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A salute to medical workers, from their fellow first responders

Trump fomenting
defiance of strictures
BUT SOME GOP LEADERS ARE WARY OF HASTE
Virus testing a friction point in debate over reopening

BY I SAAC S TANLEY- B ECKER, plan for loosening restrictions on

T OLUSE O LORUNNIPA economic activity. But the propos-
AND S EUNG M IN K IM al by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) made
few immediate changes to the
President Trump on Friday am- stay-at-home order and left many
plified his call to reopen the coun- decisions for the end of the month
try, suggesting citizens should after consultations with a new
“liberate” themselves even as gov- “strike force” of business leaders
ernors and local officials in areas and medical professionals.
he said were ready to return to “We’ll be focusing on all strate-
normal expressed concern about gies that may open up Texas while
moving too soon. also keeping us protected from
Republican governors have the expansion of covid-19,” Abbott
been slow to embrace Trump’s call said Friday, announcing plans to
to lift statewide stay-at-home or- ease restrictions on some retailers
ders in the middle of the coronavi- and hospitals even as the state’s
rus pandemic that is killing thou- stay-at-home order remained in
sands of Americans. And Demo- effect.
cratic governors have increasing- Trump on Friday took aim at
ly denounced what they describe Democratic-led states, tweeting
as a lack of federal leadership in a about a need to “LIBeRATe” plac-
response effort plagued by short- es such as Michigan, Minnesota
falls in testing and equipment. and Virginia while seeming to
on Friday, Texas announced a see reopenIng on A5

cHArles KrupA/AssocIAted press

Medical workers, clad in personal protective equipment, wave in appreciation as firefighters, police officers and Sta∞ng, antiquated technology
emergency workers honor them Friday in front of Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H. The hospital has about
700 of its staffers sidelined amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader.
slow the delivery of virus relief
BY H EATHER L ONG, The bulk of the challenges have
J EFF S TEIN, L ISA R EIN occurred with three initiatives
AND T ONY R OMM designed to get cash to struggling

Market surge on 1 treatment trial is a sign of urgency The national effort to get coro-
navirus relief money to Ameri-
Americans: $1,200 per adult re-
lief payments that launched this
week, $349 billion in small Busi-
cans is at risk of being over- ness Administration loans, and
BY C HRISTOPHER R OWLAND maceutical industry to get the mounts a resurgence in the fall. Gilead’s experimental drug rem- whelmed by the worst economic $260 billion in unemployment
global economy back on its feet. But the scientific, medical and desivir. The comments were ob- downturn in 80 years, as under- benefits for the more than 22 mil-
The stock market’s outsize re- While social distancing and manufacturing demands are tained by the news site sTAT. of staffed and underfunded agen- lion people — and growing — out
action Friday to a mere fragment flattening the curve are the initial much more challenging than the 113 patients who were severely ill cies struggle to deliver funds. of work.
of positive news from a Chicago strategies to reduce the spread of stock market’s exuberant reaction with covid-19, only two people Three weeks after Congress The sBA ran out of money to
hospital, just one institution out sARs-CoV-2, the clinical name for might indicate. treated with the drug died, and passed a $2 trillion package to make small business loans this
of 169 sites in a global clinical trial the novel coronavirus, the pro- The surge was based on video- most got better quickly, the re- lessen the economic impact of the week, almost no unemployment
with up to 6,000 patients, rein- duction of vaccines and treat- taped comments by a University searcher said. It was not disclosed coronavirus pandemic, millions aid has reached eligible self-em-
forced the extraordinarily high ments will be crucial over the of Chicago Medicine researcher how many were on ventilators of households and small busi- ployed and gig workers, and a
expectations riding on the phar- longer term, especially if the virus leading a local trial site for see treAtment on A8 nesses are still waiting to receive significant number of Americans
all the help promised under the who were due to receive relief
legislation, according to govern- payments this week went on the
ment data and firsthand ac- IRs.gov website only to see this
Nursing homes counts. see bAIlout on A16

with outbreaks
had been cited More coverage Golf? Guns?
for violations Adoption: travel bans have put
plans on hold for many families. A2
It’s all essential
BYD EBBIE C ENZIPER, push to reopen: conservatives somewhere.
J OEL J ACOBS across the country are rallying. A4
AND S HAWN M ULCAHY BY G RIFF W ITTE
wuhan: china defends its data AND H ANNAH K NOWLES
Forty percent of more than after revising city’s death toll. A12
650 nursing homes nationwide Florida made an exception
with publicly reported cases of world: smartphones are the latest for professional wrestling.
the coronavirus have been cited weapon to fight the spread. A20 south Carolina cut a break to
more than once by inspectors in sex shops, before it didn’t. And
recent years for violating federal liftoff: nAsA astronauts will launch across the country, golf courses
standards meant to control the from u.s. soil after long hiatus. A20 are more likely to be open than
spread of infections, according to not.
maryland: A shuttered hospital
a Washington Post analysis. Despite sweeping orders that
since 2016, the nursing homes reopens amid the crisis. c1 mandate closures of all non-
accrued hundreds of deficiencies essential businesses and activi-
for unsafe conditions that can New deaths in 2,047 ties in a bid to combat the
trigger the spread of flu, pneu- spread of the novel coronavi-
monia, urinary tract infections utpAl pAtHAK for tHe WAsHIngton post the U.S., by day rus, the list of exemptions in
and skin diseases. Dozens were About 50 people have been stuck inside a train station in Varanasi, India, for weeks during a As of 8 p.m. most states is long, curious and
flagged by inspectors only nationwide lockdown. every morning, a railway staff member leads the group in a yoga class. 2,000 controversial — a launchpad
months before the coronavirus Cumulative for endless debates over what
pandemic struck the United deaths really matters at a time when so
states.
Among the facilities with In India, waiting on a train that isn’t coming 32,454
1,500
much is being sacrificed.
The battle is only intensify-
infection-control infractions: the ing. It’s being waged in furious
Pleasant View nursing Home in BY J OANNA S LATER AND T ANIA D UTTA come. lobbying campaigns and in
Mount Airy, Md., where 24 peo- They are parents and children, construction court fights that will dictate
ple had died as of Thursday; the new delhi — The main train station in the workers, managers, pilgrims, students, a lawyer 1,000 whether businesses live or die.
Canterbury Rehabilitation & north Indian city of Varanasi is a sprawling and a marketing professional. They have one This week, it even brought
Healthcare Center near Rich- building that has witnessed its share of delays thing in common: They were all stranded hun- protesters to the streets in state
mond, with 49 deaths as of over more than a century of rail travel. some- dreds of miles from home when India abruptly capitals for non-socially dis-
Thursday; and the Brighton Re- times the waits are long, and sometimes they are suspended its passenger trains, which carry 500 tanced demonstrations as a
habilitation and Wellness Center pleasantly short. But it has never seen anything 23 million people a day, then imposed a strict backlash against stay-at-home
in southwestern Pennsylvania, like this. nationwide lockdown to combat the spread of the orders grows.
where officials have warned that Inside a high-ceilinged room, a group of travel- novel coronavirus. The question of what is es-
all 750 residents and staff mem- ers from across India have waited in vain for ever since, the passengers have spent their 0 sential has implications for
see nursIng Homes on A14 more than three weeks for trains that never see IndIA on A12 Feb. 29 April 17 see exemptIons on A6

In Sunday’s post Inside

∠∠ Earth Day Issue Serious ∠∠ ‘Pops’ is still talking tHe nAtIon tHe economy
results of climate change are Closed by the coronavirus, a biden sketches out vision day set for historic liftoff
A woman on his ticket. A black nAsA astronauts will launch from
imperiling the planet, but museum in Queens dedicated woman on the supreme court. u.s. soil, the first time in 10 years,
sometimes a threat emerges to iconic trumpeter and now, new cabinet posts. A3 may 27 on a spaceX rocket. A13
that affects the world in a singer Louis Armstrong finds tHe world relIgIon
new way. Magazine a fascinating way to share its Venezuela low on gas bomb at Jewish facility
collection. Arts & Style long lines at the pump present a A man is charged with planting an
In defense of tchotchkes For new challenge for embattled incendiary device at an assisted-
idled travel-lovers, souvenirs authoritarian nicolás maduro. A10 living home in massachusetts. b2
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In C Ase Y o U mI s s eD I t
some reports that you may have
missed. Read more at
washingtonpost.com.
Cohen granted prison leave due to pandemic
rus at the institutions it manages. the first, he admitted to cam-
Trump’s former lawyer According to information from paign finance violations stem-
Number of immigrants the bureau’s website, nearly ming from payments made be-
held by ICE plummets had begun serving a 1,200 inmates have been trans- fore the 2016 election to Daniels
3-year federal sentence ferred to their homes. Some crim- and another woman who alleged
The number of people held at inal justice advocates have said having affairs with Trump years
three U.S. Immigration and more should still be done. earlier. Cohen said he arranged
Customs Enforcement family Cohen is among a number of the payments at Trump’s direc-
detention centers plummeted BY M ATT Z APOTOSKY high-profile inmates who have tion to keep the women quiet.
39 percent from about 1,350 to pushed to get out of jail during Trump has denied the women’s
826 last week, a federal judge said Michael Cohen, President the pandemic — some successful- allegations.
during a court hearing Monday. Trump’s former personal attor- ly. The Justice Department offi- In the second, Cohen admitted
washingtonpost.com/national ney, will be released to home cial, speaking on the condition of he lied to Congress about a Mos-
confinement as part of the Feder- anonymity to detail internal dis- cow real estate project Trump
al Bureau of Prisons’ push to stem cussions, said Barr had told Bu- and his company pursued while
Liberal challenger the spread of the coronavirus, reau of Prisons’ leadership to “not Trump was trying to secure the
wins Wis. court race according to his attorney and a give special treatment to any Republican nomination to be-
Justice Department official. inmate,” though the precise cal- come president. That case was a
A liberal challenger easily Roger Adler, a lawyer for Co- culations in Cohen’s case were part of special counsel Robert S.
defeated the conservative hen, said that he had filed paper- unclear. Mueller III’s investigation into
MAtt McclAIn/tHe WAsHIngton Post
incumbent for a seat on the work with prison officials seeking Last month, Cohen’s attorney whether the Trump campaign
Wisconsin Supreme Court in last “compassionate release” for Co- wrote to a judge that the Bureau Michael Cohen, former attorney to President Trump, reportedly coordinated with Russia during
week’s elections. Jill Karofsky hen during the global health pan- of Prisons was “demonstrably in- has “lung problems,” making him medically vulnerable to covid-19. the 2016 campaign, and Cohen
beat Daniel Kelly, appointed to demic because Cohen had “an capable of safeguarding and later said in court that he lied to
the court in 2016 by then-Gov. underlying medical condition treating B.O.P. inmates” during Adler said it was his under- wrote in a court filing that Skelos protect Trump.
Scott Walker (R). President that he has been hospitalized for.” the coronavirus pandemic and standing that Cohen was among a had tested positive for coronavi- As of Thursday — the latest
Trump endorsed Kelly. He said Thursday night that it asked that Cohen be moved to number of inmates who will be rus but had been “symptom-free figures available — 473 federal
washingtonpost.com/national was his “understanding from home confinement. The facility released because of the pandem- since approximately April 8,” and inmates had tested positive for
speaking with a family member” has had 14 inmates and seven ic. he would be released pending the coronavirus, along with
that the request had been grant- staffers test positive for the novel Barr had directed prison offi- approval by medical staff and 279 Bureau of Prisons staff. The
Boeing loses 150 more ed, and that Cohen would soon be coronavirus, according to the lat- cials to look at inmates’ vulnera- sign-off by the U.S. Probation Bureau of Prisons said 18 inmates
orders for 737 Max moved to home confinement. est Bureau of Prisons figures. bility to covid-19, their conduct in Office on the place he wants to had died.
A Justice Department official Prosecutors objected to the re- prison and whether they would live. The Bureau of Prisons did not
Boeing’s commercial airline confirmed the development Fri- quest, asserting that Cohen was pose a danger to the community Paul Manafort, Trump’s former move at the start of the outbreak
customers canceled 150 orders of day. The lawyer’s assertion was “53 years old and in good health,” in deciding whether they should campaign chairman who was to release those in custody as a
the 737 Max in March, the first reported by CNN. and noting that he had at that be let go. Such factors generally convicted in 2018 of bank and tax part of its response to the global
company announced Tuesday, A Bureau of Prisons spokes- point “not moved for compas- favor older, white-collar crimi- fraud, asked Monday to be re- pandemic, though Barr has
the latest in a string of bad news woman said in a statement, “I am sionate release, likely because he nals. leased from prison to home con- stepped up that effort in the past
for the aerospace behemoth unable to address any specific is manifestly ineligible for it.” U.S. A federal judge in California finement to serve the remainder month. In late March, he directed
hurting from the one-two offenders suitability for home District Judge William H. Pauley recently said he would allow the of his 7½-year sentence, saying prison officials to expand their
punches of the 737 Max crisis and confinement.” A spokesman for III sided with the government. release of lawyer Michael Avenat- his age and health put him at use of home confinement but
the coronavirus. the U.S. attorney’s office in Man- “That Cohen would seek to ti, the attorney who rose to prom- higher risk of death from corona- detailed a number of factors that
Boeing has been under fire hattan, which prosecuted Cohen, single himself out for release to inence as the legal counsel for virus. The issue now could come might limit the pool that would
since its 737 Max crashed twice, declined to comment. home confinement appears to be adult-film actress Stormy Daniels up in the case of Roger Stone, be eligible.
killing a total of 346 people. Cohen once affectionately con- just another effort to inject him- during her lawsuit against Trump Trump’s longtime confidante who Then, in early April, Barr ex-
washingtonpost.com/business sidered himself Trump’s fixer, self into the news cycle,” Pauley over a hush-money deal, but with was convicted last year of tam- panded the directive — declaring
though as he became ensnared in wrote. “As the Government points bond and other stringent condi- pering with a witness and lying to an emergency under the recently
multiple federal investigations, out, he is ‘manifestly ineligible’ tions. Avenatti was convicted in Congress about his efforts to passed coronavirus legislation
Mystics trade he turned on his former client, for compassionate release and an extortion case this year in New learn of hacked Democratic that allowed the bureau to signifi-
for Tina Charles connecting Trump in federal has not exhausted his adminis- York and has been awaiting trial emails during the 2016 U.S. presi- cantly lengthen the time inmates
court to criminal misdeeds and trative remedies.” in California on allegations that dential election. could serve on home confine-
The Washington Mystics on alleging scandalous conduct in Adler, Cohen’s attorney, said he stole millions of dollars from A federal judge in D.C. on ment, and directing prison offi-
Wednesday acquired former testimony before Congress. He that in asking the prison warden his clients. Thursday rejected Stone’s bid for cials to consider a wider group for
league MVP Tina Charles from had reported to prison on May 6 for release — an administrative The Bureau of Prisons said it a new trial and said he should possible release.
the New York Liberty. The move to begin serving a three-year sen- remedy — Cohen had submitted would similarly approve furlough report to prison to begin serving As of Friday, Cohen remained
will pair Charles, a 6-foot-4 tence. evidence to back up his claims. from prison and home confine- his 40-month sentence as soon as in federal custody at FCI Otisville
center, with reigning MVP Elena At Attorney General William P. “He has a number of lung ment for former New York State federal officials instruct him to do in New York. His attorney said,
Delle Donne. Washington traded Barr’s direction, the Bureau of problems that were documented; Senate majority leader Dean Ske- so, after a two-week grace period like other inmates being released,
guard Shatori Walker- Prisons has been working in re- medical records were provided,” los, who had been serving a four- lapses. Stone’s likely appeals, Cohen would have to be quaran-
Kimbrough, its first-round pick cent weeks to move more inmates Adler said. He declined to say year and three-month prison though, could delay that. tined for two weeks before being
in Friday’s WNBA draft and all to home confinement in a bid to what Cohen’s lung problems term after he was convicted in a Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 in sent home.
three picks in the 2021 draft. stem the spread of the coronavi- were. corruption case. Prosecutors two separate criminal cases. In matt.zapotosky@washpost.com
washingtonpost.com/sports

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United States as well as most
other countries. “But they should
neWsPAPer DeLIVerY
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or concerns contact us at
planning for surrogacies, be able to, the minute it’s safe to
go back home.”
Desai estimates that about 100
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800-753-Post (7678) BY C AROL M ORELLO often in orphanages. from leaving to go home. If the
“We literally had 15 families crisis continues for several
to ADVertIse Andrea Hoffmann’s mad dash who had tickets purchased to months, several hundred more
washingtonpost.com/mediakit
classified: 202-334-6200
to America began shortly after leave the next day or in a few days, families will be affected, she said.
Display: 202-334-7642 2 a.m. on March 12 in Munich, and 10 families ready to purchase The State Department is con-
when her husband roused her tickets,” said Susan Cox, vice pres- sidering a policy change to ad-
mAIn PHone nUmBer from sleep and said, “We have to ident for policy at Holt Interna- dress the situation.
202-334-6000
get on a plane now.” tional, an Oregon-based Chris- “We recognize that in addition
to reACH tHe neWsroom The Hoffmanns both wanted to tian organization that arranged to wanting to be present at the
Metro: 202-334-7300; be in Maryland for the birth of more than 500 adoptions from birth of their child, there may be
metro@washpost.com their son to a surrogate who was other countries last year. FAMIlY PHoto medical decisions to be made and
national: 202-334-7410; due in late May. But Christian “In some cases, their adoptions Thomas and Callie Mitchell have prepared a room in their home in we want to be sensitive to that, so
national@washpost.com Hoffmann realized their plans had been in process for two or Chattanooga, Tenn., for a 3-year-old boy coming from China. we’re examining ways in which
Business: 202-334-7320; had to be changed after watching three years. They were finally at these intending parents can trav-
business@washpost.com President Trump on television as the point where the child was el,” a State Department spokes-
sports: 202-334-7350; he announced travel restrictions ready to travel, and the adoption Many foreigners who choose cess. man said.
sports@washpost.com on Europeans to limit the spread was ready to be completed. They surrogacy come to the United Anyone born in the United Even parents who made it to
Reader Advocate: 202-334-7582; of the novel coronavirus. were so close.” States because family law in most States is a U.S. citizen and must the United States before travel
readers@washpost.com When Christian left Andrea at Thomas Mitchell and his wife, states has established procedures use a U.S. passport to exit the bans took effect say the uncer-
the Munich airport at 6 a.m., they Callie, had been waiting for eight and protections unavailable in country. That includes babies tainty is stressful.
to reACH tHe oPInIon PAGes
letters to the editor:
expected he would join her in a months to bring a 3-year-old boy their native countries. Typically, born to gestational surrogates. So Eneko Arrese, an accountant,
letters@washpost.com or call few weeks. home from an orphanage in the prospective parents get a far, the State Department does and his husband, Eneko Amezke-
202-334-6215 More than a month later, northern China. Mitchell built pre-birth court order declaring not consider surrogacy a life-or- ta, a dance director, flew from
opinion: Christian Hoffmann is still in him a bed that his daughters them the parents. They arrive in death emergency to make an ex- their home in Spain’s Basque
oped@washpost.com Munich, working at home for a painted and decorated his room the United States a few weeks ception to the passport pause, country to Chicago in early
Published daily (Issn 0190-8286). pharmaceutical company. His at their home in Chattanooga, before the birth, take the court and won’t issue them. Without a March. At the time, the covid-19
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wife is living temporarily in an Tenn., with a mural of pandas and order to get a passport for the passport for their baby, the par- virus was raging in Spain and just
D.c. 20071. apartment in Frederick, Md., do- pagodas. They had plane tickets infant and return home a few ents cannot return home once air starting to spread in the United
Periodicals postage paid in Washington, D.c., and ing administrative tasks on her to China in early February, but 12 weeks after the birth. travel resumes. States.
additional mailing office.
laptop for her job as an air traffic days before their departure date, The global pandemic threw a “Nobody thinks they should The couple had planned to
controller. She has spent count- the adoption was put on indefi- bureaucratic hurdle into the pro- travel now,” said Desai, noting witness the March 26 birth of
less hours watching the news and nite hold. their son, Aretx, the Basque word
CorreCtIons the first five seasons of “Game of “At first, we thought it would for “oak.” But hospital restric-
Thrones” on Netflix, and bonding be a couple weeks’ delay,” said tions related to the coronavirus
with their surrogate, who has Mitchell, a real estate transaction allowed only one person to be
the Washington Post is committed to brought her three daughters to coordinator. “Then it snowballed. present, and they ceded that
correcting errors that appear in the the parking lot of Andrea’s build- Now, nobody knows when we can place to the surrogate’s mother.
newspaper. those interested in ing so she can watch them dance go.” As they and their newborn
contacting the paper for that purpose
from a second-floor balcony. The Mitchells sent their son, follow “stay at home” guidelines
can:
email: corrections@washpost.com. “We are just so glad one of us is whom they will name John Tao in an Airbnb rental, waiting for
Call: 202-334-6000, and ask to be here,” she said. “I didn’t think it Mitchell, a new photo book and a their attorney to finalize docu-
connected to the desk involved — would come to this. I thought, ‘It letter explaining that they will ments for their son to travel, their
national, Foreign, Metro, style, sports, will be all right; they cannot lock come as soon as the airplanes can joy is leavened with worry that
Business or any of the weekly sections. down everything.’ I never would fly again, not knowing if that will their return flights on a round-
comments can be directed to the have imagined this situation.” be weeks or months from now. about route will be canceled be-
Post’s reader advocate, who can be The sweeping travel restric- “It’s incredibly sad,” Mitchell fore they can leave.
reached at 202-334-7582 or tions, imposed with little advance said. “It’s incredibly frustrating. “We follow newspapers, all
readers@washpost.com.
notice, have interrupted plans for We’re still very hopeful as well. I’d day,” Arrese said. “We’re afraid,
prospective new families around say if there’s an emotion out because we’re far from home. It’s
the world. The United States has there, we’re probably feeling it.” not our country. We’re far from
Download the imposed restrictions on travelers Further complicating matters, family, and friends and every-
who have been in China, Iran and the State Department has been thing we know.”
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PlUs complete local news coverage have closed their borders because tine passport services. U.S. em- illness would require them to
of the D.c. metro area. create of the covid-19 outbreak, narrow- bassies and consulates have con- navigate a system they do not
customized news alerts, save ing international travel to a trick- tinued to issue passports for in- understand.
articles for offline reading in My le. fants newly adopted overseas — if Though the viral outbreak is
Post, browse the daily print edition As a result, many people over- the parents can get there. But that flattening out in Spain and re-
and scroll through our the Discover seas with surrogates in the Unit- has been no help for surrogacy strictions there may ease soon,
tab to find stories that interest you. ed States are either stranded births. their worries will not evaporate
thousands of miles away or stuck When governments began im- when they return home.
Free to download on the App store
in the United States, unable to posing travel bans, no one fore- “It scares us a lot,” said Arrese.
and Play store, subscribers enjoy
take their newborns home. And saw the consequences for families “We know in our house we are
unlimited access. Americans who were about to fly created with the help of surro- going to be in quarantine. But we
FAMIlY PHoto
abroad for international adop- gates, said Nidhi Desai, a Chicago will feel more comfortable being
tions cannot enter the countries lawyer who specializes in interna- The Mitchells, seen with their daughters, had waited eight months in our own country.”
where children wait for them, tional adoptions and surrogacies. to adopt from China when the process was put on hold in February. carol.morello@washpost.com
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Democratic super PAC spends $15 million to criticize Trump, counter ads
BY M ICHELLE Y E H EE L EE America First Action, the main ing China and the coronavirus in tective equipment to China in was too slow in his early response China and other foreign invest-
pro-Trump super PAC, labeling his fundraising appeals. February, alleging Trump’s deci- to the coronavirus outbreak, and ments.
A Democratic super PAC has the former vice president “Beijing American Bridge, one of the sion contributed to the shortage his initial response is widely criti- The group said it plans on roll-
launched a $15 million ad cam- Biden.” Ads by both groups will major Democratic super PACs of such gear in the United States. cized, a new Pew Research Center ing out microtargeted digital ads
paign criticizing President Trump run in the same television mar- running anti-Trump ad cam- “Donald Trump sent critical survey shows. on that theme as part of “an
for initially praising China’s han- kets in three states crucial in paigns focused on swing states, medical supplies to China as “We are more than happy to let all-out assault on Trump and his
dling of the coronavirus crisis and November: Michigan, Wisconsin aims to counter the narrative put Americans continue to suffer. He the American public decide family over their corruption — in
donating U.S. personal protective and Pennsylvania. forth by the president’s operation. needs to follow his supposed mot- whom they trust, President China and other countries — in-
equipment to that nation, in a Trump and his allies increas- The group’s new ad criticizes to of America First,” American Trump or Beijing Joe Biden, to get volving foreign bribes, political
move to counter pro-Trump ads ingly are seizing on China’s role in Trump for praising Chinese Presi- Bridge President Bradley Beychok tough on China,” said Brian O. favors, shady real estate invest-
painting presumptive Democrat- the spread of the novel coronavi- dent Xi Jinping in February over said in a statement. “We’re mak- Walsh, president of America First, ments, and parties with dicta-
ic presidential nominee Joe Biden rus to attack Biden as the death his coronavirus response, despite ing sure that voters across Michi- in response to the new ad cam- tors.”
as soft on China. toll and job losses continue to rise. widespread skepticism of Bei- gan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin paign by American Bridge. “Hard-working Americans are
The new television and digital The pro-Trump America First jing’s account of the number of know full well not only how badly American Bridge said the ad is paying for the president’s failures,
ad campaign by the American ads criticizing Biden’s past ap- people infected and who had died Trump botched this crisis, but the first of its new offensive cam- and we’re not going to be shy
Bridge 21st Century super PAC proaches to China follows a of the disease. also how badly he bent the knee to paign targeting Trump, his com- about holding him accountable,”
will launch Friday and is designed Trump campaign ad on the same The ad also blasts Trump for China in the midst of it as well.” pany, business associates and Beychok’s statement said.
to match a $10 million effort by theme. Trump also has begun us- sending 17.8 tons of personal pro- Most Americans believe Trump adult children over their ties to michelle.lee@washpost.com

BY S EAN S ULLIVAN participate in a virtual fundraiser

for Biden, according to a person
Joe Biden has committed to with knowledge of the event.
choosing a woman as his running Ticket prices will range from
mate. He’s vowed to nominate an $250 to $2,800.
African American woman to the But the credibility transfer
Supreme Court. And now, he’s from his endorsers to Biden has
toying with the idea of creating limits. That is why the candidate,
new Cabinet posts and possibly seen in some quarters of the
even naming potential agency party as unappealing to younger
secretaries before the election. voters and facing challenges with
The presumptive Democratic Latino voters, also has been will-
nominee is sketching out an in- ing to make pronouncements
creasingly detailed portrait of the that have gone beyond what past
kinds of people he would sur- nominees have guaranteed.
round himself with if he became “I’m looking forward to mak-
president. At a moment when the ing sure there is a black woman
coronavirus pandemic has shak- on the Supreme Court,” Biden
en the country’s faith in govern- said at a February debate, draw-
ment and frequently rendered ing loud applause.
Biden’s candidacy a lonely pur- The creation of his Cabinet —
suit, his campaign is emphasiz- and more broadly his view of
ing what would happen after the himself as a transitional figure
election — were he to win — more who can help build the next
so than what he will do in the generation of Democrats — has
nearly seven months of cam- been on Biden’s mind for a while.
paigning before the November During an April 3 virtual fund-
vote. raiser, he said he was committed
He is also making his pitch as to selecting diverse personnel.
much about his allies as about “Men, women, gay, straight,
him, presenting himself as the center, across the board. Black,
conductor of an orchestra whose white, Asian. It really matters
individual players might appeal that you look like the country,
to the disparate elements of a because everyone brings a slight-
party Biden is seeking to unify. ly different perspective,” said
His moves reflect a campaign Biden.
trying to project know-how and Presidents-elect typically tap
preparedness, qualities it hopes experienced government hands
will contrast in the minds of to help them evolve from candi-
many voters with President date to officeholder. Cabinet
Trump, whom Biden is casting as nominations — such as secretary
ANdrew HArrer/BlOOmBerg News
chaotic and woefully unreliable of state and attorney general —
in moments of crisis. With in-person campaigning on hold, former vice president Joe Biden has been sketching out his plans if he wins the election. are normally announced begin-
Voters “need reassurance de- ning in the two-month period

Blueprint for a Biden administration

livered in specific information,” between the election and the
said Henry Muñoz, a former inauguration.
Democratic National Committee Biden would not say who is
finance chairman and an infor- heading his transition team, but
mal Biden adviser. “The best he vowed that those who will take
form of leadership is a person part will be “first rate.” He also
who is willing to surround them- said the “physical limitations” of least two or three people quali- sion in the party over whom he have been aimed more at remind- argued that there is no shortage
selves with diverse, strong voic- campaigning from home also fied for every one of those posi- ought to select. ing supporters of their affection of qualified people who could
es.” present a challenge. tions.” The declaration focused media than at seeking out new acolytes. serve.
The strategy is also driven by Biden, speaking at a virtual In contrast with the vision of attention on several women seen Every time the president tweets “I have had literally several
the practical problem of mount- fundraiser, said Thursday that he firm leadership that the former as potential picks, including — such as on Friday, when he hundred serious, serious players
ing a campaign in the era of the has started constructing a presi- vice president is seeking to put Democratic Sens. Kamala D. Har- used misleading information to who have held positions in every
coronavirus. When the former dential transition team, a process forward, Trump and his allies are ris (Calif.), Elizabeth Warren call President Barack Obama and department in the federal gov-
vice president hits the trail these he said has been underway for casting Biden as shaky and un- (Mass.), Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) Biden “a disaster” in their 2009 ernment who have said, includ-
days, it means beaming into peo- several weeks. prepared, and calling attention to and Catherine Cortez Masto response to the H1N1 influenza — ing some Republicans, who have
ple’s living rooms from his make- Discussions are in progress his verbal stumbles. “No more (Nev.); Michigan Gov. Gretchen his message goes to more than said: ‘If you win, I want to come
shift basement TV studio, piping about the prospect of elevating late night television Sleepy Joe!” Whitmer; and former Georgia 77 million Twitter followers. back. I’m ready to serve,’ ” he said.
into their headphones with his some White House offices to Cab- the Trump campaign tweeted gubernatorial nominee Stacey Biden has just under 5 million The words sought to offer a
new podcast and schmoozing inet-level positions, Biden said. this week, with a clip of Biden Abrams, among others. followers. measure of clarity at a time when
with donors on Zoom, all from a Among those under consider- appearing to look down at his Even that discussion, however, Over the past several days, there is little certainty about the
safe social distance that has iso- ation: the Office of Science and notes during a long-winded com- has received little public atten- Biden has made this most of his future of the country’s economy,
lated him from the country he Technology Policy, the global ment on CNN. tion. Some Democrats from com- circumstances. He won the en- its health and its mind-set. By
wants to lead. health security pandemic office Many Democrats recognize petitive swing areas have said dorsement of Sen. Bernie Sand- Biden’s own estimation, the elec-
Some Democrats worry about and a separate climate change that Biden’s status as a 77-year- Biden needs to find a fresh way to ers (I-Vt.) on Monday, joining his tion itself is not even set in stone.
Biden being eclipsed by Trump, operation that “goes beyond the old white man at the head of a stand out against Trump in the former rival in a live-streamed Biden said at the Thursday
whose White House pandemic EPA,” he said. diverse party has made the ques- weeks ahead. discussion that conveyed a fundraiser that the recent Wis-
briefings are carried live and Biden said he “would consider tion of whom he will pick for his “The president is on TV every warmer relationship between the consin primary led him to ques-
whose hourly battles with politi- announcing some Cabinet mem- administration more significant, day. He’s coming to us into our TV two men than Sanders ever had tion how efficiently states can
cal rivals have been splashed bers before the election,” a move and his running mate choice screens every day from his press with Hillary Clinton in 2016. hold elections during the corona-
across newspaper front pages. that would be highly unusual, but more consequential. Some say conference,” Rep. Elissa Slotkin The next day, Obama bestowed virus crisis, particularly as
Biden’s slow rollout of a grow- he clarified that he hasn’t “made they want to see evidence that (D-Mich.) said in an interview his support on Biden, and the day Trump and other Republicans
ing army of high-wattage surro- that commitment” yet. Still, he Biden would put together a gov- last week. “So it’s going to be after that Warren endorsed him. have fought a transition to mail-
gates offers the potential, at least, signaled that he has a good idea ernment that reflects the coun- important for the [former] vice The campaign rounded out the in ballots. When asked whether
of breaking through the din. of who would fill the positions. try. president to be visible and to use week with endorsements from he believes the public can trust
“It’s difficult because he’s not a “If the Lord Almighty said: Biden has been offering hints this time in key states like Michi- leading Muslim and Jewish orga- that the November election will
public official now, and he’s in ‘Joe, I tell you what. You have to about who would serve in his gan and Wisconsin and Pennsyl- nizations, highlighting the diver- be held as expected, Biden re-
this period of time when he’s a decide in three hours what your government for months. At the vania, to really rethink creatively sity in his coalition. plied, “Right now they can’t trust
candidate when we’re in the mid- Cabinet is or you’re going to be final debate of the primary race what a campaign looks like in an The new alliances are expected that.”
dle of a worldwide pandemic,” bounced out of the race,’ I could in mid-March, he said he would era of social distancing.” to pay off in multiple ways: On sean.sullivan@washpost.com
said Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. write down who could be in the choose a woman as his running Trump had a head start in his May 1, a network of influential
(D-Pa.), a close Biden ally who Cabinet,” he said. “There are at mate, setting off a spirited discus- outreach, although his pitches Obama alumni is planning to matt Viser contributed to this report.

