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U(D54G1D)y+#!{!,!$!z She was just 12 when she dropped out of school and began clocking in for endless shifts at one of the garment factories springing up in Bangladesh, hop- ing to pull her family out of pov- erty. Her fingers ached from stitch- ing pants and shirts destined for sale in the United States and Eu- rope, but the $30 the young wom- an made each month meant that for the first time, her family had regular meals, even luxuries like chicken and milk. A decade later, she was provid- ing a better life for her own child than she had ever imagined. Then the world locked down, and Shahida Khatun, like millions of low-wage workers around the world, found herself back in the poverty she thought she had left behind. In a matter of mere months, the coronavirus has wiped out global gains that took two decades to achieve, leaving an estimated two billion people at risk of abject pov- erty. However indiscriminate the virus may be in its spread, it has repeatedly proved itself anything but that when it comes to its effect on the world's most vulnerable communities. “The garment factory helped me and my family to get out of poverty,” said Ms. Khatun, 22, who was laid off in March. “But the co- ronavirus has pushed me back in.” For the first time since 1998, the World Bank says, global poverty rates are forecast to rise. By the end of the year, 8 percent of the world’s population, half a billion people, may be pushed into desti- tution, largely because of the pan- demic, the United Nations esti- mates. Ms. Khatun was among thou- sands of women across South Asia who took factory jobs and, as they entered the work force, helped the world made inroads against pov- erty. Now those gains are at grave risk. “These stories, of women enter- ing the workplace and bringing their families out of poverty, of programs lifting the trajectories of families, those stories will be easy to destroy,” said Abhijit Banerjee, a professor at the Mass- achusetts Institute of Technology and a winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for economics. While everyone will suffer, the Billions Slide Down Ladder That Took Decades to Climb By MARIA ABI-HABIB Homeless people in Bangkok waiting for free meals. The global lockdown is most ruinous to the economies of developing countries. ADAM DEAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A7 New York has long prided itself on its 24-hour subway, one of the world’s few round-the-clock tran- sit systems and a symbol of the city’s relentless energy. But since the coronavirus outbreak began, the subway has reflected the city’s deterioration: Ridership has plummeted by more than 90 per- cent, thousands of sick workers have hobbled the ability to run service, and the number of home- less people on trains has grown. On Thursday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and transit officials took the extraordinary step of trying to restore the system by shutting it down from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., hoping to provide more time for the disin- fecting of trains, equipment and stations during the pandemic. The decision to halt regularly scheduled overnight service for the first time in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s his- tory demonstrates the stark steps state officials are taking to pre- serve a system that is critical to reviving New York’s economy when businesses begin to reopen. “We’ve never been here be- fore,” said Mr. Cuomo, who this week instructed the M.T.A. to de- vise a plan to clean more fre- quently. “This is going to be one of the most aggressive, creative, challenging undertakings that the M.T.A. has done.” Shutting down the system overnight is crucial for the transit agency to test and explore disin- fecting techniques, including ul- traviolet lights and antimicrobial agents, M.T.A. officials said. Still, groups representing riders raised In a First, New York Will Shutter The Subway for a Nightly Scrub By CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM Continued on Page A17 MIAMI — The salty breeze and ocean waves have beckoned stir- crazy residents of the coast back to their beloved beaches, social distancing norms be damned. But how to prevent beach blan- kets and lawn chairs from becom- ing new founts of coronavirus in- fection has become a flash point for governors in Florida, Califor- nia and other coastal states, who must balance demands from con- stituents for relief from the esca- lating spring heat against the hor- rified reaction of the general pub- lic to photos