Rachel Uchitel’s New York Apartment Has Tiger-Print Carpeting

As Hotels Offer Coronavirus Aid, Trump Properties Do Nothing

By Matt Stieb

Though the hospitality industry is shut down, the Trump Organization hasn’t opened its resorts to cities to shelter health workers or the sick.

4/9/2020

Coronavirus victims are being buried in the potter’s field on Hart Island

Photo: John Minchillo/AP/Shutterstock

4/9/2020

Disastrous

New @DataProgress poll:

- 52% of Americans under 45 have lost their job, had hours reduced, or been furloughed

-35% of Americans under 35 now say they don’t have health insurancehttps://t.co/IR61m7J0zn pic.twitter.com/bxLJjBjpDw

—@DKThomp

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Coronavirus in New York: Latest Updates

By Chas Danner, Matt Stieb, and Benjamin Hart

For the third straight day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a record high number of coronavirus deaths.

Workers Are Trying to Avert a Deadly COVID-19 Disaster

By Sarah Jones

COVID-19 has life-and-death stakes. Workers know that.

Pence’s Office Blocked Health Officials From TV to Boost Trump’s Ratings: Report

By Matt Stieb

Pence’s office reportedly blocked top health officials from appearing on CNN to ensure a ratings boost for Trump’s coronavirus press conferences.

Biden Inches Toward Sanders on Health Care, Student Loans

By Ed Kilgore

But on health care in particular, Biden’s revised plan doesn’t do much for those about to get hammered with private-health-insurance costs.

How Biden Is Trying to Win Over Bernie’s Supporters

By Gabriel Debenedetti

He’s deeply unpopular with Sanders loyalists, but party unity seems less daunting than it did in 2016.

4/9/2020

The seesaw continues

NEW YORK (AP) — S&P 500 closes out its best week since 1974 after Federal Reserve takes more aggressive action to support the economy.

—@ZekeJMiller

Biden’s Hidden Advantage Against Trump

By Ed Kilgore

The president did well in 2016 among voters who disliked both major-party candidates. That’s very unlikely to happen again.

4/9/2020

Can we get some of those tests sent to hospitals, too?

White House to administer rapid coronavirus test on all journalists before allowing them to attend this afternoon’s daily briefing with the president after a news outlet employee who was in the building on Tuesday fell ill.

—@peterbakernyt

Barr Praises Trump’s ‘Statesmanlike’ Handling of the Coronavirus

the national interest

By Jonathan Chait

The Attorney General gives another bizarrely sycophantic Fox News interview.

Frank Rich: John Roberts’s Wisconsin Shame

the national circus

By Frank Rich

The Chief Justice’s latest assault on minority voting rights does not bode well for November.

4/9/2020

Britain’s PM is doing better

*U.K. PM BORIS JOHNSON MOVED FROM INTENSIVE CARE BACK TO WARD

—@JoshuaGreen

Another Bloodbath Week for Unemployment

the top line

By Josh Barro

The only sliver of good news is that expanded unemployment benefits will help keep more people financially afloat for a while.

Life After COVID-19: The View From Beijing

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By Dan Wang

The Chinese lockdown has been “astounding, unprecedented, and medieval.” What does normalcy even look like afterward?

Here Are the Red States That Limit Voting by Mail to Trump–Approved Groups

By Ed Kilgore

It’s becoming the GOP party line that the procedure should be limited to seniors and military folk. Some places already follow that rule.

4/9/2020

The excellent news from Cuomo’s Thursday press conference

Photo: @brianmrosenthal/Twitter

4/9/2020

Staggering

NEW: New York Gov. Cuomo says an additional 799 people have died as a result of COVID-19.

In total, the state’s coronavirus death toll is 7,067.

—@Tom_Winter

The video-call software has seen enormous growth and has had its many security issues exposed.

security

Is It Safe to Use Zoom?

By Brian Feldman

4/9/2020

So far, the pandemic has not appreciably moved Trump’s numbers, nor transformed the presidential matchup

NEW @Monmouth poll

2020 election (change from March)
Trump - 44% (-1)
Biden - 48% (-)

Trump favorability
Favorable - 42% (-4)
Unfavorable - 50% (+1)

Biden favorability
Favorable - 41% (-2)
Unfavorable - 42% (-1)https://t.co/hJ8xyG1b8A

—@AndrewSolender

Dr. Fauci: Curve Is ‘Beginning’ to Flatten, Projected Death Toll Dropping

By Adam K. Raymond

The infectious-disease expert said there are “glimmers of hope” and that social distancing is working.

Trump: Absentee Voting Is Fraud Unless It’s My Supporters

the national interest

By Jonathan Chait

Republicans will use the coronavirus to suppress the vote, unless Democrats stop them right now.

4/9/2020

More on the unemployment numbers

New initial claims: 6.6 million
The week before: 6.9 million
The week before that: 3.3 million.

That brings the three-week total of new initial claims to 16.8 million. The US labor force is 162 million. One in ten workers has filed for unemployment in the last three weeks.

—@DKThomp

4/9/2020

Just like that, we’re back to Great Recession levels of unemployment

WASHINGTON (AP) — 10% of US labor force now out of work since virus slammed economy as 6.6 million file for jobless aid.

—@kylegriffin1