Today's Headlines: Jobless Numbers Are ‘Eye-Watering’ but Understate the Crisis

New York Put Recovering Virus Patients in Hotels. Soon, 4 Were Dead.

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Top News Jobless Numbers Are 'Eye-Watering' but Understate the Crisis By PATRICIA COHEN With 4.4 million added last week, the five-week total passed 26 million. The struggle by states to field claims has hampered economic recovery. New York Put Recovering Virus Patients in Hotels. Soon, 4 Were Dead. By ASHLEY SOUTHALL and NIKITA STEWART The deaths revealed lapses in the monitoring of people sent to isolation, a critical part of the city's efforts to slow the outbreak. 1 in 5 New Yorkers May Have Had Covid-19, Antibody Tests Suggest By J. DAVID GOODMAN and MICHAEL ROTHFELD Accurate antibody testing is a critical tool to determine if the pandemic has slowed enough to begin restarting the economy. For more top news, go to NYTimes.com »

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Editors' Picks World 'This Government Is Lucky': Coronavirus Quiets Global Protest Movements By VIVIAN WANG, MARIA ABI-HABIB and VIVIAN YEE Millions of demonstrators have been forced or have chosen to stay at home, and organizers wonder when, if and how they will be able to resume. Opinion Who Has Enough Cash to Get Through the Coronavirus Crisis? By ALISSA QUART and YARYNA SERKEZ Most American adults don't have enough emergency savings to cover three months of expenses. How will we get through the pandemic?

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