of sweaty, swimsuit- clad bodies packed towel to towel. Gov. Gavin Newsom of Califor- nia stepped in on Thursday to shut down the beaches in Orange County, rolling back earlier at- tempts at giving people there a chance to stroll along the shore while staying a safe distance away from one another. Broad swaths of sand were packed over the week- end with crowds, with many peo- ple flocking from neighboring Los Angeles and San Diego Counties, where the beaches remained off- limits. “This disease isn’t going away,” Mr. Newsom said at a news con- ference, noting that the pandemic had claimed at least 95 lives in the state in the past 24 hours. The county-by-county ap- proach in California and Florida, perhaps the two states most de- fined by their iconic coastlines, As Beaches Grow Irresistible, States Scramble for Sensible Limits This article is by Patricia Mazzei, Shawn Hubler and Thomas Fuller. Teeming Ocean Shores Spur Anger Online Continued on Page A8 WASHINGTON Senior Trump administration officials have pushed American spy agen- cies to hunt for evidence to sup- port an unsubstantiated theory that a government laboratory in Wuhan, China, was the origin of the coronavirus outbreak, accord- ing to current and former Ameri- can officials. The effort comes as President Trump escalates a pub- lic campaign to blame China for the pandemic. Some intelligence analysts are concerned that the pressure from administration officials will dis- tort assessments about the virus and that they could be used as a political weapon in an intensifying battle with China over a disease that has infected more than three million people across the globe. Most intelligence agencies re- main skeptical that conclusive ev- idence of a link to a lab can be found, and scientists who have studied the genetics of the coro- navirus say that the overwhelm- ing probability is that it leapt from animal to human in a nonlabora- tory setting, as was the case with H.I.V., Ebola and SARS. Mr. Trump’s aides and Republi- cans in Congress have sought to blame China for the pandemic in part to deflect criticism of the ad- ministration’s mismanagement of the crisis in the United States, which now has more coronavirus cases than any country. More than one million Americans have been infected, and more than 60,000 have died. Secretary of State Mike Pom- peo, a former C.I.A. director and the administration’s most vocal hard-liner on China, has taken the lead in pushing American intelli- gence agencies for more informa- tion, according to current and for- U.S. Asks Spies To Trace Virus To Wuhan Lab This article is by Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes, Edward Wong and Adam Goldman. Continued on Page A11 The 40-foot trailer has been there for weeks, parked outside the Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home in Queens. Its refrigerator hums in an alley next to a check-cashing establishment. Thirty-six bodies, one atop the other, are stacked on shelves inside. The funeral director, Patrick Kearns, has barely slept since the day he took charge of them. As he lies awake in the middle of the night, he knows there will be more. “It weighs on you, having so many cases in your care,” he said. “The death rate is just so high, there’s no way we can bury or cre- mate them fast enough.” With more than 18,000 an- nounced fatalities and a total death toll that is almost certainly higher, the coronavirus crisis is the worst mass casualty event to hit New York since the Spanish flu pandemic a century ago. At the height of the outbreak in April, a New Yorker was dying al- most every two minutes — more than 800 per day, or four times the city’s normal death rate. And though the daily toll has recently slowed, hundreds of bodies are still emerging each day from pri- vate homes and hospitals. While hospitals bore the initial brunt of the crisis as sick people flooded emergency rooms, the sheer volume of human remains has pushed the system for caring for the dead to its limits, too: Hos- pital morgues, funeral homes, cemeteries and crematories are all overflowing and backed up. The scale of the problem was brought into sharp relief on Wednesday afternoon, when the police found dozens of decompos- ing bodies stashed inside two trucks outside a funeral home on Utica Avenue in Brooklyn. The owner, Andrew T. Cleckley, said he had nowhere else to put them, adding simply: “I ran out of space.” What happened in Brooklyn ap- pears to be an extreme case, and state health officials said on Thursday they would investigate the matter. But in the last two months, funeral home directors