DI GEST

TENNESSEE attorneys to conduct interviews, TEXAS GEORGIA

travel, meet with Smith and carry
Top court postpones out other tasks during the Off-duty border agent Two students expelled
execution over virus outbreak as they pursued held in fatal shooting over racist video
clemency and court challenges,
Tennessee’s Supreme Court on they argued. An off-duty U.S. border agent Two high school students in
Friday postponed the scheduled Attorney General Herbert has been arrested in connection Georgia have been expelled after
execution of a death row prisoner Slatery’s office argued that the with the fatal shooting of a they posted a racist video on a
by eight months because of the clemency efforts and the existing firefighter in the Texas border social media site.
coronavirus pandemic. appeals were not legitimate city of Laredo, authorities said. Carrollton City Schools
Oscar Smith had been reasons to delay the execution. U.S. Customs and Border Superintendent Mark Albertus,
sentenced to die June 4 for the However, the attorneys wrote Protection Officer Ernesto Gillen, in a statement Friday, said the
murders of his estranged wife, that the Tennessee Supreme 43, was charged with murder in students’ “behavior was
Judy Lynn Smith, and her two Court is “in the best position to Wednesday’s death of Guadalupe unacceptable.”
sons from a previous marriage, determine whether a stay of David De Luna. Neither Gillen A video posted first on TikTok
Chad and Jason Burnett, in execution should be granted” in nor De Luna, 21, was on duty at and then shared on Twitter on
Nashville. On Friday, the court the case. the time, and investigators Thursday shows two teenagers
granted a motion requested by Smith’s lawyers also argued determined that De Luna was using racial slurs and making
Smith’s attorneys to delay his that holding an execution during shot after a domestic altercation, derogatory remarks about black
execution. Smith’s new execution a pandemic would require the Laredo Morning Times people such as “Don’t have a dad”
date is Feb. 4, 2021. special safeguards to protect reported. and “Go to jail.”
sCOTT P. YATes/rOCKfOrd regIsTer sTAr/AssOCIATed Press
In asking for the delay last witnesses whose presence could “It was a domestic incident The names of the students
month, Smith’s attorneys said risk transmitting the virus to A late-season snowfall blankets Rockford, Ill., on Friday, breaking a involving a romantic expelled Friday were not
they had lost critical time to staff and inmates at Riverbend 94-year-old record for the date in the city, the local newspaper relationship,” Laredo police released. Carrollton High School
work on his case because of the Maximum Security Institution. reported. Chicago Rockford International Airport recorded three spokesman Jose Baeza told the Principal David Brooks began
restrictions put in place to stop Texas has already delayed five inches of snow, shattering the previous April 17 high mark of a half- San Antonio Express-News. He investigating Thursday after the
the spread of the coronavirus. It executions due to the outbreak. inch set in 1926, according to the Rockford Register Star. Much of it said the two men were fighting. release of the video.
would be irresponsible for — Associated Press was gone by early afternoon, as temperatures rose into the mid-40s. — Associated Press — Associated Press
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the coronavirus pandemic

Rallies against governors’ stay-at-home orders grow

BYT OLUSE O LORUNNIPA trooper saying as he explained
S HAWN B OBURG Whitmer’s new order, which bans
AND A RELIS R . H ERNÁNDEZ people from traveling between a
primary residence and a vacation
Protesters at state capitols home. The troopers told the cou-
across the country this week ex- ple to stay put or risk a $1,000 fine
pressed their deep frustration or misdemeanor charge.
with the stay-at-home orders that The interaction led Lackomar
are meant to stem the spread of to rant on Facebook and then con-
the novel coronavirus, pushing a tact a lawyer.
message that is rapidly coalescing “Sometimes you feel like you
among the nation’s conservatives: have no voice against the big
Reopen the country. monolithic government,” said
Groups rallied in at least six Lackomar, who is one of several
states this week, and protests are Michigan residents suing Whit-
planned in four more in coming mer. “They are trying to contain
days. On Friday, President Trump the infection, but there is a line.
encouraged protesters in Michi- I’m sorry, my rights as an individu-
gan, Minnesota and Virginia who al don’t always take a back seat to
this week violated stay-at-home someone else’s fears.”
orders and social distancing Lackomar’s lawyer, David
guidelines to march against Dem- Helm, is arguing in federal court
ocratic governors. that the government owes his cli-
“LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” ents compensation because regu-
Trump tweeted. “LIBERATE MIN- lations have rendered their prop-
NESOTA,” he continued. “LIBER- erties and businesses useless. The
ATE VIRGINIA, and save your statewide restrictions, he said, vi-
great 2nd Amendment. It is under olate property and due process
siege!” rights because most of Michigan’s
Trump’s tweets come as the coronavirus cases are limited to
right-wing media has amplified two hard-hit counties in metro
the protests and conservative Detroit.
groups have formed plans to joint- “The entire state of Michigan is
ly press for a reopening of the on house arrest. That’s a problem,”
economy. The groups include sev- said Helm, who has heard from
eral veterans of the tea party era, other firms contemplating class-
activism that was powered by a action suits in Tennessee and Ore-
JosHUA A. BIcKel/AssocIAted Press
network of right-wing and corpo- gon. “We know there is a pandem-
rate financiers interested in re- Protesters didn’t follow social distancing guidelines Monday during a demonstration at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. Gov. Mike ic and government action needs to
ducing taxes and regulations on DeWine (R) announced he was assembling plans to safely reopen the economy ahead of the expiration of his stay-at-home order May 1. take place, but you have to tailor
industry. those actions to minimize consti-
Protesters railed against poli- Protest leaders said the demon- asserted that the protest had all deadly and that we have a long Trump declared a national emer- tutional infringements. If left un-
cies that call for nonessential busi- strations evolved organically into but killed Whitmer’s chances to be way to go before restrictions can gency last month. checked, it can lead to more dra-
nesses and schools to be closed, a collective call for rolling back vice president. be lifted,” said Washington Gov. In Ohio, where 100 protesters matic regulations down the road.
restaurants limited to carryout emergency measures that they “Mission accomplished?” the Jay Inslee (D). A protest against did not practice social distancing We don’t want the governor to be
service and people to stay largely think infringe on personal free- group wrote above the link to the his stay-at-home order, which lifts as they pushed up against the in a position to make precedent
in their homes except for emer- doms and further decimate the column. May 5, is scheduled in Olympia glass doors of the statehouse this here. We want the court to set
gencies. They argue that the na- economy. Nicole Hemmer, a scholar at this weekend. week, Gov. Mike DeWine (R) an- precedent.”
tion has sacrificed the economy, “I feel terrible about the lives Columbia University and author Tyler Miller, who organized the nounced he was assembling plans Whitmer’s office did not return
with unemployment at record lev- lost, but at some point we have to of “Messengers of the Right,” Washington state protest, said he to safely reopen the economy a request for comment on the law-
els, and people have upended their say ‘Mission accomplished’ and about the right-wing media, said is urging attendees to wear per- ahead of the expiration of his stay- suits.
lives for something many do not come up with the next phase of the anti-government signage and sonal protective equipment, prac- at-home order May 1. DeWine and In states including North Caro-
see as an existential threat to soci- this that doesn’t have us continu- argument that stay-at-home or- tice physical distancing and not Amy Acton, director of the Ohio lina, activists are organizing
ety. ously locked inside our homes,” ders infringe on personal liberty attend if they are in a high-risk Department of Health, have said through closed Facebook groups
“I think there’s a boiling point said Matthew Seely of the Michi- hark back to a prior conservative category or feeling sick. reopening will come in phases. that have grown quickly.
that has been reached and exceed- gan Conservative Coalition, which movement. Public health experts have said State Sen. Andrew Brenner (R) Ashley Smith, the founder of
ed,” said Stephen Moore, a conser- organized the protests. “In my mind it looks a lot like any premature easing of stay-at- said DeWine was right to close ReOpenNC, believes stay-at-home
vative economist. Moore is a mem- Michigan has been one of the the tea party,” she said. “It almost home orders could lead to a sec- schools and businesses early, deci- orders are not the right way to
ber of both the White House coun- states hit hardest by the virus, seems like an excuse for getting ond wave of pandemic, erasing the sions that Brenner said are bring- fight the virus.
cil to reopen the country and a with more than 30,000 confirmed out and rallying against politi- social distancing progress, return- ing the state closer to reopening. “We’ve dropped an atomic
coalition of conservative leaders cases and over 2,200 deaths. cians they oppose.” ing the population to quarantine, Brenner’s district near Colum- bomb on a knife fight,” she said.
and activists seeking to push gov- State incorporation records Some politicians believe deepening the economic turmoil bus is one of the fastest-growing “Yes, there are risks, but the Con-
ernment officials to relax stay-at- show the nonprofit coalition also Trump’s egging on of the protest- and resulting in more lives lost. areas of the state. He said the stitution does not guarantee us a
home orders. goes by another name: Michigan ers is dangerous. Some said they are protesting pandemic has wiped out its eco- risk-free existence.”
“I call these people the modern- Trump Republicans. The group’s “The president is fomenting do- mainly because of the severe eco- nomic gains. Michael Morgan of Westfield,
day Rosa Parks — they are protest- president, Rosanne Ponkowski, mestic rebellion and spreading nomic impact caused by the virus. “People are calling me crying N.C., who has been battling cancer
ing against injustice and a loss of identified herself as a homemaker lies even while his own adminis- More than 22 million people have because they've lost their jobs, and for three years, sent the group a
liberties,” Moore said of the pro- last year in federal campaign fi- tration says the virus is real and is filed for unemployment since the government stimulus checks private message to try to under-
testers. nance records. But the group’s oth- are not going to keep people going stand its point of view. He said he
Moore said the protests have er directors are longtime GOP in- long,” Brenner said, adding more was blocked and started his own
been spontaneous and organized siders, according to state records. people will need government as- group: Stay Home N.C. It now also
at the local level, but he said his They include Marian Sheridan, sistance. “The next thing that’s has thousands of members. He
group has been offering them ad- the state Republican Party’s vice going to happen is that revenue does not believe economic con-
vice and legal support should pro- chair of “grass roots” efforts. needed to maintain vital services, cerns should dictate when stay-at-
testers be arrested and prosecut- Sheridan has “worked in Michi- such as education and Medicaid, home orders are lifted.
ed. gan grass roots for the last 10 will plummet.” “This has become a battle be-
The protests come as governors years” and started her political Business owners in Oklahoma tween money and life. And people
in Texas, Minnesota and Vermont career as a tea party leader and and Ohio have filed lawsuits, be- really value their money,” Morgan
on Friday announced dates to ease organizer, according to the state moaning the economic costs of said. “I completely understand not
certain restrictions. GOP’s website. sheltering in place. In Michigan, being able to pay your bills and the
In Michigan, hundreds of peo- Sheridan, Ponkowski and the Michael Lackomar called a lawyer pain of losing a business, but
ple clogged traffic in cars or Michigan Republican Party did after a run-in with state troopers. wouldn’t you rather be alive? Be-
marched in the snow to protest not respond to messages. Lackomar said he and his wife lieve me, we will work through
against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Social media accounts show have left their home in the Detroit this.”
(D), who last week added addi- that part of the group’s goal was to suburbs for their solitary second toluse.olorunnipa@washpost.com
tional restrictions to the state’s damage Whitmer. A day after the home on the shores of Lake Hu- shawn.boburg@washpost.com
stay-at-home order. Protesters protest, the Michigan Trump Re- ron. But when Lackomar visited arelis.hernandez@washpost.com
waved American flags, Trump publicans posted a conservative this week, two state troopers
flags and an occasional Confeder- opinion writer’s column on its Fa- JIm mone/AssocIAted Press pounded on the door. david Weigel and robert costa in
ate flag. Many screamed “Lock her cebook page. The column, which Protesters gathered in the street outside the official residence of “You know you’re not supposed Washington and Gregory scruggs in
up!” and “We will not comply!” appeared in The Washington Post, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Friday in St. Paul. to be here,” Lackomar recalled the seattle contributed to this report.

‘Open it up’ bloc in GOP attacks restrictions as others in party urge caution
BY M IKE D E B ONIS son. “If the U.S. economy collaps- took a more aggressive approach the past. among Americans generally, ac- But rank-and-file GOP law-
es, the world economy collapses. Friday, announcing that he would Notable is that amid the debate cording to early political science makers have been sending a dif-
A growing number of Republi- And trying to burn down the vil- reopen state parks Monday and over the Affordable Care Act in research on the response to the ferent message — particularly on
can lawmakers across the country lage to save it is foolish. That’s a encourage retail stores to open by 2009, conservatives led by former pandemic. An unpublished paper talk radio programs and other
are pushing for a more rapid cold, hard truth.” the end of the week with social- Alaska governor Sarah Palin based on a late-March survey of media outlets that cater to con-
reboot of the American economy But earlier that day, one of distancing precautions. Restau- seized on a proposal to allow 3,000 Americans found that one’s servatives.
amid the coronavirus pandemic, Kennedy’s colleagues — one of the rants and movie theaters, he said, Medicare to pay for voluntary party affiliation was “the single Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), who
arguing that the risk of spreading most influential health-policy could reopen by the end of the counseling on end-of-life treat- most consistent factor” explain- is chairman of the House Free-
more sickness — and even death voices on Capitol Hill — sent a month. ment options as “death panels” ing individual responses to the dom Caucus and is among 22
— is outweighed by the broader much more cautious message. The issue, meanwhile, has for elderly Americans. That en- pandemic. Republicans, for in- House Republicans named to
economic damage that wide- Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), made it to the congressional cam- tirely speculative risk helped stance, were less likely to have Trump’s “Opening Up America
spread stay-at-home orders have chairman of the Health, Educa- paign trail. Jason Lewis, a former drive GOP opposition to the Dem- engaged in social distancing or Again” advisory group, criticized
wrought. tion, Labor and Pensions Com- House member running against ocratic health-care law; now Re- more frequent hand-washing. Democratic governors on Phoe-
They are taking cues from and mittee and a senior appropriator, Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.), has publicans are brushing aside “You just see a very different nix radio station KFYI-AM for
breathing energy into a grass- echoed public health officials in launched a “Re-Open Minnesota much more credible risks in their world for Republicans in general maintaining tight restrictions.
roots conservative movement of warning that the necessary test- for Business” RV tour of the state zeal to restart the economy with than we do see for Democrats,” “They’ve killed their econo-
resistance against government- ing infrastructure simply to allow — one that took him Friday to a an eye toward the November elec- said Thomas B. Pepinsky, a Cor- mies, and they want the federal
ordered quarantine measures — for a wholesale loosening of re- protest attended by hundreds tions. nell University professor of gov- government to bail them out,” he
one that President Trump ap- strictions has not been created. outside the residence of Demo- While Democrats have joined ernment and a co-author of the said. “But instead of trying to
peared to back in several tweets “Without more tests with quick cratic Gov. Tim Walz. Few wore calls to plan for a carefully man- paper. “Democrats are more wor- isolate people who are vulnerable,
Friday — but are facing defiance results, it will be difficult to con- masks or kept the recommended aged reopening, most have been ried about it; they believe that the they want the whole population
within their own party from Re- tain this disease and give Ameri- six feet of personal distance. careful to leave key decisions in crisis is worse than Republicans to be shut down, and that’s killing
publican congressional leaders, cans confidence to go back to “We all want to do it right, but the hands of public health experts believe it is. It’s sort of a clean businesses. That’s why you have
governors and fellow lawmakers work and back to school,” Alexan- at some point, you’ve got to bal- — who so far have warned that the finding all across the board.” 22 million people now, at least,
who warn that a rash reopening der said. ance the social damage and the trajectory of the pandemic is still Some Republican leaders, such who are unemployed.”
could reinvigorate the virus’s The Republicans on the front human damage you would have uncertain and that broad stay-at- as House Minority Leader Kevin Rep. Trey Hollingsworth (R-
spread. lines of the crisis — state gover- from waiting till everything is home orders remain warranted. McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Rep. Liz Ind.), whose southern Indiana
The emerging “open it up” cau- nors — have been similarly divid- perfect,” Lewis said, adding, “You House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Cheney (R-Wyo.), the GOP confer- district has seen at least 50 covid-
cus has spoken out on key conser- ed. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, can’t fight this virus with a second (D-Calif.) this week criticized as ence chairwoman, have warned 19 deaths, bluntly told WIBC-FM
vative media platforms, including for instance, cited “positive signs Great Depression.” “careless” those Republicans who that any attempt at reopening will in Indianapolis on Tuesday that
some of Trump’s favorite pro- of cautious optimism” Wednes- As the protest in St. Paul grew, have pushed for a rapid economic have to be carefully managed. government should err on the
grams. In a prime-time Fox News day in announcing that his state Trump tweeted, “LIBERATE reopening at the risk of additional McCarthy told reporters side of getting people back to
Channel appearance Wednesday, was beginning to formulate a re- MINNESOTA!” Moments later, he coronavirus deaths. Any decision Thursday that he supported using work, even if it mean more deaths.
for instance, Sen. John Neely Ken- opening plan. sent similar tweets about Michi- to reopen, she told reporters technology, such as cellphone “In the choice between the loss
nedy (R-La.) said that balancing But he warned that “if the re- gan and Virginia, where separate Thursday, should be “science- tracking data, to help trace the of our way of life as Americans
the health of Americans with a covery is not done in a thoughtful protests were taking place. based.” spread of the virus — a practice and the loss of life, of American
functioning economy amid the and responsible way, it will not The election-year calls from “We shouldn’t be having a con- that some conservative protesters lives, we have to always choose
pandemic was “like choosing be- only cost lives, but it will deepen conservatives to reopen the U.S. versation about how many people oppose as government overreach. the latter,” he said.
tween cancer and a heart attack.” the economic crisis and actually economy, at the cost of the health is it okay to die for us to open up,” “We did not ask for this virus, mike.debonis@washpost.com
“We’ve got to open this econo- prolong the problems and slow and lives of Americans, amounts she said. but this virus is here,” McCarthy
my. If we don’t, it’s going to col- our recovery.” to a different calculation from The partisan division among said. “We did not invite it, but we seung min Kim and Paul Kane
lapse,” he told host Tucker Carl- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Tex.) what many Republicans made in elected officials reflects the split need to defeat it.” contributed to this report.
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the coronavirus pandemic

Black leaders doubt Trump will aid minority communities

doesn’t have a key black aide in
Caucus members, others the White House,” Sharpton said
in an interview.
question administration’s Last month, when Sharpton
will to address disparities was warning about the risks of the
coronavirus to the incarcerated
and homeless populations, he got
a surprise phone call from Trump.
BY D AVID N AKAMURA “He said he would not commit
to anything but that he would
Already the nation’s leading note it,” Sharpton said. “It is a
infectious-disease expert and a good sign, compared to his past
member of the White House’s actions, that he acknowledged
coronavirus task force, Anthony the racial imbalance. But it was a
S. fauci assumed another role one-day mention — with no an-
this week, reaching out to reas- nounced programs, no an-
sure black congressional leaders nounced commitment, no priori-
that the Trump administration is ty from the White House.”
pursuing strategies to mitigate Adams, 45, who reports to the
the outsize impact of the disease assistant secretary of HHS, made
on minority communities. a personal plea at a White House
In an hour-long conference call briefing last week, citing his own
with the Congressional Black battles with asthma to emphasize
Caucus, fauci heard from mem- the importance of taking precau-
bers who emphasized the need to tions against the coronavirus. But
surge federal testing resources in doing so he drew a backlash on
and medical gear to black com- social media when he employed
munities, which data have shown language that some found offen-
are at a higher risk of being infect- sive.
ed by and dying of the novel “We need you to do this, if not
coronavirus. for yourself, then for your abuela,”
Caucus Chair Karen Bass (D- Adams said, using the Spanish
Calif.) said she quoted fauci’s own word for grandmother. “Do it for
words, from an interview with your granddaddy. Do it for your
mSNBC host Al Sharpton on Sun- big mama. Do it for your pop-pop.
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day, that the administration has We need you to understand —
“got to bring the resources where White House coronavirus task force member Anthony S. Fauci had an hour-long conference call with members of the Congressional Black especially in communities of col-
the risk and vulnerability is.” Caucus, and they stressed the need to surge federal testing resources and medical gear to minority communities, which have been hit hard. or — we need you to step up and
fauci, she said, pledged to take help stop the spread.”
the group’s recommendations vincing Trump to deliver on their ers he has no plans to dismiss him vices, have pledged to make pub- had discussions with federal and Critics faulted Adams for ap-
back to the task force. “It was a prescriptions. In addition to in- from the task force. lic federal data on the racial state officials, along with athletes, pearing to blame African Ameri-
positive and productive call,” Bass creased levels of testing and med- The conversations came amid breakdown of those who have entertainers and civic leaders, cans and Latinos for being lax in
said. But she added that the cau- ical supplies, the caucus is asking media reports, based on state and been infected — but promises about forming an outside task their personal conduct, rather
cus is “worried about” fauci given for more rapid-response tests and municipal data, that African that such data would be released force that would help the Trump than highlighting the socioeco-
that President Trump has ex- antibody testing in black commu- Americans and Latinos are being within a few days have not pro- administration examine and re- nomic inequities that make those
pressed frustration with the doc- nities, as well as the release of infected at higher rates than duced results. Congressional spond to the health and economic communities more vulnerable.
tor for contradicting him at times federal data, broken down by race whites. A Washington Post analy- Democrats introduced legislation impacts of the virus on black Adams, who said he has a Puerto
on public health recommenda- and ethnicity, of infections, sis this month of available data this week that would require the communities. rican brother-in-law, explained
tions. deaths, hospitalizations and re- and census demographics shows Department of Health and Hu- They pointed to Trump’s work that he was using “language that
“He’s trying to do the work of covery rates. that counties that are majority- man Services to collect that data on criminal justice reform, eco- is used in my family.”
the American people and do it in The call with fauci “was remi- black have three times the rate of and provide a report to Congress. nomic opportunity zones and NAACP President and CEo
the best way he can,” Bass said, niscent of the press briefings infections and almost six times White House aides said federal funding for historically black col- Derrick Johnson, who has spoken
“but that could mean he ends up where he demonstrates not just the rate of deaths as counties resources are being distributed to leges and universities as evidence weekly with Adams, said he ap-
getting fired.” knowledge of the issues but also where white residents are in the states in consultation with gover- of his commitment to African preciated the surgeon general’s
fauci’s role highlights the tenu- expressed commitment to try to majority. nors, who are basing their re- American communities. efforts to keep civic leaders in-
ous state of affairs between a address them,” House majority Experts have cited socioeco- quests on data showing where the “We need to make sure we give formed. But Johnson added that
president who has exploited ra- Whip James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) nomic factors, including that the virus is spreading. Administra- money and testing to distressed he was frustrated that Trump has
cial divisions, at times employing said in an interview. “The ques- virus is more likely to infect those tion officials, through a variety of communities,” Lanier said. “We sought to politicize the crisis by
racially offensive language, and tion is whether or not the admin- who are unable to work from diverse media outlets, have also need to make sure we have overriding the medical experts
the black lawmakers who repre- istration will commit itself to do home as well as those who have sought to emphasize the need for the right campaign by way of and offering conflicting public
sent communities with large anything to address the problem. underlying health conditions and minority communities and young information. . . . Because of a long guidance.
numbers of minorities. Trump I don’t think the will is there to do lack adequate health-care op- people to heed the social distanc- history of abuse by the govern- “The problem with this admin-
has just one black member in his it.” tions. ing guidelines. ment in terms of testing and istration is not only does it lack
Cabinet or West Wing senior staff White House aides disputed At a press briefing last week, Aiming to reach a broader au- vaccines, there’s a big distrust diversity, it lacks the ability to
— Housing and Urban Develop- that view, emphasizing that Trump expressed alarm at the dience, fauci has done interviews there.” empathize with other people,”
ment Secretary Ben Carson — and Trump has had private conversa- “problem of increased impacts — with Showtime’s “Desus & mero,” But critics said the Trump Johnson said. “Because of the
black leaders expressed doubts tions with black leaders, includ- this is a real problem, and it’s NBA star Stephen Curry’s Insta- White House does not have ade- egomaniac in the White House,
over the administration’s ability ing Sharpton and the rev. Jesse showing up very strongly in our gram channel and the “Breakfast quate messengers, especially giv- much of the administration’s pos-
to help disseminate crucial public Jackson, while Vice President data — on the African American Club” radio program, and he is en the outrage sparked by the ture and policy is more self-indul-
health information to minority Pence convened a conference call community. And we’re doing ev- slated to appear on movie star president’s rhetorical attacks on gent than it is providing leader-
communities and its willingness with dozens of black civic organi- erything in our power to address Will Smith’s new Snapchat show. prominent black leaders, includ- ship for the American people.
to provide the federal resources zations last week. The aides spoke this challenge — it’s a tremendous U.S. Surgeon General Jerome m. ing former president Barack And then you compound that
necessary to combat the disease. on the condition of anonymity to challenge; it’s terrible — and pro- Adams, who is black, has ap- obama and the late Democratic with a complete blind spot on
Though Congressional Black describe outreach to minority vide support to African American peared on BET. congressman Elijah E. Cummings questions of race, which is the
Caucus members said they came leaders. citizens.” The rev. Darrell Scott and Kar- of Baltimore. nicest way to put it.”
away confident that fauci appre- Although Trump this week The president and his aides, eem Lanier, prominent African “This is the first president I david.nakamura@washpost.com
ciated the urgency of the threat to retweeted a social media message including Pence and Seema Ver- American supporters of Trump have seen, since I started going to
black communities, they were that included the hashtag #fire- ma, administrator of the Centers who oversee an urban redevelop- the White House when [ronald] Jacqueline Alemany contributed to
skeptical of his chances of con- fauci, the president told report- for medicare and medicaid Ser- ment organization, said they have reagan was president, who this report.

Testing policy a point of rising tension problems including with Abbott

Laboratories’ point-of-care tests.
Health officials in Alabama, Ar-
kansas and missouri said their
reopenIng from A1 coronavirus outbreak has been maine) told Pence and other ad- states had secured 15 machines
more limited. ministration officials that the gov- each from the federal govern-
side with protesters there who are republican governors in places ernment’s failure to develop a na- ment, but they have yet to obtain
rebelling against restrictions that such as missouri and mississippi tional testing regimen for the vi- the cartridges that allow health-
match the Trump administra- did not adhere to the president’s rus was a “dereliction of duty” and care workers to run the tests.
tion’s own social-distancing rec- call Thursday for less-hard-hit declared that “I have never been “It’s like getting a printer with-
ommendations. Conservative states to “very quickly” begin re- so mad about a phone call in my out the ink,” said Nathaniel Smith,
groups have bolstered the pro- laxing their stay-at-home orders. life.” the secretary of health in Arkan-
tests, lending support and guid- Though Trump declared on Local officials’ frustration at sas.
ance in an effort to create a nation- Thursday that some states were the lack of widespread testing is The problems run even deeper
wide movement in favor of re- ready to begin lifting their restric- mounting at the same time that in Alabama.
starting economic activity on a tions immediately, several repub- the White House has shifted con- Scott Harris, the state’s top
broad basis despite the health lican governors responded by ex- siderable responsibility to gover- health official, said testing is avail-
concerns. tending the orders. nors and mayors in deciding how able in only 57 of the state’s 67
The effort by Trump and some Some administration officials and when to relax strict social-dis- counties, “on some kind of regular
of his allies to portray a country say the White House has not done tancing measures. In some cases, basis, though not necessarily dai-
split between a few hard-hit hot enough to focus on testing, an local republicans and Democrats ly.”
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spots and a much larger expanse issue that has become a growing are unified in urging caution de- The difficulty has been most
of America ready to quickly get source of tension between local spite the president’s eagerness to president Trump is facing bipartisan calls for federal action to acute in a heavily African Ameri-
back to work is at odds with hesi- officials and the president, who see economic activity resume. vastly increase the country’s capacity to test for the coronavirus. can part of the state known as the
tancy among state and local lead- has dismissed concerns by declar- mayor Quinton Lucas (D) of Black Belt, where supplies, such as
ers about lifting the restrictions ing that he has done a great job. Kansas City, mo., is used to being do so even earlier as he pro- have no idea what’s going to come testing swabs, have been in short
before the coronavirus crisis is But there have been major fail- at loggerheads with the state’s re- claimed, “America wants to be out of his mouth,’ ” said the top supply, Harris said, and where
more firmly under control. ures, according to administration publican governor, mike Parson, open.” But some republican gov- health officer in one Southern even advanced methods such as
Several governors in recent officials who spoke on the condi- on most issues. ernors have been chastened by the state, who spoke on the condition drive-through testing fall short.
days have taken steps to reopen tion of anonymity to discuss inter- But on Wednesday, as the state surge of cases in their states, in- of anonymity to reveal private “It’s easy to organize a drive
their states’ economies gradually nal deliberations. reached about 150 deaths attrib- cluding in rural areas, as well as by conversations about the presi- clinic, but for people who don’t
while including caveats that The administration’s plans to uted to the novel coronavirus and the shortage of supplies and the dent. “They feel like they need to drive, that’s not a good option,” he
maintain social-distancing rules. work with Google and other top nearly 5,000 cases of infection, the dearth of public-health infra- be prepared if the president said.
In addition to Texas, Vermont companies to facilitate testing mayor’s phone rang. structure, according to interviews comes out and undermines what During friday’s call with Pence,
will undergo a “phased restart” of and create drive-through labs It was the governor, previewing with health officials, business ad- we’re trying to do.” administration officials told the
its economy beginning monday, across the country have been all plans he would announce the fol- vocates and county and municipal Gov. Tate reeves, who did not Democratic senators that the gov-
republican Gov. Phil Scott said. but forgotten. Several types of lowing day to extend to may 3 his leaders in several midwestern and tell all mississippians to stay at ernment should have enough
And minnesota’s Democratic gov- testing kits that have been sent stay-at-home order, initially set to Southern states. home until April 3, on friday ex- tests by the end of April to conduct
ernor, Tim Walz, said outdoor ac- out are not being used, and there expire April 24, and committing “The governor may allow rural tended his order, which was to surveillance, or population-based
tivities including boating and hik- is no expectation internally that the state to increased testing and areas to start to open back up next expire on April 20, saying, “I have testing, that is meant to help gov-
ing can resume this weekend as testing will be significantly other benchmarks before allow- month, but we don’t want to do it to ask for you for one more week.” ernors move through “phase one”
businesses including golf courses, stepped up in the coming weeks, ing businesses to reopen. Lucas, too soon,” said Danny Talkington, Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, of the three-step strategy outlined
shooting ranges and bait shops officials said. who already was preparing to di- the presiding commissioner in who acted on the same day, spoke by the White House this week to
open their doors. Questions about testing domi- rect city residents to stay at home Stoddard County, a southeastern frankly this week about the conse- reopen the economy.
montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) nated a contentious, hour-long through may 15, said he told the expanse of missouri where 83 per- quences of reopening quickly: But the administration could
said a lifting of restrictions would conference call between Vice governor about the outbreak’s toll cent of voters favored Trump in “We’re going to have new cases not provide details such as a spe-
begin April 24 — in phases, be- President Pence and Democratic in Kansas City, where about two- 2016. “We know some people are pop up.” And Gov. Kay Ivey of cific target for the number of coro-
cause “once we begin to reopen, senators friday afternoon as the thirds of victims of covid-19, the starting to hurt financially from Alabama, who issued her order on navirus tests it wants to have
we want to be able to stay open.” lawmakers pressed administra- illness cause by the virus, are being down. That’s still better April 4, said this week, “We want available, and other basic metrics,
Though Trump has focused tion officials on the availability of black. than getting back in too soon.” to get folks back to work as soon as multiple Democratic senators
most of his criticism on Demo- testing and on other specifics, ac- “I know politics are becoming a The governors are at pains to we can. But we want to do it as told The Post.
cratic governors, including anoth- cording to senators and other offi- big part of this — when to open balance loyalty to the president — smart as we can.” isaac.stanley-
er tense back-and-forth friday cials who were on the call. most and when not to,” Lucas said in an who enjoys widespread populari- The effort to develop shrewd becker@washpost.com
with New York’s Andrew m. Cuo- spoke on the condition of ano- interview. “But we’ve worked well ty in their states — with the advice planning is encountering hurdles. toluse.olorunnipa@washpost.com
mo, republican officials may be nymity to describe a private dis- together.” of their own medical experts. As multiple states planned to seung-min.kim@washpost.com
the president’s biggest obstacle in cussion. Trump suggested Thursday “Every meeting we have with ramp up testing, starting this
his push for quick reopenings in At one point, a normally mild- that several states lift restrictions the governor and high-level staff weekend, medical directors said devlin barrett, Josh dawsey and Colby
parts of the country where the mannered Sen. Angus King (I- may 1, and he encouraged some to consists of some version of, ‘We their capacity was limited by itkowitz contributed to this report.
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the coronavirus pandemic

Exemptions create a blurry line for what’s deemed essential

exemptIons from A1

both sides of the fine balance

that elected leaders are attempt-
ing to strike in their coronavirus
responses.
With every category that is
included, another set of jobs may
be saved, another wave of eco-
nomic dislocation avoided. But
each addition also carries a
threat: There may be so many
exemptions that the overall strat-
egy of keeping people apart is
undermined and viral spread
runs rampant.
“Whenever you loosen the
stay-at-home orders, you rapidly
expand the contact networks for
potential transmission,” said
Boston University epidemiolo-
gist Ellie murray. “Lockdown is
working. But some of these ex-
ceptions are creating big prob-
lems.”
Pro wrestling, murray said, is
a prime example of a seemingly
benign exception that could help
derail mitigation efforts.
florida officials confirmed
this week that World Wrestling
Entertainment (WWE) counted
as “an essential service” and that
athletes could continue to throw,
spin and slam each other with
abandon — provided they were
not performing in front of a live
audience.
florida Gov. ron DeSantis (r)
defended the decision, saying
people had “been starved for
content” — a comment that
echoed WWE’s claim that it was
“now more important than ever
to provide people with a diver-
sion from these hard times.”
The wrestling federation also
said it would take precautions,
including pre-match health JIM LO SCALZO/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK

screenings and extensive clean- Golfers play a round last week at the trump national Golf Club, which is still open to members, in sterling, Va. Golf courses have made the cut for essential businesses in
ing of the ring. But murray said it about two-thirds of states. In Wisconsin, the Democratic governor reversed course and said golf courses could reopen next week with some restrictions for social distancing.
would not be difficult to imagine
the virus spreading, not only ing flooring, furniture, plants state’s beaches even as he an-
among the wrestlers “but also to and paint. nounced a shelter-in-place order.
their families, to people at the The measures shrank michi- The exemption was intended
store. You have to consider all the gan’s essential-business list and to allow people to exercise at a
people they’re coming into con- represented some of the most time when they won’t be able to
tact with.” stringent rules in the nation. visit the gym. But Sessions said
That, of course, was the origi- more than 2,000 michigan resi- she fears spring breakers could
nal logic behind the stay-at- dents have died of covid-19, and descend on her small barrier
home orders now enacted in nearly 30,000 have tested posi- island and set off an outbreak in
45 states, which require people tive. a place that doesn’t have its own
to limit their activity to the bare There was an immediate out- hospital.
minimum and for businesses to cry — particularly given some “We have a high-risk, older
close their doors unless they of the businesses that remain population,” Sessions said. “The
absolutely must stay open. open. beaches will still be there in two
But the list of what people “Nonessential in michigan: or three months. But if we’re
need to get by in 2020 is, as it Lawn care, construction, fishing not careful, some of us may not
turns out, rather extensive. if boating with a motor, realtors, be.”
Groceries, pharmacies and buying seeds, home improve- In South Carolina, where the
hospitals were all, of course, ment equipment and gardening governor says he’s aiming to keep
exempted everywhere. But in supplies. Essential in michigan: as much of the economy going as
many places, so were less obvi- marijuana, lottery and alcohol. possible, Columbia mayor Steve
ous lines of work: landscapers, Let’s be safe and reasonable. Benjamin said he’s baffled by
home improvement stores and right now, we’re not!” michigan some of the businesses that have
office-supply shops among them. House Speaker Lee Chatfield (r) been deemed essential.
In South Carolina, everything posted on Twitter. Among them: vape shops,
from sex shops to gyms initially Thousands protested on whose products are well known
made the cut, according to a Wednesday from their cars in to be linked to respiratory ill-
public list of case-by-case deci- Lansing. Some got out to throng ness. The state is already having
sions. the Capitol grounds, waving STEPHEN B. MORTON/ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION/ASSOCIATED PRESS enough trouble on that front: It
The state has since become signs reading “make michigan Georgia official Barry Britt enforces Gov. Brian Kemp’s order to open the beaches on tybee Island, Ga., has more than 4,000 confirmed
more selective. But Gov. Henry Work Again.” other protests on April 4, allowing people to exercise outside, with social distancing guidelines in place. coronavirus cases, with known
mcmaster (r) continues to advo- were held in Kentucky and North deaths climbing past 100.
cate for a standard different from Carolina, with more planned in coronavirus, as businesses at- for themselves, the Los Angeles ing Democratic Gov. Tony Evers “I see a false rationale being
essential or nonessential, asking the coming days. tempt to secure a piece of the County sheriff relented days af- to reverse course. articulated that seems to be more
instead whether business can be The protests marked a noisy $2 trillion emergency coronavi- ter ordering gun shops to close Evers announced Thursday focused on business as opposed
conducted safely. extension of a backlash that has rus aid package and make it onto and decrying the “panic gun-buy- that golf courses could reopen to public health,” Benjamin said.
“Every business is essential to been brewing for a while. So far, a federal advisory for who should ing” that had people forming next week with some restrictions “I think it’s impossible to be
somebody, particularly the one it has taken shape mostly be an essential worker. long lines outside. for social distancing. In rural pro-business if you’re not being
working there,” mcmaster said at through lobbying campaigns as Across the nation, the fate of Golf course owners have also Dunn County, Sheriff Kevin Bygd pro-public health first.”
a news conference monday. He businesses attempt to claw their gun dealers has been a point of been successful in lobbying to be had declined to enforce the pro- The line between essential and
said the state is requiring clo- way onto the “essential” list. particularly intense lobbying. left open, making the cut for hibition, arguing it was contra- nonessential has been a shifting
sures only among businesses “This is just a huge deal for Some state and local officials essential businesses in about dicted by an exemption for so- one in South Carolina, with busi-
that seem most likely to spread every single industry,” said Dan- changed course to carve exemp- two-thirds of states. In those cially distanced exercise. nesses appealing to the state for
the virus: barber shops where iel Auble, a senior researcher tions after lawsuits and a push where they’ve been shut down, The rules, Bygd said, are gen- guidance on whether they can
personal contact is unavoidable, with the Center for responsive from gun rights groups, who such as Wisconsin, course own- erally a mess to try to enforce. remain open. records show au-
for example, or clothing and shoe Politics, which tracks federal lob- cited Second Amendment rights ers have enlisted allies in state “It’s basically a one-page order thorities have been forgiving: In
stores where people are touching bying. “And they’re pulling out and worked to get on the federal government to try to per- with 15 pages of exemptions,” he the week leading up to April 15,
and returning items. all the stops.” government’s list of suggested suade the governor to change his said. “Now, try to decipher what the state said about 85 percent of
It’s an approach that is gaining He recalled seeing a new lob- essential business. mind. is exempt and what isn’t exempt. the 700-plus businesses it ruled
currency, particularly among re- bying registration mention the New Jersey Gov. Phil murphy “We’re unduly punishing an It’s about as clear as mud.” on were fine to keep operating.
publicans. coronavirus for the first time in (D) cited that list when he said industry that is very well suited Even as some push for a relax- Among them: a cosmetic busi-
In michigan, republicans mid-march. over the past last month that gun dealers to offering relief and relaxation ation of the rules, others are ness offering Botox and laser hair
have revolted against a second month, covid-19 or coronavirus would be allowed to stay open for to a population that very much trying to tighten them up. removal. State rules call craft and
layer of restrictions implement- have shown up in about 140 more transactions that by law have to needs it, and to do it in a way that Shirley Sessions, mayor of furniture stores nonessential,
ed by Democratic Gov. Gretchen registrations, he said. He expects take place in person. In Califor- is safe,” said state rep. rob Georgia’s Tybee Island, was as- but some received a green light.
Whitmer, who last week banned thousands of groups will end up nia, where Gov. Gavin Newsom Hutton, one of 40 lawmakers — tounded this month to see Gov. griff.witte@washpost.com
stores from selling items includ- reporting lobbying related to the (D) has let local leaders decide all republicans — who are push- Brian Kemp (r) reopen the hannah.knowles@washpost.com

