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U(D54G1D)y+#!@!?!$!" Stanley McChrystal and Chris Fussell PAGE A23 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23 A growing movement of Muslim women is promoting the niqab, revealing only the eyes, for personal reasons. PAGE A14 INTERNATIONAL A14-15 Veiled by Choice in Indonesia Hundreds of boxes of heirlooms were salvaged from the scorched interior of a Chinatown museum, above. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-6 Salvaging History Unearthed papers tell the almost forgot- ten story of the drug’s impact in the U.S. Above, Carolyn Farmer Sampson, whose mother took the drug. PAGE D1 SCIENCE TIMES D1-8 Surviving Thalidomide The Federal Reserve, deter- mined to try to keep the spread of the coronavirus from devastating the American economy, rolled out a series of sweeping new pro- grams on Monday meant to shore up large and small businesses and keep markets functioning. As mortgage markets showed signs of crumbling, companies struggled to sell debt and stresses plagued the entire financial sys- tem, the Fed announced several never-before-attempted actions to try to calm the turmoil. The Fed pledged to buy as much government-backed debt as needed to bolster the markets for housing and Treasury bonds. It announced that it would buy cor- porate bonds, including the riski- est investment-grade debt, for the first time in its history. And it promised to unveil more, includ- ing supports for small businesses, in the days and weeks to come. The Fed is throwing its full weight at confronting the eco- nomic fallout from the coro- navirus, which poses a severe threat as factories shut down, peo- ple lose jobs and the economy grinds to a halt while lawmakers in Congress continue to struggle to find a fiscal response, making the central bank the primary line of defense. “The speed of the response has been unprecedentedly fast,” said Roberto Perli, a partner at Corner- stone Macro and a former Fed economist. “It is a ‘whatever it takes’ moment, but backed by ac- tions.” To try to curb the virus, several more states, including Massachu- setts, Michigan and Oregon, moved on Monday to impose stay- at-home orders. Such orders will soon cover more than 100 million Americans. In New York, which accounts for about 6 percent of the virus cases worldwide and is facing crit- ical medical shortages, Gov. An- drew M. Cuomo ordered hospitals to increase capacity by at least 50 percent. Almost 21,000 cases have been recorded in the state, with at least 157 deaths. But President Trump suggested he would soon re-evaluate the federal guidance urging social distancing. Also on Monday he signed an executive order to keep people and busi- nesses from hoarding supplies and from engaging in price goug- ing. In Britain, the government im- posed a virtual lockdown, closing all nonessential shops, banning meetings of more than two people and requiring people to stay home, except for trips for food or medicine. The Fed’s moves, decided over weeks of back-to-back late nights, are meant to be only a first step. They could be scaled up sharply if FED FLEXES MUSCLE AS SENATE BATTLES OVER AID Unlimited Buying of Bonds to Help Businesses By JEANNA SMIALEK She tried to keep her distance, but when the light changed, she was stuck waiting with him at the crosswalk. She could feel him star- ing at her. And then, suddenly, she felt it: his saliva hitting her face and her favorite sweater. In shock, Ms. Zhu, who is 26 and moved to the United States from China five years ago, hurried the rest of the way to the gym. She found a corner where no one could see her, and she cried quietly. “That person didn’t look WASHINGTON — Yuanyuan Zhu was walking to her gym in San Francisco on March 9, think- ing the workout could be her last for a while, when she noticed that a man was shouting at her. He was yelling an expletive about China. Then a bus passed, she recalled, and he screamed after it, “Run them over.” strange or angry or anything, you know?” she said of her tormentor. “He just looked like a normal per- son.” As the coronavirus upends American life, Chinese-Ameri- cans face a double threat. Not only are they grappling like everyone else with how to avoid the virus it- self, they are also contending with growing racism in the form of ver- bal and physical attacks. Other Asian-Americans — with families from Korea, Vietnam, the Phil- ippines, Myanmar and other places — are facing threats, too, lumped together with Chinese- Americans by a bigotry that does not know the difference. In interviews over the past Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for Safety By SABRINA TAVERNISE and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. Growing Racism Jars Asians Nationwide Continued on Page A11 FLAVIO LO SCALZO/REUTERS Italy cited over 600 virus fatalities Monday, even as the number of new cases and deaths declined. A Deadly Fight Persists With President Trump provid- ing daily televised briefings and governors like Andrew M. Cuomo emerging as national leaders dur- ing the coronavirus pandemic, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is still grappling with how to