have begun to store bodies in viewing rooms and chapels, turn- ing up their air-conditioning sys- tems to avoid decomposition. Some are transporting bodies to other cities and states to be cre- mated. Some hospitals ran out of body Too Many Bodies, Too Fast, Put New York in Bind By ALAN FEUER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM A Backlog at Morgues, Funeral Homes and Cemeteries Patrick Kearns of Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home at the entrance of a makeshift morgue in Brooklyn. SARAH BLESENER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A14 The pandemic, the latest of many hard- ships, has left scenes of eerie beauty and abandonment in Rome. PAGE A18 INTERNATIONAL A18-20 Sacked Again, but by a Virus A look at some Instagram accounts on our critic’s feed. Above, Farah Al Qasimi’s “Dyed Pastel Birds.” PAGE C13 WEEKEND ARTS C1-16 Five Artists to Follow The woman who says Joseph R. Biden Jr. assaulted her has been silenced by TV news shows, Ben Smith writes. PAGE A22 NATIONAL A21-24 What About the Accuser? Specialists at the London start-up Be- nevolentAI helped identify the arthritis drug baricitinib, which is now part of a clinical trial. PAGE B1 BUSINESS B1-8 How A.I. Assisted Virus Fight A woman of many words, most unspo- ken, Madeline Kripke collected nearly 20,000 lexicons. She was 76. PAGE A28 OBITUARIES A25, 28 Doyenne of Dictionaries The president revived his attacks on the F.B.I. after lawyers for Michael T. Flynn cited newly unsealed documents as evidence of misconduct. PAGE A24 Trump Backs Flynn Again Multinational corporations with fac- tories in Mexico have remained open, even after some workers fell ill. PAGE A7 TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-17 Pressure to Keep Plants Going A nearly 8 percent drop in emissions, driven by the Covid-19 crisis, is likely this year, a new report said. PAGE B7 Emissions Set for a Record Fall The endurance brand believed its global racing schedule minimized its risk. Then the pandemic struck. PAGE B10 SPORTSFRIDAY B9-10 Ironman’s World Is Not Enough Alexis Soloski and her family are finding board games to be a particularly sooth- ing way to pass the time now. PAGE C1 Trapped at Home? Your Move David Toren, 94, recovered a relative’s stolen painting amid a large cache of works discovered in Germany. PAGE A25 Pursuer of Nazi-Looted Art Abiy Ahmed PAGE A27 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27 Despite trillions in stimulus spending and a rush to reopen shuttered businesses in some states, the American economy continues to stagger under the weight of the coronavirus pan- demic, with a further 3.8 million workers filing for unemployment benefits last week. The figures announced Thurs- day by the Labor Department bring the number of workers join- ing the official jobless ranks in the last six weeks to more than 30 mil- lion, and underscore just how dire economic conditions remain. The depth of the chill was evi- dent when the Commerce Depart- ment reported that consumer spending in March fell by 7.5 per- cent from February’s level, a stun- ning decline that helps explain why the overall economy is so weak. Consumer activity ordinari- ly accounts for more than two- thirds of the country’s output. The flood of unemployment claims continues to overwhelm many state agencies, leaving mil- lions with dwindling resources to pay the rent or put food on the ta- ble. If anything, according to many economists, the job losses may be far worse than government tallies indicate. A study by the Economic Policy Institute found that roughly 50 percent more people than counted as filing claims in a recent four- week period may have qualified for benefits — with the difference representing those who were stymied in applying or didn’t even JOB LOSSES SPIKE EVEN AS MILLIONS ARE NOT COUNTED Added Worries Over a Stunning Decline in Spending This article is by Nelson D. Schwartz, Tiffany Hsu and Patricia Cohen. Source: Labor Dept. THE NEW YORK TIMES 1 2 3 4 5 6 million ’12 ’16 ’20 ’08 ’09 Initial jobless claims, per week Seasonally adjusted 30,307,000 Claims were filed in the last six weeks RECESSION Continued on Page A10 The new government outlawed female genital mutilation, an often dangerous but widespread practice. PAGE A20 Victory for Sudan’s Women Late Edition VOL. CLXIX . . . No. 58,680 © 2020 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2020 Today, mostly cloudy, showers, high 67. Tonight, mostly cloudy, low 54. Tomorrow, periodic sunshine, slightly warmer afternoon, high 70. Weather map appears on Page B11. $3.00