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the coronavirus pandemic

States plead for federal testing help amid push to reopen

test.”
“Right now we don’t have
Officials say the economy enough tests to be able to test
cannot safely restart every single person who’s symp-
tomatic,” Murphy said. “We sim-
without more test kits ply don’t have the tests to do what
our public health experts would
recommend.”
BY S TEVEN M UFSON, A similar phenomenon has
Y ASMEEN A BUTALEB cropped up in southern Michigan,
AND J ULIET E ILPERIN where roughly 40 percent of peo-
ple in Detroit and the surround-
With the number of the covid- ing suburbs are testing positive.
19 tests hovering at an average of While the state has recently ex-
146,000 a day, business leaders panded its testing criteria to in-
and state officials are warning the clude less severe cases, Teena
Trump administration that they Chopra, associate professor of
cannot safely reopen the U.S. medicine at Wayne State Universi-
economy without radically in- ty’s division of infectious diseases,
creasing the number of available said that the effort is still not
tests — perhaps into the millions a broad enough to help inform her
day — and that won’t happen and other public health experts in
without a greater coordinating the state.
role by the federal government. “I would like to see their testing
Though the capacity of private expanded to everybody, even
business to produce those vol- those who are asymptomatic,”
umes remains unclear, state lead- Chopra said. “When you’re not
ers and health experts say that the testing enough, you’re not able to
administration should move with contact, trace and isolate, identify
a greater sense of urgency and and quarantine. You keep doing
could do several relatively easy that until you reach a zero.”
things to speed the production There is one small-scale effort
and distribution of tests. starting Sunday that aims to get a
On Friday, the American Asso- more representative sample of as-
ciation for Clinical Chemistry said ymptomatic Americans, in Cor-
there were still critical supply vallis, Ore. There, Oregon State
ANGELA WEISS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
chain issues that stand in the way University researchers working
of ramping up testing, including a People wait outside a coronavirus testing site Friday in New York City. While some areas lack an adequate amount of tests, others have kits with the Benton County Health
lack of protective equipment for going unused because of shortages in supplies and protective equipment for technicians to administer them. Department aim to go door-to-
technicians who run the tests, and door each weekend over the
a shortage of swabs and reagents weeks and 10 million tests by the once someone tests positive. “A lot day and night to expand testing secure supplies, but the level of course of the next month to ran-
— chemical solutions required to fall, foundation spokeswoman Ei- of employers are not happy about capacity but are severely ham- testing among members of the domly selected Corvallis neigh-
run the tests. leen O’Connor said. Ultimately being health-care providers and pered by shortages of needed re- American Clinical Laboratory As- borhoods and collect samples
“The only entity in this crisis the country would need 20 mil- don’t have the capacity,” he said. agents, swabs for testing, PPE and sociation, the private labs, was from 960 people.
with the power to source the nec- lion to 30 million tests a day to Meanwhile, hospitals and labs specialized equipment designed 28 percent lower this past week “We are flying blind in many
essary supplies on a large scale restore confidence so people can said they are still grappling with by companies to be used with than during the first week of April. ways because we do not know how
and route them to those areas get back to work, she said. shortages of swabs and reagents their own machines.” In addition, there are substan- many people are infected with the
where they are most needed — Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean at that are needed for the diagnostic Shortages, he said, means test- tial inequalities in the distribu- virus and how that is changing
whether an N95 mask, testing re- the Johns Hopkins University tests. And members of the admin- ing machines are “sitting unused.” tion of testing kits. A Virginia over time,” said OSU professor
agents, or a testing swab — is the school of public health, said “Our istration, including Deborah Birx, Skorton, whose group includes doctor was reaching out to asymp- Ben Dalziel, who is leading the
federal government,” Carmen Wi- health care system is not designed White House coronavirus re- Department of Veterans Affairs tomatic patients to take a serology project. “Right now, we are man-
ley, the group’s president, said in a to respond to crises.” The former sponse coordinator, said many of hospitals as well as 400 teaching test as part of a study. And in Los aging the pandemic mostly look-
statement. “The White House deputy commissioner of the Food the tests from Abbott Laborato- hospitals, said that “while collec- Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) ing in the rearview mirror. We
must continue to do the work only and Drug Administration also ries that are able to process hun- tion swabs can be used across said in a tweet Friday that the need to be looking forward, and
they can do: Find and coordinate noted that labs are in insurance dreds of results at a time are sit- tests, because each test requires county has 30 testing sites and that’s what this study will help
resources so that physicians, networks, physicians have refer- ting unused in hospitals and labs its own specific reagents, many urged people to get tested imme- allow.”
nurses, laboratory professionals, ral relationships, and some peo- around the country because there labs have worked to diversify the diately. “We have the capacity — In Fairfax, Va., internist Eileen
and others can do their jobs.” ple don’t have any good access to aren’t enough technicians to oper- platforms they are running so that don’t wait, wonder, and risk in- West has been reaching out to
This week the federal govern- health care at all. ate them. a shortage in one set of reagents fecting others.” patients without any symptoms
ment took one step private indus- “Coordinating testing capacity In a letter this week to Birx, will not halt testing entirely.” Of- But in other parts of the coun- and asking whether they’d like to
try has been seeking — Medicare is not something our health-care David J. Skorton, president of the ten his members are told by sup- try, people were having trouble take the blood test for covid-19
doubled reimbursements from system does naturally,” he said. Association of American Medical pliers that the federal government getting access to testing, especial- antibodies. West is running a
$51 to $100 a test, making covid-19 One senior official in the diag- Colleges, expressed frustration was being given higher priority. ly African Americans, health-care study with Lisa Larkin, co-found-
testing profitable for labs. A key nostic testing industry said com- that lab directors and hospital So far, state governments have professionals and residents from er of Ms. Medicine, a nonprofit
adviser to California Gov. Gavin panies have the capacity to pro- chief executives were “working been taking the lead in trying to nursing homes and assisted- based in Cincinnati. West was giv-
Newsom (D) estimated that the duce more tests and test kits. An- living facilities. en 400 tests made by a reputable
move would increase profit mar- other industry official said 20 mil- The fact that testing is failing to Chinese manufacturer and so far
gins from negligible to 50 percent. lion to 25 million tests could be capture the actual spread of the has administered 85 of them. Just
On Friday, more than 130 mem- churned out this month. But that coronavirus is clear from data three people have tested positive.
bers of the Republican House doesn’t mean the nation has the coming out of states like Connect- “We have a lot we don’t under-
leadership held a conference call capacity to either administer such icut, which now has an alarming stand yet, but if we want to move
with Health and Human Services a large number of tests, or process 6.1 percent case fatality rate and is forward and open our economy
Secretary Alex Azar and several them to get the results. Both spoke receiving positive results on up again, we have to understand
other top administration health on the condition of anonymity 30 percent of its tests. the frequency of asymptomatic
officials. After a group prayer, the because they were not authorized In an interview Thursday, Sen. infections and get more under-
officials fielded questions about to speak about the matters public- Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) acknowl- standing about the antibody re-
the slow pace of testing and sup- ly. edged that these numbers suggest sponse in those who are asymp-
ply shortages, but reiterated that Neil Bradley, executive vice that testing has only captured a tomatic,” she said.
it’s ultimately up to states and president and chief policy officer small share of the outbreak in his “This is only a piece of the
localities to work with test manu- of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, state. He noted that state officials puzzle,” she said. “We have a lot
facturers to get their supplies. which has been talking to White decided early on that given the more to learn,” she said, adding
The Rockefeller Foundation, House officials, said that large em- shortage of available tests, people that she was eager to do “anything
which has been working with a ployers would provide testing for who were experiencing coronavi- we can do to push the needle
variety of companies and state their employees, but that smaller rus symptoms but were not grave- forward.”
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leaders, hopes to help spur the firms would struggle to find ex- ly ill “would be better off staying steven.mufson@washpost.com
production of 2 million to 3 mil- perts, testing spaces, financial Officials say that millions of tests will need to be available daily home and taking care of them- yasmeen.abutaleb@washpost.com
lion tests a day within six to eight wherewithal and ways to respond before the United States can safely reopen the economy. selves, rather than going out for a juliet.eilperin@washpost.com

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the coronavirus pandemic

As markets rise on a clinical trial, experts caution patience

treAtment from A1 in a small group of patients to see
if it is effective. In Phase 3, the
before they improved. drug is tested in a larger group of
University of Chicago medicine patients, and typically compared
is one of dozens of sites listed by to a placebo in an effort to defini-
Gilead on clinicaltrials.gov for the tively prove that it has a benefit.
company’s remdesivir study, with Trump has stoked expectations
the 6,000 patients grouped into by repeatedly promoting the use
four categories of disease severity of decades-old anti-malaria drugs
and dosing. The worldwide trial is — hydroxychloroquine and chlo-
ongoing, with preliminary results roquine — to treat the virus, de-
not expected until next month. spite a lack of strong evidence, as
“Drawing any conclusions at well as a growing recognition of
this point is premature and scien- serious side effects, including the
tifically unsound,” University of risk of a fatal cardiac arrhythmia.
Chicago medicine said in a state- Hospitals and doctors in the Unit-
ment. ed States have depleted supplies
There is no placebo arm in the in the rush to try the generic drugs
trial, meaning Gilead is not test- through “off-label” prescriptions.
ing the drug, which is adminis- The compounds have an anti-
tered intravenously, against dum- inflammatory effect and are used
my doses in patients. A placebo- by lupus and rheumatoid arthritis
controlled study, considered the patients. The fDA has issued an
gold standard of clinical trials, emergency use authorization al-
would allow it to definitively mea- lowing them to be given to pa-
sure how well the drug works. tients in hospitals. The WHo and
Still, clues continued to accu- several other organizations are
mulate that remdesivir could conducting full clinical trials of
work. The National Institutes of the drugs. The drugs are known as
Health reported friday that its antiparasitics. (malaria is a para-
own study of 12 infected monkeys, site, not a virus.) Another older
six treated with the drug and six antiparasitic drug receiving at-
untreated, showed the treated tention is ivermectin, which is
group in better health after seven used to treat a variety of parasitic
days. infections in humans and has
Just a week before, in a Gilead- shown effectiveness in laborato-
KAREN DUCEY/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
sponsored study of 54 patients ries against coronavirus.
that was peer-reviewed and pub- In another approach, biotech-
lished in the New England Jour- nology companies are growing
nal of medicine, researchers re- living proteins called antibodies,
ported that seven patients died, or developed from cells of people
13 percent. The NEJm study was infected with the disease, that are
based on observations of patients designed to thwart the coronavi-
receiving the drug under “com- rus. Vir Biotechnology, a San
passionate use.” It also did not francisco company, announced
have a set of patients receiving a this month that it had partnered
placebo for comparison. with GlaxoSmithKline to conduct
Developing real proof that the Phase 2 trials within three to five
drug works will take weeks, if not months. AbCellera, of Vancouver,
months, experts say, although the has teamed with Eli Lilly to test
food and Drug Administration hundreds of antibodies, the com-
has already allowed one set of pany said in a news release. re-
drugs — anti-malarials touted by generon is screening hundreds of
President Trump — to be adminis- antibodies to determine their ef-
tered under an emergency use fects against the virus and has
authorization, despite a lack of said human trials could begin in
ASSOCIATED PRESS ISSEI KATO/REUTERS
sound evidence of effectiveness. the summer.
Even if the fDA gives a rapid tOP: medical laboratory scientist Alicia Bui runs a clinical test in the immunology lab at UW medicine in Seattle, looking for Therapies that reduce inflam-
green light, manufacturing bot- antibodies against the novel coronavirus. ABOVe LeFt: rubber stoppers are placed onto filled vials of remdesivir at a Gilead mation by controlling the im-
tlenecks could produce more de- manufacturing site in the United States; the drug, originally developed to treat ebola, is now being tested for use against the virus. mune system are another key cat-
lays; Gilead said last week it has ABOVe rIGHt: tablets of Avigan, a drug approved as an anti-influenza drug in Japan and developed by Fujifilm. egory of drug being tested in coro-
1.5 million doses, enough for navirus patients.
140,000 patients. Worldwide de- The goal is to stop the immune
mand would far exceed that sup- by the WHo as the most promis- leagues did not identify any clear Another early-stage, early-state “Imagine” is the most relevant system’s “cytokine storm” that de-
ply initially, and Gilead has said it ing of dozens of experimental front-runners. more definitive ev- antiviral drug is EIDD-2801. Its word at this early stage of the stroys lung tissue and is the most
is laying plans to produce more of treatments in the pipeline. The idence is expected to emerge journey from laboratory to the drug’s development. But that common cause of death in people
the drug in the event it works and roster of potential therapies in- within weeks for some of the mouth of a human unfolded with sense of hope, and ridgeback’s with severe cases of covid-19.
is approved. cludes new antivirals, older anti- drugs. head-snapping speed. accelerated project, illustrate the Some drugs that are already on
Gilead sought to downplay the virals designed to fight HIV, anti- A potential scenario is that two on march 23, a division of Em- frenzied pace at which govern- the market to treat rheumatoid
leaked results from Chicago on inflammatory drugs used for drug treatments emerge, Cutrell ory University in Atlanta licensed ments, companies and academic arthritis and other inflammatory
friday, but did not say when pre- rheumatoid arthritis, stem cell said: one that helps curb the virus the experimental drug to a miami researchers have opened the diseases are being tested in coro-
liminary results or peer-reviewed therapies that could harness the itself, to be taken in earlier phases company owned by a wealthy floodgates to testing numerous navirus patients. These include
analysis would be available. It immune system, antiparasitic of the disease, and another that hedge-fund manager and his wife. drugs — old, new and barely out of roche’s Actemra, and Kevzara, a
indicated it would be analyzing drugs that treat malaria and head helps combat an overly aggressive Just three weeks later, a pill was the lab — to combat the novel drug sold by regeneron and
trial results over the next month. lice, and even treatments for erec- immune-system response that given to a person for the first time coronavirus and give seriously ill Sanofi. AstraZeneca announced it
“The totality of the data need to tile dysfunction. overtakes the bodies of some pa- in a test of its safety, in Britain. people a better shot at survival. is testing its blood cancer drug
be analyzed to draw any conclu- None of them so far has offered tients and destroys lung tissue in It marked the beginning of an Like remdesivir, EIDD-2801’s Calquence, which also targets im-
sions from the trial,” said Gilead the magic bullet the world is seek- later stages. accelerated testing regimen that development in academic labs mune cells.
spokesman ryan mcKeel. “Anec- ing, and expectations need to be Avalere Health, a consulting will determine whether EIDD- has been sponsored by the federal At least two companies, meso-
dotal reports, while encouraging, tempered, according to special- firm that advises pharmaceutical 2801 will emerge as a true weapon government. It is just entering blast and Celularity, are investi-
do not provide the statistical pow- ists. companies, is tracking over 100 against SArS-CoV-2 — or wind up Phase 1 safety trials, to make sure gating the use of stem cells to fight
er necessary to determine the “It’s hard to speculate whether different coronavirus treatment as one of many hopeful bids in a it does not have excessively toxic the excessive immune system re-
safety and efficacy profile of rem- one is going to be a breakthrough. projects. The first team to conduct field of long-shot treatments. If it effects on people, so proof of effec- sponse in covid-19 patients. meso-
desivir as a treatment for covid- Very few treatments in medicine successful, rigorously controlled works, the pill could be given to tiveness is at least months away. blast said this month it has re-
19.” end up being breakthrough treat- clinical trials will be the winners, people as soon as they show symp- Some other antivirals being ceived fDA approval to begin hu-
remdesivir is considered a ments. They provide incremental said Kelly L. George, a specialist in toms of covid-19, Wayne Holman, tested have already been ap- man testing. Celularity is partner-
broad-spectrum antiviral, mean- benefit over standard of care,” drug development at Avalere. the founder of privately held proved to treat HIV, including ing with maryland-based United
ing it is believed to work against said James Cutrell, an infectious- The age of the “magic bullet” ridgeback Biotherapeutics, said AbbVie’s Kaletra, which is a com- Therapeutics.
multiple types of virus. But it disease specialist at the Universi- medicine of the 20th century has in an interview. Holman has deep bination drug that did not show Blood plasma is taken from
failed in a test against Ebola last ty of Texas Southwestern medical given way to much harder prob- experience investing in drug com- significant benefit against covid- people who have recovered from
year, even after showing promise Center, who surveyed the land- lems like emerging viral threats in panies and set up ridgeback Bio 19 patients in a study in China. An covid-19 and injected into the
in monkeys. Also, it has a big scape of possible coronavirus the 21st, she said. with his wife, Wendy, in 2015. influenza drug that has been ap- bodies of new patients. The hope
drawback: It is a liquid given treatments for a paper published “There’s a balance between, Because it is a pill, Holman proved in Japan, Avigan, is being is that the coronavirus antibodies
intravenously, which means peo- this week in the Journal of the let’s get these drugs to as many said, the Emory/ridgeback drug studied and reportedly has developed in the recovered pa-
ple must go to a hospital or clinic American medical Association people as we can, and let’s take the has the potential to be even better caught the interest of the White tient will neutralize the virus once
on 10 consecutive days to be treat- (JAmA). time to sit down and really find than remdesivir. House, but is not approved for use they are introduced in the new
ed. In addition to Gilead, the Na- Unlike antibiotics, which are out if these drugs are working,” “Imagine that person being in the United States. Among the patient. It is an old approach to
tional Institutes of Health and the effective against numerous forms she said. “The speed of getting it treated at home, by mouth, on day side effects are birth defects. Its infectious disease, and has been
World Health organization are of bacteria, broad-spectrum anti- into people, figuring out the safe- three and being better and no manufacturer, fujifilm, an- used over many decades against
sponsoring multiple clinical trials virals have been difficult to devel- ty and writing it up is going to longer spreading the virus. It cuts nounced that a Phase 2 trial is polio, measles, mumps and flu.
of the drug. op because viruses are so varied in have a huge impact on what we it short,” Holman said. “That is launching in the United States. christopher.rowland
remdesivir has been deemed structure. Cutrell and his col- end up using.” game-changing.” Phase 2 clinical trials test a drug @washpost.com

Clashing projections on when states could reopen underscore uncertainty

BY W ILLIAM W AN Christopher murray, said his to keep the virus in check. modelers have expressed grow- increasingly uncertain in long- of error.
group retooled its model to be The key measurement IHmE ing concern over the IHmE mod- range forecasts. In weather fore- meyers said the IHmE model
A leading coronavirus fore- able to recommend specific dates modelers used in determining el. While it is one of the only casts, for example, predicting has much value and pointed out
casting model — used by the because of intense debates in the date is when they believe models that offers projections rain tomorrow is easier than pre- her model would not exist if
White House — predicted friday recent weeks over when and how infections in a state will drop state-by-state on exact dates for dicting rain a month out. murray did not create the IHmE
that some states may be able to to reopen states. below 1 infection per 1 million projected peaks and national “The motivation for creating model.
ease social-distancing restric- President Trump has repeated- people. But that measurement is forecasts on deaths, its projec- our model was a concern about “This is not a competition.
tions and reopen as early as ly declared he wants states re- imperfect because many other tions have often clashed with the certainty people may be at- We’re standing on their shoul-
may 4. opened as soon as possible, de- factors that go into deciding to other models. Its projections for tributing to the IHmE model,” ders,” she said. “But like many
But on the same day those claring in back-to-back tweets lift restrictions — including equipment shortages and deaths said Lauren Ancel meyers, who modelers, we are continually try-
projections were issued by the friday: “LIBErATE mINNESo- whether a state has enough test- are often below other models. led the Texas team of researchers. ing to improve our methods and
Institute for Health metrics and TA,” “LIBErATE mICHIGAN” ing or enough public health The White House has at times other critical differences: The make our projections as reliable
Evaluation (IHmE) at the Univer- and “LIBErATE VIrGINIA.” Also workers to do the labor-intensive used the model’s more-optimistic IHmE model predicts the United as possible. With cities and states
sity of Washington — giving rec- friday, the governors of Texas and work of contact tracing. Testing estimates to deny equipment re- States already passed its peak of making life and death decisions
ommended dates for reopening Vermont announced dates for capacity remains woefully lack- quests. deaths this week. The Texas mod- based on these models, the stakes
all 50 states — a consortium of easing certain restrictions. ing across the country, and local on friday, a few hours before el takes a different approach, are high.”
experts in Texas released a com- The IHmE model projects that health departments lack the nec- the IHmE announcement, a con- attaching probabilities to dates. murray similarly cautioned: “If
peting model that points out at least four states could ease essary staff, money and training sortium at the University of Texas There is only a 17 percent chance I were a governor of a state, I
what they call flaws in the IHmE restrictions as early as may 4: to do contact tracing called for in at Austin released a model that that the peak has already passed, would not make the decision to
model and analysis showing in- Hawaii, montana, Vermont and most experts’ plans to reopen. takes the IHmE forecast as a it found, and an 80 percent reopen based on just our model.
stances in which IHmE’s projec- West Virginia. But other states murray said his IHmE model- starting point but tries to correct chance the peak will happen by We are trying to give governors
tions have fallen short of reality. need to wait as late as June or ers tried to include such factors in what the Texas researchers see as may 7. and others a sense of when the
The clashing data and projec- early July: Arkansas, Iowa, Ne- their models but could not find flaws. The Texas researchers’ paper risk of resurgence is going to get
tions highlight the uncertainty braska, North Dakota, oklahoma, data that could be used empiri- one of the biggest flaws the also included analysis of IHmE’s lower. . . . I would recommend
U.S. leaders will face in coming South Dakota and Utah. cally. Instead, they decided to use Texas experts point out is that the past predictions compared with looking at these types of models,
months as they grapple with how The new dates recommended the 1 infection per 1 million cutoff IHmE model claims more cer- actual deaths per day and found, but also a range of indicators like
to reopen the country and its by the IHmE represent when with the assumption that, at that tainty as it moves further into the for example, that the model un- the capacity of your public health
economy without risking a resur- states can shift from reliance on low level, states would be more future, with a shrinking margin derestimated deaths in Italy and workers and whether your cases
gence of viral infections, over- drastic restrictions to other strat- readily able to do the necessary of error. That runs counter to how Spain. The number of deaths in and deaths have fallen to a low
whelmed hospitals and deaths. egies such as testing, contact testing and contact tracing. most models work, because the recent days, in fact, did not fall enough level.”
The creator of IHmE’s model, tracing and targeted quarantines many epidemiologists and future almost always becomes within IHmE’s projected margin william.wan@washpost.com
SATURDAy, APRIL 18 , 2020 . THE WASHINGTON POST eZ re A9

the coronavirus pandemic

European o∞cials, urging

caution, say peak has passed
BYW ILLIAM B OOTH,
C HICO H ARLAN
AND L OVEDAY M ORRIS

london — All across Europe,

the numbers are coming down.
In Italy, Spain, France, Germa-
ny and Britain, public health
officials — their faces often
drained by exhaustion — are now
expressing cautious optimism
that the first wave of Europe’s
devastating pandemic is ending.
From Ireland to Greece, offi-
cials are seeing hopeful signs
that coronavirus infections are
peaking and have begun to pla-
teau or recede, pointing to inten-
sive care beds that are slowly
opening up and a daily reduction
Lou BenoIsT/AgenCe FrAnCe-Presse/geTTy ImAges
in the number of new hospital-
izations. French police check people’s mobility documents outside a
In Paris, Milan and Madrid, supermarket in Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, on Friday.
hospitals and staff that were
stressed to their limits just a few allowing gardening stores to sell In France, authorities cau-
weeks ago, as thousands of flowers again. The Italians can tiously announced a beginning of
coughing, fevered, breathless pa- return to book stores. Spanish the end of peak infections.
tients surged through their officials promise a “de-escalation Jérôme Salomon, France’s deputy
doors, are now reporting empty phase” and want construction health minister, said this week
beds in their ICUs. There are projects to resume and some that for the first time since the
ventilators to go around. factories to open with appropri- pandemic began, the number of
The Severo Ochoa Hospital in ate social distancing. covid-19 patients admitted to
Madrid made international news But. There is always a but with French hospitals decreased.
with images last month of sick this virus. Martin Hirsch, the director of
patients sleeping on the floor, “But it is thin ice,” said Ger- the Assistance Publique-Hôpi-
waiting to be seen by a doctor. man Chancellor Angela Merkel taux de Paris, the largest public
Now there are a few spare beds in this week, of these first tentative hospital system in Europe, an-
Spain. steps toward normalcy. “It is nounced that in the Paris region,
In London and elsewhere, gov- really a situation where caution the hardest hit by the coronavi-
ernments that rushed to erect, is the order of the day, and not rus, the total number of cases had
almost overnight, the kinds of overconfidence.” stabilized for the first time since
field hospitals deployed for war, “There is light at the end of the the start of the pandemic.
famine or natural disaster, have tunnel. But we are now at both a “We are now in what we’ve
found they are not needed, at delicate and a dangerous stage in called the ‘high plateau,’ ” Hirsch
least not now. this pandemic,” Britain’s foreign said, “which is to say a stabiliza-
Europe’s esteemed, pricey, secretary, Dominic Raab, told the tion at a very high level, and
generous health-care systems country when he announced that always with an increase in the
didn’t have to ration care. its lockdown would continue for number of cases in our geriatric
Europe held. But it’s not yet another three weeks at least. units, which face difficult situa-
time to completely let up, offi- “I don’t think the end is neces- tions. But we can share several
cials caution. sarily so close or that we are in a encouraging signs.”
Hans Kluge, World Health Or- continual, linear decline. It may As Spain finished its first
ganization director for Europe, be more like a zigzag, up and month of confinement this week,
said “the storm cloud” of the down,” said Angela Hernandez Fernando Simon, who heads the
pandemic “still hangs heavily Puente, vice-secretary general of Emergency Health Response for
over the European region.” Madrid’s Doctors Union. the Health Ministry, said quickly
The continent is still seeing “We’ve always seen light at the adopting social distancing and
shocking numbers of fatalities. end of the tunnel, but the ques- personal hygiene measures fol-
Members of the European Union tion is: At what cost?” she said. lowing the WHO’s declaration of
and Britain account for almost “How much suffering in terms of the pandemic brought down the
two-thirds of the 150,000 deaths the number of lives and the spread of covid-19.
recorded worldwide. efforts on the part of health “We changed our behavior and
But infectious disease experts professionals?” that is what affected the infection
say Europe’s effort to slow the After the virus emerged in rates,” Simon said.
pandemic — instituting quaran- China and began to spread, many The extensive testing and con-
tines across the continent more Europeans hoped the casualties tact tracing used by German
widespread and draconian than would be lower here — in hospi- health authorities have been her-
those seen during the plague in tals that have the best of every- alded as an example of how to
the Middle Ages — has worked. thing. contain the virus. Germany
Just a month ago, the world But mortality rates soared in has recorded fewer than
was stunned to see photographs much of Europe and have been 4,000 deaths among a popula-
of Italian military trucks lining disturbingly high in Britain, tion of 83 million.
up outside the public hospital in Spain and Italy. Nursing homes That compares with almost
the pretty town of Bergamo, have been especially hard hit. 14,000 deaths in the United King-
ready to haul bodies to cremato- In Italy, there is broad consen- dom’s 67 million people and
riums. sus that the emergency phase is 18,000 in France’s similarly sized
And yet, even in the worst-hit starting to relent after a two- population.
regions of northern Italy, where month period in which more In recent weeks, German
the virus first exploded in Febru- than 20,000 people died. The health authorities have said that
ary in the little villages of Lom- number of patients in intensive the rate of new infections has
bardy — where panicked doctors care has fallen 25 percent from tapered off.
on shaky videos later expressed the peak two weeks ago, and “We have achieved some-
fears they would soon have to hospitals say the burden has thing,” Merkel said in a news
decide who lived and who died — eased. conference as she announced
even there, the numbers of new Italy slowed the spread of the that small shops would open
infections are falling. virus by enforcing perhaps the after the weekend, with schools
“The peak has already arrived, most rigid lockdown among gradually opening their doors
and we are recovering,” said Pier Western democracies. next month.
Luigi Lopalco, an epidemiologist But the strict measures in Italy “Namely, that our doctors, our
at the University of Pisa, who were necessary because the virus nursing staff and all those in-
advises Italy’s Puglia region on had raged for so long without any volved in medical hospital work,
its response. “Strictly speaking, restrictions, and the country is they were not overwhelmed,” the
from a health-care point of view, still paying the price. Italy is still German leader said.
it is much easier now.” reporting as many as 600 deaths william.booth@washpost.com
As the lockdowns start to loos- per day. More than 100 doctors in chico.harlan@washpost.com
en, Europe walks a tightrope, a Italy have died. The country’s loveday.morris@washpost.com
precarious balancing act, with economy is forecast to shrink
any misstep potentially deadly. 9 percent this year, and the Harlan reported from rome, morris
Each country in Europe is political pressure to reopen — to from Berlin. michael Birnbaum in
taking its own baby steps. Den- keep up with countries hit less Brussels, James mcAuley in Paris,
mark reopened elementary hard by the virus — puts it in Luisa Beck in Berlin, stefano Pitrelli
schools this week; Germany will danger of a second and third in rome and Pamela rolfe in madrid
do so in early May. Austria is wave. contributed to this report.

FrAnK AugsTeIn/AssoCIATeD Press

Shoppers wait outside a London supermarket on Friday. Dominic Raab, Britain’s foreign secretary,
said the lockdown would go on for at least three more weeks but there is “light at the end of the tunnel.”
A10 ez re THE WASHINGTON POST . SATURDAy, APRIL 18 , 2020

The World
Gas shortage in oil-rich Venezuela tests Maduro’s power
BY A NA V ANESSA H ERRERO government turned last month to
AND A NTHONY F AIOLA a loyalist billionaire — Wilmer
Ruperti — for help. The Venezue-
CARACAS, VenezuelA — With lan oil magnate helped Hugo
friends and family stuck indoors Chávez, Maduro’s late mentor,
and buses rarely running, Onasis manage a gas shortage in 2002 by
Muñoz missed several lifesaving hiring a fleet of Russian tankers
dialysis sessions for his failing to ferry fuel to Venezuela in the
kidneys. When his blood pres- midst of a general strike.
sure started to dangerously An invoice obtained by The
spike, he had one option left: a Washington Post shows that Ru-
20-minute hike to the nearest perti’s Swiss-based Maroil Trad-
clinic. ing AG billed the Maduro govern-
Venezuela’s strict national cor- ment $12 million for up to
onavirus lockdown wasn’t his 250,000 barrels of gasoline.
main problem. Rather, this bro- “But it hasn’t arrived yet —
ken country, which boasts the they’re trying to find the ships to
world’s largest proven oil re- bring it,” said one of the Venezue-
serves, is running out of gas. lan oil insiders, who spoke on the
“There were no medicines [be- condition of anonymity out of
fore], and now no gasoline,” said fear of government retribution.
Muñoz, 28, who lives in Venezue- “Even when it does, if it does, it
la’s coastal Carabobo state, two won’t last long.”
hours from the capital. When Ruperti, whose gasoline deal
drugs were scarce last year, he with Maduro’s government was
said, he went eight months with- first reported by the Associated
out medication. Now he can Press, could not be reached for
source his medicines, but the comment. Venezuelan govern-
gasoline shortage has made his ment officials did not respond to
dialysis sessions, at a hospital a request for comment.
17 miles from his home, nearly In mid-March, massive lines
impossible to reach. for gas, long a fact of life in some
“What hope do I have?” he provincial capitals and rural ar-
asked. eas, began to hit more-insulated
Stung by one of the globe’s Caracas. A government-issued
worst economic crises long be- list of pandemic-related “priori-
fore anyone had heard of covid- ty” customers included doctors,
19, the socialist nation is used to but even they are whiling away
deprivation. Venezuelans have precious hours in line.
struggled for years against short- CArlos BeCerrA/BloomBerg news “On Monday, I got to the gas
ages of everything from food to A pedestrian wearing a protective mask passes in front of a closed Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) gas station in the Montalban station at 4:10 a.m.,” said Luis
toilet paper to drinkable water. neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, on Monday, April 6, 2020. In the past few weeks, as U.S. sanctions tighten with a vise-like grip and Báez, a surgeon at the city’s Ávila
Shortages of gasoline — nearly the coronavirus forces quarantines, something unprecedented is occurring: Venezuela with the world's largest oil reserves and one of Clinic. “I was 49th in the special
free and considered a national South America's biggest refining facilities is nearly out of gasoline. Photographer: Carlos Becerra/Bloomberg line for the medical personnel. I
entitlement in this OPEC nation had to wait nine hours and 45
— began in some parts of the minutes to fill my tank.
country years ago, as local refin- “I felt impotent sitting there,
eries started to fail, and smug- waiting.”
glers funneled truckloads of Gas station workers say au-
cheap Venezuelan fuel to black thorities are now rationing sup-
markets in Colombia and Brazil. plies to five gallons for small cars
But analysts are calling the sever- and 10 for trucks, vans and
ity of the current gas shortage ambulances. Eulodio Díaz, 61,
unprecedented — so bad that works at a pump in southern
vegetables are rotting on farms, Caracas.
doctors can’t get to work and “As we run out of gasoline, we
even the people of Caracas, a decrease the amount we can offer
bubble ordinarily spared the per customer,” he said. “What we
worst of Venezuela’s misery, are receive lasts only for a few hours
waiting in gas lines miles long. because of the high demand.
The energy crisis is the latest Many times they are aggressive
bad news for authoritarian Presi- with us. This is not my fault; I’m
dent Nicolás Maduro, who is now only following orders.”
facing the most perilous moment For the people of Caracas, the
of his embattled tenure. lines are the latest sign of the
Venezuela’s pivotal oil sector, crumbling state. Francisco Du-
long in decline, has entered a free rán, a 35-year-old food distribu-
fall as prices drop amid the tor, was one of 100 customers
pandemic-induced global eco- waiting recently at a gas station
nomic slowdown and output in northern Caracas. He parked
plummets to the lowest level his white Honda Accord before
since the 1940s. Venezuela’s in- dawn. Seven hours later, he was
ability to sell its crude — partly still hours away from the pump.
due to U.S. sanctions, but also “I have a quarter-tank left and
shrinking global demand — has I desperately need gas,” he said.
led the government to idle some “I can’t skip work. Not under
of its oil fields. these circumstances.”
The coronavirus, meanwhile, Though the gas shortages are
is presenting Venezuela’s already causing delays in Caracas, they
crippled health-care system with CrIstIAn HernAndez/AgenCe frAnCe-Presse/getty ImAges do not yet seem to have impacted
a critical test, one that local TOP: A man wearing a protective mask passes in front of a shuttered PDVSA gasoline station early this month in the Montalbán the availability of essential goods
doctors say it is uniquely unpre- neighborhood of Caracas. ABOVE: Drivers push their cars as they line up to refuel at a gas station in Caracas in late March. in the stores. That’s less true
pared to pass. Sensing his vulner- farther from the capital.
ability, Maduro’s adversaries in growing impatience within his and a brain drain of technicians sanctions on Rosneft’s trading bilize some trucks for food distri- Locals in Táchira state, on the
the Trump administration are own coalition. But Guaidó’s have crippled its gasoline refiner- arm in February for aiding Ma- bution, particularly in the capi- Colombian border, have weath-
ratcheting up efforts to oust him. weakness does not mean Maduro ies. Venezuela for years sent duro, and the company sold its tal. The country has sought new ered days-long gas lines for years.
The Justice Department indicted is strong. shipments of its particularly Venezuelan investments to a deals for gasoline through a Robert Maldonado, a farmer and
Maduro and his senior officials “The gas shortages are turning sludgy crude to Citgo, a U.S. more secretive entity owned by handful of Mexican companies agricultural activist, said farmers
last month on narcoterrorism into one of the biggest challenges subsidiary of PDVSA, the Venezu- the Russian state. that are now shipping its oil to in the region managed to haul
charges, and the Pentagon has he’s faced since he took power,” elan state oil giant, which pro- Russia appears to have halted Asia, according to industry insid- only 10 percent of their produce
dispatched warships to the Ca- said Geoff Ramsey, Venezuela cessed the oil and shipped back gasoline shipments to Venezuela, ers, with limited success. to a large weekend wholesale
ribbean to shut down the cocaine director for the Washington Of- gasoline. But that arrangement at least for the time being. The government managed last market because of the shortages.
corridor that Washington says fice on Latin America. “Gas ended after Washington broke “They aren’t getting gas from week to restore limited opera- He said most of the rest — about
helps keep Maduro afloat. shortages are not new in Venezu- ties with Maduro last year, wrest- the Russians,” said Russ Dallen, a tions at one of its refineries, 4,500 tons — is now at risk of
Maduro’s domestic political ela, but the extent of this one is. ed control of Citgo from PDVSA managing partner at Caracas those insiders say. But the plant rotting on the farms.
nemesis — Juan Guaidó, the Health workers can’t even go to and slapped an oil embargo on Capital Markets, a financial and for now is capable of producing “We are losing our produce
National Assembly president rec- work. It has a ripple effect across the country. consulting firm that tracks Vene- only low-quality fuel that must because . . . we don’t have gas to
ognized by the United States and Venezuelan society.” The Russian state-controlled zuelan oil. be mixed into a commercial get it to market.”
more than 50 other nations as The myriad reasons behind oil giant Rosneft stepped in, The government has received product. Its actual output, at anthony.faiola@washpost.com
Venezuela’s rightful leader — has the gas shortage underscore the striking lucrative deals with Ven- recent shipments of diesel under least for the next several weeks,
faded into the background dur- breadth of Maduro’s woes. ezuela to ship and sell its oil on ongoing deals with European they say, will probably be little to faiola reported from miami. mariana
ing the outbreak, unable to hold Venezuela sits on massive oil global markets. But then the firms that have holdings in the none as repairs continue. zuñiga in Caracas contributed to this
mass rallies and dealing with reserves, but a lack of spare parts Trump administration imposed country, allowing Maduro to mo- Desperate for a lifeline, the report.