position himself as a prom- inent voice on a crisis that is push- ing traditional politics to the back- ground. Mr. Biden has been confined over the last week to an unusually small role for the likely — though not yet completely certain — nom- inee of a major political party. His public comments have been spar- ing and, for the most part, re- strained. He has begun to ramp up a public schedule, beginning with an appearance on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday, and his aides said he would now offer remarks on camera in some fashion each day. But Democratic strategists, some state officials and even some of his own aides have said that Mr. Biden needs to be more visible at a time when Americans are looking for leadership. The challenge for Mr. Biden, they say, is to find ways to draw sharp con- trasts in leadership style with Mr. Trump while showing sensitivity to the severity of the crisis, and to break through when the nation is focused on more immediate con- cerns than November’s election. Jim Margolis, a veteran Demo- cratic strategist, said Mr. Biden had “walked that line really well, Biden, Offstage During a Crisis, Strains to Make Himself Heard By THOMAS KAPLAN and ALEXANDER BURNS Continued on Page A17 New York has tried to slow the spread of the coronavirus by clos- ing its schools, shutting down its nonessential businesses and urg- ing its residents to stay home al- most around the clock. But it faces a distinct obstacle in trying to stem new cases: its cheek-by-jowl density. New York is far more crowded than any other major city in the United States. It has 28,000 resi- dents per square mile, while San Francisco, the next most jammed city, has 17,000, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau. All of those people, in such a small space, appear to have helped the virus spread rapidly through packed subway trains, busy playgrounds and hivelike apartment buildings, forming ever-widening circles of infec- tions and making New York the nation’s epicenter of the outbreak. “Density is really an enemy in a situation like this,” said Dr. Steven Goodman, an epidemiologist at Stanford University. “With large population centers, where people are interacting with more people all the time, that’s where it’s going to spread the fastest.” The challenge facing New York and other tightly cramped cities around the United States can be seen by comparing the country’s largest city to its second biggest, Trait Defining New York Life Enables Virus By BRIAN M. ROSENTHAL Lining up at a grocery store in Alphabet City in Lower Manhattan. High density has helped the coronavirus to spread rapidly in New York, the nation’s largest city. JORDAN GALE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A8 WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats on Monday blocked action for the second day in a row on a nearly $2 trillion emergency economic aid measure to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, in- sisting on stronger protections for workers and restrictions for bailed-out businesses as they struggled to reach a deal with the Trump administration. Despite a sense of desperation in both parties and at the White House about quickly enacting a stabilization package to deliver critical financial support to busi- nesses forced to shutter and relief to hard-pressed American fam- ilies, sharp ideological differences between Republicans and Demo- crats were making it difficult to fi- nalize a compromise. Still, as the Senate prepared to close for the night around 9, Sena- tor Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, appeared on the floor to declare that the adjournment “doesn’t mean negotiations are slowing down one bit” between him and Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary. The list of unresolved items had “narrowed significantly,” Mr. Schumer said. “We’re going to work into the night.” As urgent negotiations contin- Rancor Makes Stimulus Bill A Heavy Lift By EMILY COCHRANE and NICHOLAS FANDOS Continued on Page A6 WASHINGTON — As the United States entered Week 2 of trying to contain the spread of the coronavirus by shuttering large swaths of the economy, President Trump, Wall Street executives and many conservative econo- mists began questioning whether the government had gone too far and should instead lift restrictions that are already inflicting deep pain on workers and businesses. Consensus continues to grow among government leaders and health officials that the best way to defeat the virus is to order non- essential businesses to close and residents to confine themselves at home. Britain, after initially re- sisting such measures, essentially locked down its economy on Mon- day, as did the governors of Vir- ginia, Michigan and Oregon. More than 100 million Americans will soon be subject to stay-at-home orders. Relaxing those restrictions could significantly increase the death toll from the virus, public health officials warn. Many econo- mists say there is no positive trade-off — resuming normal ac- tivity prematurely would strain hospitals and result in even more deaths, while exacerbating a re- cession that has probably already arrived. The