Today's Headlines: ‘They’re Death Pits’: Virus Claims at Least 7,000 Lives in U.S. Nursing Homes

Trump Encourages Protest Against Governors Who Have Imposed Virus Restrictions

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Top News 'They're Death Pits': Virus Claims at Least 7,000 Lives in U.S. Nursing Homes By FARAH STOCKMAN, MATT RICHTEL, DANIELLE IVORY and MITCH SMITH More than six weeks after the first coronavirus deaths in a nursing home, outbreaks unfold across the country. About a fifth of U.S. virus deaths are linked to nursing facilities. Trump Encourages Protest Against Governors Who Have Imposed Virus Restrictions By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and SARAH MERVOSH The president's stark departure from his message on Thursday night, when he announced guidelines for governors to reopen their states and said they would "call your own shots," suggested he was ceding any semblance of national leadership on the pandemic. Why We Don't Know the True Death Rate for Covid-19 By AMY HARMON Determining what percentage of those infected by the coronavirus will die is a key question for epidemiologists, but an elusive one during the pandemic. For more top news, go to NYTimes.com »

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Editors' Picks Technology Bill Gates, at Odds With Trump on Virus, Becomes a Right-Wing Target By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI, DAVEY ALBA and MARC TRACY The Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist has been attacked with falsehoods that he created the coronavirus and wants to profit from it. Opinion What It Will Take to Reopen New York By THE EDITORIAL BOARD It can't do this alone.

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