DI GEST

YEMEN rebels, the Houthis. leaders to explain how it could island chain in the Arctic this 99-year-old veteran, set himself a formed a guard of honor and
On Friday, the Houthis’ have happened. month. goal to raise money for Britain’s saluted him. Strained health-
Security Council backs military command accused the The ship, France’s biggest The Norwegian archipelago of widely cherished but chronically care workers across the country
call for cease-fire coalition of violating the cease- carrier and the flagship of its Svalbard, about 500 miles north underfunded National Health thanked him. And the donations
fire 82 times over the previous 24 navy, has been undergoing a of mainland Norway, is seen as a Service during the deadly did not stop. As of Friday
The U.N. Security Council on hours, with airstrikes on the lengthy disinfection process potential flash point between coronavirus outbreak. He set up morning, Moore had raised
Friday endorsed the secretary central province of Marib and since returning to its home base Moscow and the West as climate a fundraising page and decided $23 million for Britain’s health-
general’s call for the warring artillery attacks in the port city in Toulon five days ago. change has opened up the to walk the 82-foot length of his care system.
parties in Yemen to immediately of Hodeida, the country’s main One person remains in resource-rich region. garden back and forth 100 times,
stop fighting and focus on gateway for humanitarian aid. intensive care and some 20 Foreign Ministry using his walker for support. He Pro cyclist in Italy uses bike to
reaching a peace agreement and Meanwhile, Yemen’s official others are hospitalized, said spokeswoman Maria Zakharova split the journey into sets of 10 deliver medicine: Professional
countering the outbreak of the SABA news agency said rebel Cmdr. Eric Lavault, a navy said Friday that Russia was laps, with the idea of completing cyclist Davide Martinelli has
new coronavirus. shelling of residential areas in spokesman. seriously concerned after a them before his 100th birthday been using his bike to help
The United Nations’ most central Bayda province killed a Two of four U.S. sailors serving Russian fishing vessel, the Borey, on April 30. Initially, he wanted deliver medicine to elderly
powerful body welcomed the woman and two children and aboard the Charles de Gaulle as was detained April 2 in Norway’s to raise 1,000 pounds ($1,250). residents and others in need
unilateral, two-week cease-fire wounded several civilians Friday. part of an exchange program fishery protection zone, which But to his surprise, just 24 hours during the coronavirus
announced by the Saudi-led — Associated Press also tested positive, according to Russia considers illegal. after Moore (or Captain Moore, pandemic. The service is of great
coalition that went into effect a U.S. Navy statement. In a statement, the Norwegian as he is fondly known on social use in Lodetto, Martinelli’s
April 9 to support the U.N.-led FRANCE — Associated Press Foreign Ministry confirmed that media) started, he had raised the hometown in the hard-hit
peace process and Secretary the Borey had been detained, equivalent of $8,750. By Tuesday, Lombardy region: The village
General António Guterres’s call More than 1,000 virus RUSSIA saying it was suspected of having his donations had leaped to has neither a pharmacy nor a
for a truce. cases aboard warship Norway holds trawler, contravened Norwegian $1.25 million. And on Thursday, supermarket. Martinelli makes a
Despite the announcement, regulations relating to fishery as he finished his final lap — two daily trip to Rovato, the next
violence in Yemen has been The French navy is spurring protest and catches in the zone. weeks ahead of schedule and town over, to pick up supplies.
reported by both the investigating how the — Reuters live-streamed by the BBC — that “I’ve got a bike and two legs in
internationally recognized coronavirus infected more than Russia said Friday that it had figure hit $15 million. As he pretty good form, so riding six
government, backed by the 1,000 sailors aboard the aircraft filed a protest to Oslo after the Veteran, 99, raises $23 million crossed the finish line six days miles a day is no big deal,”
Saudi-led coalition, and the carrier Charles de Gaulle, amid Norwegian coast guard detained for U.K. health-care system: after his effort began, soldiers Martinelli said this week.
country’s Iran-backed Shiite growing pressure on government a Russian trawler near a remote Last week, Capt. Tom Moore, a from the Yorkshire Regiment — Staff and wire reports
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the coronavirus pandemic

Peru’s early, aggressive response hasn’t stopped cases from soaring there
BY S IMEON T EGEL requirement for men and women
to go out on alternate days. That
LIMA, Peru — Mayumi Matto measure, aimed at encouraging
ventures from her coronavirus- households to designate a single
induced confinement in the home shopper, was quickly scrapped.
she shares with 15 family mem- Peru’s upward trend could be a
bers just twice a week. harbinger of things to come in oth-
Matto, 28, joins the queue out- er developing nations with poor
side the market in Puente Piedra, sanitation, weak public institu-
a gritty suburb on the edge of the tions and frayed trust in authority.
Peruvian capital, at 7 a.m. It’s a Vizcarra’s handling of the pan-
scene that has grown familiar demic has been widely praised
around the world: Only those here. He gives daily television ad-
wearing masks are allowed to en- dresses similar in style to those of
ter. Security guards enforce a one- New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuo-
out, one-in policy. Waiting cus- mo. His approval rating has hit
tomers are careful to stand apart nearly 90 percent, according to a
from one another. poll conducted by Ipsos on What-
But once inside the market, sApp.
everything changes. Despite the jump in confirmed
“It’s packed,” Matto says. “It’s cases, Vizcarra insists the under-
impossible to move around with- lying trend is starting to slow.
out bumping into people. Every- The government has launched a
one is in a hurry to get in and out $26 billion relief package, equiva-
as quickly as possible, without lent to 12 percent of the gross do-
getting infected. Security try tell- mestic product, including direct
ing people to keep their distance, payments to individuals. Yet many
but it’s no use.” are being left out. They include
Matto’s experience is typical in Matto. Before the outbreak, she
Peru, where many of the 31 mil- earned around 45 sols a day —
lion citizens buy much of their around $13 — collecting fares on a
food in informal street markets combi, one of the ramshackle mini-
that remain severely overcrowd- buses that serve as public transport
ed and where the concept of per- here. Now Matto, her husband and
sonal space is among the most their 9-year-old son are living off
limited in the world. Those chal- savings.
lenges help explain why the num- The strain is starting to show.
ber of coronavirus cases reported This week, a convoy of hundreds
PHOTOS BY RODRIGO ABD/ASSOCIATED PRESS
in the Andean nation is soaring, of desperate families left Lima on
despite an early and decisive re- ABOVE: The Rev. Walter Pavel distributes meals to homeless people outside the San Francisco de Asis dining room in Lima, Peru. foot to trek eastward up the hair-
sponse against the pandemic. “The only requirement is to be hungry,” he says. BELOW: A resident of El Callao watches police enforce the curfew of 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. raising Central Highway to return
Confirmed cases here jumped to homes in the Andes. They were
from 7,519 on Sunday to 13,489 on kits, the government of President Peruvians are tactile; a 2017 study met by security forces; after an
Friday. In Latin America, only Bra- Martín Vizcarra moved this week showed only Argentina had a initial standoff, authorities per-
zil, with a population seven times from testing about 1,000 people more limited sense of personal suaded them to take coronavirus
greater, has more. An outbreak that per day to 10,000. space. Peruvians typically stand tests and are now attempting to
started in Lima has spread across But the people in the new cases several inches closer to strangers arrange transport.
the country, even reaching indige- will have been infected during than would Americans. Forty-two of the migrants test-
nous communities in the Amazon. one of Latin America’s strictest Some Peruvians, meanwhile, ed positive. They are now being
“The government has got a lot lockdowns, now in its fifth week. have been flouting the lockdown. quarantined.
of things right,” says Ciro Magui- Private vehicles are all but banned So far, nearly 60,000 people have Peru is also home to an estimat-
ña, an epidemiologist and vice from the roads, people may leave been arrested for violating the ed 1 million Venezuelan refugees,
dean of Peru’s medical associa- their homes during the day only to rules. They include police officers often working low-paying infor-
tion. “But its approach has been buy food or for medical reasons, caught drinking beer together at mal jobs that have evaporated in
hospital-centric — are there and there’s a curfew from 6 p.m. to banned private gatherings. In one the last month.
enough beds and ventilators? — 4 a.m. each night. notorious case, an officer in the “There is a lot of hunger,” says
rather than community-centric. But there are some conditions Cusco region faked symptoms of Garrinzon González, who runs
There needs to be a lot more work that quarantines can’t defeat. covid-19, the disease caused by the the Venezuelan Union in Peru, a
in the communities to prevent Many poor Peruvians live in coronavirus, to get sick leave and self-help group for immigrants. “I
transmission.” cramped, unsanitary dwellings. was then caught drunk in the can hear the desperation in their
The rise in confirmed cases is Nearly a million in Lima alone town square. voices when they call me. There
partly attributable to expanded lack running water. And cultural But single mothers have also are people getting by with boiling
testing. With the arrival of new practices aren’t helping, either. been detained, mainly for violat- water with sugar. It is terrible.”
ing a controversial gender-based foreign@washpost.com

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the coronavirus pandemic

Ukrainian monastery
that once sco≠ed at
the threat is a hot spot
BY D AVID L . S TERN has registered more than 700
cases and 12 fatalities, and
KYIV, UKraIne — The walls and Ukraine as a whole has more than
golden domes of the Kyiv Pech- 4,660 cases and 125 deaths.
ersk Lavra — or the monastery of Ukrainian officials have re-
the Caves — have stood for centu- sponded with emergency mea-
ries in the center of the Ukrainian sures at the monastery, posting
capital. But now they’ve been police and national guard per-
breached by a deadly intruder: sonnel at its entrances to seal it
the novel coronavirus. off to the public, conducting mass
one of the centers of orthodox testing and disinfecting its
Christianity has been trans- grounds.
formed into one of Ukraine’s hot But commentators are asking
spots of the coronavirus pandem- whether the initial delay could
ic. It is also a cautionary tale of now be helping to fuel the epi-
how, just a month ago, warnings demic’s intensity at the monas-
about the virus’s spread were tery.
seen by some as overblown. The worry that religious insti-
Authorities at the monastery — tutions might be helping to
renowned for its extensive system spread the coronavirus extends
of catacombs dating from the 11th beyond the walls of the Kyiv
century — were initially slow to Pechersk Lavra, especially as
react to warnings that the virus Ukraine — where more than two-
was spreading. thirds of the population belongs
“Everyone hurry to church, to the orthodox Church — pre-
read the Psalms, the Gospel, em- pares to celebrate orthodox Eas-
brace one another,” metropolitan ter on Sunday.
sergey DolzHenKo/epA-efe/sHuTTersToCK
Pavel, the monastery’s head, in- Church authorities confirm
structed in a video in mid-march. that Pavel himself has been hospi- The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv has a disproportionately high number of virus cases. In mid-March, the head of the monastery,
“The most terrible epidemic is talized, but they decline to com- Metropolitan Pavel, urged the faithful to go to church, saying: “The most terrible epidemic is the sin that destroys human nature.”
the sin that destroys human na- ment on reports in the Ukrainian
ture,” he added. media that he had covid-19, the Ukraine is not alone. Places of helped to spark that country’s could still circulate among day. The timing of the lifting of
Three weeks later, Pavel told disease caused by the novel coro- worship around the world had epidemic in february. crowds that gather outside the Ukraine’s lockdown “will depend
reuters that he originally did not navirus. resisted — or are still resisting — Ukraine’s various orthodox churches and that some Ukraini- on our behavior during Easter,
appreciate the seriousness of the “He’s in reasonable condition social distancing and other mea- branches say that access to the ans will nevertheless gather for our discipline,” he said.
situation. The monastery has and had no complications. He has sures to slow the coronavirus’s churches will be restricted and traditional family meals and pic- “This whole situation demon-
since introduced strict quaran- a number of other chronic condi- spread. that worshipers can view Easter nics. strates that your nationality, gen-
tine measures. tions and was hospitalized for Some russian orthodox services on television or online, In a video address Tuesday, der or religion are not important
Still, Kyiv officials say more observation,” said metropolitan churches allowed worshipers to as was the case for Palm Sunday. President Volodymyr Zelensky to coronavirus,” Zelensky added.
than 140 monks and others at the Kliment Vecheria, a church continue traditions such as kiss- opinion polls suggest that used the situation at the Kyiv “It demonstrates that you cannot
monastery have tested positive spokesman. “I think that it’s pos- ing icons weeks after the virus about 85 percent of population Pechersk Lavra as an example of have a careless attitude toward
for the virus, and at least three sible that he will be released from reached russia. In South Korea, a intends to stay home on Easter. why it was crucial for Ukrainians the disease.”
have died. By comparison, Kyiv the hospital soon.” now-closed messianic church But fears remain that the virus to stay at home during the holi- foreign@washpost.com

China defends its data after revising Wuhan death toll upward by 50 percent
China revised and is based purely on standard skepticism over how the virus but also had underlying has] been much better at cases reported in people who
Siobhán its official efforts to take into account relatively low death count conditions have only added to handling this.” recently entered the country
O’Grady coronavirus death deaths that were previously compared with other hot spots confusion over accurate counts. “We don’t know,” he said. from abroad. officials have
toll in Wuhan, the miscounted or excluded. around the world. “It’s naive to think there’s not “There are clearly things that introduced dramatic new
original epicenter of the But President Trump tweeted But he also said it is entirely a degree of politicization going have happened that we don’t restrictions on foreigners
outbreak, by around 50 percent friday that China’s numbers possible that, like officials on,” Blanchette said about know about.” entering the country, citing
more friday, citing new were even higher than officials elsewhere, China is gaining new China’s revised numbers. “But on facing mounting calls for concerns over imported
statistical evidence that has there have disclosed, saying the information about how many the other hand, statistics aren’t more information about how infections from other hot spots.
emerged as the city begins to deaths are “far higher than the deaths previously classified as meaningless in China and there many people died of the virus in China also recently began
reopen following months of U.S., not even close!” natural causes were in fact are increasing limitations to how Hubei province, China found classifying asymptomatic
lockdown. Nationwide, China has linked to the virus. Even in the much China can mess with the itself in a conundrum in which it individuals who test positive for
The reassessment counted reported about 83,760 cases of United States, major numbers.” faced skepticism for its initial the virus separately from other
1,290 more deaths, bringing the the coronavirus and 4,636 discrepancies have emerged over Trump has accused the World death count and would probably cases.
death toll in the city where the deaths. Italy has reported a how different states are counting Health organization of having face skepticism for any revisions The focus on imported
outbreak was first recorded to much higher rate of death and classifying deaths of people “pushed China’s misinformation as well, Blanchette said. infections, Blanchette said,
3,869. The revision came amid among those diagnosed with the diagnosed with the virus, and about the virus,” and he “China is in a position where signals that even if the country
global efforts to produce more- virus, with more than 172,400 experts say the U.S. death toll suspended U.S. financial support it’s damned if it doesn’t, damned later revises its death toll or case
accurate data — and growing cases and around 22,745 deaths. and case count are probably to the U.N. agency this week. U.S. if it does,” Blanchette said. numbers again, China’s
suspicions among experts and The United States has reported widely underestimated. allies widely criticized that Wuhan, which is in Hubei Communist Party has created a
world leaders over how China’s about 695,300 cases and more Several other countries have decision, although other leaders province, reopened this month, blueprint that will allow Beijing
death toll could remain than 32,400 deaths. also revised their death tolls as have expressed skepticism that allowing residents to leave the to maintain the narrative that
relatively low even as death Jude Blanchette, who leads they roll out new methods for China has been forthcoming city for the first time in 76 days, new infections can be blamed on
counts surge across the United China studies at the Center for counting the dead, expanding about its outbreak. as long as they passed health returnees and foreigners and
States and Europe. Strategic and International from just tallying hospital deaths In an interview with the checks confirming that they were “beyond its control.”
Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for Studies, said he doesn’t see it as to also including home deaths financial Times that published were not sick and hadn’t been siobhan.ogrady@washpost.com
the Chinese foreign ministry, coincidental that China publicly and deaths in nursing homes. Thursday, french President exposed to the virus.
insisted friday that this revision revised its numbers at a time of Testing shortages and deaths of Emmanuel macron said, “Let’s officials in China are raising rick noack in Berlin contributed to
in no way indicated a coverup extraordinary international patients who contracted the not be so naive as to say [China alarm over a growing number of this report.

At a train station in India, locked-down strangers wait weeks with no way out
IndIA from A1 the rail stoppage. They had just and buckets to wash clothes,
hours to prepare for the unprece- which now dry on railings leading
days confined to a waiting room in dented suspension of India’s to a shuttered ticket booth. There
a state of uncertainty worthy of an 13,500 daily passenger trains are regular medical checks, and
existentialist play, unable to con- march 22, combined with a shut- the room is disinfected each day.
tinue their journeys and forbid- down of all nonessential services. Unexpected friendships have
den to leave the station. “We were just brainstorming, formed, and occasional frictions
In some ways, they are lucky. what to do, what to do,” he re- have erupted, including over the
The station staff, accustomed to called. “Every damn thing in the appropriate volume at which to
handling more than 100,000 pas- city will be stopped.” play videos on mobile phones and
sengers a day, have busied them- mohan arranged food from the how frequently fried food is part
selves taking care of the fewer canteen that usually serves the of the menu. “We are sharing this
than 50 who remain. Those railway station’s staff. With the room with complete strangers
stranded get three meals a day, hot cooperation of local administra- from around the country,” said
tea, a morning yoga session and tors, he coordinated transporta- Shinde, a slender man in a white
nightly showings of Hindu epics tion for passengers whose desti- polo shirt. “We talk, share our pain
on a newly mounted television nations were less than 100 miles and our concerns. We have be-
screen. away. But that still left a group of come a family.”
But they are stuck. “Is this life?” about 50 people who were en “I will never forget these peo-
asked Laxmi Adiman Gaekwad, route to far-flung destinations in ple,” he added. “The day we say
30, a mother whose three older other parts of India, including goodbye, I will be very sad.”
children are waiting for her to Karnataka, Gujarat, maharashtra, In recent days, a few of the
return to their home in the state of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and passengers have managed to ar-
maharashtra, 700 miles away. “We Delhi. range transportation home with
have nothing to do.” Some had harrowing stories. the cooperation of local officials,
millions of Indians have fared raghu Uttam Shinde, 25, a manu- quietly circumventing the lock-
far worse under the lockdown, al laborer from maharashtra, was down. one passenger from Delhi
which began march 25 and has traveling home from a job laying was taken to a hospital Tuesday
been extended until may 3. Work- cable in the state of Bihar with 10 uTpAl pATHAK for THe WAsHIngTon posT for testing after he interacted with
ers have streamed out of Indian members of his extended family, In addition to being led in a yoga class, travelers stranded inside a train station in Varanasi, India, get a family who had approached the
cities on foot, fearful of their abili- including four children. Their three meals a day, hot tea and nightly showings of Hindu epics. They sleep on benches or thin rugs. station and appeared ill.
ty to survive without jobs. Shelters train stopped in the middle of the meanwhile, inside the station,
for the needy are overflowing. Ac- night at a station outside Varana- his wife and two children, who are ways dies, and good always pre- the signboard listing the upcom-
tivists warn that many in this si, and all passengers were or- 3 and 7. “I will never vails if you have faith in yourself ing departures is blank. freight
nation of 1.3 billion will go hungry dered to get off. Shinde and his Several days into the lockdown, and your god and do the right trains chug past the deserted plat-
while the economy is shuttered. family walked four hours to reach mohan, the station manager, real- forget these people. things,” he said. “So that is motiva- forms. The news that India would
Absent a plan from the central the main railway station in the ized that his new charges were tional.” extend its lockdown until may 3
government to help those strand- city, hoping to catch another train. “mentally very down.” He decided The day we say The stranded passengers have came as a bitter blow for those
ed by the lockdown, local officials Narendra Singh Dhakre, 35, a some entertainment was re- fallen into a routine: yoga, fol- inside the waiting room. Dhakre,
scrambled to improvise a re- lawyer from the central Indian quired. He had a television in- goodbye, I will be lowed by a simple breakfast of the lawyer, was heartbroken at the
sponse. one such official was city of Ujjain, made the fateful stalled in the waiting room and cooked vegetables and fried thought of being separated from
Anand mohan, the 36-year-old decision to stop for a day of sight- had a member of the railway staff very sad.” bread, then lunch, and dinner in his wife and children for several
station director in Varanasi, an seeing in Varanasi on his way back begin holding daily yoga classes. the evening. People either sleep on more weeks. “But then I realized
Raghu Uttam Shinde, 25,
ancient city on the Ganges river from a work trip. He, too, was He urged the passengers to avoid the metal benches or on thin rugs that the situation is not under
a manual laborer from
that is one of the holiest pilgrim- stranded. He slept outside the sta- the news — too anxiety-inducing on the floor as fans whir overhead. control,” he said, “and this is the
Maharashtra
age sites for Hindus and draws tion for a night, hoping to find a — and instead watch the multi- Everyone wakes and goes to bed at need of the hour.”
millions of visitors a year. way home, and struggled to get part serials of two Hindu epics, roughly the same time, trying to joanna.slater@washpost.com
mohan and his team at Varana- something to eat with all restau- the ramayana and the mahab- keep quiet in a cavernous room
si Junction, all government em- rants shut and no taxis on the harata. where even small noises echo. The utpal pathak in Varanasi contributed
ployees, were caught off-guard by roads. Now he desperately misses Such stories “show that evil al- bathrooms have basic showers to this report.
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As children get more screen time, parents get new monitoring tools
BY R ACHEL L ERMAN things happen in retrospect, as a eo games is up 102 percent. executive director of the advocacy among younger users. Many of the back to an adult’s profile.
Band-Aid,” said Christine Elgers- Courtney Ellis, a Mission Viejo, group Campaign for Commercial most popular TikTok creators are Google updated a program last
san francisco — It’s the era of ma, senior editor of social media Calif.-based author and mother of Free Childhood. The best way, he teens, racking up millions of views year to put stricter requirements
coronavirus screen time, and and instructional resources at three, says her children have seen noted, was for companies to turn on every video. in place for app developers who
some tech companies are rolling Common Sense Media, an advoca- a big uptick in TV watching and on restrictions by default, rather TikTok will now allow parents indicate their app is made for kids.
out new tools to help parents bet- cy organization for children’s safe other screen time while stuck at than making parents go in and to decide how long their kids can The company has also been ex-
ter monitor what their children use of technology. home. “There are no rules,” she switch them on. stay on the app, restrict them from panding its YouTube Kids fea-
are watching and doing online. Parents have struggled with said, a stark change from before. “I think a lot of these things are sending direct messages and hide tures.
TikTok, a social media video managing their children and tech- She carefully monitors their usage things that should have been done some videos from their view. Par- Parental controls can be useful,
app heavily used by teens, this nology for decades, implementing of technology, though, and plans a long time ago,” he added. ents must first pair their own app said Matt Olson, a software engi-
week introduced ways for parents time limits on phones and trying to turn on parental controls and Google spokeswoman Kaori with their child’s to access the neer and father of two teenagers in
to limit time on the app, while to restrict what websites their talk with them about safety online Miyake said the company moved controls. The app also said it Mill Valley, Calif. But they also
Google rolled out a new Play Store children can see. But those issues as they get older. up the launch of its new teacher- would turn off all direct messag- create a game of cat and mouse
tab to highlight apps approved have taken on an added urgency The need for tech companies to approved tab from its planned re- ing for users younger than 16 start- between parents and kids.
and rated by teachers. Last week, amid the coronavirus pandemic, better protect children has been a lease later this year because kids ing at the end of this month. Recently, his children found
Netflix introduced a way to add a which has resulted in the closure hot-button issue for years — one are spending more time at home Netflix similarly expanded con- ways to change their ages on their
pin code to access content. of schools and social distancing. that landed Google-owned You- right now. TikTok and Netflix trol for parents, adding a feature iPhones to make Apple think they
Any safety controls are helpful, Kids are spending more time on Tube with a $170 million fine last pointed to company blog posts that allows adults’ accounts to be were over 18, and therefore not in
experts say, and the new tools are a iPads and other devices to com- year to settle charges it breached announcing the changes. protected with a pin code. Parents need of parental screen-time con-
step in the right direction. But plete schoolwork and entertain children’s privacy, and saddled the TikTok’s changes were a leap can also remove specific movies or trols. Olson found his kids’ solu-
tech companies should be think- themselves, as entire families up app now known as TikTok with a forward for parents. The app fea- shows from their children’s ac- tion and circumvented it.
ing through these issues and their screen time at home. Com- $5.7 million charge for similar of- tures short-form videos, many of counts. Previously, the company “It’s a constant arms race be-
launching tools to better protect cast has said its peak network fenses. which are people performing cho- allowed parents to set up accounts tween parents and children,” he
children with the advent of the traffic is up as much as 60 percent “I think there’s a lot of pressure reographed dances or lip syncing for their children with limited said. “We are currently slightly
app, not after. in some regions, while Verizon on the tech companies to provide to famous movie and TV clips. The content, but there was no way to ahead.”
“Unfortunately a lot of these says overall network traffic for vid- better controls,” said Josh Golin, app has surged in popularity prevent them from navigating rachel.lerman@washpost.com

Date set for NASA

crew to launch from
U.S. for first time
in nearly a decade
BY C HRISTIAN D AVENPORT with the May launch, despite the
coronavirus pandemic, to main-
It’s been nearly 10 years since tain an American presence on the
NASA astronauts launched from space station, which has been
U.S. soil — a long, ignominious continuously inhabited for 20
streak compounded by delays years.
and technical challenges. Now, The space station represents “a
however, that long streak is about $100 billion investment by the
to come to a close. American taxpayer,” he said. “It’s
On Friday, NASA announced a symbol of diplomacy and coop-
that it has set a date to once again eration that is important not just
launch astronauts from the Flori- for our country but the whole
da Space Coast: May 27. world. It’s mission essential.”
While the date could change — A successful flight would pro-
in spaceflight, they often do — the pel SpaceX into rare company,
announcement marks a signifi- with the United States, Russia
cant milestone in NASA’s wind- and China the only countries that
ing, at times tortuous, journey to have flown humans to orbit. And
regain its ability to send human it would end NASA’s dependence
beings into space since it ended on Russia to fly its astronauts —
the space shuttle program in an increasingly expensive propo-
2011. sition, with Russia steadily rais-
It also marks a historic mo- ing its prices, from $21.3 million a
ment for the space program: the seat in 2006 to $83 million now.
first time a rocket carrying astro- Musk greeted the news on
nauts into orbit will be owned Twitter by noting that he founded
and operated not by a federal SpaceX in 2002 with the ultimate
agency but by a private company goal of sending humans to Mars.
— SpaceX, the commercial space He said SpaceX has made “good
company founded by Elon Musk. progress, but 18 years to launch
NASA has spent years working our first humans is a long time.
with the California-based compa- Technology must advance faster
ny to ensure its Falcon 9 rocket or there will be no city on the red
and Dragon spacecraft can safely planet in our lifetime.”
deliver astronauts to orbit. For the upcoming SpaceX mis-
With a successful launch, sion, NASA has assigned two of its
SpaceX would accomplish an up- most experienced astronauts:
set over its rival, Boeing, which Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley.
also is under contract to fly NASA Former military test pilots, both
crews to the space station. Boe- are married to astronauts and
ing’s Starliner spacecraft, howev- have been to space multiple
er, suffered significant setbacks times.
during a test flight without astro- If all goes to plan, they’ll lift off
nauts in December that will pre- at 4:32 p.m. from the Kennedy
vent it from being used for a Space Center’s pad 39A, the start-
crewed mission until 2021, at the ing point for many Apollo and
earliest. shuttle missions. Hurley’s pres-
In 2014, NASA awarded a total ence would mark a bookending
of $6.8 billion in contracts to for NASA, since he was on its last
SpaceX and Boeing to develop the shuttle mission, which lifted off
ability to launch astronauts into from 39A in 2011.
space. Boeing won the larger SpaceX’s launch will come at
share of the pot, $4.2 billion, an important time for NASA,
while SpaceX got $2.6 billion for which has been scrambling to
the same work. Last year, SpaceX keep an American presence on
successfully flew its Dragon to the the International Space Station.
JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST
station, paving the way for a On Friday, NASA astronauts Jes-
crewed flight. sica Meir and Drew Morgan re- Astronauts Bob Behnken, left, and Doug Hurley have been chosen to crew the May 27 SpaceX flight to the International Space Station.
In an interview with The Wash- turned to Earth, leaving Chris
ington Post last week, NASA Ad- Cassidy as the lone American on It’s unclear how long Behnken sion was expected to be a short orbit for 110 days and that the based on the readiness of the next
ministrator Jim Bridenstine said the station with two Russian cos- and Hurley will remain aboard stay. But NASA said that SpaceX’s “specific mission duration will be commercial crew launch.”
the agency needed to push on monauts. the station. Initially, their mis- Dragon spacecraft can remain in determined once on station christian.davenport@washpost.com

DI GEST

FINANCE INDUSTRY Those claims represent most of be the case.” stages. behavior including social General Electric’s aircraft-
the class suing the firm in a 14- — Bloomberg News Thousands of theaters that distancing. leasing division scrapped orders
Women claim year battle over allegations that closed last month and the — Reuters for the 737 Max worth at least
Goldman duped them Goldman let managers make ENTERTAINMENT National Association of Theatre $6.9 billion based on list prices,
biased pay decisions and denied Owners had called on Congress ALSO IN BUSINESS dealing another blow to Boeing
Goldman Sachs Group tricked women opportunities they AMC says it has cash and the Trump administration to Nearly 3 million U.S. home as it grapples with a plunge in
women into waiving their right deserved. The case looms large to withstand closures provide emergency relief. loans are in forbearance plans jetliner demand because of the
to sue the firm, the women said on Wall Street, where the biggest The first phase of Trump’s plan that allow delayed mortgage coronavirus pandemic. The
in asking a court to bar the firm U.S. banks are led by men. AMC Entertainment Holdings, allows theater operators to payments without penalty, cancellation of 69 undelivered
from forcing them into The women contend that the world’s largest theater reopen under strict physical according to a report by Black jets stems from an agreement
arbitration in a closely watched almost 1,200 of the claims should operator, said on Friday that it distancing protocols. Knight. The homeowners with Boeing to “rebalance” the
gender bias case. be removed from the arbitration had enough cash balance to AMC, which had a cash skipping payments because of order book, GE Capital Aviation
In a filing on Thursday, the pool. They say the bank waited withstand a global suspension of balance of $299.8 million as of lost jobs or income represent Services said. It already has 29
women asked the federal judge too long to press for arbitration operations until a partial March 31, had sought to raise 5.5 percent of borrowers with Max planes in its fleet and will
overseeing the class-action in some cases and got women to reopening in July, as the U.S. $500 million through a notes $651 billion in unpaid principal. maintain orders for 82 more of
lawsuit — one of the biggest pay sign improper agreements in government plans to reopen the offering. Peer Cinemark is also They break down to 4.9 percent Boeing’s best-selling plane, which
discrimination suits targeting a exchange for stock awards and country’s economy. looking to raise $250 million of loans backed by Fannie Mae has been grounded for more than
financial firm — to reject a other compensation. Movie theaters will be the first through debt sale. and Freddie Mac and 7.6 percent a year after two deadly crashes.
magistrate’s recommendation “We said at the time we were businesses to reopen under AMC said its business could be of loans extended to borrowers The decision deepens the pain for
last month to grant Goldman’s pleased with the court’s decision,” President Trump’s guidelines to affected on reopening if through Veterans Affairs and the Boeing, which lost 150 orders for
request to move 1,850 of the Goldman spokeswoman Maeve reopen companies shut down by disruptions caused by the virus Federal Housing Administration. the beleaguered jet last month.
claims to arbitration. DuVally said. “That continues to the novel coronavirus in three lead to changes in consumer — From news services
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the coronavirus pandemic

PHOTOS BY JUSTIN MERRIMAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Billie namath, 83, lives at daughter Connie sluzynsky’s home in monaca, Pa., after sluzynsky removed her from Brighton rehabilitation in Beaver County, Pa.  See related video at wapo.st/VirusLifeCare.

nursing Homes from A1

bers could be infected.

It is difficult to say whether
Hundreds of nursing homes have tually every aspect of operations
. . . and there were also signifi-
cant changes in facility leader-
ship,” Canterbury administrator
past violations contributed to
current outbreaks or whether
any level of preparation would
have been enough to protect
history of infection-control violations Jeremiah Davis said in a state-
ment. “There has been material
focus on placing the right people
in the right positions, and a
against a previously unidentified significant influx of new proto-
pathogen, but nursing home cols prior to the outbreak.”
watchdog groups say the break- Industry leaders say that even
downs have endangered older, the strongest infection-control
vulnerable residents already measures could not have pre-
more at risk of dying from the pared nursing homes for the
highly contagious virus. onslaught of coronavirus and
“Nursing home residents had that facilities with limited per-
targets on their backs the mo- sonal protective equipment are
ment the virus hit our shores,” doing what they can to protect
said mike Dark, an attorney with and treat residents.
the nonprofit California Advo- “outbreaks are not the result
cates for Nursing Home reform. of inattentiveness or a shortcom-
“There is an inertia about infec- ing in nursing homes,” David
tion control and it’s too late to Gifford, chief medical officer at
catch up.” the American Health Care Asso-
Thousands of coronavirus- ciation and the National Center
related deaths have been linked for Assisted Living, said in a
to nursing homes; the state of statement. “It’s the combination
New York alone earlier this week of the behavior of this virus and
reported more than 2,400. At a the unique threat it presents to
nursing home in northern New the people we care for — older
Jersey, police found more than a adults with multiple underlying
dozen bodies in what was de- health conditions.”
scribed as a “makeshift morgue.” With fragile populations,
The federal government and shortages of personal protective
many states have not released equipment and staff members
the names of affected facilities. forced to juggle front-line work
Through state and county with the needs of their own
health departments and media families, nursing home residents
reports, The Post was able to were “essentially sitting ducks,”
identify 662 medicare-certified said Karl Steinberg, a San Diego-
nursing homes that have had based geriatrician and palliative
publicly reported cases of the care specialist and president-
virus and analyze their track elect of AmDA-The Society for
records. Post-Acute and Long-Term Care
The homes with a history of medicine.
infection-control deficiencies sluzynsky took her mother out of Brighton on march 30, a week before the nursing home announced it was possible that all “A lot of facilities could do
span 35 states, with dozens in residents and staff had contracted the virus. After two weeks of self-quarantine, namath has shown no sign of infection. better,” he said. “But this virus is
California, the state of Washing- different. It’s insidious. We don’t
ton and Connecticut, according know who has it. We don’t know
to inspection data from the Cen- Nursing homes with publicly reported cases of covid-19 hands or wore personal protec- who doesn’t have it. It could live
ters for medicare and medicaid tive equipment. one aide left a in the air. It could live on surfac-
Services (CmS), the federal agen- State health departments and media reports have identified more than 650 nursing homes wet sheet under a resident whose es. It’s highly improbable that . . .
cy that regulates nursing homes. with reported cases of the new coronavirus. Since 2016, about 40 percent had been cited more than once catheter was leaking. the best in planning would have
The hardest-hit state, New for infection-control deficiencies. When the coronavirus struck prevented this.”
York, on friday released only a More than 1 infection-control infractions 0-1 infection-control infractions the nursing home, Keri Boyer Nursing home watchdog
partial list of nursing homes that said, she braced for bad news. groups, however, say warnings
have been affected by the corona- WASH. “once we got the phone call went unheeded for years, even
virus. Without a full list, The Post MAINE that there was a positive case, I after the obama administration
has been able to identify only a MONT. N.D. told my husband, ‘my dad’s going in 2016 moved to strengthen
MINN.
dozen nursing homes in New VT. to get it. I have no doubt in my infection-control practices in
ORE. N.H.
York with repeated infection de- mind,’ ” said Boyer, whose 73- nursing homes.
MASS.
ficiencies. IDAHO S.D. WIS. MICH. N.Y. year-old father, a Pittsburgh In the past four years,
The hundreds of citations WYO.
CT. R.I. Steelers fan who had retired infection-control problems were
touch on all areas of infection IOWA PA. from his job at a cement plant, the most common deficiencies
control, inspection records show. NEV. NEB.
OHIO
N.J. was one of at least five Brighton identified at 15,000 nursing
IND.
Some facilities failed to track ILL. DEL. residents who died from the homes nationwide, federal re-
UTAH W. VA. MD.
residents with symptoms of in- CALIF. COLO. virus. cords show.
KAN. VA.
fections. others did not ensure MO. KY.
“They had four people in a Three-quarters of nursing
that staff members changed room,” Boyer said. “That’s how homes were cited at least once
N.C.
soiled gloves, washed their hands TENN.
my dad lived, with three other for infection-related infractions
or wore personal protective ARIZ. men in a room that was as big as since 2016. four in 10 were repeat
N.M. OKLA. S.C.
equipment. In some cases, pro- a hospital room, separated by offenders, flagged at least twice.
ARK.
viders used dirty or unsanitized MISS. ALA.
curtains. I sometimes feel like In florida last year, a nurse
GA.
equipment. LA.
they were the dispensable ones.” failed to disinfect a blood-glu-
At Pleasant View, staff failed to TEXAS An official at Pleasant View cose meter in a facility with 23
put dates on oxygen equipment ALASKA said the nursing home declined diabetic patients; an inspector
that requires regular changing or FLA. to comment, and Brighton ad- found one of the devices sitting
store personal urinals in a sani- HAWAII ministrators did not respond to on a cart, soiled with what ap-
tary manner in a bathroom emails. An official with Canter- peared to be blood, federal in-
shared by eight residents, re- bury said ownership of the facili- spection reports show. In Califor-
cords show. At Brighton, accord- Note: Death tolls indicate that there are far more nursing homes with outbreaks whose names have not been released ty changed in January. nia last year, administrators
ing to inspectors, officials failed by states or the federal government. “In the months prior to the failed to screen dozens of staff
to ensure that caregivers proper- covid-19 pandemic, there were members, including 15 licensed
Source: Post analysis of data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, state and county health departments and media reports.
ly cleaned wounds, washed their significant improvements in vir- nurses and 13 nursing assistants,
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the coronavirus pandemic

