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VOL. CLXIXCLXIX ...... No. 58,658 © 20202020 TheThe NewNew YorkYork TimesTimes CompanyCompany NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRILAPRIL 9, 9, 20202020 $3.00 SANDERS ENDS BID Virus Raging, DRAMATIC CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR AS BIDEN GETS SET G.O.P. Fights Mail-In Votes PRODUCE FLICKERS OF OPTIMISM TO BATTLE TRUMP Strategy Ignores Views Scientists Caution BIG CHALLENGES AHEAD of Health Officials That Recovery This article is by Jim Rutenberg, Is Far Away Last Man Standing Seeks Maggie Haberman and Nick Cora- Unity for Democrats saniti. in National Crisis President Trump and his Re- By DAN BARRY publican allies are launching an The world began this week to aggressive strategy to fight what see small but encouraging signs By SYDNEY EMBER many of the administration’s own that concerted efforts to drasti- health officials view as one of the Senator Bernie Sanders of Ver- cally change human behavior — most effective ways to make vot- to suspend daily routines by stay- mont ended his presidential can- ing safer amid the deadly spread didacy on Wednesday, concluding ing at home — are slowing the in- of Covid-19: the expanded use of sidious spread of the novel coro- a quest that elevated him as a mail-in ballots. standard-bearer of American lib- navirus, which has killed tens of The scene on Tuesday of Wis- thousands and sickened more eralism and clearing the way for a consinites in masks and gloves than a million others across sev- general election between the pre- gathering in long lines to vote, af- eral continents. sumptive Democratic nominee, ter Republicans sued to defeat ex- But — a simple word that epide- Joseph R. Biden Jr., and President tended mail-in-ballot deadlines, miologists say cannot be empha- Trump at a time of national crisis. did not deter the president and top sized enough — these early indi- In a live-streamed speech, Mr. officials in his party. Republican cations, while promising, must not Sanders, eloquent but without his leaders said they were pushing be interpreted to mean that all will characteristic spark, cast his deci- ahead to fight state-level statutes be well by summer’s first days. Al- sion in the broader context of the that could expand absentee ballot- though President Trump tweeted fight against the coronavirus. “I ing in Michigan, Minnesota, Ari- on Monday about a light at the end cannot in good conscience contin- zona and elsewhere. In New Mex- of a tunnel, the cautions of scien- ue to mount a campaign that can- ico, Republicans are battling an ef- tists and other government offi- not win and which would interfere fort to go to a mail-in-only prima- cials conjure one very, very long with the important work required ry, and they vowed on Wednesday tunnel. of all of us in this difficult hour,” to fight a new move to expand In the Chinese city of Wuhan, Mr. Sanders said, adding, “While postal balloting in Minnesota. where the coronavirus publicly The new political effort is emerged in December, the end to a clearly aimed at helping the presi- monthslong lockdown has resi- dent’s re-election prospects, as dents taking baby steps toward well as bolstering Republicans some version of normality. In Ita- running further down the ballot. ly, where the next viral wave has While his advisers tend to see the killed more than 17,000, a delayed issue in more nuanced terms, Mr. but committed resolve to stay in- Trump obviously views the issue DEMETRIUS FREEMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES side has greatly decreased the in a stark, partisan way: He has A temporary morgue outside a Brooklyn hospital on Tuesday. Even in New York, where hundreds rate of contagion. complained that under Democrat- are dying each day, officials see signs that social distancing and other restrictions are working. And in the United States, the ic plans for national expansion of death toll, now growing by well early voting and voting by mail, over a thousand a day, has contin- “you’d never have a Republican ued to mount, with the last few elected in this country again.” Often Marginalized, and Especially Vulnerable days the country’s deadliest so far ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES At his daily news briefing on in this pandemic. Yet Dr. Anthony Wednesday, Mr. Trump said that 140,000 developmentally disabled S. Fauci, the director of the Na- Bernie Sanders told supporters he believed vote-by-mail had been tional Institute of Allergy and In- that their cause would go on. By DANNY HAKIM people monitored by the state had abused to hurt Republicans and Homes for Disabled Reel tested positive for the virus, state fectious Diseases, said Wednes- that “I will not stand for it,” though The call came on March 24. Bob as Illness Guts Fragile officials said. One hundred and day on Fox News that he was this campaign is coming to an end, he allowed that mail ballots could McGuire, the executive director of five had died — a rate, far higher starting to see “some glimmers of our movement is not.” help some older voters — an im- CP Nassau, a nonprofit group that Support System than in the general population, hope,” so much so that he ex- If Mr. Biden, the former vice portant part of his voting base. It cares for the developmentally dis- that echoes the toll in some nurs- pected that previous projections president, can now lay claim to the was a slight modulation that came abled, received a report from a ing homes. of 100,000 to 200,000 virus-related Democratic nomination, he still at the urging of his advisers. four-story, colonnaded building in Separately, a study by a large deaths would be lowered. faces considerable challenges in He expanded on the idea on Bayville, N.Y., that houses several At least eight members of the staff consortium of private service Even in New York City, now the uniting the party and mobilizing a Twitter on Wednesday evening, dozen residents with severe dis- had tested positive as well. providers found that residents of ghastly epicenter where hun- broad base of voters for the No- calling absentee ballots “a great abilities ranging from cerebral “Forgive me if I get