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She was just 12 when shedropped out of school and beganclocking in for endless shifts atone of the garment factoriesspringing up in Bangladesh, hop-ing to pull her family out of pov-erty.

Her fingers ached from stitch-ing pants and shirts destined forsale in the United States and Eu-rope, but the $30 the young wom-an made each month meant thatfor the first time, her family hadregular meals, even luxuries likechicken and milk.

A decade later, she was provid-ing a better life for her own childthan she had ever imagined.

Then the world locked down,and Shahida Khatun, like millionsof low-wage workers around theworld, found herself back in thepoverty she thought she had leftbehind.

In a matter of mere months, thecoronavirus has wiped out globalgains that took two decades toachieve, leaving an estimated twobillion people at risk of abject pov-erty. However indiscriminate thevirus may be in its spread, it hasrepeatedly proved itself anythingbut that when it comes to its effecton the world's most vulnerablecommunities.

“The garment factory helpedme and my family to get out ofpoverty,” said Ms. Khatun, 22, whowas laid off in March. “But the co-ronavirus has pushed me back in.”

For the first time since 1998, theWorld Bank says, global povertyrates are forecast to rise. By theend of the year, 8 percent of theworld’s population, half a billionpeople, may be pushed into desti-tution, largely because of the pan-demic, the United Nations esti-mates.

Ms. Khatun was among thou-sands of women across South Asiawho took factory jobs and, as theyentered the work force, helped theworld made inroads against pov-erty.

Now those gains are at graverisk.

“These stories, of women enter-ing the workplace and bringingtheir families out of poverty, ofprograms lifting the trajectoriesof families, those stories will beeasy to destroy,” said AbhijitBanerjee, a professor at the Mass-achusetts Institute of Technologyand a winner of the 2019 NobelPrize for economics.

While everyone will suffer, the

Billions Slide DownLadder That TookDecades to Climb

By MARIA ABI-HABIB

Homeless people in Bangkok waiting for free meals. The global lockdown is most ruinous to the economies of developing countries.ADAM DEAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Continued on Page A7

New York has long prided itselfon its 24-hour subway, one of theworld’s few round-the-clock tran-sit systems and a symbol of thecity’s relentless energy. But sincethe coronavirus outbreak began,the subway has reflected the city’sdeterioration: Ridership hasplummeted by more than 90 per-cent, thousands of sick workershave hobbled the ability to runservice, and the number of home-less people on trains has grown.

On Thursday, Gov. Andrew M.Cuomo and transit officials tookthe extraordinary step of trying torestore the system by shutting itdown from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., hopingto provide more time for the disin-fecting of trains, equipment andstations during the pandemic.

The decision to halt regularlyscheduled overnight service for

the first time in the MetropolitanTransportation Authority’s his-tory demonstrates the stark stepsstate officials are taking to pre-serve a system that is critical toreviving New York’s economywhen businesses begin to reopen.

“We’ve never been here be-fore,” said Mr. Cuomo, who thisweek instructed the M.T.A. to de-vise a plan to clean more fre-quently. “This is going to be one ofthe most aggressive, creative,challenging undertakings that theM.T.A. has done.”

Shutting down the systemovernight is crucial for the transitagency to test and explore disin-fecting techniques, including ul-traviolet lights and antimicrobialagents, M.T.A. officials said. Still,groups representing riders raised

In a First, New York Will Shutter The Subway for a Nightly Scrub

By CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM

Continued on Page A17

MIAMI — The salty breeze andocean waves have beckoned stir-crazy residents of the coast backto their beloved beaches, socialdistancing norms be damned.

But how to prevent beach blan-kets and lawn chairs from becom-ing new founts of coronavirus in-fection has become a flash point

for governors in Florida, Califor-nia and other coastal states, whomust balance demands from con-stituents for relief from the esca-lating spring heat against the hor-rified reaction of the general pub-lic to photos of sweaty, swimsuit-clad bodies packed towel to towel.

Gov. Gavin Newsom of Califor-nia stepped in on Thursday to shutdown the beaches in OrangeCounty, rolling back earlier at-tempts at giving people there a

chance to stroll along the shorewhile staying a safe distance awayfrom one another. Broad swaths ofsand were packed over the week-end with crowds, with many peo-ple flocking from neighboring Los

Angeles and San Diego Counties,where the beaches remained off-limits.