for tuberculosis and flu vaccina- es. In January 2019, inspectors

tions. In Wisconsin in 2017, a also reported that Brighton had
quarantine was lifted and resi- no heat, with indoor tempera-
dents were allowed to mingle tures as low as 58 degrees. One
even though a gastrointestinal resident reported that she used
outbreak had sickened dozens of her oxygen mask to breathe be-
people. neath six blankets, records show.
Even as the coronavirus swept Tamera Witherspoon, a 41-
hundreds of nursing homes, in- year-old licensed practical nurse
spectors continued to cite break- who logged 50-hour weeks at the
downs. center, said staffing shortages
The Centers for Medicare and were also a problem. During
Medicaid Services last month some shifts, she said, there were
postponed routine inspections to dozens of patients who needed
focus solely on infection control. tending. She barely had time to
In a first round of inspections wash her hands, she said.
during the week of March 30, In March, the virus swept the
officials found that 1 in 3 nursing nursing home. During an early-
homes did not follow proper morning shift, Witherspoon, a
hand-washing guidelines and 1 mother of three who earns $26
in 4 failed to demonstrate the an hour, said she did not have
proper use of personal protective enough medical equipment or an
equipment. N95 mask, which experts say
As of April 10, the agency had provides the highest level of
inspected 96 facilities, finding 12 protection.
that did not follow proper hand- She said she told her supervi-
washing guidelines and 18 that sors that she would not be re-
did not properly use personal turning until she got a mask.
protective equipment. Witherspoon decided to self-
As the death toll continues to quarantine, and after she spoke
mount, nursing homes are strug- out publicly, she received a dona-
gling to account for what hap- tion of eight masks from a local
pened. business owner. She gave one to a
“Believe me, facilities are neighbor in a wheelchair and one
scrambling to have these to another nurse at the facility.
mason trInca for tHe WasHIngton Post
[infection-control] processes as She said she is still waiting for an
airtight as they can,” said Stein- Judy Layton of Bellevue, Wash., prays for victims in March at the Life Care Center of Kirkland, a focal point of the coronavirus apology from Brighton.
berg, the California doctor. “They outbreak in Washington state. State inspectors found that an ineffective infection-control system led in part to the outbreak. “I’m sitting at home, not com-
really didn’t know what was pensated,” she said. “I’m just in a
going on until it was too late.” limbo.”
draped in protective gear, were Nate Wardle, spokesman for
‘There’s no teeth’ called in to say goodbye. the Pennsylvania Department of
The federal government start- Seeing family probably Health, said Brighton was on a
ed taking a hard look at infection helped, Neidigh said. Within 24 provisional license, with inspec-
control four years ago when the hours, her mother rallied and tions twice a year because of
Obama administration pushed to soon insisted on a bowl of potato prior health deficiencies.
require facilities to bring on soup, served for years in the Wardle said health officials
specialists focused on preventing family as an antidote to the have been in touch with Brighton
the spread of illness. More than common cold. and have so far found no break-
3,000 people were trained by the “When she . . . was taken out of downs in the days leading up to
American Health Care Associa- that facility, it saved her life. It the outbreak.
tion, which represents thousands gave her a fighting chance,” said “We are not aware of anything
of skilled-nursing centers, assist- Neidigh, whose mother is now that has been done that would be
ed-living communities and other recovered and once again living of serious concern to the depart-
facilities. in her own apartment. ment,” he said. “But of course
The new regulation, however, we’re not in the facility every day
did not become effective until Deaths mount in Tennessee, observing everything that’s going
this past November, only weeks Pennsylvania nursing homes on.”
before the coronavirus started Northeast of Nashville, the Connie Sluzynsky said her 83-
spreading in China. Gallatin Center for Rehabilita- year-old mother was one of the
And even before the require- tion and Healing has also strug- lucky ones.
ments took effect, the federal gled with infection control, fed- The retired courthouse clerk
government had put in motion eral records show. In recent and great-grandmother was liv-
plans to change the rule, striking years, inspectors found that staff ing at Brighton when officials
the mandate for at least a part- did not follow hand-washing locked down the facility to stop
time infection specialist and in- procedures, properly dispose of the spread of infection. Sluzyn-
stead relying on nursing homes JustIn merrIman for tHe WasHIngton Post wound-care materials or appro- sky said she spent days calling for
to ensure that specialists had Tamera Witherspoon stopped reporting to work at Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness priately handle soiled linens. updates and finally reached a
“sufficient time” at facilities. The Center near Pittsburgh because, she says, she was not provided adequate medical equipment. More than 100 residents and nurse.
proposed changes, criticized by staff members at the center have “She said, ‘I will tell you with
patient-watchdog groups, are been infected with the coronavi- 100 percent certainty that every-
still pending. authorities to an outbreak of with soiled gloves, and a staff from CMS, he said. rus, according to local media body here is going to get that
CMS Administrator Seema respiratory illness. member who failed to wear per- No amount of preparation, he reports. Late last month, the virus,’ ” Sluzynsky recalled.
Verma told the New York Times State inspectors also investi- sonal protective equipment said, could have prepared the facility was temporarily shut On March 30, Sluzynsky
last month that the changes, gated, finding that the lack of while caring for a resident with a facility for a virus that started down and sanitized. pulled her mother out of the
meant to give nursing homes care had resulted in hospitaliza- suspected respiratory infection. spreading from patient to patient Officials at the nursing home nursing home. A week later, with
more freedom from federal rules, tions and resident deaths and In a laundry room, inspectors before staff even knew it was provided a written timeline to multiple deaths and dozens of
could mean that providers focus that an ineffective infection-con- noted that clean linens were at there. The Post noting that the facility cases, Brighton officials an-
even more on infection control. trol system resulted in a “wide- risk of being contaminated by air “This is an unprecedented vi- in February and March conduct- nounced that they would stop
With nursing homes now at spread and unmanaged respira- blowing in from a dirty utility ral outbreak,” Killian said. “It is ed additional training on hand- reporting a count of new cases
the center of the pandemic, CMS tory outbreak.” room with a broken exhaust fan. outside the scope of anything washing techniques and infec- because it was possible that all
has renewed calls to nursing CMS threatened to cut off Two outbreaks of the flu had that we had seen, anything that tion control, restricted visitors residents and staff had contract-
homes to comply with federal Medicare and Medicaid funding affected at least 17 residents and federal agencies had seen, any- and screened staff for fevers. At ed the virus.
rules for infection control. if the deficiencies are not correct- seven staff members. thing that our . . . public health an inspection earlier this month, At home after two weeks in
Inspectors have documented ed by September. The agency also The infection-control citation departments had seen, and no inspectors did not find deficien- self-quarantine, in a bedroom
the problems for years, but the fined the facility more than that followed was classified as agencies had given us specific cies related to covid-19, records with family photos and a televi-
agency classifies nearly all $600,000, though the amount low-level. Life Care corrected the guidelines or provided . . . addi- show. sion tuned to “Dr. Phil,” Sluzyn-
infection-control deficiencies as could change if Life Care com- deficiencies, state records show, tional resources to us to prepare A state health department rep- sky’s mother has shown no signs
a low-level concern, which plies with a correction plan. The and went on to receive an overall our facility.” resentative declined to discuss of infection.
means they do not trigger penal- state banned Life Care from ac- rating of five stars, the highest Killian said state and federal conditions at the facility. At a “When I see how people are
ties or fines. Dark, with the cepting new admissions until rating from CMS. officials should have provided news conference, Tennessee De- taken care of there . . . and when I
California watchdog group, calls fixes are made, including train- “There’s no teeth,” Toby Edel- testing, equipment and far more partment of Health Commission- look at my mom, I think, ‘Is this
them “paper violations.” ing staff in infectious-disease man, senior policy attorney with support early on. Even as the er Lisa Piercey called the nursing what your life has come to? Is this
Of more than 20,000 infec- management. the nonprofit Center for Medi- facility struggled to care for pa- home “an excellent partner.” it?’ ” Sluzynsky said. “I just didn’t
tion-control infractions since Candace Goehring, Washing- care Advocacy, said of the infrac- tients, he said, the staff was More than 10 people linked to want to see my mother’s life come
2016, only 151 were classified as ton state director of residential tions. “[CMS] could . . . actually forced to spend nearly 1,000 the Gallatin Center have died to this.”
higher-level violations that care services, said state agencies do something about it — take hours working with government from the virus, including 80- debra.cenziper@washpost.com
caused significant harm or im- now know more about control- action. They could treat these inspectors. year-old Homer Barr, a father of
mediate jeopardy to residents. ling and responding to out- problems as the serious prob- Cami Neidigh said she is just four and retired fire captain. Jacobs and mulcahy are graduate
In mid-March, federal inspec- breaks. “I’m sure we will all be lems they are.” grateful to have her 90-year-old “I let my dad down and I can’t students in journalism at
tors went to the Life Care Center going back . . . to understand Tim Killian, a public informa- mother home. go back,” said Barr’s daughter, northwestern university’s medill
of Kirkland, the Washington how do we better prepare,” she tion liaison for Life Care Centers After developing a fever at Life Deneen. “I pray to God that he Investigative Lab. Post database
state nursing home linked to said. of America, said the nursing Care, the great-great-grand- didn’t have to suffer.” editor Dan Keating and researcher
more than 40 deaths and more A year ago at Life Care, records home has followed all guidance mother was sent to an isolation In Beaver County outside Pitts- alice crites contributed to this
than 100 cases of coronavirus show, inspectors found respira- from the state and federal gov- room in a Seattle hospital, diag- burgh, the Brighton Rehabilita- report, along with sidnee King,
infection. They found the facility tory equipment mixed in with ernment. The facility regularly nosed with covid-19, the disease tion and Wellness Center was arnab mondal, areeba shah, alexa
had failed to properly identify bedcovers and socks, kitchen makes adjustments to improve caused by the coronavirus. Nei- cited multiple times in recent mikhail and Dan rosenzweig-Ziff at
and manage sick patients or alert staff who handled clean dishes patient care based on feedback digh and the rest of the family, years for infection-control laps- the medill Investigative Lab.

Dow jumps as stocks cap 2 weeks of gains on hopeful virus signs

BY T HOMAS H EATH Chevron and ExxonMobil, rose on Markets had been flashing tion.” Still, Gilead shares spiked 10 ment being generated by the would gradually begin to reopen
AND R ACHEL S IEGEL investor sentiment that a major green all day on reports that an percent. White House’s plan to begin slow- its economy as early as next week.
contraction in oil production will antiviral medicine was showing The rally comes after three ly rolling back lockdown mea- Its biggest automaker, Volkswa-
U.S. stocks advanced a second raise prices to the benefit of the promise. Stat news reported weeks of dismal economic num- sures,” said Kristina Hooper, glob- gen, said it plans to resume car
straight week as governments be- biggest, most well-capitalized Thursday that severely ill corona- bers showing the pandemic has al market strategist at Invesco. “It production.
gan taking baby steps toward re- companies. virus patients were responding erased all U.S. job gains from the seems clear that, as of late, stocks That buoyed global markets.
opening their economies and on The last two weeks have seen a well to remdesivir, a Gilead Sci- past decade. Last week, 5.2 mil- have chosen to look through what Britain’s FTSE 100 popped
early signs that science may be swarm of news around health ences drug, at a Chicago hospital. lion Americans filed unemploy- is expected to be a dramatic drop 2.8 percent, the German DAX
gaining on the coronavirus. companies seeking virus treat- The trial involved only 125 people ment claims, bringing the total to in earnings, and forward to a climbed 3.2 percent and the
The Dow Jones industrial aver- ments and governments easing and the preliminary results were 22 million in the four weeks since resurgence in economic activity benchmark Stoxx 600 gained
age surged 704.81 points on Fri- pandemic curbs. The result has not peer reviewed, but it was wel- President Trump declared a na- in the not-too-distant future.” 2.6 percent. In Asia, Japan’s Nik-
day to finish at 24,242.49, a 3 per- been stocks bouncing way up come news for investors looking tional emergency. State leaders also are making kei 225 spiked 3.2 percent and
cent gain. The blue-chip index got from the recent lows that had for light at the end of the pandem- The outbreak continues to early moves to open their econo- Hong Kong’s Hang Seng jumped
a big boost after aerospace giant ended the 10-year bull market. ic tunnel, and the economic recov- force tens of millions of Ameri- mies. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) 1.6 percent.
Boeing announced it would re- The S&P has rebounded 28 per- ery that will come with it. cans to stay home and disrupt on Friday announced the forma- Oil prices remain at an 18-year-
sume manufacturing jetliners cent off its March 23 low, though it “Investors are looking past the entire industries amid wide- tion of a statewide task force that low as airline travel, driving and
starting Monday. Boeing shares remains 15 percent from its economic abyss and accentuating spread stay-at-home mandates, could reopen the state by early manufacturing have slowed to a
spiked nearly 15 percent. Feb. 19 peak. The Dow has ad- the positives on the health-care though there was movement on May. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis crawl. U.S. crude was selling near
The Standard & Poor’s 500- vanced around 30 percent from front,” said Ed Yardeni, president that front, too. (R) gave his blessing for munici- $18 a barrel Friday, a small frac-
stock index closed the day up its March 23 low but sits 18 per- of Yardeni Research. Trump on Thursday released palities to start opening up parks tion of what oil producers need to
2.7 percent, at 2,874.56; the broad cent down from its Feb. 12 all-time On Friday, University of Chica- federal guidelines for a gradual and beaches while maintaining make a profit. If prices remain
index is now 15 percent higher high. go Medicine moved to temper return to normal in places with social distancing. depressed long term, many oil
than it was two weeks ago. The The Wilshire 5000 index of all expectations and emphasized minimal coronavirus cases, even Ten U.S. states, including three companies, suppliers and adja-
tech-heavy Nasdaq composite the stocks actively traded in the that “partial data from an ongo- as health experts, business lead- on the West Coast and seven in the cent service industries will be
climbed 1.4 percent to end at United States is down 16.7 per- ing clinical trial is by definition ers and government officials say east, this week began mapping gravely wounded, resulting in
8,650.14. All 11 stock market sec- cent, or approximately $6.1 tril- incomplete and should never be the nation’s testing capacity for out a coordinated effort to ease bankruptcies and potentially
tors were up, with energy and lion since Feb. 19. It’s up 28 per- used to draw conclusions about the virus needs to be significantly lockdown restrictions and begin massive layoffs.
financials leading the way. Shares cent, or $6.6 trillion, from the safety or efficacy of a potential expanded to ensure public safety. opening businesses. thomas.heath@washpost.com
in the major U.S. oil companies, March 23. treatment that is under investiga- “There is also positive senti- Germany this week said that it rachel.siegel@washpost.com
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the coronavirus pandemic

Rocky rollout on delivery of stimulus checks, other relief

bAIlout from A1 ments being sent to incorrect ministration has not made much their systems have struggled to
bank accounts, failures to include progress on an additional con- make unemployment aid avail-
message: “payment status not $500 checks for children, and not gressional package that both par- able for gig workers and self-em-
available.” getting money at all due to a ties believe is necessary to dra- ployed workers who don’t nor-
Current and former govern- technical glitch involving some matically increase the size of the mally qualify for money but were
ment officials say it would be a accounts of people who used tax loan program for small business- made eligible by the new law.
tall order for any president to preparers. es. “our systems are barely keep-
execute massive new programs in for example, the IrS sent “People will say I’m a micro- ing up with the overwhelming
a matter of weeks, and tens of 300,000 stimulus payments erro- manager and involved in lots of volume,” said Phil murphy (D),
millions of Americans did receive neously to accounts held by the details,” mnuchin said in an inter- the governor of New Jersey,
direct deposits worth $1,200 or bank metaBank that no longer view. “A lot of money has been whose state has advertised a se-
more this week. But the Trump exists. These accounts are only allocated to us by Congress and I ries of jobs recently seeking peo-
administration’s promise of swift used temporarily during tax sea- want to be involved in under- ple proficient in old program-
and effective action — President son to receive refunds and figure standing the details.” ming languages.
Trump called the small business out what fees go to the tax prepar- He added, “If I’m a bottleneck, florida has resorted to hand-
program “flawlessly executed” er and what amount goes back to I’m happy I’m a bottleneck — ing out paper applications and
this week — is colliding with a the taxpayer. The bank sent the getting a lot done.” said this week it has a backlog of
federal and state apparatus not money back to the IrS, which is mnuchin was critical to sealing 850,000 applications. So far, the
well designed to deliver so much now likely to issue paper checks. the deal over the stimulus last state has sent money to only
money so fast. The IrS didn’t attempt to send month, but in his absence, prog- 34,000 people.
The technological backbone to out payments to certain other ress on another measure to ex- Among those still waiting for
much of the relief — including the clients of tax preparers because pand funding for small business- their first check is Khalid mah-
cHrIs O'meArA/AssOcIAted Press
distribution of relief checks and the system couldn’t find their es has been slow, according to mood, 66, an Uber driver in
the unemployment insurance direct deposit information. The Hillsborough County library Service employee Stephen Duran multiple congressional aides. Woodbridge, Va.
system — requires knowledge of a glitch potentially impacts up to wears gloves to protect himself from the coronavirus as he hands mnuchin said in an interview he mahmood had been driving for
software programming language 21 million people, according to unemployment paperwork to a tampa resident last week. has continued to negotiate close- the ride-hailing company to sup-
not widely used in decades. An consumer law expert Vijay ly with Democrats this week on plement his Social Security in-
administration that had made raghavan. The IrS has also used individual and business tax fil- having challenges. The Treasury fixes to the small business pro- come, which by itself isn’t enough
little priority of keeping senior some 2018 taxpayer data, and ings was developed in 1962 — and Department, under mnuchin, is gram. to cover his rent and other
positions staffed, meanwhile, is some people have died or a computer programming lan- working to oversee a sprawling Democrats have demanded ad- monthly bills, but had to stop as
struggling now to quickly imple- changed banks, further compli- guage called CoBoL. The stimu- rescue — including the IrS — ditional help for hospital workers the coronavirus shuttered busi-
ment one of the biggest govern- cating the process. lus program has required multi- even while its own senior ranks and other concessions alongside nesses statewide. Since then, he’s
ment interventions in history. The IrS said it is aware of the ple coding changes, and the agen- are depleted. increasing small business lend- tried and failed to obtain unem-
If problems continue, it could problems, but is limited in what it cy has at least 16 other databases Treasury headed into the crisis ing. republicans have resisted, ployment aid.
leave people even less able to pay can do to help quickly. Taxpayers with taxpayer information, none with vacancies in more than half though on friday they suggested “No records found,” Virginia’s
bills or buy groceries and further trying to sort out why they got an of which easily can communicate a dozen senior positions, some of a willingness to trade for more site keeps telling him.
exacerbate the economic decline. inaccurate check — or nothing at with the other, said a person whom would otherwise be play- SBA funding. “most of my friends who are
Politically, it could be highly dam- all when they qualified for a familiar with the matter. ing key roles in processing the The SBA has rapidly run out of Uber drivers, they have had no
aging to Trump, who is continu- payment — are unable to commu- “[The agency] didn’t have the work, according to critics of the money as businesses clamor for money since the day they stopped
ing to belittle his predecessor’s nicate with the IrS. With the tax time to think about the outliers,” administration. mnuchin does funds. The initial bill approved by working,” mahmood added, esti-
record of managing complex gov- filing deadline delayed to July 15, said a senior IrS official familiar not have a chief of staff, for Congress included about mating they’ve been without a
ernment operations. the agency closed the last of its with the agency’s technology op- instance, or an undersecretary $349 billion in loans for the small check for over a month now.
“Biden/obama were a disaster service centers — in ogden, Utah eration who spoke on the condi- for domestic finance, a role re- business program, but within “They are in a very bad situation.”
in handling the H1N1 Swine flu. — early last week, and the IrS tion of anonymity to be candid. sponsible for monitoring large days it became clear the money But even people who don’t
Polling at the time showed disas- had not been able to expand a “You’ve got two filing years. changes in the U.S. economy. would not last long, and the have complicated situations
trous approval numbers. 17,000 pilot telework program for phone You’ve got divorced people. In the interview, mnuchin administration has already asked aren’t getting aid.
people died unnecessarily and agents because of the pandemic, You’ve got people who’ve changed strongly disputed that he had for an additional $250 billion. michael mcCleary, a longtime
through incompetence!” Trump the agency said. bank accounts. They simply allowed key vacancies in the Trea- A separate emergency loan hotel concierge worker at a prom-
tweeted friday, adding “Also, Americans were told to use the couldn’t account for every single sury Department, pointing to a program, meant as a bridge for inent District hotel, applied for
don’t forget their 5 Billion Dollar “Get my Payment” portal on the scenario.” long list of officials in top posi- small firms as they wait, was unemployment insurance on
obamacare website that should IrS website to check on the status The IrS raced to stand up the tions and saying Congress should completely overwhelmed after march 20. At first, the system said
have cost close to nothing!” of their payment and see if they stimulus program with a deplet- move faster to confirm his ap- receiving more than 3 million he had an “unresolved issue” and
The White House on friday need to input their bank account ed staff. overall, the agency had pointees. Treasury has two depu- applications. would be contacted if more infor-
defended its rollout, saying of the information. But many people 76,000 employees last June, ty chiefs of staff. The unemployment safety net mation was needed. He called the
80 million payments made this who went on the portal received a down from 99,500 in 2010. Doz- mnuchin personally reviews system, run by the Department of office daily to try to fix it. on
week, all but 1 percent reached message that the IrS doesn’t ens of experts in the agency’s department news releases and Labor and the states, has been Thursday, he waited on hold for
their intended recipients. Trump know the status of their payment. legacy computer systems have informational pages, while also equally deluged as more than nearly three hours only to be
on friday called the initiative an or they were locked out altogeth- left or retired, current and former interacting frequently with law- 22 million Americans have been disconnected.
“incredible success.” er. officials said. Starting in 2011, makers, federal reserve officials, laid off or furloughed since At 2 a.m. friday morning, he
“We couldn’t be more proud of “The IrS systems are still hard- republicans in Congress have re- the SBA, foreign banking minis- Trump declared a national emer- logged into the portal again and
what we’ve done,” Treasury Secre- coded,” said John Koskinen, who peatedly sought cuts to the IrS ters, and international institu- gency on march 13. saw he had finally been approved
tary Steven mnuchin said friday was IrS commissioner from 2013 budget. tions such as the World Bank and Unemployment insurance is a — a month after he applied.
in an interview. to 2017. “It’s not just a keystroke IrS spokeswoman Jodie reyn- International monetary fund, ac- federal program, but each state “I’m monitoring my bank ac-
Still, the administration faces a to go into the code and make the olds said: “The IrS delivered this cording to the people in close administers it for its residents. count to make sure it goes
big test as over 70 million addi- change and hope you’ve made it unprecedented effort in record contact. on top of that, mnuchin many states were unprepared for through. It should be a matter of
tional taxpayers are eligible for correctly. When you set up a new time, delivering the first round of was also intimately involved the rush, which caused websites days before I get a direct deposit,”
relief, and many of those without portal like this, it requires you to payments less than three weeks much of this week in crafting the to crash repeatedly and forced mcCleary, 63, said. “There’s just
bank accounts or direct deposit get into some very old legacy after the law was signed. for federal rescue package for the people to call dozens of times a so much uncertainty.”
information on file could face systems.” comparison, the stimulus pay- federal airlines. day to try to get through. heather.long@washpost.com
lengthy delays. The IrS uses a decades-old ments delivered in 2008 took 75 With mnuchin personally ab- many states have such outdat- jeff.stein@washpost.com
Among the problems taxpayers software — its “masterfile” soft- days to begin to reach taxpayers.” sorbed in implementing the first ed technology — which also rely lisa.rein@washpost.com
reported this week were pay- ware responsible for processing The IrS isn’t the only agency major bailout package, the ad- on decades-old software — that tony.romm@washpost.com

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Free For All

Election ’20 one-ups covid-19
The Post is doing a real disservice to the long-term
Unsanctioned
interests of the country by putting covid-19 coverage Numerous news reports say
so consistently and completely at the top of the front doctors, nurses and others are or
page that it minimizes the many other important fear experiencing shortages of res-
things happening in the nation and the world. pirator masks in the coronavirus
The most important event of this year — in which pandemic.
readers will have an informed say — will be the The March 28 Metro article
November election. The Post should give much more “Hospitals in danger of being
attention to what the Trump administration is doing swamped” said, “The Maryland
with regard to the environment, judicial appoint- Department of Health urged hos-
ments, government integrity and other issues of pitals to reuse respirator masks
long-term consequence in addition to covid-19 and whenever possible — a practice
to what is happening in the rest of the world. Yes, The sanctioned by the federal Centers
Post is covering these issues, but it is treating them as for Disease Control and Preven-
if they are incidental. They are not. The Post’s tion amid the national shortage,
covid-19 coverage also risks becoming sensationalist, which has seen hospitals in New
as the paper hypes every little thing coming out of York, Washington state and else-
the White House. where overwhelmed.”
Can we get just the facts on the virus, its economic Use of the word “sanction” can
and social effects, and much more about what else create confusion. “Sanction” and
we need to know about non-covid-19 issues, please? its derivatives have opposing dic-
Catherine Brown, Washington tionary definitions; the word can
denote either approval or disap-
proval. Dictionaries commonly
Must be a portmanteau CIndy ord/AgenCe FrAnCe-Presse/getty ImAges
define “sanction” (whether as a
noun or as a verb) to mean basical-
A few weeks ago, the novel coronavirus became a A man and woman wear protective masks in New York on March 26. ly: (1) an official approval, permis-
pandemic, but now it seems that the pandemic has sion or ratification; or (2) an eco-
become a virus, with effects reaching The Post. An
April 1 Local Digest headline stated, “Man throws
rocks at parademic vehicle.” What kind of vehicle
A disease that discriminates nomic or military coercive mea-
sure designed to enforce a law or
standard (for example, a threat or
might that be? A direct translation would render it the fine designed to penalize a nation
rarest of the rare. The April 6 news article “Coronavirus killing more men than which typically protects men, and only one X chromosome that has violated an international
Abigail Rome, Silver Spring women, data show” speculated that estrogen could be a factor creating less immune response function for men than women. law). For example, we commonly
in the difference in outcomes between men and women. Here’s While those evolutionary biological variables may be shaping speak of “sanctioning,” say, North
an easy test: Pre- and postmenopausal women have radically what is known about the gendered rates of covid-19 deaths, and Korea or Iran, meaning: imposing
The fault in our stars-reading different levels of estrogen, with the average age of menopause there are some sociocultural variables included in the article, a penalty in response to a trans-
being 51. How do women of different ages fare compared with other key variables of gender inequality that disproportionate- gression of international law or
Please do readers a favor and scrap the ridiculous men of their own age? Is a typical 35-year-old woman’s advan- ly affect women were left out. These include, at global levels: standards (clearly, an action of
King Features horoscope in the Style section that on tage over her 35-year-old male counterpart greater than a greater numbers of poor and vulnerable women living at the disapproval).
April 2 called fellow Geminis to “plan a social typical 65-year-old woman’s advantage over her 65-year-old margins of society and the economy with reduced nutritional To promote clarity, the only
gathering where you can shine.” It is no longer male counterpart? This could give insight into whether estro- access; greater numbers of women without health care and/or time to use the inherently ambigu-
relevant, interesting or amusing. gen is a factor in the difference in outcomes observed, and access to hospitals; increasing rates of sexual violence in ous, potentially confusing term
Kevin Chaffee, Washington might be a treatment option. lockdown — stress and fear reduce immune protections; as “sanction” is when the term is
And why, in the articles I’ve seen on this issue of sex- well as women confined to domestic spaces in extreme gender- preceded by a word such as “eco-
differentiated outcomes, has no one raised this question? This segregated societies. These often-combined factors lead to nomic,” which makes the meaning
postmenopausal woman would like to know that, too. social invisibility. of “sanction” clear in that context
Linda Falcão, Baltimore The current numbers of those who are dying include only as a disapproval.
those visible sectors of society that can quickly be measured. Please sanction (meaning “dis-
The April 6 news article “Coronavirus killing more men Diana J. Fox, Providence, R.I. approve”) use of the ambiguous
than women, data show” contended that older men are dying at The writer is chairperson of the Department word “sanction,” to lessen confu-
higher rates than women because of less testosterone produced of Anthropology at Bridgewater State University and founder sion among readers.
in old age leading to reduced inflammatory-fighting capacity, and editor of the Journal of International Women’s Studies. Brooks J. Bowen, Potomac

Confusion about Er, we mean, SARS-CoV-2

the novel coronavirus The Post consistently uses the term “the novel novel coronavirus.” Confusion will reign.
coronavirus” to denote the virus causing the The CDC states that the official scientific name
Amanda Ripley’s April 7 Tuesday Opinion essay, “Five current pandemic. For example, this designation of the virus causing this pandemic is “SARS-
ways to conquer your covid-19 fears,” counseled that the was used four times in the April 4 front-page CoV-2,” a term used twice in the article men-
best defense against the threat of the virus is to boost our article “For weeks, scientists’ alarm over flawed tioned above. In the interest of accuracy, I would
immune systems. Michael S. Saag’s April 7 op-ed, “What test grew.” encourage The Post to use only the correct
an epidemiologist learned about the virus — from This term is imprecise and ambiguous. The scientific name for this virus. A bonus advantage
getting it,” explained that the most dangerous thing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is that “SARS-CoV-2” takes up less type space
about the virus is an “overexuberant” immune response. website defines “novel coronavirus” as any than “the novel coronavirus,” leaving more room
I searched the pages in vain for a third essay, telling coronavirus not previously identified. Thus, if we in the paper for additional nuggets of
JonAtHAn newton/tHe wAsHIngton Post me how to reconcile the first two. get hit next year by a different new coronavirus, information.
Former Redskin Bobby Mitchell in 2000. Joshua Muravchik, Wheaton then that virus will presumably become “the Allan R. Glass, Bethesda

There goes my hero

I was saddened to read that Bobby Mitchell had
An enchanting toy story
been put off by so many people, in effect diminish- Thanks for the March 31 Metro article “Hotel
ing his on-field exploits, by focusing so much on his staff ’s care for girl’s lost toy delights thousands,” a
importance in integrating the Redskins [“Hall of fabulous, we-need-it-more-than-ever story about a
Famer Mitchell, Redskins star, dies at 84,” Sports, 2-year-old’s misplaced toy dog, Ruff Ruff. Staffers at
April 6]. I was 6 years old when Mitchell came to a Richmond hotel made sure he went to the right
the Redskins, when I was growing up in my place instead of going to a child in their own life.
lily-white Chevy Chase neighborhood. I want his Bravo!
family to know that among my friends and family, Kathleen Smith, Alexandria
he was just a great player on our favorite team. Cer-
tainly, as a child, I was rather naive about all the
integration controversy, but we were happy he
played for us.
Jim Gaarder, Columbia

A not-so-grand slam
Because I am a baseball fan, I eagerly started
reading “The Nats’ heart-stopping ride to the 2019
World Series,” Chuck Todd’s March 29 Book World
review of Jesse Dougherty’s “Buzz Saw: The Improb-
able Story of How the Washington Nationals Won
the World Series.”
I stopped after the first sentence.
Why? Because it slammed President Trump,
mICHAel s. megonIgAl
instead of telling about grand slams or anything else
about baseball. Marley Megonigal, 11, and her father recently
I didn’t read this review; I will not read this book. helped pay for groceries for folks struggling
Trashing Trump is plentiful in every issue of The during the coronavirus pandemic.
Post. But it is a disservice to readers when it is
allowed to permeate seemingly every section and
article in the paper, even when it is not relevant.
High-caliber humans
Collin A. Agee, Falls Church The April 4 Metro article “Making a dent in hard BonnIe Jo mount/tHe wAsHIngton Post

times” was a marvelous, heartwarming story about A pedestrian passes Ben’s Chili Bowl on U Street NW in Washington on March 30.
the grocery shopping generosity showed to complete
Grand old times
While ardent sports fans await live sporting
strangers by Michael S. Megonigal and his daughter,
Marley. Almost makes me want to go out and wreck
my car so I can bring it to Megonigal’s Caliber
Holy smokes, that’s deserted
events, The Post should publish archived sports Collision for repair. Almost. The photographs alone in the April 5 special of the pervasiveness and insidiousness of
articles and photos. It might provide much-needed Clever headline, too. section “24 hours inside the lives upended by a covid-19.
entertainment much like the classic games now Jay Vivari, Bethesda pandemic in the nation’s capital” tell the story Jim Gardiner , Washington
appearing on several TV stations. We can all use a lift
now. Let’s help fill the darkness.
Patricia Bender, Mount Airy
Write different
Why privilege one commercial brand in a histori-
The ones who win cal reference to technology development? In her
April 9 Thursday Opinion column, “Congress needs
I was appalled to read Jim Martin’s March 28 Free to learn to work from home,” which made an
For All letter, “To win, draw,” in which he suggested excellent case for a system to enable remote voting
that female athletes should be paid based on for Congress, Karen Tumulty mentioned an era
advertising dollars, which are based on attendance “before the debut of the iPhone.” What she meant
and viewing. If Martin wants to believe this discrimi- was the time before smartphones, of which there are
natory claim, then we should make sure we hold multiple brands that work just as well as the identi-
men’s sports to the same standard. The claim is fied brand. Tumulty noted that members of Congress
bogus. Just take a look at the difference between the should be able to vote “using FaceTime or some other
men’s and women’s national soccer teams. The men’s virtual means.” There are plenty of relevant apps
team couldn’t even make the World Cup, but the lInColn PeIrCe/Andrews mCmeel syndICAtIon available, and millions of us use Android phones.
women have won the past two. The April 9 “Big Nate” I could enumerate the many problems I have
Patrick Stevenson, Purcellville experienced with Apple products over the years,

Punching as the punchline including the iPhone, and promote what I find to be
the best phone ever (the Google Pixel), which would
constitute an appropriate use of specific brand
 letters can be sent to letters@washpost.com. The April 9 Style section included two comic strips In this time of increased stress caused by family names, but I will stick to asking The Post not to
submissions should include the writer’s address and that ended with someone beaten to a pulp, complete members being forced to live in proximity for extend- publish references to the brand names “FaceTime”
telephone number. we are unable to acknowledge with stars as the “punchline.” And this didn’t include ed periods of time, can we appeal to these so-called and “iPhone” when the intention is to identify a
submissions; writers whose letters are under the strip “Beetle Bailey,” where that is often the final arbiters of humor to tamp down the violence? general object. Apple does not need free advertising.
consideration for publication will be contacted. frame. Eric Greene, Annapolis Mary Packard-Winkler, Bethesda
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letters@washpost.com

AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Mitigating the damage

Staff members who work in D.C. nursing homes
eDItorIAls and detention facilities should be tested for the novel
coronavirus on a priority basis immediately. There is

The gap in the guidance simple logic to support this progressive and compas-
sionate act. It’s estimated that some 25 percent of
people who transmit the virus have no symptoms.
We know hard-working and dedicated staff mem-
bers are already taking extraordinary measures in
Mr. Trump’s reopening plan envisions robust testing that isn’t yet possible. these facilities to sanitize, to promote social distanc-
ing and to detect staff infections. This typically
HE WHITE HOUSE guidance titled “Open- the existing system is inadequate. New York have to be multiplied roughly 23 times just to reach includes taking the temperatures of staff as they enter.

