
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DRIVE-THROUGH sampling speeds up novel coronavirus testing Tuesday
in Montclair. Experts say testing issues are holding up a return to normalcy.
Reopening U.S. depends
on closing the testing gap
By Noam N. Levey
WASHINGTON — Six weeks after the
president and other senior officials
promised that any American would soon
be able to get a test for coronavirus, test-
ing continues to lag, prompting an esca-
lating call from leading medical centers,
lawmakers and others for the adminis-
tration to put in place a coordinated na-
tional strategy.
Effective testing is considered es-
sential before state and local govern-
ments can lift restrictions on Americans’
movements, reopening schools and busi-
nesses and allowing the nation’s faltering
Singapore’s migrant workers see virus soar
By Shashank Bengali
SINGAPORE — Just
weeks ago, Singapore was a
coronavirus success story,
admired for pinpointing in-
fected patients and isolating
their contacts with brisk
efficiency, all while causing
minimal disruption to an
economy that was the envy
of Asia.
But the island city-state
is now battling to control an
enormous outbreak spread-
ing among a population that
officials had mostly over-
looked: the migrant workers
who form the vast but un-
seen engine of Singapore’s
prosperity.
The new wave of infec-
tions offers a stark illustra-
tion of the continued risks
facing one of the world’s HEALTHY foreign workers in Singapore are being moved into floating accommo-
most densely inhabited dations to separate them from the sick in the packed dorms that house migrants.
regions — and of the co-
ronavirus’ often dispropor-
tionate toll on the poor and Seattle passes
marginalized.
COVID-19 cases in Singa- the peak of virus
pore have tripled since the Daily deaths seem to be
start of the month to more leveling off, experts say,
than 3,200, with most of the but pre-pandemic life
new infections found in la- isn’t returning anytime
[See Singapore, A4] soon. NATION, A5
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2020
Newsom lays
out conditions
for lifting his
shutdown order
By Taryn Luna
SACRAMENTO —Gov.
Gavin Newsom said Califor-
nia needs to increase testing,
protect high-risk residents
from infection and expand
hospital capacity before the
state can begin to modify
the unprecedented stay-at-
home order he imposed one
month ago and gradually re-
turn to a sense of normalcy.
“I want you to know it’s
not, it will not, be a perma-
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times nent state,” Newsom said of
the restrictions put in place
to fight the spread of co-
ronavirus. “We recognize the
consequences of the stay-at-
home orders have a pro-
found impact on the econo-
my, your personal household
budget, your personal pro-
spects around your future.”
The governor broadly de-
scribed the steps his admin-
istration expects to take in
the weeks and months
ahead to protect the public
and gauge how long the or-
der should remain in place,
underscoring a transition in
the fight against the virus in
recent days as California
and other states map out
plans to ease restrictions.
Newsom also gave Cali-
fornians a glimpse of what
their “new normal” might
look like when the rules are
eventually loosened, noting
that face coverings could be-
come a mainstay, schools
might stagger start times for
students, restaurants may
reopen with fewer tables,
Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times
and large gatherings would
remain off limits.
The new parameters
Newsom outlined Tuesday
suggest the state must meet
a high bar before walking
back the order.
The administration high-
lighted six key indicators for
altering his stay-home man-
date, including the ability to
closely monitor and track
potential cases; prevent in-
fection of high-risk people;
economy to recover. But multiple, per- increase surge capacity at
sistent problems continue to sharply lim- hospitals; develop thera-
it the number of tests that can be done. peutics; and ensure physical
Labs remain short of supplies, rang- distance at schools, busi-
ing from simple cotton swabs used to nesses and child care facili-
take samples from patients to complex ties. The state also must de-
chemicals, known as reagents, needed to velop guidelines for when to
carry out the tests. Some laboratories re- ask Californians to stay
port shortages of trained workers. Little home again if the governor
coordination exists to send samples from modifies the order and the
busier labs, which have backlogs, to oth- virus rebounds, he said.
ers that have surplus capacity. Newsom and officials in
The White House and other adminis- his administration say their
tration officials haven’t detailed how strategy to slow the spread
they’re addressing the shortages, echo- of the virus is working, point-
ing the lack of transparency in the Trump ing to relatively low growth
administration’s [See Testing, A6] [See Newsom, A7]
Roslan Rahman AFP/Getty Images
North Coast MLB takes part in
savors its isolation coronavirus study
In Del Norte County Major League Baseball
near the Oregon border, distributes 10,000 blood
social distancing pre- tests to employees, in-
ceded the pandemic. cluding players, for anti-
CALIFORNIA, B1 body research. SPORTS, B6
latimes.com
Easing
California’s
lockdown
The governor said the
stay-at-home mandate
can be altered only when
the state is able to:
8 Closely monitor and
track potential cases.
8 Prevent infection of
high-risk people.
8 Prepare hospitals to
handle surges.
8 Develop therapeutics to
meet demand.
8 Ensure schools,
businesses and child-care
facilities can support
social distancing.
8 Develop guidelines for
when to ask Californians
to stay home again, if
necessary.
SHARING
SELECT
FACTS
WITH
PUBLIC
As the virus claims
lives across California,
a secondary victim is
arising: transparency
from the government.
By Anita Chabria,
Jack Dolan,
Ben Poston
and Matt Hamilton
It is a tragedy unfolding
in real time. At a skilled
nursing facility in the Tulare
County town of Visalia, 71
residents and 41 staffers
have tested positive for the
novel coronavirus. Six resi-
dents at the 176-bed Red-
wood Springs Healthcare
Center are dead and eight
are in acute care, according
to Anita Hubbard, the cen-
ter’s administrator.
But without Hubbard’s
details, little would be
known about one of Califor-
nia’s worst outbreaks of the
deadly virus in a senior facil-
ity. Tulare County stopped
commenting for five days,
during which the number of
positive cases skyrocketed.
Like other cities and coun-
ties statewide, California
doesn’t require it to release
such information, even in
the midst of a pandemic.
As the novel coronavirus
continues to claim hundreds
of lives across California, a
secondary victim of the cri-
sis is emerging: government
transparency. Much of what
we know about COVID-19 in
nursing homes and senior
facilities did not come from
public agencies, but private
sources: relatives, staff
members and administra-
tors.
“I want updates,” said
Christina Valencia, whose
grandmother was among
the several people testing
positive for the disease at a
nursing home in Redondo
Beach. “You should have a
right to know how many resi-
dents are positive.”
Californians are in the
dark about more than nurs-
ing homes.
Information about the
availability of personal pro-
tective equipment, or PPE,
is lacking, upping the anxi-
[See Transparency, A7]