economic shutdown is causing damage that is just begin- ning to appear in official data. Morgan Stanley researchers said on Monday that they now ex- pected the economy to shrink by an annualized rate of 30 percent in the second quarter of this year, and the unemployment rate to jump to nearly 13 percent. Both would be records in modern eco- nomic statistics. Officials have said the federal government’s initial 15-day period for social distancing is vital to slowing the spread of the virus, which has infected more than 40,000 people in the United States. But Mr. Trump and a chorus of conservative voices have begun to suggest that the shock to the economy could hurt the country more than deaths from the virus. To Some, Cost of Prolonged Isolation Is Too High This article is by Jim Tankersley, Maggie Haberman and Roni Caryn Rabin. Trump Says That He’ll Soon Reassess Social Distancing Rules Continued on Page A6 Continued on Page A7 The biennial exercise, which reflects the ties between U.S. and Emirati forces, proceeded despite a pandemic. PAGE A15 Joint Military Drill in Mideast With the coronavirus, a new Supreme Court case and a blistering election debate, the Affordable Care Act is still facing severe challenges. PAGE A18 NATIONAL A16-19, 24 Obamacare Turns 10 Voice-recognition devices from major tech firms misidentified 35 percent of words from black users. PAGE A16 Muffling Black Voices A book by the sports radio host Matt Jones trolls Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, for 500 pages. PAGE C1 Roasting McConnell At Kobe Bryant’s high school, players were already aching. Now they may not get to finish their season. PAGE B8 SPORTSTUESDAY B8-10 A Double Dose of Loss CONCERNED The U.S. Olympic Committee urged a postponement of the Tokyo Games. PAGE B8 Eric Weissberg, whose banjo work on the 1973 hit helped usher bluegrass into the mainstream, was 80. PAGE A21 OBITUARIES A20-21 ‘Dueling Banjos’ Musician California regulators determined that PG&E’s equipment caused the devastat- ing 2018 Camp Fire that led to the deaths of 85 people. PAGE B3 BUSINESS B1-7 Manslaughter Plea for Utility SUSPENDED Gilead will halt ac- cess to a drug that President Trump promoted. PAGE A12 TRACKING AN OUTBREAK VOL. CLXIX . . . No. 58,642 © 2020 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2020 Late Edition Today, partly sunny, milder, high 55. Tonight, becoming cloudy, low 42. Tomorrow, cloudy, rain, high 46. Northeast wind at 5 to 10 miles per hour. Weather map is on Page A24. $3.00
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Stanley McChrystal and Chris Fussell PAGE A23
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
A growing movement of Muslim womenis promoting the niqab, revealing onlythe eyes, for personal reasons. PAGE A14
INTERNATIONAL A14-15
Veiled by Choice in IndonesiaHundreds of boxes of heirlooms weresalvaged from the scorched interior of aChinatown museum, above. PAGE C1
ARTS C1-6
Salvaging HistoryUnearthed papers tell the almost forgot-ten story of the drug’s impact in theU.S. Above, Carolyn Farmer Sampson,whose mother took the drug. PAGE D1
SCIENCE TIMES D1-8
Surviving Thalidomide
The Federal Reserve, deter-mined to try to keep the spread ofthe coronavirus from devastatingthe American economy, rolled outa series of sweeping new pro-grams on Monday meant to shoreup large and small businesses andkeep markets functioning.
As mortgage markets showedsigns of crumbling, companiesstruggled to sell debt and stressesplagued the entire financial sys-tem, the Fed announced severalnever-before-attempted actionsto try to calm the turmoil.
The Fed pledged to buy as muchgovernment-backed debt asneeded to bolster the markets forhousing and Treasury bonds. Itannounced that it would buy cor-porate bonds, including the riski-est investment-grade debt, for thefirst time in its history. And itpromised to unveil more, includ-ing supports for small businesses,in the days and weeks to come.
The Fed is throwing its fullweight at confronting the eco-nomic fallout from the coro-navirus, which poses a severethreat as factories shut down, peo-ple lose jobs and the economygrinds to a halt while lawmakersin Congress continue to struggleto find a fiscal response, makingthe central bank the primary lineof defense.
“The speed of the response hasbeen unprecedentedly fast,” saidRoberto Perli, a partner at Corner-stone Macro and a former Fedeconomist. “It is a ‘whatever ittakes’ moment, but backed by ac-tions.”
To try to curb the virus, severalmore states, including Massachu-setts, Michigan and Oregon,moved on Monday to impose stay-at-home orders. Such orders willsoon cover more than 100 millionAmericans.
In New York, which accountsfor about 6 percent of the viruscases worldwide and is facing crit-ical medical shortages, Gov. An-drew M. Cuomo ordered hospitalsto increase capacity by at least 50percent. Almost 21,000 cases havebeen recorded in the state, with atleast 157 deaths. But PresidentTrump suggested he would soonre-evaluate the federal guidanceurging social distancing. Also onMonday he signed an executiveorder to keep people and busi-nesses from hoarding suppliesand from engaging in price goug-ing.