T ing Up America Again” released Thursday

evening comes with a reasonable aspira-
tion for a phased recovery that does not
ignite a fresh outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
President Trump wisely didn’t repeat his misguid-
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, said correctly,
“This has to be figured out. I understand that this is
a problematic area, and the federal government’s
not eager to get involved in testing. I get that, but
the plain reality here is we have to do it in
half of the pre-pandemic workforce. Even if the
dimensions are less because of job losses, this
would seem to be a colossal problem demanding
Mr. Trump’s leadership.
Aside from the current scattershot U.S. approach
However, it is very likely that recent infections in
nursing homes have been passed to patients by
well-meaning, asymptomatic staff members who
come in to treat these weakest of citizens.
How many people must die in nursing homes and
ed assertion of total authority. But this new partnership with the federal government.” to testing, another major challenge is supply detention before the District provides a few hundred
guidance has a glaring gap: Who will address the Judging by his briefing Thursday evening, shortages. The diagnostic tests, no matter who does tests that will go a long way toward saving lives? My
enormous bottleneck of diagnostic testing, which Mr. Trump does not get it. But his own advisers them, require specialized chemicals, known as 88-year-old aunt died of covid-19 in a nursing home in
remains far below what is needed to reopen the seem to realize what they are up against. The Post reagents. The pandemic created a global supply Rochester, N.Y., last week.
country? reports that Mr. Trump’s team was thinking of shock. Much of the supply came from China, and it Judith Thompkins, Washington
Mr. Trump’s guidance to governors and local requiring that most workers get tested before going will take time to build infrastructure for more. A
officials envisions robust testing that does not yet back to work but eventually settled on seeking separate type of testing, serology, which checks for In his April 13 op-ed, “How economists led us
exist. The testing would help isolate the sick so the testing for a far more limited set of four key groups: antibodies in those people who have recovered astray,” Robert J. Samuelson wrote, “What we conve-
well could return to work. Mr. Trump said in a health-care workers, food-safety workers, those in from infection, currently has sufficient supply, but niently overlooked was the need to preserve our
conference call to governors on Thursday, “You’re nursing homes and people with chronic diseases. a shortage is coming there, too. Swabs are a critical borrowing power for an unknown crisis that requires
going to call your own shots.” He is pushing them That alone may require millions more tests that element in testing and also scarce. a huge infusion of federal cash.”
off in a canoe with a smile — and saying good luck don’t exist. And what about everyone else? If Mr. Trump were really in a take-charge mood, Yes, the capacity to borrow at a reasonable interest
finding a paddle. Before the pandemic, the U.S. workforce was he would convene a task force to figure out how to rate (or the seigniorage when printing money) is a
They cannot do it alone. The United States about 157 million people. The total tests to date in overcome these very real obstacles. The toll taken very valuable strategic sovereign asset, and it should
cannot return to normal without mass testing, and the United States, 3.4 million as of Friday, would by leadership failure is growing by the hour. not be squandered away by benefiting the members of
the current generations or with some nonproductive
investments.
So, when public borrowings are authorized, that

No time for should require Congress being upfront that a part of

that borrowing capacity is being consumed, which has
a cost, and give an indication of who (children or

partisan drama grandchildren born in what year) are expected to have

to pay back that debt.
Mr. Samuelson also referred to “low dollar interest
rates [that] will keep down the costs of servicing the
debt.” Sadly, those current “low dollar interest rates”
Congressional leaders must work are artificial rates, much subsidized in that since 1988,
together to fund small businesses. with Basel I regulations, banks are not required to
hold any capital against Treasurys, and of course
FTER A rocky start, the Paycheck Protec- subsidized by the Federal Reserve purchasing huge

A tion Program, the $350 billion small-

business rescue plan approved in March as
part of the Cares Act, seems to be on its way
to accomplishing Congress’s goal of enabling small
companies to ride out the coronavirus storm
quantities of Treasurys.
Per Kurowski, Rockville
The writer was an executive director
of the World Bank from 2002 to 2004.

without layoffs. The problem is that it has run out I am sad to say that Robert J. Samuelson’s April 13
of money, after approving low-interest, forgivable op-ed blaming “academic economists” rather than
loans to 1.6 million applicants. The program needs President Trump and congressional Republicans for
a second dose of funding — $250 billion, according our massive pre-coronavirus budget deficits was
to a request from Treasury Secretary Steven hugely misleading.
Mnuchin — to help finish the work and save more In 2016, Mr. Trump ran on investing in U.S.
jobs. With unemployment spiking to Depression- infrastructure but instead presided over a massive tax
era levels, Republicans and Democrats need to giveaway primarily to wealthy Americans and major
negotiate, urgently and in good faith, toward corporations, the latter using it mainly to buy back
approval of the necessary funds. their own stock. So rather than investing in long-term
So far, however, what’s been happening is a U.S. economic competitiveness and job creation that a
resurgence of the partisanship and vitriol that well-designed infrastructure bill would produce, we
lawmakers had seemingly put behind them in got a short-term “sugar high” that barely registered in
andrew HarnIK/assocIated Press
passing the Cares Act unanimously. Without con- the real economy and cost $2 trillion, the largest
sulting Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Mitch House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), left, and run-up of non-wartime debt during a growing econo-
McConnell (R-Ky.) brought a $250 billion program House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) right, with the printed text of the Cares Act on March 27. my in our history.
extension to the floor, proposing it for passage by Now, many Republicans in Congress, including
unanimous consent given the pandemic-enforced Protection Program should get its $250 billion, Congress can convene and vote on that massive Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), have
absence of most senators. When Democrats inevita- and the GOP should at least partially meet item in person. the temerity to suggest we can’t afford an economic
bly refused to play along, he and his party led a Democrats’ demands for tens of billions more in With communications broken down between recovery bill modernizing our infrastructure and
campaign of vilification against them. GOP opera- hospital funding. It is true, as Republicans say, Capitol Hill Democratic leaders and both Mr. Mc- making 5G communications investments, even while
tives have been mocking House Speaker Nancy that the first $100 billion for hospitals already Connell and Mr. Trump, Mr. Mnuchin will have to tens of millions are filing for unemployment and the
Pelosi (D-Calif.) as an “ice queen” because she made allocated in the Cares Act has not all been spent, do the Republicans’ bargaining with Ms. Pelosi and economy faces a demand shortage. Sure, we must
a video in which she eats ice cream in front of her but the money is bound to run out soon. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer reduce our debt when the economy is very strong
high-end kitchen refrigerator. President Trump Encouragingly, a key GOP leader, House Minority (D-N.Y.), as he did in the final stages of Cares Act again, as Mr. Samuelson notes. But can anyone still
chimed in with a tweet blasting her as “crazy” and Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), said Friday he negotiations. This is a sorry state of affairs for a think “academic economists” are the real problem?
“weak.” For their part, Democrats see the need for would support more funding. Also needed is a Congress seemingly intent on undoing the surge in Paul Bledsoe, Arlington
unanimous consent on an extension not only as a substantial increase in a separate, preexisting public approval — to a 10-year high of 30 percent in The writer is a strategic adviser at the
must for the economy but also as leverage for their Small Business Administration program, Econom- the Gallup poll — that it had achieved through its Progressive Policy Institute and served on the staff
wish list of funding and policy changes that go ic Injury Disaster Loans, as an additional source of earlier bipartisanship. With enough adults in the of the Senate Finance Committee.
beyond the Cares Act agreement. sustenance to hard-hit firms. Democrats should be room, however, the parties may yet get to yes. They
For all the sniping, a deal is probably possible willing to settle for a binding commitment to must do so, for the sake of their own reputations In his April 12 Sunday Opinion column, “When
and reasonable terms identifiable. The Paycheck address state and local government needs when and, more important, for the sake of the country. you drown the government, people die,” Dana Mil-
bank correctly recounted the ways in which the tea
party ideology has succeeded in starving (or “drown-
ing”) government expertise — with catastrophic con-

Remote control sequences. Remarkably, the lesson that many Repub-

licans are drawing from the current failures is not that
government matters but that — see? — government is
incompetent. Heads I win, tails you lose.
We need a functioning legislature. Congress should back a plan for voting from afar. Clare Wolfowitz, Chevy Chase

OUSE SPEAKER Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Committee Chairman Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and mittee work will take more effort, but former A sure sign of society’s unraveling is when its

H has announced her support for allowing

representatives to vote by proxy, a wel-
come change from Congress’s previous
plan not to return to Washington until next month
“absent an emergency.” Lawmakers in both cham-
would allow lawmakers who can’t return to Congress
to delegate their votes to others who more easily
could. It’s a low-lift, low-technology fix that serves
well as a temporary measure. But it still prevents the
rank and file from being able to debate, amend and
officeholders tried out a mock hearing on Zoom
this week to get things rolling.
There are legal roadblocks. Any form of remote
voting will require rules changes — and authorizing
those changes could require relying on the same
administration of justice breaks down. In his April 12
Outlook essay, “The forever bars,” John Pfaff argued in
favor of that scenario by advocating the release of
prison inmates convicted and sentenced for murder,
rape and other violent felonies.
bers ought to get behind the idea as a first step in a negotiate as they did when it was still safe to sit voice-vote tactic this whole enterprise is designed Mr. Pfaff stated that our “draconian” incarceration
broader strategy for legislating remotely. After all, within six feet of someone. For that, Congress must to avoid. Even then, constitutional challenges may of violent offenders portrays them as “not fully
we’re in an emergency already. contemplate a higher-lift, higher-tech move toward emerge. Any proposal also ought to ensure that human.” On the other hand, by releasing convicted
The novel coronavirus makes the business of virtual voting, hearings and markups in which all these protocols are reserved only for emergencies. murderers and rapists before they complete their
in-person governing riskier than ever. Yet relying members can participate. The drafts circulating so far demanding bipartisan prison sentences, their victims are seen by society as
indefinitely on a voice-vote strategy just won’t It won’t be easy. In fact, the voting itself may be approval to authorize 30 days of remote voting take of little importance despite the suffering they endured
work. The country needs a functional legislature to the simplest part: Security concerns exist but the right approach. at the hands of those criminals.
forge the pandemic response as democratically as shouldn’t be insurmountable. A Washington firm Something is lost when politics has to happen Scott Wallace, Leesburg
possible; unanimous consent leaves little room for called Markup.Law has crafted a two-factor au- from a distance. There won’t be any running into a
minority voices to make themselves heard without thentication system on spec and demonstrated it friend from across the aisle in the House gym; deals Regarding the April 12 news article “U.S. unem-
threatening to tank an entire lifesaving effort. The for decision-makers; Congress could also take the made in the backroom might become deals made ployment claims spike in crisis as Europe keeps wages
country also needs a legislature to conduct other more traditional route of allowing members to on Zoom. Leadership may miss the ability to speak flowing”:
essential business — not least the oversight of a phone in votes via a secure line, perhaps presenting to members individually and in person — to coax The short-time work program Germany and other
president who this week threatened to adjourn themselves to the clerk on video as they do so. them into line and to learn from them, too. But European Union countries use to reduce hours but
Congress so that he may appoint his nominees Result tallies are public anyway, so why not display many Americans are losing things right now, and prevent unemployment offers benefits that go beyond
without approval. them in a centralized location with a period for Congress’s figuring out how to do its job amid the retention of health insurance and continued income
The plan for proxy voting comes from House Rules corrections? Facilitating floor motions and com- crisis would be to the rest of the country’s gain. support. A 2012 report in the American Journal of
Public Health compared panels of German and
U.S. workers between 1984 and 2005, demonstrating
an approximately twofold increase in all-cause mor-
t A K I N g ex C ePtI o N ABCDE tality risk among U.S. workers experiencing unem-
ployment, which was not found among German
FrederIcK J. rYan Jr., Publisher and chief executive officer
workers, who were classified as “not working,” not
The EPA isn’t allowing an increase in emissions News pages:
MartIn Baron
editorial and opinion pages:
Fred HIatt “unemployed.”
executive editor
caMeron Barr
editorial Page editor
JacKson dIeHL
Studies of long-term unemployment associated
The April 11 editorial “The EPA tees off on the many administrations, including the Obama adminis- Managing editor deputy editorial Page editor with a recession in Sweden in the early 1990s showed
eMILIo GarcIa-rUIZ rUtH MarcUs
environment,” about the Environmental Protection tration. Past disasters affected only a few states. The Managing editor deputy editorial Page editor an increase in all-cause mortality among men that
Agency’s temporary policy of enforcement during the coronavirus has affected the entire country, and Presi- tracY Grant
Managing editor
Jo-ann arMao
associate editorial Page editor
continued to increase as duration of continuous
novel coronavirus public health emergency, misrepre- dent Trump declared a major disaster in all 50 states. scott Vance unemployment increased up to five years. Risk of
deputy Managing editor
sented the policy in ways that make the conclusions The editorial’s comments on the auto emissions rule BarBara VoBeJda death increased and then returned to background
unfair to readers and the agency. in the commentary were also unsupported by evi- deputy Managing editor levels within the five years for strokes, heart attacks,
The memo does not allow any increase in emissions. dence. The final rule requires year-over-year reduc- Vice Presidents: alcoholism and cancer but continued to climb for
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COLBERT I. KING DRA W I NG BOARD

A thumbs-down
Don’t reopen on the
the country on handshake
Trump’s word BY J OHN- C LARK L EVIN

nless and until D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), hen Anthony S. Fauci, director of the

U in concert with Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R)

and Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D), tells me
otherwise, I am going to follow her stay-at-home
order and abide by all other social distancing measures
now in place. I will also respect decisions by these regional
W National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, suggested last
week that it might be time to perma-
nently retire the handshake, my news feed filled
with scoffing from both sides of the aisle. For
leaders regarding the reopening of schools, parks, restau- some, Fauci’s statement was a sop to the presi-
rants and other nonessential businesses. dent’s reputed germophobia. For others, it was
Bowser, Hogan and Northam — and most of the “deep state” prissiness running roughshod over
governors and public officials across the nation struggling common sense.
to deal with devastation brought on by the novel But as an avid handshaker and something of
coronavirus pandemic — are acting in the public interest. an expert on the subject, I have to second the
They are doing their best to make decisions based on facts good doctor’s prescription.
and what’s right for the people they serve — not out of the No, my expertise doesn’t come from a lab or
narcissistic self-preoccupation that governs the White an academic degree. Rather, it was certified by
House. Guinness World Records, after a friend and I in
President Trump, who contributed to chaos and confu- 2009 set the record (subsequently broken) for
sion surrounding the federal response to this deadly “Longest Continuous Handshake” to raise mon-
disease, initially said he wanted the country reopened ey for cancer research. How long, you ask?
BY WALT HANDELSMAN FOR THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE
next month in the midst of the pandemic, contending that Fifteen hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds. Hun-
some areas can dispense with social distancing and other dredsof thousands of shakes. (The secret? Take
mitigation measures. turns every half hour, with one person doing the
“Our country,” he declared at Tuesday’s Rose Garden pumping and the other person’s limp hand just
news conference, “has to get open, and it will get open, and going along for the ride.) Imagine the longest
it’ll get open safely.” To Trump’s assertion, I apply the awkward handshake of your life, and multiply it
dictum made famous by Ronald Reagan: “Trust, but by about 3,600. The stunt was admittedly frivo-
verify.” lous, but it forced me to study this practice
Trump is as good as his word, and his word on the inside and out, and left me hyper-attuned to the
coronavirus and how to reopen the country is no good. subtleties of the shake.
Fortunately, the Constitution tops bombast, and The most obvious is cleanliness. Since my
Trump’s nonsense about having “total authority” to marathon handshake, I have found myself no-
declare the nation reopened, gave way Thursday to ticing how often proffered hands were sticky or
recognition that states and localities will call the shots. unaccountably damp. I still shook hands, since I
Their assessments of risks and benefits, supported by appreciate the ritual’s social value. But shaking
federally supplied science-based timetables — not Trump’s hands seemed increasingly paradoxical. If you
gut — will determine where, when and how. wouldn’t take a handful of a grimy toilet seat,
The nation relies upon Trump’s word at its peril. why press palms with a stranger who might have
Questions about Trump’s credibility are settled. done just that? It’s difficult to make a good first
The Post has been keeping close track of this phenome- impression when stirring such unsanitary
non. As of April 3, reports The Post’s Fact Checker, Trump thoughts.
has made 18,000 false or misleading claims, an average of But a deeper issue is the social anxiety
more than 15 a day since taking office. fostered by handshaking, particularly for men.
But he has outdone himself with his coronavirus Boys are still taught that men judge others by
performance. Misinformation, falsehoods and specious the “quality” of their handshake — firm but not
claims dominate his public pronouncements. Remember too firm, substantial but not lingering, eye
“it’s one person coming in from China. We have it under contact but not creepy. Unsure that they have a
control”? properly manly shake, some overcompensate,
While showering the country with happy talk, Trump BY SHENEMAN
engaging in a bizarre display of primatological
ignored warnings, played down risk and delayed action on dominance — the sort of aggressive squeezing
advising the public on steps to slow the spread of the virus and yanking that President Trump inflicts on
— bungling confirmed by in-depth Post and New York other world leaders.
Times reporting. Although most guys don’t act that way, I
Yet Trump wants praise. His chief justification rests on realized that for many this dynamic adds a layer
his oft-repeated tale that he imposed travel restrictions on of mutual apprehension to greetings that ought
China all on his own and over the objections of health to suggest openness and respect. And the over-
experts, thus saving “thousands and thousands of people” tones of physical competition can make the
from dying. An Associated Press fact check disputes that ritual unwelcoming to women. Hugging is the
claim. warmer option, but that quality — even before
Trump’s restrictions, reports the Associated Press, were covid-19 struck — is what makes hugging inap-
not made over the objection of health experts; his decision propriate with strangers and in professional
followed a consensus reached by his public health advisers settings.
that restrictions should take place. Moreover, the AP Yet what’s the alternative? Elbow bumps, foot
noted, most major airlines had already suspended flights taps and air high-fives have become popular
to China before Trump’s announcement. during the pandemic, but they’re too obviously
Not only is there no information about the impact of the just temporary workarounds. Howie Mandel is
restrictions to back up his claim of having saved famously an evangelist for the fist bump, but it’s
thousands, the AP reports, but Trump’s restrictions didn’t too casual for funerals or other formal occa-
fully “close” off China from the United States, as he sions. Perhaps we should follow Israeli Prime
bragged. Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recommenda-
“It temporarily barred entry by foreign nationals who tion last month that handshakes be replaced by
had traveled in China within the previous 14 days, with the “namaste” gesture.
exceptions for the immediate family of U.S. citizens and Pressing one’s palms and fingers together
permanent residents,” according to the AP. Trump’s ban vertically, while bowing slightly, conveys some-
allowed Americans to return from China after getting thing much closer to what we actually want a
enhanced screening at select entry points and for 14 days universal greeting to accomplish. In its original
afterward. But the procedure wasn’t airtight. The AP Hindu form, it expresses “I bow to the divine in
noted that screenings can miss people who don’t yet show BY LUCKOVICH FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
you.” In a secular Western context (without
symptoms. actually saying “namaste”), the gesture commu-
Besides, by the time Trump acted, large numbers of nicates good will without any handshake-like
people exposed to the virus had already been traveling undertones of status or dominance. It signals
internationally, the AP pointed out. And they were purpose and self-mastery; no need to worry that
arriving in the United States from Rome and other places anyone is judging the quality of the execution.
in Europe. And instead of echoing medieval warrior cul-
Instead of a hero, Trump emerges as a case study in ture, as the handshake does, the namaste ges-
failed leadership. ture evokes the reverence of Christian prayer.
Citing what it describes as “critical errors,” “corruption To be clear, I’m not shakephobic. I truly
and incompetence” and “callousness, self-concern, and a enjoyed a heartfelt handshake before social
lack of compass,” manifested in his handling of the distancing intervened. But the value wasn’t in
coronavirus outbreak, the Boston Globe declared in a the physical grabbing of flesh — it was in the
March 30 editorial that “the president has blood on his friendliness that the ritual communicates in the
hands.” A trenchant metaphor, perhaps. But the Globe context of American customs.
spoke truth when it said, “Much of the suffering and death Among the many things we’ll reassess in the
coming was preventable.” wake of covid-19, why not consider whether the
Trump may be president, but he has no moral standing. namaste can permanently do that job better? I
Let us hope the president can stick to his newfound don’t expect that this greeting, already popular
deference to our governors and mayors (his “LIBERATE!” among the graying hippies in my California
outbursts on Twitter Friday do not inspire confidence), but hometown, will instantly win over my relatives
I know whom I’ll listen to regardless. Directions on safely in conservative Indiana, but its wordless sugges-
reopening the country and conquering the virus — tion of warmth and sincerity might win out
including actions to restart the economy — must come eventually. A certain immunologist could do the
from credible, competent and trusted public officials, in country a favor by trying the namaste at the next
coordination with economic experts and top business and White House coronavirus briefing.
labor executives.
They shouldn’t come from Trump. The writer is a PhD candidate in politics and
BY HORSEY FOR THE SEATTLE TIMES
kingc@washpost.com international studies at the University of Cambridge.

ALEXANDRA PETRI

You’re wearing pants? Tell me more.

o, in this fantasy, what are you wearing? Or . . . nine. And we won’t make eye contact with Take-out? Out?

S I am wearing clothes because I expect to

see and be seen by other people. I have
recently washed my body, and I slept a
normal amount — neither too little nor too much —
and all my dreams were just, like, normal dreams. I
each other. We’ll just stand really close, breathing air
together, silently. Except I might turn to one of them
and glance quickly at what they are wearing and pick
an item at random and say that I love it, just to say
something. And then they will glance down really
No. I might go to the place where I bought the food
and sit there and eat the food.
Oh my God. In the place? Are there other people
there?
So many other people. People having business
I go to a place where people are gathered closely
indoors, and I drink alcohol out of a glass that was
there before me and will be there after I am gone. It
takes me a long time to get the attention of the
person who is pouring the alcohol, because there are
am wearing a shirt, but also, I am wearing pants, quickly to make sure they’re wearing whatever it was meetings. Maybe even a date. Maybe some people so many people there, all pressed together. Then I go
because I am going to go out and be seen by people in I complimented, because they are so surprised are there with their kids. Kids whom they have seen to the bathroom, where there is a long line. Two
a place where they will know whether I am wearing anyone would single it out to compliment. And then only for some hours of the day, not for all hours of the people in the bathroom are having a conversation
pants or not. I will get out of the elevator. day. And — are you ready? — I am mad that they are and everyone cannot help hearing it and joining in,
Where are you going? Yes? there. and when we leave we all feel that we have formed a
I am going to meet people in a public place. I am And walk to my desk. Which I will touch. With my You’re mad? strong bond.
going to stand near those people. hands. I will touch the keyboard of my computer I am mad because these people are there at the Then?
How big is the distance between you and those using my bare fingertips. I will press each key, and same time as I am, at the food place, and they are Get this: I get bored and leave.
people going to be? feel it give beneath the pressure of my supple hands, talking and making sounds, so that I am forced to You leave?
It is going to be so small. which are soft because I have not been washing them notice that they are there. And this makes me I go home. I think, I will have a better time at home
Three feet? every eight minutes for the past 50 days. unhappy, to be in a public place, sharing food and than here, with all these people. I get into a taxi, just
Less than three feet. One foot. No, six inches. I Then, after work, what will you do? space with others. It’s so commonplace for me that I a random taxi, and I sit in it, and I go home. When I
might get into an elevator with strangers. I might . . . buy food. am mad about it. get home, I wash my hands.
Oh my God, how many people will be in the To cook for yourself? Then what? And?
elevator with you? I would not cook for myself. I would have food I have plans, but I’m not even excited about them. Then I realize: I am out of toilet paper. But it
So many. Like, eight. prepared by someone else who knows what they are God. doesn’t matter. I can always get more.
Eight. doing. I go out. Twitter: @petridishes
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the coronavirus pandemic

BY C RAIG T IMBERG, and Infectious Diseases and a

E LIZABETH D WOSKIN,
D REW H ARWELL
AND T ONY R OMM
Governments around the world deploy member of the White House Cor-
onavirus Task Force, said in an
interview on Snapchat that the

When California officials want-

ed to see how closely people were
following social distancing guide-
smartphones in e≠ort to halt infections privacy concerns about the use of
personal smartphone data create
“sticky, sticky issues.”
“Even though from a purely
lines last month, they tapped a public health standpoint, that
powerful new data set — a map Personal data could be a key tool in tracking spread, but privacy advocates raise alarms makes sense,” Fauci said. “You
that Facebook provided to state know, you could look at some-
authorities derived from the loca- body’s cellphone, and say, ‘You
tion coordinates of tens of mil- were next to these 25 people over
lions of smartphones. the last 24 hours.’ Boy, I gotta tell
The map showed with alarm- you, the civil liberties-type push-
ing clarity that large numbers of back on that would be consider-
people were still gathering on able.”
beaches and in public parks. Soon
after, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) Location data might not work
ordered them closed to vehicles, Aside from privacy concerns,
sharply restricting access. public health experts wonder
Newsom’s move to blunt the whether these new technological
spread of the coronavirus was just approaches will prove effective
one sign of the increasingly close against an unpredictable, fast-
cooperation between govern- moving pandemic — especially at
ment authorities and technology a time when more established
companies in fighting a danger- public health priorities, such as
ous common enemy. This global providing enough testing and
wave of experimentation has in- medical protective gear, have fall-
volved data sets long considered en disastrously behind.
so personal and sensitive — capa- Ashkan Soltani, a security re-
ble of revealing how smartphone searcher and former Federal
users spent their days, and with Trade Commission chief technol-
whom — that many government ogist, said he and other research-
officials shied away from their use ers had counted more than 50
out of fear of public backlash. contact-tracing projects that have
But health experts say such been launched by engineers over
new tactics, while testing tradi- the past few weeks.
tional privacy boundaries in the Some use WiFi and Bluetooth
United States and elsewhere, to pinpoint people’s locations,
could play a central role in the while one project uses the audio
battle against the coronavirus as frequencies from a smartphone’s
nations try to reopen their econo- microphone to attempt to detect
mies. Key will be expanded dis- it with more precision. The
ease surveillance with the help of smartphone emits ultrasonic
emerging technologies to identify waves that can be picked up by
new infections before they create the microphone of another device
major hot spots. if it’s close.
Experts say that old-fashioned Some of the projects are better
public health approaches, such as at protecting privacy than others,
widespread testing and manually Soltani said, and some, he cau-
tracing the contacts of people tioned, don’t have any public
with newly discovered infections, health experts involved. He said
probably will remain the most the risk of error is high. If a
effective way to control the pan- person goes downstairs to pick up
Yu-MIng HuAng for tHe WAsHIngton Post
demic. But with few signs that the a pizza delivery and doesn’t take
United States is assembling the A Pew Research Center study published Thursday found that slightly over half of those surveyed say it is at least “somewhat acceptable” for their phone with them, it won’t
army of health workers needed to the government to use people’s cellphones to track those who’ve tested positive for the coronavirus to understand how it is spreading. pick up the infection status of the
track coronavirus infections, person at the door.
technology may be called on to fill people and warn others that they people and alert nearby residents ing to monitor quarantined peo- os built into billions of smart- Bluetooth, meanwhile, will
the gaps. are at risk and, in some cases, that they may have been exposed. ple’s movements, and issue heavy phones worldwide to assist public register a device as nearby even if
Already, technological tools are must quarantine themselves. Such information is behind Isra- fines to people found to have health officials in conducting it’s on the other side of a wall,
helping authorities fine-tune Many Israelis, for example, have el’s ability to identify people at violated the orders. In China, Po- contact tracing, the laborious raising the possibility of trigger-
their public directives, and data received texts from public health risk of infection and send them land and Russia, health officials process of identifying who may ing false warnings that could dis-
derived from individual smart- officials alerting them that, based texts ordering them to quaran- have used facial-recognition soft- have been exposed to people who tract health-care workers from
phones may soon play an impor- on cellphone location records col- tine themselves. Hong Kong has ware to confirm whether some- tested positive for the coronavi- real infection risks and cause
tant role in mapping webs of lected by the government, they deployed “geofencing” — a tech- one has obeyed lockdown orders. rus. needless worry and disruption.
potential new infections and had been near an infected person nology marketers use to deliver The experimentation in the Such approaches do not rely on To minimize false positives, the
alerting people at particularly and needed to go into isolation coffee shop ads when potential United States has been less ag- precise geographic location and Google and Apple system will
high risk of developing covid-19, for 14 days. customers walk nearby — to de- gressive, relying mainly on col- would not create a central reposi- indicate a contact only when two
the disease caused by the novel Momentum is building for sim- termine whether people with lected sets of anonymous user tory of information about peo- people are nearby for a matter of
coronavirus, that they need to be ilar — though less draconian — confirmed infections stayed data, provided voluntarily by ple’s individual health informa- several minutes, the companies
tested immediately. approaches in the United States. home during their quarantines. companies. tion, the companies say. say. But that timing mechanism
“You need most [exposed] peo- Longtime Silicon Valley rivals Violators faced jail time or fines. California’s decision to limit The system would work like likely would miss brief but risky
ple to go and get tested,” said Google and Apple announced last Singapore has harnessed Blue- access to beaches and parks, for this: Health authorities would exposures, such as from coughs or
Ashish Jha, faculty director of the week that they will build new tooth technology to identify po- example, drew on data not only give a person who tested positive sneezes that can spread the virus
Harvard Global Health Institute. features into their widely used tential new infections by seeing from Facebook but from Google. for the coronavirus a special code widely in a matter of seconds. The
“If we can do this and keep it smartphone operating systems to whether the devices of people In Colorado, a team of inves- that would allow them to tell the system also will lack the ability to
going, I think we have a shot — assist authorities in investigating known to have the coronavirus tors and engineers has used app on their phone that they had detect transmission risks from an
just a shot — at keeping our new cases of coronavirus infec- have been within six feet of the smartphone data to determine a confirmed infection. The sys- object or a location harboring the
economy going.” tion. The companies say that their devices of other people for pro- that traffic in the state has de- tem would then send an alert to virus, such as an elevator button
There is some evidence of pub- detection system, unlike the ones longed periods of time. Govern- creased substantially, said Brad the smartphone of anyone who or grocery store checkout aisle.
lic acceptance of technological used in Israel and some other ment health officials can then Feld, a technology investor in that has come in contact with the Cyrus Shahabi, a University of
surveillance tools. A Pew Re- nations, would be completely request those logs as they investi- state. Like officials elsewhere, infected person over the past two Southern California computer
search Center study published anonymous, voluntary and de- gate the virus’s spread. those in Colorado have sought to weeks. The alert would include science professor working on a
Thursday found that slightly over signed with safeguards for peo- Such approaches also are gain- avoid triggering a privacy back- guidance on how to reach their contact-tracing app that would
half of those surveyed say it is at ple’s privacy. ing ground in Europe, where a lash by working with data sets local health department and an use location data to provide “risk”
least “somewhat acceptable” for As technologists seek to bal- cross-continental group of re- stripped of personally identifi- admonition to quarantine them- scores for public areas, said that
the government to use people’s ance public health benefits with searchers has designed a system able information. selves. challenge is a critical one that the
cellphones to track those who’ve privacy concerns, there remains for “Decentralized Privacy-Pre- “I’m not sure we’re going to The system would use numeric system will struggle to overcome.
tested positive for the virus to uncertainty about how effective serving Proximity Tracing” that tolerate as a culture the federal codes, not personal information, “It could potentially give so
understand how it is spreading. any of these tools might be, and Germany and other nations plan government knowing all of our to log the interactions, and that many false positives that it ren-
Forty-five percent said it is ac- whether the time, money and to adopt. In the United Kingdom, movements. I’m not sure we’re data would remain on people’s ders the approach effectively use-
ceptable for the government to do energy spent on them would be health authorities are working on going to tolerate phone compa- phones, not shared with authori- less,” Shahabi said.
so for people who may have had better used expanding virus test- a contact-tracing app that would nies retroactively providing our ties, and be erased after a few Jason Bay, the product lead of
contact with someone who tested ing or hiring more people to send people color-coded warn- location information,” said Sarah weeks, company planning docu- Singapore’s TraceTogether, still
positive for the coronavirus. conduct contact-tracing investi- ings about people with whom Tuneberg, the director of the Col- ments show. Health authorities the most prominent real-world
There is less support for moni- gations. they had crossed paths over the orado response team for develop- also would not have access to example of a Bluetooth contact-
toring mobile devices to ensure “Before we rush off and do [the previous two weeks: yellow alerts ing technological tools to aid in potentially exposed people’s tracing system, has also pushed to
that people are following social technological initiatives] at huge for people with unverified self-di- the coronavirus pandemic. “In names or phone numbers — a adjust expectations about how
distancing orders, however. Just scale, we should know they work. agnoses; red alerts for infections the absence of those, we’re going concession to privacy concerns useful the system will be.
under 4 in 10, 37 percent, said it We don’t randomly go popping confirmed by medical staff. to have to create other innova- that potentially could limit the “If you ask me whether any
was at least “somewhat accept- pills,” said Daniel Weitzner, a for- Other countries are going fur- tions.” effectiveness of the Google and Bluetooth contact tracing system
able” for the government to track mer White House official now ther in using location data to Some of the data tapped by Apple approach, which could be- deployed or under development,
people’s locations to monitor developing contact-tracing tech- police social interactions and Colorado and other states comes come available next month. anywhere in the world, is ready to
compliance. nology for the Massachusetts In- combat the virus’s spread. New from Descartes Labs, an analytics Such a Bluetooth-based sys- replace manual contact tracing, I
Privacy advocates caution that stitute of Technology, where he is Zealand, Taiwan and Thailand firm based in Santa Fe, N.M. It tem, if widely adopted, could help will say without qualification that
the rush to deploy possible tech- a researcher. “You don’t want to have used phone-location track- used location data gathered from reduce the guesswork of contact- the answer is, No,” he wrote in a
nological solutions to a devastat- trade off any privacy risk at all for 10 million mobile devices to help tracing investigations and alert Medium post last week. “You can-
ing pandemic may be outrunning no benefit. We want to make sure public health authorities deter- unsuspecting people to potential not ‘big data’ your way out of a ‘no
the public’s understanding of there’s clear evidence of effective- mine how far people are traveling infection. Google and Apple have data’ situation. Period. Any at-
how their data is being collected ness before we suggest hundreds on a given day, issuing an aggre- said their systems at first would tempt to believe otherwise, is an
and used. They warn that the of millions of people start doing gated score for each county. The rely on new and experimental exercise in hubris, and technolo-
apps and other services devel- this.” lower the score, the more likely apps developed by health depart- gy triumphalism. There are lives
oped to fight the coronavirus that people in a given spot are ments or third-party developers, at stake.”
might someday be used by differ- Seeking innovations following government guidelines and that users would have to But many government officials
ent government authorities to Smartphones are a continuous “Even though from a and staying home. download and install on their on the front lines of the pandemic
fight crime or monitor political fountain of revealing data: Tele- In Descartes Labs’s home state, phones. But eventually, the com- have been emboldened by the
activity. phone companies know where a purely public health officials have been using its tech- panies said, the contact-tracing stakes involved and by their
In part because of these con- cellphone user is by tracking nology for weeks to try to deter- features would be built into sense, still untested, that the pub-
cerns, most of the technological what cell towers the customer’s standpoint, that makes mine which hospitals faced loom- smartphone operating systems, lic may be more accepting of
tools being deployed — such as phone is communicating ing crushes of new infections, and making them more easily avail- using personal data than in the
the activity map Facebook provid- through, and many types of sense. . . .The civil the information on travel helped able for widespread use. past — if the purpose is worthy.
ed to California authorities — rely smartphone software, including Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) Whether that will be enough to “Many companies that are col-
on what is known as aggregated for apps such as Facebook and liberties-type pushback measure the effectiveness of so- make the system truly effective lecting voluminous data about us,
and anonymized data, meaning Waze, collect user information cial distancing guidelines and for contact tracing is uncertain. often without our knowledge or
they are compilations of data that such as GPS coordinates or prox- on that would be contributed to her order last week Researchers suggest that for such consent, are using the data for
have been stripped of informa- imity to known WiFi signals. to close more businesses, said a system to be effective, perhaps social good,” said Beth Noveck,
tion that could be used to identify Most smartphones also can regis- considerable.” Tripp Baird, a spokesman for the as much as 60 percent of the U.S. chief innovation officer in New
an individual. New Mexico offi- ter how close they are to other governor. population would have to partici- Jersey, which is using Zip codes
Anthony S. Fauci, director of the
cials are using such anonymous devices, using Bluetooth radios pate. But even if it’s built into submitted during Web queries to
national Institute of Allergy and ‘Sticky, sticky issues’
smartphone data to help antici- that search for nearby speakers or every new phone, users would predict future virus hot spots.
Infectious Diseases, in an interview
pate surging hospital demand, wireless headphones. Far more sensitive — and also still have to enable it in the same “There are many legal and ethical
on snapchat about the use of
and Colorado officials have used All of that information is po- potentially more useful — are way they enable other smart- dilemmas that arise from collec-
personal smartphone data
similar data to determine wheth- tentially useful to public health individualized indicators of infec- phone features, and people with tion of data without our consent.
er residents are traveling less, in officials as they seek to track both tion risk detectable through older phones, spotty Internet con- But on the bright side, if there is a
compliance with the stay-at- the broad movements of popula- smartphone data. nections or confusion over their silver lining, it’s the ability to do
home order the state’s Democrat- tions in regions infected by the The initiative announced last Bluetooth settings could be left some good with that data.”
ic governor, Jared Polis, issued coronavirus and the more specific week by Google and Apple seeks behind. In Singapore, where a craig.timberg@washpost.com
March 25. risks posed by infected individu- to achieve that goal while protect- similar system has been used for elizabeth.dwoskin@washpost.com
But officials in other nations, als. ing people’s privacy, the compa- weeks, about 1 in 6 people have drew.harwell@washpost.com
mainly in Europe and Asia, have South Korea has used cell- nies say. They are updating their downloaded the app. tony.romm@washpost.com
gone further, harnessing smart- phone location data to recon- dominant mobile operating sys- Anthony S. Fauci, director of
phone data to identify infected struct the movements of infected tems to allow the Bluetooth radi- the National Institute of Allergy Dwoskin reported from oakland.
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Md. and D.C. extend

closure of schools
HoGAN SAyS HE ExpECtS pEAK IN CASES SooN
Leaders say they will coordinate plans to ease rules
BY G REGORY S . S CHNEIDER, Known cases in region
E RIN C OX
AND P ERRY S TEIN there are a total of 21,579
reported coronavirus cases in the
The capital region’s school year District, Maryland and Virginia,
crumbled Friday before the ad- including 1,515 new ones through
vancing coronavirus, with Mary- 7 p.m. Friday:
land saying schools would remain
Dc MD VA
closed through at least May 15
and the District announcing that 2,480 11,578 7,521
online instruction — and the aca- +126 +787 +602
demic year — would wrap up
three weeks early. coronavirus-related deaths
The decisions came on a day As of Friday morning:
when area leaders assured resi-
Dc MD * VA
dents they are cooperating to
chart a path out of the pandemic’s 86 499 233
social and economic shutdown, +5 +40 +23
even as President Trump sought
to undermine the cautious ap- * Includes probable covid-19 deaths
proach via social media.
D.C. Mayor Muriel e. Bowser’s continue remote learning beyond
decision to end the school year on May 29. KIPP DC, the city’s largest
May 29 without resuming in-per- charter network, will continue
son instruction puts her city in distance learning this academic
line with Virginia, which has year until June 12.
moved to online school instruc- Maryland schools superinten-

In Laurel, a shuttered hospital tion for the remainder of the

academic year. Bowser said the
early wrap-up will “preserve”
three weeks of instructional time,
dent Karen B. salmon extended
school closures from April 24
until May 15. she said the state
will use the next month to decide

has quickly returned to service indicating that the 2020-2021

year could start early for at least
some students.
Bowser (D) said the District
how to move forward and will
continue to develop plans for
additional digital learning and
ways to recover lost instructional
will offer summer school, though time during the summer.
it was unclear whether that Maryland schools began dis-
Prince George’s gains another would be in-person or remotely. tance learning earlier this week,
she promised more information and salmon has raised the possi-
resource to fight covid-19 on May 15. bility of remote learning continu-
as walk-in clinic is refitted While Bowser said D.C. public ing in the fall, telling a group of
charter schools — which educate state lawmakers recently that she
around 47 percent of the city’s was “not sure that we are going to
BY R ACHEL W EINER 100,000 students — would follow be doing school in the same way
a similar schedule, some charter going forward.”
It took almost four years to downsize the schools have said they plan to see regIon on B4
beleaguered Laurel Regional Hospital,
which went from a hospital to a walk-in
medical center at the end of 2018.
It took only four weeks for the hospital to
reopen as a destination for covid-19 patients.
“It’s monumental,” said Joseph Wright,
Lawmakers urge Hogan
who leads the University of Maryland Medi-
cal system’s regional hospitals. on Friday
morning, he toured Laurel after visiting the
to release some inmates
system’s facility in Cheverly, which he said
PHotos by MIcHAel RobInson cHAVez/tHe WAsHIngton Post
was “very busy and very stressed.” things we have been doing,” in-
Prince George’s, just outside the District, top: preparations are made to refurbish and reopen the cluding a dramatic reduction in
appears to have been hit harder by the novel university of maryland laurel medical center. aBoVe: the
Experts, advocates cite the nonviolent prison population
coronavirus than any other county in Mary- hospital, which will exclusively treat covid-19 patients, will have prisoners’ vulnerability through the Justice Reinvestment
see laurel on B4 10 critical-care beds with ventilators starting next week. Act of 2016.
to covid-19 outbreaks “We’ve taken almost all the ac-
tions that people have been rec-
ommending,” Hogan said. “And
BY A NN E . M ARIMOW we’re continuing to take more
AND O VETTA W IGGINS steps every day. . . . It’s not an issue
that we’re not concerned about,

Public safety Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R)

has been lauded nationally for his
aggressive, science-based re-
but I’m not sure how many more
letters we need to get that’s going
to help us along in that process.”
agencies sponse to the deadly covid-19 pan-
demic. But closer to home, critics
But public health experts say
Hogan’s less aggressive actions are

often silent say he has a glaring blind spot.