“This disease isn’t going away,”Mr. Newsom said at a news con-ference, noting that the pandemichad claimed at least 95 lives in thestate in the past 24 hours.

The county-by-county ap-proach in California and Florida,perhaps the two states most de-fined by their iconic coastlines,

As Beaches Grow Irresistible, States Scramble for Sensible LimitsThis article is by Patricia Mazzei,

Shawn Hubler and Thomas Fuller.Teeming Ocean Shores

Spur Anger Online

Continued on Page A8

WASHINGTON — SeniorTrump administration officialshave pushed American spy agen-cies to hunt for evidence to sup-port an unsubstantiated theorythat a government laboratory inWuhan, China, was the origin ofthe coronavirus outbreak, accord-ing to current and former Ameri-can officials. The effort comes asPresident Trump escalates a pub-lic campaign to blame China forthe pandemic.

Some intelligence analysts areconcerned that the pressure fromadministration officials will dis-tort assessments about the virusand that they could be used as apolitical weapon in an intensifyingbattle with China over a diseasethat has infected more than threemillion people across the globe.

Most intelligence agencies re-main skeptical that conclusive ev-idence of a link to a lab can befound, and scientists who havestudied the genetics of the coro-navirus say that the overwhelm-ing probability is that it leapt fromanimal to human in a nonlabora-tory setting, as was the case withH.I.V., Ebola and SARS.

Mr. Trump’s aides and Republi-cans in Congress have sought toblame China for the pandemic inpart to deflect criticism of the ad-ministration’s mismanagement ofthe crisis in the United States,which now has more coronaviruscases than any country. More thanone million Americans have beeninfected, and more than 60,000have died.

Secretary of State Mike Pom-peo, a former C.I.A. director andthe administration’s most vocalhard-liner on China, has taken thelead in pushing American intelli-gence agencies for more informa-tion, according to current and for-

U.S. Asks SpiesTo Trace VirusTo Wuhan Lab

This article is by Mark Mazzetti,Julian E. Barnes, Edward Wong andAdam Goldman.

Continued on Page A11

The 40-foot trailer has beenthere for weeks, parked outsidethe Leo F. Kearns Funeral Homein Queens. Its refrigerator humsin an alley next to a check-cashingestablishment. Thirty-six bodies,one atop the other, are stacked onshelves inside.

The funeral director, PatrickKearns, has barely slept since theday he took charge of them. As helies awake in the middle of thenight, he knows there will bemore.

“It weighs on you, having somany cases in your care,” he said.“The death rate is just so high,there’s no way we can bury or cre-mate them fast enough.”

With more than 18,000 an-nounced fatalities and a totaldeath toll that is almost certainlyhigher, the coronavirus crisis isthe worst mass casualty event to

hit New York since the Spanish flupandemic a century ago.

At the height of the outbreak inApril, a New Yorker was dying al-most every two minutes — morethan 800 per day, or four times thecity’s normal death rate. Andthough the daily toll has recentlyslowed, hundreds of bodies arestill emerging each day from pri-vate homes and hospitals.

While hospitals bore the initialbrunt of the crisis as sick peopleflooded emergency rooms, thesheer volume of human remainshas pushed the system for caringfor the dead to its limits, too: Hos-pital morgues, funeral homes,cemeteries and crematories are

all overflowing and backed up.The scale of the problem was

brought into sharp relief onWednesday afternoon, when thepolice found dozens of decompos-ing bodies stashed inside twotrucks outside a funeral home onUtica Avenue in Brooklyn. Theowner, Andrew T. Cleckley, said hehad nowhere else to put them,adding simply: “I ran out ofspace.”

What happened in Brooklyn ap-pears to be an extreme case, andstate health officials said onThursday they would investigatethe matter. But in the last twomonths, funeral home directorshave begun to store bodies inviewing rooms and chapels, turn-ing up their air-conditioning sys-tems to avoid decomposition.Some are transporting bodies toother cities and states to be cre-mated.