emotional,” group homes and similar facilities dreds continue to die every day, vember election. Unlike Mr. Sand- way to vote for the many senior palsy to autism. For many of Mr. McGuire said in an interview, in New York City and surrounding officials cite a slowdown in hospi- ers, Mr. Biden inspired little en- citizens, military, and others who them, discussions of social dis- choking up. “People discount peo- areas were 5.34 times more likely talizations as evidence that social thusiasm among young voters, can’t get to the polls on Election tancing or hand washing are ple with disabilities and presume than the general population to de- distancing and other modifica- nor did he develop signature pol- Day.” He added that universal moot. they understand them when they velop Covid-19 and 4.86 times tions — not least the shutdown of icy proposals. He triumphed be- mail-in voting “shouldn’t be al- “Bob, we’re starting to see don’t know them. They think their more likely to die from it. What’s the city’s vibrancy and economy cause many voters rejected Mr. lowed!” symptoms,” Mr. McGuire was lives are not worth the same as more, nearly 10 percent of the — are working. Sanders’s policy agenda as too far In their efforts to fight expand- told. yours or mine, and that’s just not homes’ residents were displaying “We are flattening the curve,” to the left and prohibitively expan- ing vote-by-mail, Republican offi- Fevers were spreading. Within true.” Covid-like symptoms but had not Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New sive, and were convinced that Mr. cials are counting on a crucial and 24 hours, 10 residents were taken As the coronavirus preys on the yet been tested, according to the Continued on Page A7 Biden had the best chance to beat powerful ally: like-minded judges. to the hospital. A little more than most vulnerable, it is taking root consortium, New York Disability Mr. Trump in November. This week, conservative major- two weeks later, 37 of the home’s in New York’s sprawling network Advocates. To motivate liberal Democrats ities on the U.S. Supreme Court 46 residents had tested positive of group homes for people with Trouble throughout the New ITALY Maps show why a nation- who find him frustratingly con- and the highest court in Wisconsin for the coronavirus. Two were special needs. York City region — and, to a lesser wide lockdown came too late to Continued on Page A22 Continued on Page A21 dead; nine remained hospitalized. As of Monday, 1,100 of the Continued on Page A13 halt the contagion. PAGE A8 A Wave of Hunger Hits America, and Food Banks Are Swamped They Immigrated to Save Lives, But Lost Theirs in the Pandemic By NICHOLAS KULISH In Omaha, a food pantry that typically serves as few as 100 peo- By BENJAMIN MUELLER Foreign Doctors in U.K. ple saw 900 show up on a single LONDON — The eight men day. In Jonesboro, Ark., after a on the Front Lines moved to Britain from different powerful tornado struck, a food corners of its former empire, all of bank received less than half the donations it expected because them doctors or doctors-to-be, be- nervous families held on to what coming foot soldiers in the effort places and practices that are ap- they had. And in Washington to build a free universal health parently putting them on the dan- State and Louisiana, the National service after World War II. gerous front lines of the coro- Guard has been called in to help Now their names have become navirus pandemic. pack food boxes and ensure that stacked atop a grim list: the first, “When people were standing on the distributions run smoothly. and so far only, doctors publicly the street clapping for N.H.S. Demand for food assistance is reported to have died after catch- workers, I thought, ‘A year and a rising at an extraordinary rate, ing the coronavirus in Britain’s half ago, they were talking about just as the nation’s food banks are aching National Health Service. Brexit and how these immigrants being struck by shortages of both For a country ripped apart in re- have come into our country and donated food and volunteer work- cent years by Brexit and the anti- want to take our jobs,’” said Dr. ers. immigrant movement that Hisham el-Khidir, whose cousin Uniformed guardsmen help birthed it, the deaths of the eight Dr. Adil el-Tayar, a transplant sur- geon, died on March 25 from the “take the edge off” at increasingly RUTH FREMSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES doctors — from Egypt, India, Ni- tense distributions of boxes filled Army and Air Force National Guard personnel at a food bank in Tacoma, Wash., last week. geria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Su- coronavirus in western London. with cans of chicken noodle soup, dan — attest to the extraordinary “Now today, it’s the same immi- tuna fish, and pork and beans, said dependence of Britain’s treasured grants that are trying to work with Mike Manning, the chief execu- cluding through Hurricane Kat- it,” said Stacy Dean, vice presi- “People love the phrase ‘the per- health service on workers from the locals,” said Dr. el-Khidir, a tive at the Greater Baton Rouge rina, said that he had never wit- dent for food assistance policy at fect storm,’” she added, “but noth- abroad. surgeon in Norwich, “and they are Food Bank. “Their presence pro- nessed such a combination of the Center on Budget and Policy ing is built for this.” It is a story tinged with racism, dying on the front lines.” vides safety for us during distribu- need, scarcity and anxiety. Priorities, a left-leaning research Feeding America, the nation’s as white, British doctors have By Tuesday, 7,097 people had tions.” “‘Crazy’ pretty much sums it up,” organization in Washington, D.C. largest network of food banks, largely dominated the prestigious died in British hospitals from the Mr. Manning, who has worked he said. She has studied food security for with more than 200 affiliates, has disciplines while foreign doctors coronavirus, the government said at the food bank for 16 years, in- “I’ve never seen anything like more than a quarter century. Continued on Page A16 have typically found work in Continued on Page A4

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