Civil rights advocates, public
health experts and the state’s
at odds with the reality of condi-
tions inside state correctional fa-
cilities, where inmates are in close
on infections Democratic lawmakers in Con-
gress say Hogan is not doing
confinement, eating together and
sharing toilets and showers.
enough to stop the spread of the “Gov. Hogan has been a leader
BYJ USTIN J OUVENAL, novel coronavirus among the in his response to the coronavirus
R ACHEL W EINER state’s vulnerable prison popula- generally, including for people in
AND P ETER H ERMANN tion. close quarters like nursing homes,
Their repeated calls for Hogan but he has abdicated responsibili-
They make close-quarter ar- to act took on more urgency this ty for people in prisons, who are at
rests in a time of social distancing. week after the state correctional enormous risk,” said Leonard
They rush those sickened with the system announced the first in- Rubenstein, a professor at Johns
coronavirus to the hospital. They mate death from covid-19. A total Hopkins Bloomberg school of
are responsible for guarding in- of 136 people have tested positive Public Health, who organized a
mates in jails with covid-19 out- within the system as of Thursday, letter to Hogan from more than
breaks. a figure that includes 105 correc- 200 colleagues.
Police officers, firefighters, tional officers and other employ- Rubenstein told the governor in
sheriff’s deputies and corrections ees. a second letter this week that it is
officers are on the front lines of Advocates are pressing Hogan “likely that many more deaths will
bonnIe Jo Mount/tHe WAsHIngton Post
the pandemic. Many public safety to use his sweeping executive follow unless those who are most
agencies, including police and fire Francis wilson, 29, spent 11 days in a medically induced coma and came close to death. power to identify for release high- vulnerable are released.”
departments in the District, have risk elderly inmates, those with “Lives are at stake: Incarcerat-
announced when their members chronic medical conditions and ed individuals are sentenced and
become ill. But others have taken
the opposite stance regarding the
number of covid-19 cases within
Nightmares, flashbacks, uncertainty inmates nearing the end of their
prison terms as governors have
done in other states such as Ken-
detained to deprive them of liber-
ty but not to heighten the risk of
severe illness or death.”
their ranks: silence. One of area’s earliest covid-19 patients finds recovery has its challenges tucky and Colorado. Hogan’s spokesman Michael
In Virginia, the Fairfax County In Virginia, Gov. Ralph Ricci said the governor has taken
sheriff had declined to say wheth- northam (D) has proposed giving several steps to protect inmates,
er any of her deputies tested posi- BY M ARISSA J . L ANG Wilson, a George Mason University law stu- the Department of Corrections noting that Maryland is one of the
tive after a coronavirus outbreak dent, was among the first wave of coronavirus the authority to release inmates first states to shut down all visita-
at the jail — until changing course He had been in the hospital for seven days when patients admitted to a Washington-area hospital within one year of completing tion and volunteer-led programs
this week. Alexandria and Arling- doctors declared he might not make it out alive. last month. He was an outlier — young, healthy, their sentences. D.C. Mayor Muri- at correctional facilities.
ton won’t disclose whether their His blood oxygen levels sank. His lungs no preexisting conditions. But by the time he el e. Bowser (D) has granted extra “With every decision the gover-
employees, including firefighters struggled. The ventilator helping him breathe, called an ambulance, he could barely stand up “good time credits” to facilitate nor makes, he has in mind the
and police officers, are sick with doctors at Virginia Hospital Center said, did not without gasping for air. release of certain inmates convict- health and safety of Marylanders,
covid-19, the disease caused by the seem to be doing much good. He was also one of the first cases in which ed of misdemeanor offenses. including our incarcerated popu-
coronavirus. nurses called his family. His family called a doctors watched a patient come so close to death Hogan on Friday dismissed the lation,” Ricci said in a statement.
Philadelphia has rebuffed re- priest. They wanted to make sure Francis Wilson, — and live. criticism, saying that many ap- Ricci said the Department of
see transparency on B6 29, received last rites before the end. see wIlson on B2 pear to have “missed some of the see Inmates on B6
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RELIGION
Trump campaign aims to pick up votes of evangelicals of color Man accused
BYJ ULIE Z AUZMER
of trying to
AND M ICHELLE B OORSTEIN

DAYTON, OhiO — A day after she

bomb Jewish
drove an hour south and stood
alone in the crowd, anxious,
senior facility
looking at the faces in the room
and wondering what these peo-
ple had to say to her, rosalyn Homemade incendiary
Johnson was still marveling a
little bit at what she had done. device found at Mass.
“Black girl goes down to a assisted-living home
Trump rally!” she laughed, shak-
ing her head.
Then she grew more serious.
“Black people are saying, ‘We’re BY J ULIE Z AUZMER
not voting for him.’ But what if
God causes Donald Trump to A massachusetts man is ac-
correct this?” cused of planting a homemade
“This” is the yard where John- bomb at a Jewish assisted-living
son was standing in a majority- home, in an act that federal prose-
black neighborhood on the out- cutors say appears to have been
skirts of Dayton, before the coro- motivated by online forums that
navirus descended and made encouraged violence against
campaign rallies such as the one Jews.
at her church the night before a The bomb did not go off and no
thing of the past. one was injured. Authorities ar-
Johnson was 28 when she rested John michael rathbun, 36,
bought her house for $105,000. on Wednesday, two weeks after
She rejoiced in being a home- police found the incendiary de-
owner, able to provide a place for vice at the entrance to ruth’s
her aging mother, father and House, the assisted-living facility
great-aunt to live. in Longmeadow, mass.
And then it all went wrong — federal prosecutors in massa-
her dogs dying, her parents ail- chusetts connected rathbun’s al-
ing, her nights spent choking on leged actions to a white suprema-
noxious fumes from toxic waste cist group that they did not name,
processing. She still has the doc- but said the fBI’s Western massa-
uments, showing the long list of chusetts Joint Terrorism Task
institutions that didn’t warn her force has been tracking it since
before she moved in, and didn’t march. The members of this
AMY POWELL FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
fix the problem once she was group, prosecutors said, have dis-
there: the Environmental Protec- Karla Blair participates during a song of worship at a Trump campaign event at solid Rock Church in Cincinnati on March 6. The church cussed carrying out mass killings
tion Agency, the firefighters, the is rare in its racial diversity — about half black and half white. using explosive devices to target
bank, the health department and racial and religious minorities,
on and on. would put them in the republi- reed, a longtime Christian con- Trump’s job performance, while my minority vote to shift, to wake including people worshiping at
The only place she found sol- can camp. But they also tend to servative activist, said his group 77 percent of white evangelicals up,” Jackson said. “my minority synagogues and mosques.
ace was her church. favor more legalized immigra- faith and freedom Coalition said they approve. Among black relatives have got to understand. In early march, prosecutors
So when Paula White — a tion, government sensitivity to- plans to spend $1 million during evangelicals, 77 percent said they They’ve got to join hands with us said, a member of the group,
white televangelist whose ser- ward racial justice and help for the 2020 campaign on nonwhite would probably or definitely vote on the life side.” whom law enforcement did not
mons Johnson has long admired the poor, generally pushing them evangelicals, mostly Latinos. for a Democratic candidate for Salguero, who leads the Latino identify, posted online that a tar-
— came one friday in early toward Democratic candidates. That’s more than 10 times what president. evangelicals group and a 5,000- get should be “that jew nursing
march to say that Democrats In 2020, the Trump campaign the group spent in 2016. But on certain social issues, member church in orlando, said home in longmeadow massachu-
have failed to fix the problems aims to make the case to these It’s hard to determine who nonwhite evangelicals are only both sides have courted him in setts.”
such as joblessness and an unfair evangelicals of color that they precisely should be counted as slightly less conservative than this election. (He recently took a Longmeadow, a town of about
criminal justice system besetting should support the president’s “evangelical” — a religious term white evangelicals. fifty-four call from the presumptive Demo- 15,000 in central massachusetts
black communities, and to urge reelection, hoping to peel away that traditionally refers to those percent of black evangelicals and cratic nominee, former vice pres- just south of Springfield, has a
Johnson to vote for President voters who might otherwise opt who believe in personal salvation 51 percent of Latino evangelicals ident Joe Biden, he said.) “I think significant Jewish community, in-
Trump, Johnson listened. Even for the Democratic nominee or through Jesus Christ and a strict- told PrrI that they oppose same- the White House is correct in cluding three synagogues, a Jew-
though she voted for Hillary sit out the election. er interpretation of the Bible, sex marriage, compared with that evangelicals of color are ish Community Center and
Clinton in 2016. Despite the president’s very which they view as without error. 60 percent of white evangelicals. politically homeless and are will- Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy, all
“All of them say they care. I’m low approval rating among mi- The Public religion research The Trump campaign hopes to ing to be persuaded,” he said of within a mile of the assisted-liv-
at the point, prove it,” she said, norities, and his record of racist Institute (PrrI), which asks peo- leverage that conservatism, as the Trump campaign’s efforts. ing home.
with “JESUS” on her T-shirt and remarks — from referring to ple to self-identify as “born well as the president’s record of “It’s politically astute for any A member of the white suprem-
crosses glittering in her ears. certain countries as “s---hole na- again” or “evangelical,” says restricting abortion access and party to understand.” acist group — authorities believe
“When I have a candidate that tions” to telling minority women there are 12 million black evan- endorsing a conservative Chris- Pablo Jimenez, the associate it was the same person who first
believes in God, that gets my in Congress to “go back” to other gelical adults in the United tian perspective on religious lib- dean of a program for Hispanic identified ruth’s Home as a target
attention. [Trump is] surround- countries — Trump’s evangelical States and almost 5 million Lati- erty on subjects including prayer ministry at Gordon-Conwell, an — created an online calendar
ed by Christian people like Paula advisers believe they can sway no evangelical adults, compared in schools and adoption. The evangelical seminary, said that event for April 3, prosecutors
White.” these voters to his side. with 36 million white evangelical campaign also has heavily touted Trump has damaged his support said, which called for a “jew kill-
Johnson is just the sort of Before the novel coronavirus adults. a bipartisan criminal justice bill among Hispanic voters with his ing day” event and listed the loca-
voter that Trump’s campaign transformed the campaign, the Latinos are the fastest-grow- and, before the coronavirus, low harsh attitude toward mexicans tion as “Jew Nursery Home.”
staff hope they can lure in No- rNC launched voter registration ing segment of American evan- unemployment rates for black and other Latin Americans rathbun, who lives in nearby
vember: evangelicals of color. drives at churches in important gelicalism. They’re also the least and Hispanic workers. throughout his presidency — but East Longmeadow, is accused of
The republican National Com- states, where volunteers were likely to vote — PrrI found 37 White appeared in early perhaps not as much as outsiders planting a five-gallon plastic gas
mittee and supportive groups on trained to tell churchgoers “how percent are not registered, com- march at Johnson’s Solid rock might think. canister filled with gasoline near
the religious right have invested the republican Party best repre- pared with 11 percent of white Church in Cincinnati. The He praised Trump’s campaign the assisted-living home one day
millions of dollars in campaign sents the issues they care about evangelicals and 15 percent of church is rare in its racial diversi- for its willingness to campaign earlier, on April 2. Prosecutors say
efforts targeted specifically at most,” an rNC official said. black evangelicals — so the ty — about half black and half vigorously in Hispanic churches: he lit a Christian religious pam-
nonwhite evangelicals. The rNC hosted “Hispanic Trump campaign views them as white — but the crowd that “If a candidate doesn’t ask for phlet on fire and put it in the
The campaign’s hope is that pastor roundtables” in New mex- possible pickups. friday night was much whiter your vote, he will not get it.” nozzle of the can to act as a fuse.
people like Johnson represent a ico to teach clergy how to get When PrrI interviewed 9,447 than the typical Sunday service. At Solid rock Church, the rev. But the improvised bomb did not
segment of black and Latino their churches involved in the evangelicals last year, they found White, whose florida mega- rod Parsley told the hundreds in explode, and police found it at the
voters who may see Trump as an Trump campaign. In florida, the stark differences between those church and televised prosperity- attendance that Democrats will entrance to the facility.
ally in their religious conserva- campaign held an event specifi- based on race and ethnicity. Gospel sermons enjoyed a large always disparage them. “These They found blood on the pam-
tism. This segment is narrow, but cally for Brazilian American While 64 percent of white black audience long before she misguided elites will attempt to phlet and the canister that they
some pollsters say it could be evangelicals, and in several loca- evangelicals told pollsters that became Trump’s chief evangeli- marginalize you. They’ll label say they linked to rathbun
enough to swing a few key states. tions, the rNC trained “faith they have a “mostly” or “very” cal adviser and joined his White you. They’ll shout at the top of through DNA analysis. He was
Black and Latino evangelicals captains” at “Trump Victory favorable opinion of Trump, just House staff, told rallygoers about their lungs that you are nothing charged with two counts of at-
have long been “politically home- Leadership Institute” events; 19 percent of black evangelicals Trump’s support for criminal jus- but deplorable and smelly Wal- tempted arson, and he faces five
less,” as the rev. Gabriel Salgue- these captains then train mem- viewed the president positively. tice restructuring and historical- mart shoppers clinging to your to 10 years in prison if convicted.
ro, president of the National bers of their churches to volun- Latino evangelicals were split: ly black universities. guns and toting your Bible,” he U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling
Latino Evangelical Coalition, teer for Trump. 40 percent had a positive opin- Bishop Harry Jackson, a black shouted. drew a connection between rath-
puts it. They have conservative Now, events are continuing ion, and 52 percent a negative minister from Beltsville, md., Johnson listened, nodding, bun’s alleged actions and the cor-
beliefs on social issues such as online. one. focused on the importance of taking it all in. She still has not onavirus pandemic. “In times of
same-sex marriage, which they outside groups that typically The Pew research Center persuading evangelicals of color decided who will get her vote national crisis, hatred based on
oppose at rates just slightly lower organize white evangelicals are found in January an even larger to vote for Trump, especially come November. religion often blossoms into vio-
than white evangelicals, and to focused on evangelicals of color gap: 86 percent of black evangel- based on the issue of abortion. julie.zauzmer@washpost.com lence,” he said in a statement.
some extent abortion, which in this election, as well. ralph icals said they disapprove of “I only need 5 to 7 percent of michelle.boorstein@washpost.com julie.zauzmer@washpost.com

After surviving a battle with the virus, ‘I really feel like I can handle anything’
wIlson from B1 he has jolted awake thinking he sluggish and tired. Wilson said he ambulance to take him to the pressure room used to treat things still to do together.
had ripped out his breathing tube thought it was spring allergies. hospital. covid-19 patients — only from He describes it as an “out-of-
As the national coronavirus or IV lines. He has dreams about At the time, few Americans It took him an hour to get from behind a glass wall. body experience.”
death toll continues to climb, being buried alive, testing posi- realized that widespread commu- one room in his one-level apart- The hospital had done all it once at GWU Hospital, Wilson
hospitals are examining stories tive again, watching his friends nity infection had probably al- ment to the other. Standing up could, a nurse told them, and he started to improve. The doctors
like Wilson’s for lessons and hold- die, infecting people without ready begun beyond Washington knocked the wind out of him. wasn’t getting better. Doctors were able to “ratchet up the set-
ing them up as glimmers of hope. knowing it. state, where the United States When he started to cough, he wanted to transfer him to George tings” on his ventilator, Searight
He is among about 48,000 people memories from the 11 days he saw its first fatal infection clus- couldn’t stop. A friend he had Washington University Hospital, said, and his lungs seemed to
nationwide to beat covid-19, ac- was in a medically induced coma ters of the virus. gone bowling with the week be- where medical staff have the abil- respond for the first time in more
cording to Johns Hopkins Uni- return with little warning. He’s Doctors in the District at the fore also developed symptoms. ity to administer extracorporeal than a week.
versity estimates, and among the spent hours trying to piece them time were still asking about trav- Doctors at Virginia Hospital life support — a technique that Two days later, Anna Wilson
youngest in the region forced into together. el histories and exposure to peo- Center told him they were going allows the blood to be oxygenated received a text message from her
an intense battle for survival. “most of the time I was under, I ple who had tested positive. may- to put him under general anes- outside the patient’s lungs. It’s son.
for a week after returning don’t remember anything, but for or muriel E. Bowser (D) did not thesia for further monitoring and typically reserved as a last-ditch It said: “mom, I’m alive.”
from the hospital, Wilson quar- some reason, those moments declare a public health emergen- connect him to a ventilator to effort to save someone, said GWU Today, Wilson is again in un-
antined at home to make sure his when I was closest to death, my cy until march 11. News coverage help him breathe. Hospital spokeswoman Christine charted territory. How do you
symptoms were really gone. brain retained not only the mem- and scientific studies indicated “We didn’t know how serious Searight. reenter a world that looks noth-
Now, he said, he’s figuring out ory of the stimuli occurring that young, healthy people were his situation really was at the But it would take 20 minutes to ing like the one you knew? How
what to do with the adaptive around me, but it retained my at low risk. time,” said his father, Henry Wil- transfer him, and the medical does it feel to have survived a
immunity that medical experts hallucinations or dreams while I Wilson had not been out of the son. “We thought when he got to staff worried Wilson might not virus that is killing people by the
have said covid-19 patients are was under, as well,” he said. country. He was not in contact the hospital that they would take survive the journey, said his sis- thousands every day?
likely to have when they recuper- “That’s been one of the strangest with anyone who he thought had care of it and he would be getting ter, Bernadette Wilson. Wilson said his goals are sim-
ate. It means he should be im- things for me to try to work the virus. But a week later, he felt better soon. But then it only got “You start to bargain with God ple: He wants to visit his parents,
mune to the coronavirus — al- through. Why do I remember worse. He went in for a flu test, worse.” in situations like that,” Henry both in their 70s. He wants to hug
though it’s not clear for how long. this? Is any of it real?” which came back negative, and a francis Wilson had been on a Wilson said, his voice cracking. his mom, maybe get his sister to
“After I’ve taken this thing on, I Wilson started to feel sick on pneumonia test, which came ventilator for seven days when “He looked so peaceful, but I give him a haircut.
really feel like I can handle any- march 8, the day after the rector back positive. his parents received a call from realized that it could be the last once he gets the all-clear from
thing,” Wilson said a week after at Christ Church Georgetown be- Wanting a more detailed diag- an ICU nurse telling them they time I spoke with him. I said, his doctors, he wants to donate
leaving the hospital. came the first person to test nosis, Wilson said, the doctor had to come in right away. ‘francis.’ I shouted, ‘I want you to plasma to help other coronavirus
But recovery has its challeng- positive for covid-19 in the Dis- requested further testing, includ- At Virginia Hospital Center, live.’ ” patients beat the disease.
es. trict. ing checking for covid-19. the family was given protective Somehow, francis Wilson said, most of all, he said, he wants
Nightmares and flashbacks The law student’s symptoms Three days later, Wilson found masks and gloves and told they he heard their voices. His parents people to take his story as a
wake him in the night. were mild at first: sore throat, out he had the novel coronavirus. could see Wilson — who was telling him to pull through. His lesson.
more than once, Wilson said, headaches, a slight cough, feeling By then, he had already called an being monitored in a negative- sister saying they had too many marissa.lang@washpost.com
SATURDAy, APRIL 18 , 2020 . THE WASHINGTON POST eZ M2 B3

tHe DIstrICt tHe DIstrICt

Zoo’s 2-year-old Moke celebrates

with a gorilla-appropriate cake
On the Capitol lawn, a protest with no protesters
BY M ARISSA J . L ANG
BY M ARTIN W EIL tions as blueberries and cranber-
ries. Concealed beneath were Spaced six feet apart on the
While the National Zoo has such morsels as slices of grape- West Lawn of the Capitol, the
been shut due to the coronavirus, fruit and lemon. faces of front-line health-care
that did not keep the staff from If the cake was, as the zoo had workers looked out over the na-
helping a young gorilla celebrate it, the “piece de resistance” of the tion’s capital. Some wore masks.
his birthday this week, complete little one’s party, a main feature of Others held signs imploring law-
with a species-appropriate cake. the cake was the four red letters makers for more personal protec-
At outdoor festivities on created from leaf-eater biscuit tive equipment.
Wednesday, his second birthday, paste that read “MOKE.” But these workers were not
the western lowland gorilla Video showed the birthday boy there in the flesh. Friday’s protest
named Moke was presented with first reaching for a fruit topping, was peopleless.
a layered, rectangular cake, ac- then apparently forgetting his With mandatory social dis-
cording to the zoo’s Twitter feed. primate party manners and start- tancing guidelines and stay-at-
Its intricately designed surface ing to attack the attraction direct- home orders in effect throughout
was embellished, according to the ly with his mouth. the region, and given the grueling
zoo, with such healthful decora- martin.weil@washpost.com demands of their jobs as the dead-
ly coronavirus continues to
spread, it would have been nearly
impossible to assemble 1,000
l o CA l DI g es t health-care workers outside Con-
gress this week.
Instead, volunteers put up
tHe DIstrICt VIrgInIA 1,000 signs to stand on the lawn
in their absence.
Police: Officer shot Army delays opening Activists who are used to rely-
man in robbery attempt Fort Belvoir museum ing on people power to amplify eVelyn HoCKsteIn For tHe WasHIngton Post

messages and picket lawmakers Jamie Roderick, 35, a volunteer from the liberal activist group MoveOn, sets up signs calling for more
A uniformed special police The Army announced have been forced to use alterna- personal protective equipment for health-care workers on the West Lawn of the Capitol on Friday.
officer shot one of two men who Thursday that its nearly tive protest tactics amid the pan-
tried to take his gun Wednesday completed flagship museum at demic. struggling to find more. The na- breadth of this problem without PPE to front-line workers. Mur-
in Southeast, D.C. police said. Fort Belvoir will delay its June 4 Half a dozen volunteers with tional stockpile is nearly out of putting anyone in harm’s way.” phy has been a vocal critic of the
The officer was patrolling the opening because of the liberal activist group MoveOn N95 respirator masks, face A large white sign propped at Trump administration’s corona-
Friendship Court Apartments in coronavirus pandemic. pressed lawn signs into the grass shields, gowns and other critical the back of the display an- virus task force and its reliance on
the 4600 block of Livingston Retired Army Lt. Gen. Roger outside the Capitol as the sun equipment, the Department of nounced in bold letters: “Social private companies to deliver an
Road just after 11 p.m., when two Schultz, president of the Army peaked over the Statue of Free- Health and Human Services an- distancing in effect. Please do not adequate amount of critical gear,
men approached, according to a Historical Foundation, said he dom. nounced last week. congregate.” such as N95 respirator masks,
police report. could “promise it will be worth On each sign was a message. “Health-care workers are on The volunteers who put up the medical gowns, gloves and face
One pointed a gun at the the wait.” Some, bearing the blue Star of the front lines of this crisis, and signs live in the same house and shields, to health-care workers.
officer’s head as the other — Michael E. Ruane Life seen on the uniforms of doc- they’re risking their lives to save have been quarantining under “In this critical hour, FEMA
attempted to pull the officer’s gun tors, first responders and emer- ours every day, and our govern- the same roof for weeks. Still, as should make organized, data-in-
from his holster, police said. The gency medical technicians, reiter- ment, from the very top of this they worked, several wore masks formed decisions about where,
officer disarmed the gunman and Woman dies after SUV ated a hashtag that has made the administration on down, has not over their face to protect passers- when, and in what quantities sup-
fired, wounding one assailant, pins her in driveway rounds on social media for weeks, used the full force of what they by — even though there were few. plies should be delivered to states
police said. The second escaped, accompanying posts from desper- have with the Defense Production A handful of joggers stopped to — not defer to the private sector
officials said. A Virginia woman has died ate front-line workers who say Act to ensure [workers] have the take pictures as the sun rose. to allow them to profit off this
The wounded man was taken after being pinned by her SUV in they are running out of necessary PPE they need and deserve,” said One man, who spoke on the pandemic,” the senator wrote last
to a hospital with injuries that her driveway, authorities said. protective equipment: #GetUs- Rahna Epting, the executive di- condition of anonymity because week in a letter to Vice President
were not life-threatening, police On April 10, officers responded PPE. rector of MoveOn. “We wanted to he is a government employee, Pence, co-signed by 44 Democrat-
said. Police found a pistol at the to the 6100 block of Asher Court Others showed photos of medi- show that these are real people said he supported the idea. ic and two independent senators.
scene, the report said. in Centreville and found Jaehee cal workers in scrubs and hair who are demanding that this gov- “I’m so used to seeing protests Organizers said the signs
Authorities charged Roscoe Pak, 41, who was pinned after nets and baseball caps. Some ernment protect them.” out here by the Capitol that it would remain on the Capitol lawn
Atchinson, 28, of Southwest, with stepping out of her SUV on Asher wore face shields and plastic vi- Unlike protests that have really is bizarre to see how empty all day, but that the demonstra-
assault on a police officer while Court. It rolled forward and sors. Others donned gloves. erupted from Michigan to Ohio to it is,” he said. “But this is really tion was only the beginning of a
armed, and assault with intent to pinned her against her garage One barefaced doctor in a Virginia demanding that states impressive to me.” spate of atypical ones the group
commit robbery, police said. Fairfax County police said. She white lab coat held up a hand- flout social distancing practices By sharing images and video expects to launch this month.
Police said they are investigating. died at a hospital Wednesday, drawn sign. “Trump,” it said. and reopen the economy immedi- on social media of front-line Epting described activists’ en-
— Clarence Williams police said. “Where’s my mask?” ately, organizers with MoveOn workers telling their stories, Mo- ergy as “more intense” than usual
— Justin Wm. Moyer Health-care providers in hospi- said they wanted to adhere to veOn organizers said they hope to as the pandemic drags on.
mArylAnD tals, clinics, nursing homes, as- health guidelines that instruct galvanize people in the same way “The energy is very high, the
sisted-living facilities and reha- people not to gather in large as a traditional rally with a lineup intensity is very high,” she said.
Police ID pedestrian Northam signs bill to bilitation centers have for weeks groups. of speakers. “That’s forcing us to be creative
killed in Frederick regulate CBD products begged for more PPE to protect “Normally, we’d want everyone Activists planned to deliver a and ingenuitive in order to figure
themselves and their vulnerable down here,” said MoveOn volun- petition to Sen. Chris Murphy out how to protest in a social
A pedestrian was struck by a Gov. Ralph Northam (D) patients. teer Robby Diesu, 32, as he looked (D-Conn.) with more than 2 mil- distancing posture and keep one
tractor-trailer and killed recently signed a bill that would States and hospitals have been out over the rows of signs. “We lion signatures urging Congress another safe at the same time.”
Thursday on Interstate 270 in define hemp extract, such as CBD, running out of supplies and wanted to find a way to show the to require the delivery of more marissa.lang@washpost.com
Frederick County, the state police as food and usher in state
said. They said Eric M. Sugrowe, regulations on these products.
26, of Urbana, was struck about Senate Bill 918, by Sen. David
4 a.m. on I-270 in Urbana near the W. Marsden (D-Fairfax), is to help Coron AVIrUs D Iges t
Route 80 exit. Police said he regulate facility conditions and
entered a travel lane after requirements for the production
walking along the highway. The of hemp-derived products for mArylAnD provided by pairing these jail population was about 24,000 coronavirus emergency orders
driver could not stop, police said. human consumption. streams of data with the on April 7, down from roughly are in place and the virus is
— Dana Hedgpeth — Associated Press Hopkins launches new reported covid-19 cases could 29,000 on March 1. spread through community
infections map help predict the true impact of Northam has also proposed a transmission, or risk
the virus’s spread, said Jennifer budget amendment allowing the disenfranchising voters avoiding
l o t t erI es Johns Hopkins University this Nuzzo, a senior scholar at the director of the Department of contact with others.
week launched a new app university’s Center for Health Corrections to release those with Charlotte Gomer, a
results from april 17 tracking covid-19 cases across Security. less than a year left to serve on spokeswoman for Attorney
the United States on a county-by- — Kyle Swenson their sentences for the General Mark R. Herring (D),
DIstrICt VIrgInIA county level. The map is a coronavirus crisis. The state said the office will decide how to
Day/DC-3: 5-2-5 Day/Pick-3: 5-5-7 complement to Johns Hopkins’s VIrgInIA legislature is slated to reconvene proceed in the interest of
DC-4: 2-1-1-6 Pick-4: 2-5-1-2 world map, a resource that has April 22 to consider the protecting “free and fair
DC-5: 4-4-7-7-9 Cash-5 (Fri.): 7-8-19-23-34 become critical for policymakers, Va. jail population amendment and others. elections.”
night/DC-3 (thu.): 2-0-4 night/Pick-3 (thu.): 0-8-5 public health officials and thinned by 17 percent — Justin Jouvenal Gov. Ralph Northam (D) is
DC-3 (Fri.): 7-3-1 Pick-3 (Fri.): 0-7-5 anyone else trying to make sense encouraging voters to cast
DC-4 (thu.): 4-9-6-2 Pick-4 (thu.): 9-8-1-1 of the virus’s spread. Virginia’s jail population has ballots by mail to avoid crowded
DC-4 (Fri.): 2-5-5-5 Pick-4 (Fri.): 7-3-2-7 The tracker is informed by dropped 17 percent as officials ACLU sues Va. over polling places. He recommended
DC-5 (thu.): 5-9-7-2-0 Cash-5 (thu.): 20-25-30-33-34 data from the university’s across the state have moved to ballot witness rule the legislature move May local
DC-5 (Fri.): 6-9-2-8-3 Cash-5 (Fri.): 5-19-21-24-26 ongoing global tracker, as well as release low-level offenders to elections to coincide with the
information from the Red Cross, prevent the spread of the The American Civil Liberties November presidential election,
mArylAnD mUltI-stAte gAmes the Census American coronavirus in correctional Union of Virginia and its and he postponed primary races
Day/Pick 3: 4-4-5 Mega Millions: 13-35-39-46-55 **14 Community Survey and the facilities. The state has reduced national counterpart sued from June 9 to June 23.
Pick 4: 5-8-1-4 Megaplier: 4x Bureau of Labor Statistics. the number of people admitted Virginia in federal court in The “witness requirement”
night/Pick 3 (thu.): 0-6-8 Cash 4 life: 7-30-39-55-56 ¶4 Besides information on the to jails on misdemeanor charges Lynchburg on Friday, will disproportionately affect
Pick 3 (Fri.): 7-9-4 lucky for life: 6-8-20-28-43 ‡15 virus, the new tracker also by 67 percent. challenging the state’s Virginia residents who are older,
Pick 4 (thu.): 8-6-5-4 provides a snapshot of race and Gov. Ralph Northam (D) had requirement that absentee voters disabled or African American,
Pick 4 (Fri.): 6-4-1-3 *Bonus Ball **Mega Ball ethnicity breakdown for each issued a directive last month must open and fill out their according to the ACLU. The case
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IN MEMORIAM
SUBER
Across the D.C. region, the remainder of the school year crumbles
regIon from B1 with Virginia Gov. ralph public protests against the coro- extra beds are a backstop in case ginia Emergency response Sys-
Northam and Bowser. navirus-shutdown restrictions they’re needed for patients who tem, which ordered the masks on
The leader of maryland’s larg- “All three of us are in a similar put in place by Democratic gover- do not need to be in the ICU. behalf of 23 local governments
est school system questioned why situation in that our numbers are nors. “We will be prepared for the and volunteer fire departments,
the state stopped short of ad- all going up, rather than down,” “As the governor of the com- worst-case scenario, but our goal said the supplier informed the
dressing the full school year, say- Hogan said, referring to deaths, monwealth of Virginia, I — along is never to use the convention group that it was unable to get the
ing many want greater certainty. hospitalizations and intensive with my staff — are fighting a center,” Bowser said. masks amid a scramble by the
“I don’t understand why doing it care unit bed use. biological war,” Northam said. “I The city currently has the ca- Trump administration to procure
in three- or four-week increments “None of the governors believe do not have time to involve myself pacity to test 300 people per day. more protective gear for various
makes more sense,” said mont- you can just flip a switch and get in Twitter wars. I will continue to John falcicchio, the mayor’s chief parts of the country.
gomery County Superintendent everything back to normal,” said do everything that I can to keep of staff, said they often have far Emergency workers and some
Jack r. Smith. Hogan. Virginia safe and to save lives.” more people who call to schedule hospital workers in Northern Vir- DAVID H. SUBER, SR.
Salmon, however, said she be- Northam (D) made similar re- It was a discordant note on a testing than who show up. on ginia will have to wait until at 9/25/1939 - 4/18/2004
You left me 16 years ago and you said, "I'll see
lieves closure decisions should be marks during his briefing, noting day when the region’s leaders Wednesday, he said the city tested least late June for a new shipment you when you get there." Little did I know that
made “incrementally, to see that the state’s number of cases is spoke with one another by phone 113 people. He said the city hopes to arrive, said Kristin Nickerson, those would be your last words to me. Missing
you more than words can ever say. You were
where we are in another month.” still climbing but acknowledging and reported continuing efforts to be able to test for virus antibod- executive director of the coali- the best and we all loved you so very much,
but God loved you more.
“We don’t know what’s going to the desire to ease the economic to expand capacity for treating ies at its hospitals in may. tion, which helps coordinate Hattie, Phyllis, Davyd Jr. and
happen, and I certainly don’t pain. coronavirus patients. Northam issued an executive emergency response efforts in the The Suber Family
want to dash the hopes of many About 50 people protested out- Hogan said he, Northam and order aimed at boosting the region.
children and parents that there side the Executive mansion in Bowser agreed it would be prema- state’s health-care workforce, in- Virginia added 602 new coro- DEATH NOTICE
might be some other ways to do richmond on Thursday, calling ture to lift any restrictions right cluding allowing fourth-year navirus infections friday, its
public school going forward,” she for an end to the restrictions. now. “We’re all in some part of a medical students to practice in highest single-day increase so far.
said. “That’s the reason I decided Almost none wore masks. phase of talking about the gradu- hospitals without direct supervi- The state also reported 23 new BRENNAN
to do that.” Northam called on the protesters al reopening but not able to start sion. deaths, including six in fairfax. DONNA MARIE BRENNAN
friday’s announcements came to think about others. that right yet. And we all are in The order — which runs The District reported 126 new On Wednesday, April 15, 2020, of
Silver Spring, MD. Beloved wife of
as the number of coronavirus-re- “They’re putting themselves at agreement that we want to do through June 10 — expands op- infections and five new deaths: the late James Joseph Brennan,
lated deaths surpassed 800 in the risk, but perhaps as important that in a way that’s cooperative,” tions for telemedicine, makes it two patients in their 60s, a 72- Sr.; mother of Jean Marie Decker,
James, Jr. (Lisa), Thomas, Shawn
District, maryland and Virginia, they’re putting all of us at risk,” he Hogan said. easier for health-care providers year-old woman, an 82-year-old (Jeff), and Linda Brennan (David);
with the number of infections said. The normally mild-man- Hogan also responded to re- licensed by other states to prac- man and a 91-year-old woman. sister of Tony Smith (Linda), Rober-
ta Smee (Will), Jane Scholl (Glen) and Wendy
reaching 21,579. nered governor seemed to grow publican lawmakers in rural tice in Virginia, eases restrictions The racial disparities in fatalities Montague (Greg) ; grandmother of James, Julia,
maryland Gov. Larry Hogan angry as he described “the pain parts of the state who have ques- for licensed nurse practitioners to also continued to widen: As of Zachariah, Jacob, Thomas, Noah, Bennett, and
Megan. She is also survived by other loving
(r) said he expects the surging and agony” he said he sees in the tioned his call for residents to prescribe or treat patients, and friday, black residents represent- family and friends. (SERVICES RESTRICTED TO
FAMILY ONLY DUE TO CURRENT WORLDWIDE
caseload to peak and start to faces of first responders. wear face coverings when they permits interns and residents ed 47 percent of total cases but PANDEMIC.) A private Mass of Christian Burial
decline soon, a key turning point “We all have the right to pro- enter stores or ride public trans- with temporary training licenses 77 percent of total deaths. at St. Bernadette's Church, 72 University Blvd.
East, Silver Spring, MD, on Tuesday, April 21,
in reopening the state economy. test, but while we’re fighting this portation. The order takes effect to practice without supervision. maryland added 787 new cases, 2020 at 10 a.m.. Interment Gate of Heaven
Hogan, who is chair of the Nation- biological war, I would say, let’s Saturday. Northam said a major ship- its highest number in nine days. Cemetery. A Memorial Service to Celebrate
Her Life will be held at a later date. Memorial
al Governors Association, said he join the team, let’s do everything While some have claimed ment of personal protective Total fatalities in maryland contributions may be made to Senior Connec-
agreed with many elements of the we can,” he said. wearing masks infringes on their equipment, or PPE, had arrived in swelled to 499, including eight tion, 3950 Ferrara Dr., Silver Spring, MD 20906.
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plan laid out by Trump on Thurs- Northam dismissed a tweet rights, Hogan said, not wearing Virginia from a private contrac- new deaths in Prince George’s
day for governors to reopen com- from Trump that encouraged the them “infringes on your neigh- tor. But a coalition of local gov- County.
merce in their states. protesters. bor’s rights.” ernments and public safety agen- gregory.schneider@washpost.com
The governor said social dis- “LIBErATE VIrGINIA, and Bowser said the city would cies said a separate order for erin.cox@washpost.com BRENNER
tancing measures should not be save your great 2nd Amendment. construct 500 beds for coronavi- about half a million N95 respira- perry.stein@washpost.com
lifted until maryland sees 14 con- It is under siege!” Trump tweeted, rus patients in the city’s conven- tor masks, expected from Holland
secutive days with declining adding gun laws into the mix. tion center in coming weeks. this week, never showed up after Ovetta Wiggins, rebecca tan, Justin
numbers of coronavirus deaths, Trump issued similar tweets With elective surgeries on hold, its supplier was outbid by the Jouvenal, tom Jackman, Donna st.
adding that decisions to ease re- about minnesota and michigan, the city’s hospital are at 68 per- federal government. George and Antonio Olivo contributed
strictions will be made in concert two states that also have seen cent capacity, officials said. The The nonprofit Northern Vir- to this report.