In Britain, the government im-posed a virtual lockdown, closingall nonessential shops, banningmeetings of more than two peopleand requiring people to stayhome, except for trips for food ormedicine.
The Fed’s moves, decided overweeks of back-to-back late nights,are meant to be only a first step.They could be scaled up sharply if
FED FLEXES MUSCLE AS SENATE BATTLES OVER AIDUnlimited Buying of
Bonds to HelpBusinesses
By JEANNA SMIALEK
She tried to keep her distance,but when the light changed, shewas stuck waiting with him at thecrosswalk. She could feel him star-ing at her. And then, suddenly, shefelt it: his saliva hitting her faceand her favorite sweater.
In shock, Ms. Zhu, who is 26 andmoved to the United States fromChina five years ago, hurried therest of the way to the gym. Shefound a corner where no one couldsee her, and she cried quietly.
“That person didn’t look
WASHINGTON — YuanyuanZhu was walking to her gym inSan Francisco on March 9, think-ing the workout could be her lastfor a while, when she noticed thata man was shouting at her. He wasyelling an expletive about China.Then a bus passed, she recalled,and he screamed after it, “Runthem over.”
strange or angry or anything, youknow?” she said of her tormentor.“He just looked like a normal per-son.”
As the coronavirus upendsAmerican life, Chinese-Ameri-cans face a double threat. Not only
are they grappling like everyoneelse with how to avoid the virus it-self, they are also contending withgrowing racism in the form of ver-bal and physical attacks. OtherAsian-Americans — with familiesfrom Korea, Vietnam, the Phil-ippines, Myanmar and otherplaces — are facing threats, too,lumped together with Chinese-Americans by a bigotry that doesnot know the difference.
In interviews over the past
Spit On, Yelled At, Attacked: Chinese-Americans Fear for SafetyBy SABRINA TAVERNISE
and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.Growing Racism Jars
Asians Nationwide
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FLAVIO LO SCALZO/REUTERS
Italy cited over 600 virus fatalities Monday, even as the number of new cases and deaths declined. A Deadly Fight PersistsWith President Trump provid-
ing daily televised briefings andgovernors like Andrew M. Cuomoemerging as national leaders dur-ing the coronavirus pandemic,former Vice President Joseph R.Biden Jr. is still grappling withhow to position himself as a prom-inent voice on a crisis that is push-ing traditional politics to the back-ground.
Mr. Biden has been confinedover the last week to an unusuallysmall role for the likely — thoughnot yet completely certain — nom-inee of a major political party. Hispublic comments have been spar-ing and, for the most part, re-strained. He has begun to ramp upa public schedule, beginning withan appearance on ABC’s “TheView” on Tuesday, and his aides
said he would now offer remarkson camera in some fashion eachday.
But Democratic strategists,some state officials and evensome of his own aides have saidthat Mr. Biden needs to be morevisible at a time when Americansare looking for leadership. Thechallenge for Mr. Biden, they say,is to find ways to draw sharp con-trasts in leadership style with Mr.Trump while showing sensitivityto the severity of the crisis, and tobreak through when the nation isfocused on more immediate con-cerns than November’s election.
Jim Margolis, a veteran Demo-cratic strategist, said Mr. Bidenhad “walked that line really well,
Biden, Offstage During a Crisis,Strains to Make Himself Heard
By THOMAS KAPLAN and ALEXANDER BURNS
Continued on Page A17
New York has tried to slow thespread of the coronavirus by clos-ing its schools, shutting down itsnonessential businesses and urg-ing its residents to stay home al-most around the clock. But it facesa distinct obstacle in trying tostem new cases: its cheek-by-jowldensity.
New York is far more crowdedthan any other major city in theUnited States. It has 28,000 resi-dents per square mile, while SanFrancisco, the next most jammedcity, has 17,000, according to datafrom the U.S. Census Bureau.
All of those people, in such asmall space, appear to havehelped the virus spread rapidlythrough packed subway trains,busy playgrounds and hivelikeapartment buildings, formingever-widening circles of infec-tions and making New York thenation’s epicenter of the outbreak.
“Density is really an enemy in asituation like this,” said Dr. StevenGoodman, an epidemiologist atStanford University. “With largepopulation centers, where peopleare interacting with more peopleall the time, that’s where it’s goingto spread the fastest.”