Some hospitals ran out of body

Too Many Bodies, Too Fast, Put New York in BindBy ALAN FEUER

and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUMA Backlog at Morgues,

Funeral Homes andCemeteries

Patrick Kearns of Leo F. Kearns Funeral Home at the entrance of a makeshift morgue in Brooklyn.SARAH BLESENER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Continued on Page A14

The pandemic, the latest of many hard-ships, has left scenes of eerie beautyand abandonment in Rome. PAGE A18

INTERNATIONAL A18-20

Sacked Again, but by a VirusA look at some Instagram accounts onour critic’s feed. Above, Farah AlQasimi’s “Dyed Pastel Birds.” PAGE C13

WEEKEND ARTS C1-16

Five Artists to Follow

The woman who says Joseph R. Biden Jr.assaulted her has been silenced by TVnews shows, Ben Smith writes. PAGE A22

NATIONAL A21-24

What About the Accuser?Specialists at the London start-up Be-nevolentAI helped identify the arthritisdrug baricitinib, which is now part of aclinical trial. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-8

How A.I. Assisted Virus FightA woman of many words, most unspo-ken, Madeline Kripke collected nearly20,000 lexicons. She was 76. PAGE A28

OBITUARIES A25, 28

Doyenne of Dictionaries

The president revived his attacks on theF.B.I. after lawyers for Michael T. Flynncited newly unsealed documents asevidence of misconduct. PAGE A24

Trump Backs Flynn Again

Multinational corporations with fac-tories in Mexico have remained open,even after some workers fell ill. PAGE A7

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-17

Pressure to Keep Plants Going

A nearly 8 percent drop in emissions,driven by the Covid-19 crisis, is likelythis year, a new report said. PAGE B7

Emissions Set for a Record Fall

The endurance brand believed its globalracing schedule minimized its risk.Then the pandemic struck. PAGE B10

SPORTSFRIDAY B9-10

Ironman’s World Is Not EnoughAlexis Soloski and her family are findingboard games to be a particularly sooth-ing way to pass the time now. PAGE C1

Trapped at Home? Your Move

David Toren, 94, recovered a relative’sstolen painting amid a large cache ofworks discovered in Germany. PAGE A25

Pursuer of Nazi-Looted Art

Abiy Ahmed PAGE A27

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27

Despite trillions in stimulusspending and a rush to reopenshuttered businesses in somestates, the American economycontinues to stagger under theweight of the coronavirus pan-demic, with a further 3.8 millionworkers filing for unemploymentbenefits last week.

The figures announced Thurs-day by the Labor Departmentbring the number of workers join-ing the official jobless ranks in thelast six weeks to more than 30 mil-lion, and underscore just how direeconomic conditions remain.

The depth of the chill was evi-dent when the Commerce Depart-ment reported that consumerspending in March fell by 7.5 per-

cent from February’s level, a stun-ning decline that helps explainwhy the overall economy is soweak. Consumer activity ordinari-ly accounts for more than two-thirds of the country’s output.

The flood of unemploymentclaims continues to overwhelmmany state agencies, leaving mil-lions with dwindling resources topay the rent or put food on the ta-ble.

If anything, according to manyeconomists, the job losses may befar worse than government talliesindicate.

A study by the Economic PolicyInstitute found that roughly 50percent more people than countedas filing claims in a recent four-week period may have qualifiedfor benefits — with the differencerepresenting those who werestymied in applying or didn’t even

JOB LOSSES SPIKEEVEN AS MILLIONSARE NOT COUNTED

Added Worries Overa Stunning Decline

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This article is by Nelson D.Schwartz, Tiffany Hsu and PatriciaCohen.

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The new government outlawed femalegenital mutilation, an often dangerousbut widespread practice. PAGE A20

Victory for Sudan’s Women

Late Edition

VOL. CLXIX . . . No. 58,680 © 2020 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2020

Today, mostly cloudy, showers, high67. Tonight, mostly cloudy, low 54.Tomorrow, periodic sunshine,slightly warmer afternoon, high 70.Weather map appears on Page B11.

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