The challenge facing New Yorkand other tightly cramped citiesaround the United States can beseen by comparing the country’slargest city to its second biggest,
Trait Defining New York Life
Enables Virus
By BRIAN M. ROSENTHAL
Lining up at a grocery store in Alphabet City in Lower Manhattan. High density has helped the coronavirus to spread rapidly in New York, the nation’s largest city.JORDAN GALE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Continued on Page A8
WASHINGTON — SenateDemocrats on Monday blockedaction for the second day in a rowon a nearly $2 trillion emergencyeconomic aid measure to respondto the coronavirus pandemic, in-sisting on stronger protections forworkers and restrictions forbailed-out businesses as theystruggled to reach a deal with theTrump administration.
Despite a sense of desperationin both parties and at the WhiteHouse about quickly enacting astabilization package to delivercritical financial support to busi-nesses forced to shutter and reliefto hard-pressed American fam-ilies, sharp ideological differencesbetween Republicans and Demo-crats were making it difficult to fi-nalize a compromise.
Still, as the Senate prepared toclose for the night around 9, Sena-tor Chuck Schumer, Democrat ofNew York and the minority leader,appeared on the floor to declarethat the adjournment “doesn’tmean negotiations are slowingdown one bit” between him andSteven Mnuchin, the Treasurysecretary.
The list of unresolved items had“narrowed significantly,” Mr.Schumer said. “We’re going towork into the night.”
As urgent negotiations contin-
Rancor MakesStimulus Bill
A Heavy LiftBy EMILY COCHRANE
and NICHOLAS FANDOS
Continued on Page A6
WASHINGTON — As theUnited States entered Week 2 oftrying to contain the spread of thecoronavirus by shuttering largeswaths of the economy, PresidentTrump, Wall Street executivesand many conservative econo-mists began questioning whetherthe government had gone too farand should instead lift restrictionsthat are already inflicting deeppain on workers and businesses.
Consensus continues to growamong government leaders andhealth officials that the best wayto defeat the virus is to order non-essential businesses to close andresidents to confine themselves athome. Britain, after initially re-sisting such measures, essentially
locked down its economy on Mon-day, as did the governors of Vir-ginia, Michigan and Oregon. Morethan 100 million Americans willsoon be subject to stay-at-homeorders.
Relaxing those restrictionscould significantly increase thedeath toll from the virus, publichealth officials warn. Many econo-mists say there is no positivetrade-off — resuming normal ac-tivity prematurely would strainhospitals and result in even moredeaths, while exacerbating a re-cession that has probably already
arrived.The economic shutdown is
causing damage that is just begin-ning to appear in official data.Morgan Stanley researchers saidon Monday that they now ex-pected the economy to shrink byan annualized rate of 30 percent inthe second quarter of this year,and the unemployment rate tojump to nearly 13 percent. Bothwould be records in modern eco-nomic statistics.
Officials have said the federalgovernment’s initial 15-day periodfor social distancing is vital toslowing the spread of the virus,which has infected more than40,000 people in the United States.
But Mr. Trump and a chorus ofconservative voices have begunto suggest that the shock to theeconomy could hurt the countrymore than deaths from the virus.
To Some, Cost of Prolonged Isolation Is Too HighThis article is by Jim Tankersley,
Maggie Haberman and Roni CarynRabin.
Trump Says That He’llSoon Reassess Social
Distancing Rules
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The biennial exercise, which reflects theties between U.S. and Emirati forces,proceeded despite a pandemic. PAGE A15
Joint Military Drill in Mideast
With the coronavirus, a new SupremeCourt case and a blistering electiondebate, the Affordable Care Act is stillfacing severe challenges. PAGE A18
NATIONAL A16-19, 24
Obamacare Turns 10
Voice-recognition devices from majortech firms misidentified 35 percent ofwords from black users. PAGE A16
Muffling Black Voices
A book by the sports radio host MattJones trolls Mitch McConnell, the Senatemajority leader, for 500 pages. PAGE C1
Roasting McConnell
At Kobe Bryant’s high school, playerswere already aching. Now they may notget to finish their season. PAGE B8
SPORTSTUESDAY B8-10
A Double Dose of Loss
CONCERNED The U.S. OlympicCommittee urged a postponementof the Tokyo Games. PAGE B8
Eric Weissberg, whose banjo work onthe 1973 hit helped usher bluegrass intothe mainstream, was 80. PAGE A21
OBITUARIES A20-21
‘Dueling Banjos’ Musician
California regulators determined thatPG&E’s equipment caused the devastat-ing 2018 Camp Fire that led to thedeaths of 85 people. PAGE B3
BUSINESS B1-7
Manslaughter Plea for Utility
SUSPENDED Gilead will halt ac-cess to a drug that PresidentTrump promoted. PAGE A12
TRACKING AN OUTBREAK
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