As cases surge in Pr. George’s, former hospital is back in business

lAurel from B1 through Laurel’s emergency cient supplies of that equipment, “It’s a key indicator of how the effort, after the heart hospital she ALFRED EPHRAIM BRENNER, PhD
room and been sent to other facili- in part thanks to community do- staff is rising,” he said. “They’re normally works at stopped doing Alfred Ephraim Brenner, PhD,
age 88, of Chevy Chase, MD,
land, with 2,966 cases and 87 ties for treatment, though they nations. Staffers wore full-body going to have to take care of each surgeries during the pandemic. died peacefully on April 13,
deaths reported as of friday. are sure some have. Testing will protection when transporting other through this surge.” “I’m respectful of the virus,” 2020.
Some hospitals have had to send not be done at Laurel, a spokes- beds from shipping pallets into Laurel’s hospital was taken Brown said when asked whether Cherished husband of Natalie
Brenner; brother of Samuel
patients elsewhere because their man said — it is designed for hospital rooms. Designed specifi- over by the University of mary- she was scared by the prospect of Brenner and Judith Rustin; former spouse
critical-care units were full. treatment of people who have cally for the pandemic, the inten- land medical System and down- working with covid-19 patients of Rosamond Brenner; father of Tamara
Brenner, Kendra Kroll, and Lyle Brenner; and
The reopening of parts of the already tested positive or exhibit- sive care units have monitors that sized in 2018, a controversial deci- for the first time. “I’m very grate- treasured uncle, grandfather, stepfather,
Laurel hospital will “redistribute ed severe symptoms without test- allow nurses to check patients’ sion made by then-owner Dimen- ful for the PPE.” friend, and colleague.
the surge,” Wright said. ing. vital signs without entering the sions Healthcare amid serious fi- other new staff include travel- Al was born on September 11, 1931 to
Starting next week Laurel will one nurse at Laurel previously room. nancial trouble and declining ing nurses who have been fighting Ricky Levine and Hyman Brenner, grew
up in Brooklyn, and studied physics at
have 10 critical-care beds with said employees have not been told “The ability to continuously re- admissions. The state is paying the virus in hospitals across the MIT. Throughout his long career, he was
ventilators and 36 “intermediate” how many patients there have motely monitor” is key, Wright the bill for the conversion of shut- country. an investigator and leader in high-energy
physics and supercomputing. He taught
beds without them. The facility tested positive for the coronavirus said, because covid-19 patients tered floors into a pandemic facil- Jennifer Sorce came from a physics at Harvard University, headed the
aims to ultimately have 135 beds in the existing outpatient facility. “can decompensate quickly” and ity. covid-19 unit in Pittsburgh, which Computing Department at Fermilab
(Batavia, IL), directed the John von Neu-
available, with 400 contracted UmmS spokeswoman Jania need to be moved to intensive medical staff have come to Lau- she said wasn’t as overwhelmed mann supercomputing center (Princeton,
NJ), and worked for many years at the
medical workers. matthews said the system’s policy care. rel from parts of the country not by the pandemic. (Allegheny Institute for Defense Analyses (Alexandria,
“I expect we’ll have people is that any employee who was not He was particularly excited to hit as hard by the virus; they will County has reported 947 cases VA) until his retirement.
from the other hospitals and our wearing personal protective point out a staff innovation al- spend the weekend running and 43 deaths.) A lifetime enthusiast of classical music,
own emergency room immediate- equipment when they were ex- ready implemented at the hospi- through plans and potential crisis “I feel honored” to be in a opera, and travel, he was dearly loved and
will be greatly missed.
ly,” Wright said. posed to a covid-19 patient would tal in Cheverly — a “serenity situations. hospital unit focused exclusively
He and other hospital leaders have been alerted. room” with relaxing music and Lisa Brown, an ICU nurse from on covid-19, Sorce said. “I’m excit- Services private. Memorial contributions
can be made to the Union of Concerned Sci-
could not say how many covid-19 Unlike other hospitals, leaders low lighting where medical work- Dallas, said she drove to mary- ed to get to use my skills.” entists. Arrangements by Sagel Bloomfield
patients have already come say Laurel is blessed with suffi- ers can go to decompress. land from Texas to be part of the rachel.weiner@washpost.com Danzansky Goldberg Funeral Care.

Obituaries
BRIAN DENNEHY, 81 alien leader in “Cocoon” (1985), a Both plays were directed by mr. (1990), “romeo + Juliet” (1996)
role he modeled after the chil- Dennehy’s longtime artistic col- and filmmaker Terrence malick’s

Character dren’s show host mr. rogers, and

was featured in comedies such as
“Semi-Tough” (1977) with Burt
laborator robert falls and landed
on Broadway after playing at the
Goodman Theatre in Chicago,
existential drama “Knight of
Cups” (2015).
mr. Dennehy received his last
actor in films reynolds, “10” (1979) with Dudley
moore and “Tommy Boy” (1995),
where mr. Dennehy starred in
productions that included a 2010
Emmy nomination for the TV
movie “our fathers” (2005), play-

also starred as Chris farley’s exasperated fa-

ther.
mr. Dennehy was celebrated
double bill of o’Neill’s “Hughie”
and Samuel Beckett’s one-act
“Krapp’s Last Tape.” on Broad-
ing a Catholic priest who opposes
the church coverup of sexual
abuse and is later forced from the
DEATH NOTICE

on Broadway for his work as a character actor

in Hollywood and on television,
way, he also appeared in a 2009
revival of o’Neill’s “Desire Under
pulpit.
He voiced the rat Django in the
DANT
where he earned six Emmy nomi- the Elms.” animated Pixar movie “ratatouil-
BY H ARRISON S MITH nations. But he received even “The words of Eugene o’Neill le” (2007) and was recently fea-
greater acclaim for his perfor- — they’ve got to be heard,” mr. tured on the NBC crime series
Brian Dennehy, a Tony-win- mances on the stage, starring in Dennehy said at the Tony Awards “The Blacklist.”
ning actor who starred in plays by revivals of classic plays including after winning for “Long Day’s His first marriage, to Judith
Arthur miller and Eugene o’Neill o’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh,” Journey Into Night.” “They’ve got Scheff, ended in divorce, and in
and portrayed barrel-chested vil- Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry or- to be heard and heard and heard. 1988 he married Jennifer Arnott,
lains, gun-toting lawmen and the chard” and Bertolt Brecht’s “Life And thank you so much for giving a costume designer. In addition to
MIKe PIscItellI/IcM PArtners
occasional charming father figure of Galileo.” us the chance to enunciate them.” his wife, survivors include three
on-screen, died April 15 in New Brian Dennehy won two best- “If it doesn’t scare me,” he once Brian manion Dennehy was daughters from his first marriage,
Haven, Conn. He was 81. actor Tonys for roles in “Death said of theatrical roles, “I’m not born in Bridgeport, Conn., on July Elizabeth, Kathleen and Deirdre
His family announced the of a Salesman” and “long Day’s interested.” 9, 1938, and grew up in Brooklyn, Dennehy; two children from his
death in a statement shared by Journey Into night.” mr. Dennehy won two Tony Queens and Long Island. His fa- second, Sarah and Cormac Den-
mr. Dennehy’s agency, ICm Part- Awards for best actor. His first ther was an Associated Press jour- nehy; and seven grandchildren. KENNETH RAYMOND DANT
Kenneth Raymond Dant,89, of Lovettsville,
ners. The statement did not give a sheriff opposite Sylvester Stal- came for playing the central role nalist, his mother a nurse, and by mr. Dennehy, who traced his Virginia passed from this life on Wednesday,
April 15, 2020 at Country Meadows of Fred-
precise cause, but his daughter lone’s rambo character in “first of Willy Loman in a 1999, 50th- the age of 14, mr. Dennehy was ancestry back to Ireland, ac- erick, MD. Born on June 25, 1930 at Sibley
Elizabeth Dennehy said on Twit- Blood” (1982), a corrupt Western anniversary revival of miller’s acting onstage, appearing as the knowledged a personal connec- Hospital in Washington, D.C., he is the son
of Raymond William Dant and Mary Dant.
ter that it was not related to the lawman in the Kevin Kline film tragedy “Death of a Salesman,” lead in a high school production tion with the brooding, hard- He is survived by his wife of 65 years,
novel coronavirus. “Silverado” (1985) and serial kill- which New York Times theater of “macbeth.” drinking characters he often Patricia G. Dant. In addition to his wife, he
is survived by his children, Bonnie Giuffre
Standing 6-foot-3, mr. Den- er John Wayne Gacy in the TV critic Ben Brantley called the per- He played football and studied played on the stage and screen. and husband Michael, Steve Dant and wife
nehy had a booming voice and an miniseries “To Catch a Killer” formance of his career. history at Columbia University, He was known for holding rau- Denise, his brother Donald Dant and sister
Janet Daymude. His grandchildren include
often intimidating screen pres- (1992). “What this actor goes for is dropping out to serve in the ma- cous St. Patrick’s Day parties, Jaime Senesi, Lisa Wahl, Kyle Dant and
ence, playing an overzealous He also starred as an endearing close to an everyman quality, with rine Corps before returning to once renting a 40-foot mobile Michelle Small. He has six great-grandchil-
dren. He was preceded in death by his
a grand emotional expansiveness receive his degree. “from 1965 to home and hiring a driver to take daughter, Roberta Broughman and husband
Wayne, son, James K Dant, twin daughters
that matches his monumental 1974 I served the best possible his friends from bar to bar, and (who passed shortly after their birth), sis-

Wheels For W ishes physique,” Brantley wrote. “Yet

these emotions ring so unerringly
apprenticeship for an actor,” he
told the Times in 1989. “I learned
boasted to the Times, “At my
parties, the sheriff’s department
ters Joyce Burgess and Joan Hemminger,
and grandson Joseph Dant.
Kenneth served his country as a member of
We’re still Benefiting true that mr. Dennehy seems to firsthand how a truck driver lives, comes three or four times a night.” the D.C. National Guard and as a sergeant in
the U.S. Army.
accepting kidnap you by force, trapping you what a bartender does, how a He eventually stopped drink- He was employed with the U.S. Geological
donations and
pick ups Make-A-Wish ® inside Willy’s psyche.” salesman thinks. I had to make a ing, turning his focus to acting. It Survey until his retirement in January 1986.
He was named a Melvin Jones Fellow by
“I will always be haunted,” he life inside those jobs, not just had replaced the Catholic faith of the Lions Club International Foundation -
Mid-Atlantic added, “by the image of mr. Den- pretend.” his childhood, he said, with an- the highest form of recognition conferred
by the foundation for his dedication and
nehy’s infantile fragility when he mr. Dennehy studied drama as other religion: art. hard work with the Lovettsville Lions Club.
• 100% Tax Deductible shields his face with his hands, a graduate student at Yale and, by “The most important function Ken coached little league sports for many
years. He also enjoyed attending his grand-
• Minimal To No Human Contact palms outward, before an angry, the late ’70s, he was frequently that an actor has is — when he children’s sporting events, and was an avid
golfer. Ken is well known for his kindness
• Free Vehicle Pick Up ANYWHERE confrontational [Kevin] Ander- appearing on television programs does his work right — he holds up and integrity. He was very much loved, and
son,” who played Willy’s son Biff. including “Kojak,” “m.A.S.H.,” a mirror to the audience,” mr. will be greatly missed by family and friends.
• We Accept Most Vehicles Running or Not Ken attended St. Mary’s Catholic Church
mr. Dennehy received an “Lou Grant” and “Dallas.” Dennehy once told USA Today, in Petersville, Md. where he will be laid to
Your Car Donations Matter Emmy nomination for a 2000 His screen credits also includ- “and says, ‘This is you in some rest.
A public Celebration of Ken's Life will be
television adaptation of the pro- ed the movies “Gorky Park” way. When you walk out of this announced at a later date.
NOW More Than Ever! duction and won his second Tony (1983), “f/X” (1986) and director place tonight, or when you turn In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions
may be made to the Alzheimer’s Founda-
Award for playing the domineer- Peter Greenaway’s “The Belly of the television set off, you will have tion, Hospice of Frederick County, MD or to
ing patriarch James Tyrone in a an Architect” (1987), as a sickly seen a piece of yourself, and you St. Mary’s Church in Petersville, MD or to
WheelsForWishes.org Call:(202) 644-8277 the charity of one’s choice.
2003 revival of o’Neill’s melodra- and cerebral architect. He also will know something about your- Expressions of sympathy may be shared
ma “Long Day’s Journey Into appeared in the Scott Turow ad- self that you didn’t know before.’ ” with the family at:
* Car Donation Foundation d/b/a Wheels For Wishes. To learn more about our programs or financial information, www.staufferfuneralhome.com
call (213) 948-2000 or visit www.wheelsforwishes.org. Night.” aptation “Presumed Innocent” harrison.smith@washpost.com
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FRANCIS RATTLEY ALLEN NEBEL ARGYROPOULOS
GAIL D. FRANCIS
Born September 1,1952 in DC; passed away his skills creating one-of-a-kind advertise-
on April 7,2020. Survived by husband, John; ments for local vendors.
daughters, Adrienne and Autumn; sister, Carol;
nieces; nephews; grandchildren; friends and In 1948, he met the love of his life Mar-
colleagues. Service will be held at a later date. garet Waters at the National Dance Club.
Nick and Margaret would soon become life-
long partners, friends and parents. He mar-
ried Margaret January 6, 1952 at Saint
Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral. Saint
GRASTY Sophia became the foundation of their faith
and life together. Nick and Marge moved
from the City to Garrett Park, Maryland in
1954, which remains their home today.
His love of art, meticulous and steady hand
and desire to serve led him to his lifelong
career as a cartographer, making maps for
the civilian arm of the military at the Defense
Mapping Agency. He retired from the Agency
in 1986 after nearly four decades of
EVELYN QUANDER RATTLEY (Age 95) LEWIS ALLEN J. BERNARD NEBEL esteemed federal service.
Daughter of the late John Edward Quander, Peacefully passed away on Saturday, April 11, The greatest man to ever love us and whom NICHOLAS ARGYROPOULOS (Age 93)
Sr. and Helen Orena Stewart had her heavenly 2020. Loving Husband of Maggie Allen. Also we will ever love, J. Bernard “Bernie” Nebel Passed away to be with our Lord April 11, Nick never lost his passion for sports, par-
reunion on Good Friday, April 10, 2020. A survived by sons, Nigel, Juan and Christopher passed away on Thursday, April 9, 2020 from 2020 at his home with his family by his side. ticularly baseball. This passion led him
retired educator, advocate for the disabled, Allen, daughter Renee Powers and a host complications related to Alzheimer’s at his to the world of fast pitch softball, where
devout Catholic, one of the founders of St. of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces home in Ashton, MD. Bernie, age 80, was Nick was a true follower of our Lord Jesus Nick caught many of the best pitchers in
Benedict the Moor Catholic Church, and mem- nephews other relatives and friends. On Mon- born in 1939 in Washington, DC to Joseph Christ, a devoted husband , father and friend the world. He traveled all over the eastern
ber of one of the oldest documented African day April 20, friends may visit with the family Francis Nebel and Rosalie Lucia Kelly before to all who knew him! Born on July 7, 1926 United States playing the most elite teams in
American families in the city and nation. Sur- from 10 a.m. until time of private service at moving to North Chevy Chase at age 3. His in Omaha Nebraska to Greek immigrants, the country, including playing against Eddie
vived by her daughter, Sandra Rattley; son, 11 a.m. at Marshall-March Funeral Home of father was a DC builder responsible for such mother Athena and Father Paul Argyropou- "The King" Feigner and "The King and His
Thaddeus Rattley Jr. (Cynthia); grandson, Thad- DC, 4217 9th St., NW, Rev. Ricky D. Helton, icons as the Fannie Mae building (currently City los. He had three older siblings, brothers Court," on multiple occasions. Nick received
deus Rattley, III; great-grandsons, Malakai and officiating. In lieu of flowers make donations to Ridge), which was Bernie’s first construction Chris and Jimmy and a sister Florence, all numerous awards including being awarded
PAMELA J. GRASTY Micah; nieces, nephews, cousins, and a host of Israel CME Benevolent Fund, 557 Ramdolph St., job at age 18. Bernie followed in his father’s preceding him in death. The family moved the Most Valuable Player of the Worlds Fast
Departed this life on March 25, 2020 at Wash- prayer partners and friends. Due to Covid19, NW, Washington, DC 20011. Interment Quanti- footsteps, working in construction until the day to Washington DC. when he was four years Pitch Tournament held in Saint Louis in 1958.
ington Hospital Center. She is survived by her services are private. In lieu of flowers, please co National Cemetery at a later date. he passed, lastly as owner of NCB Construc- old. It was there that he would grow up and
sisters, Juanita B. Prince and Ethel F. Jackson, make donations in her name to the Sanctuary tion. Bernie met the love of his life, Carole reside for the remainder of his wonderful Nick's time and accomplishments didn’t go
sister-in-law, Rhodetta Grasty, as well as a Renovation Project, St. Benedict the Moor Elisabeth Shaub, when she was 15 and he adventure filled life. He is survived by his unnoticed. He was inducted into the Greater
host of other family and friends. In lieu of Catholic Church, 320 21st St NE, Washington, was 16. They were high school sweethearts, beautiful wife of 68 years, Margaret, his Washington Fastpitch Softball Hall of Fame
flowers, donations may be made in Pamela's DC 20002. Services by McGUIRE. marrying September 26, 1959, celebrating 60 one of a kind daughter Athena and husband and the Washington, DC Jocks Club Hall
name to the Special Olympics of Washington, years of marriage in 2019. They raised four Oliver Skinker, his son, Paul and beautiful of Fame. Upon retiring from “playing”, he
DC. Funeral services will be held privately. children, Joseph Bernard, Jr. (Anya A. Randall), wife Kathy, and their two children, Alexander remained involved serving as Commissioner
Interment at Arlington National Cemetery. Donald Anthony (1962-1963), Theresa Elisa- and Alyssa. Nick and Marge also had another of the Softball Hall of Fame Commission.
Arrangements by J. B. JENKINS FUNERAL beth (Douglas W. Robinson), and Michele Lucia son, Thomas, who passed away as an infant.
HOME. (David L. Peake); and seven grandchildren: Nick’s love of sports also crossed into his life
WHATLEY BaSUHAIL Matthew W. Robinson, Joseph N. Robinson,
Ryan D. Peake, Mareike E. Nebel, Charles J.
Nick's life was filled with family, friends, fun
and faith. It started where he grew up in
of faith. He helped found the Saint Sophia
youth basketball program where he coached
Peake, Michael J. Peake, and Thomas C. Robin- Northwest Washington, DC. While his father, hundreds of youth over the years. He is rev-
JULIUS WHATLEY, JR. (Age 87) son. Bernie was passionate about his work a Chef by trade, passed when he was very ered by the many players and parishioners
Peacefully on Monday, April 6, 2020; and family and was known for his never- young, he had the benefit of being brought up of the Cathedral, many whom still call him
HEINHOLD beloved husband of the late Elizabeth Jean
Whatley; devoted father of Andre Whatley;
ending sense of humor, encompassing warmth
and boundless compassion. In lieu of flowers,
by an incredibly strong and vibrant “Greek”
mother and very close family. He ran the
“coach” or Uncle Nicky.
daughter-in-law Deetra Whatley and cher- donations may be made to the Cure streets as a kid, enjoying sports and all Nick's final place of rest will be with his
EDWARD J. HEINHOLD ished grandfather to Madison Whatley. Vis- Alzheimer’s Fund, www.curealz.org. A memo- the city had to offer. Nick graduated from Son Thomas at Arlington National Cemetery.
Edward J. Heinhold, 82, of Rockville, MD, itation on Monday, April 20, at 9:30 a.m. rial service will be scheduled for a later date. Roosevelt Highschool in 1945, where he Dates and times for his funeral and celebra-
died Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at home. until time of Service at 10:30 a.m. at J.B. began his love affair with the great game tion of life will be announced in the coming
He leaves his wife of 50 years, Barbara Jenkins Funeral Home, 7474 Landover Rd., of baseball and carried this love throughout weeks.
(Barnard) Heinhold, and four daughters, Hyattsville, MD. Interment Fort Lincoln his life. Nick also excelled in soccer and
Catherine Heinhold, Alison (Peter) Melley, Cemetery. basketball, having the benefit of being He truly led a blessed life. His spirit lives on
www.jbjfh.com
Noelle (Michael) Fell, and Meg Notaro. He
was Opa to Sara, Liam, Aidan, Kevin, and STEWART coached by the one and only Red Auerbach. and may his memory be ever eternal

Patrick Melley. Private funeral and inter- Following his high school graduation from In lieu of flowers, go to FaithDirect.net and
ment at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, Roosevelt High in 1945, he was drafted into select Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathed-
Gaithersburg, MD on Friday, April 17. A the Army where he spent two years in eral, then select One Time Gift to make a
memorial Mass will be held once restric- the Pacific stationed in the Philippines with donation in Nick's name.
tions are lifted. If you would like to donate the 86th infantry. Upon returning home he
in Ed’s memory, please consider JSSA Hos- attended Georgetown University’s Foreign
pice. See full obituary and sign the memory IN MEMORIAM SAMI MUSHIN SUHAIL BaSUHAIL Service School and the National Art School
book at https://interfaithfunerals.com/. of Washington majoring in Commercial Art. .
Februray 13, 1969 – April 2, 2020
McINTOSH Virginia
Nick had an incredible eye and a hand for
detail and survived his early adulthood using
Sami BaSuhail; 51, a talented architect,
foodie, mentor, athletic enthusiast, devoted
son and father, loving husband, friend and
sibling, evoker of laughter, dreamer, lover
of learning, adventurer and traveler of the
world, passed away on Thursday, April 2,
2020.

He was kind. And he loved to make his ATZ

loved-ones laugh.
Marc loved the outdoors, including paddling
Sami is survived by his father Muhsin, his his kayak on Lake Champlain and hiking in the
mother Ann, his three sisters—Amal, Leila, JANICE MARIE STEWART Adirondack mountains. Marc was passionate
and Neda—his wife Lori, his friend Carol, Departed this life on March 9, 2020 of Wash-
ington, DC. She is survived by her beautiful about music, art, and the theater. He loved
and her children Dominic and Eileen—for listening to classical, jazz, and of course rock
whom he filled the role of loving father—his grandchildren, Salina, Ashle, Kisembe, Brit-
tanie, Nandi, TySean, DeSean and Sauyer; great music from the 60s and 70s. Marc was also
lifelong friend Fida, extended family, and a a keen traveler, whether touring Ireland and
host of long-time friends. grandchildren, Owen, De'Asya, Zoe, Mario, Dar-
rius, and Jayvion; and a host of other relatives Scotland, golfing with good friends, or cycling
and friends. There will be a private family through California wine country, visiting fami-
A funeral service was held on Saturday, ly and friends along the way.
April 4, 2020, at the AMAA Muslim Ceme- service on Monday, April 20, 2020 at Marshall
tery in Fredericksburg, VA. Condolences for March Funeral Home Chapel, 4308 Suitland
QUEEN ESTHER McINTOSH Road, Suitland, Maryland 20746. Entombment Marc’s Adirondack home away from home
the family may be added to the guestbook was Westport, NY, where he enjoyed few
DEATH NOTICE Dearest Mommy, at https://tributes.com/Sami_BaSuhail. at Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
things more than sitting on the porch with
Another year. friends and family, a cold Labatt Blue, and a
McBRIDE There are no words to express how much I
miss you.
Donations may be sent to the Callao Volun-
teer Fire Department, P.O. Box 39, Callao,
view of the lake.
VA 22435 or Perhaps Marc’s greatest passion was his love
BYRON McBRIDE Until we meet again. https://www.callaovfd.org/donate. for the game of golf, which he learned to
Members of the Alexandria play at a young age with his grandfather’s
Retired Police, Fire & Sheriff Asso- Love always and forever,
MARC DAVID ATZ chopped-off golf clubs. Golf was a common
ciation are notified of the death of thread through Marc’s personal and pro-
Byron McBride on April 12, 2020. Angela CEMETERY LOTS Passed away in his sleep on April 3, 2020
at Arbor Place Memory Care in Rockville, fessional lives. As director of the Revenue
Authority, Marc oversaw all of Montgomery
Jeremy Lenzner, President DEATH NOTICE 2 Side by side Beautiful cemetery lots in
the exclusive Good Shepherd area of Fairfax
MD. He was 68 and just five days shy of his
69th birthday. Marc leaves behind his loving County’s public golf courses. During his
JACOBY Memorial Gardens. $3000 ea 804-972-3877 wife, Babette (Bobbi) Atz; his mother, Susie tenure, he increased the county’s number
of public golf courses from five to nine by
GEHANI Atz of Sioux City, IA; three siblings: Doug
(Deedra) Atz of Kendallville, IN; Bart (Lisa) Atz incorporating the four golf courses previously
operated by the Park and Planning Commis-
of Woodland, CA; and Sarah (Tom) Morgan
of Sioux City, IA; a daughter, Lindsay, of sion. Of course, Marc loved golfing with
his teaching duties to return to India. During FORT LINCOLN CEMETERY - 2 crypts for sale. Bobbi, including two memorable rounds at
this time, he studied different charitable Section 121 crypt B. Community mausoleum Brooklyn Park, MD; two stepsons, David (Tina)
Degnan of Hartsville, PA and Michael (Elena the renowned Pebble Beach Golf Links. His
organizations in India, and eventually co- with elevator. 703-795-9043. enthusiasm for golf and years of hard work
founded a non-profit dedicated to breaking McAnespie) Degnan of Richmond, CA; and
many grandchildren, nieces, and nephews. culminated in one of Marc’s proudest
the cycle of poverty by empowering margin- moments: becoming a certified PGA Profes-
alized people with sustainable skills, medical sional in 2004. PGA card in hand, Marc had
services, education, and infrastructure. Marc was born on April 8, 1951, in Kendal-
FORT LINCOLN CEMETERY- 2 plots with 2 lville, Indiana. After graduating in 1974 from the thrill of watching Tiger Woods win the
vaults in the popular Garden of Faith. Best Indiana University he moved to the Wash- Masters golf tournament in 2005.
At age 47, Mr. Gehani started his real estate Offer. Call 910-658-9118
business, which grew to be quite successful ington, DC area. He earned his Masters in
Public Administration from American Univer- After bravely battling acute myeloid leukemia
and served as the basis for him to donate with chemotherapy and a successful bone
much of his life savings to charity. Through sity in 1975. After completing two assign-
ments under contract with the City of marrow transplant in 2010, he developed
his hard work in real estate, Mr. Gehani a degenerative neurological condition which
was able to donate $10 million to SEWA, NATIONAL MEMORIAL PARK, Rockville, MD, and Prince William Co. VA,
FALLS CHURCH VA- 2 custom built crypts, Marc joined the private consulting world, caused aphasia and apraxia, making his final
International, a non-profit that specializes years challenging. Through it all, Marc
in family, child, tribal, and refugee welfare 2 crypt tier. Call 540-229-4545 first with a firm in northern Virginia, and
then by creating his own consulting business retained his winning charm and sense of
around the world. humor, his warm smile for all he met, and bird
with a colleague and friend. Together they
helped federal and local government agen- whistles for his grandchildren. Marc will be
Through his work in service, Mr. Gehani MACLEAR JACOBY, JR. missed dearly by many, near and far.
had the opportunity to meet with senior Maclear Jacoby, Jr. passed away Saturday Parklawn Memorial Park - Double Lawn Crypt cies improve their operations and efficiency.
RAM GEHANI (1934 ~ 2020) American and Indian leaders, including sev- evening, April 11, 2020, after a short illness. One of those agencies was the Montgomery
w/ Companion Bronze Memorial and Vase. County Office of Management and Budget A celebration of Marc’s life will be planned at
Ram Gehani, social activist, father, college eral Indian Prime Ministers. Mr. Gehani had He was 93 and died of the coronavirus. A Block 12, Sec 2, Levels A & B. Value $15,000 a future date, when it is once again safe for
professor, and successful business owner in a calm, composed and wonderful spirit. His loyal and active alumnus of Holderness (OMB) who then hired Marc. Thus began his
Asking $5,000. 301-743-5651 public service career in Montgomery County, groups to gather. Marc would want nothing
the Washington, DC area, passed away at 4 family and friends described him as willing School (New Hampshire) and Trinity College more than to know his family and friends
a.m. on March 27, 2020, from complications to work through any obstacle facing him (Hartford, CT), Mac served his country in MD, with posts at OMB, the Department of
Transportation, and later the Montgomery were safe and taking care of each other. And,
of cancer. Mr. Gehani lived in the Washington, to fulfill what he believed to be his social the Navy during WW II and in the Air Force whenever possible, extending help to those
DC Area for 49 years. mission. He was a true example of simple during the Korean War. As a member of County Revenue Authority, where he served
as Executive Director until his retirement in most vulnerable, whether through the ACLU,
living, high thinking, and “service above self.” the Air Force Reserves, he rose to the a local homeless shelter, or food pantry.
Born in what was then called Karachi, India Outside of work, he was known for his joy rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He joined St. 2007.
in 1934, Mr. Gehani was raised in poverty of reading and learning, and his disciplined Francis Episcopal Church (Potomac) in the
lifestyle including exercising nearly every DEATH NOTICES
during the politically tumultuous time of late 1950's and was the church's longest- MONDAY- FRIDAY 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
India’s Partition. In 1948, he fled Karachi with day, even during his cancer treatments. To serving parishioner. SATURDAY-SUNDAY 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
his family as a refugee to Mumbai and spent his children he demonstrated valuable life
his childhood days working odd jobs after lessons and was an excellent listener. He A remarkable professional career as a To place a notice, call:
school to support his family and to finance also taught Sunday School every week and teacher, coach, and administrator with Lan- 202-334-4122
his education. Mr. Gehani graduated from
Bombay University, with BA and MA degrees,
loved the arts and culture, particularly the
Smithsonian Museums in DC. He strongly
don School (Bethesda) spanned seven
decades, and he was still "lending a hand"
800-627-1150 ext 4-4122
FAX:
HUGHES
and later earned a Ph.D. in History from believed that travel was the greatest way to in the school's athletic department until 202-334-7188
Strathclyde University in Scotland. experience other cultures first-hand. the time of his death. He was a mentor EMAIL: Bob moved to the Washington, DC area
for countless students for whom his friend- deathnotices@washpost.com in 1976 where he started his career in
Through hard work, determination, and his His smile, wisdom, and generosity will be liness, kindness, enthusiasm, and humor accounting. He worked for many years in
association with the RSS, a volunteer orga- remembered and missed tremendously by provided life-long guidelines. As the Email and faxes MUST include support of charitable and nonprofit organi-
nization in India, he cultivated a love of all of his friends and family. Mr. Gehani school's tennis coach for more than 40 name, home address & home phone # zations like Common Cause and American
is survived by his daughter Dr. Arti Gehani years, he guided his teams to dozens of of the responsible billing party. Health Planning Association, where he and
knowledge and social service during his Fax & email deadline - 3 p.m. daily
younger years which stayed with him of San Francisco, CA, his son Mahesh and league titles and to several national titles Laurie met. He later became Controller of
daughter-in-law Sarika Gehani of Dallas, Phone-In deadline
throughout his life. Mr. Gehani immigrated as well, even as his players came to under- 4 p.m. M-F The Funding Center and SOC Enterprises.
to the United States in the late 1960s and Texas, his three grandchildren, Nithya, stand that sportsmanship was more impor- Later in his career, Bob was Controller for
3 p.m. Sa-Su
settled in the DC area where he worked as Somya, and Karthik Gehani, and his wife Dr. tant than championships. In the Landon the law firm, Quinn, Racusin and Gazzola.
a professor and librarian at the University of Mohini Gehani of Potomac, Maryland. community Mac was not just respected CURRENT 2020 RATES: For more than 20 years, Bob was an active
the District of Columbia for nearly 30 years, and well-regarded. He was revered! ( PER DAY) member of the Institute of Management
retiring in 2000. His funeral was held in a warm ceremony Accountants (IMA) and because of his close
on a lovely day, Monday, March 30, 2020, at Three close members of Mac's family are MONDAY-SATURDAY ties to Mississippi delegation staff members,
Mr. Gehani never forgot his humble begin- the Snowden Funeral Home in Rockville, MD. predeceased: two first cousins, Eve Thew Black & White he enjoyed playing softball with a Capitol Hill
nings, and he made it his life’s purpose The family will schedule a public memorial and Margie Mark, both of Norfolk, CT, and 1" - $150 (text only) team called the Mississippi Mudcats.
to serve less privileged people. During the service to be held on a future date due to Stephen Mark, a second cousin, of Redding, 2" - $340 (text only)
1970s he took a one-year sabbatical from current restrictions on group gatherings. CT. Surviving members include Eve's hus- 3" - $490 Bob was a dedicated father and avid vol-
band John and five second cousins: Robert 4" - $535 unteer and was privileged to spend many
Thew, of Tewksbury, MA; Ann Thew, of 5" - $678 years doing both on a full-time basis. He
Norfolk, CT; John Mark, also of Norfolk; ------ drove the boys and their friends to soccer
LATIMER Katie Mark, of Washington, DC; and William
Mark, of Tucson, AZ.
SUNDAY
Black & White
practice and games, swim meets, and other
sporting events. He valued his role as a
1"- $179 (text only) ROBERT B. HUGHES "Bob" soccer coach to his son Christopher. In
and at many of the Washington area’s private 2" - $376(text only) (Age 69)
Memorial services will be scheduled when 3" - $543 addition, he was a long-time member, vol-
clubs. His amateur titles were numerous, appropriate. Contributions in Mac's mem- 4" - $572 Of Alexandria, Virginia died suddenly on unteer timer and Treasurer of the Highland
including 1961 and 1963 Maryland State ory may be made to St. Francis Episcopal 5" - $738 March 29, 2020 at Fairfax Hospital in Falls Park Swim Club where his sons both swam
Amateur Champion, 1961 and 1962 Maryland Church in Potomac, MD or to Landon School Church, Virginia. competitively during the summers. Bob was
State Open Low Amateur, and the 1987 and in Bethesda, MD. 6"+ for ALL Black & White notices also intimately involved in his boys’ scouting
1991 Maryland State Senior Amateur Cham- $150 each additional inch wkday The oldest of four children of the late Robert lives and attended their meetings, volun-
pion. Dick also won multiple club champi- $179 each additional inch Sunday and Betty Hughes of Titusville, Florida, Bob teered for all of their camping trips, and
onships and titles across the Washington -------------------- was born in Springfield, Illinois on March supported them both in achieving the rank
metropolitan area as well as served as a MONDAY-SATURDAY 14, 1951. Bob is survived by his wife of of Eagle Scout. Bob enjoyed traveling and
USGA rules official. For thirty years, Dick Color 32 years, Laurie Graner Hughes; his sons live music events, so he and his family often
served on the USGA Junior Amateur Com- 3" - $628 Benjamin Hughes and Christopher Hughes;
4" - $676 combined the two passions when vacation-
mittee and was instrumental in bringing the his three siblings, James (Jean) Hughes, Kathy ing. Most of all, Bob loved the beach and
5" - $826
2003 USGA Junior Amateur Championship
to the nation’s capital at Columbia Country JORDAN ------
SUNDAY
(Robert) Bross and Nancy (Michael) Patskos-
ki; nieces and nephews, Justin Hughes, Eliz-
could not wait until the day when he could
just go fishing for hours on end. He was a bird
Club. In 1998, Dick was inducted into the Color abeth Bross, Neil (Jessica) Bross, Tammy watcher, lover of nature and an avid fútbol
Middle Atlantic Golf Association’s Hall of 3" - $665 (Brendan) Franklin, Matthew Lare, Michelle fan, just recently becoming a member of the
Fame. 4" - $760 Golden (great nephew Jackson and great Washington, DC FC Barcelona Penya. For
5" - $926 niece Lexa), Theresa Graner and Jonathan the past 10 years, Bob volunteered his time
An avid outdoorsman, Dick believed strongly Graner; sisters-in-law Jeanne (Donald) Tulp in finance and accounting for the Bush Hill
in the preservation of land and natural 6"+ for ALL color notices and Garran Graner. Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, VA.
resources. When not on the golf course, $249 each additional inch wkday
RICHARD LEE LATIMER, SR. he could be found with a fly rod on the $277 each additional inch Sunday Bob grew up in a proud Air Force family and A Memorial Service and Celebration of Life
Better known to his friends as Dick, died April Potomac river or coursing local farms with was fortunate to live in many places across will be announced at a later time when family
his English setters and pointers. Notices with photos begin at 3" the U.S. and in France and Germany during
3, 2020 of complications due to Alzheimer’s (All photos add 2" to your notice.) and friends can come together in honor of
disease. Born May 11, 1930 in Washington, his younger years. He attended St. Stanislaus Bob. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be
DC, Dick became a golf icon in the Washing- Dick served his community as President of ALL NOTICES MUST BE PREPAID High School in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi made in Bob’s name to Bush Hill Presbyterian
ton DC metropolitan area. Across his life, the Bethesda-Chevy Chase chapter of the and received his BBA from University of Church, INOVA Foundation, World Wildlife
Dick served as President of the Maryland Izaak Walton League, the Bethesda-Chevy MEMORIAL PLAQUES: Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford, Mississippi. Fund or the charity of your choosing.
State Golf Association, the Middle Atlantic Chase chapter of Kiwanis, and the Norwood All notices over 2" include
Golf Association, Columbia Country Club and School Parent-Teacher Association. Dick was complimentary memorial plaque
Henry A. Latimer & Son, Inc., an insurance a founding member of Insiders Trusted Advi-
brokerage firm based in Washington, DC sors and served on the board of Equitable Additional plaques start at $26 each
since 1919. Federal Bank. When Equitable was acquired and may be ordered.
by BB&T Bank, Dick joined its Washington DC
advisory board. Dick was a member of St. All Paid Death Notices
The second son of Henry A. Latimer and LEILANI MARGURITE JORDAN appear on our website through
Francis Episcopal in Potomac.
Helen S. Beckham, Dick grew up in Bethesda,
Maryland. He attended Leland Junior High
School and graduated from Bethesda Chevy Survivors include his son, Richard L. Latimer,
Jr. (Nicole), his sister, Helen L. Horrocks, and
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020,
Leilani Margurite Jordan, also
known as "Butterfly", of Upper
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Chase High School in 1948. Named to the
First Team All Metropolitan Basketball team,
Dick received several scholarship offers and
his grandsons, Richard L. Latimer, III and Har-
rison D. Latimer. Dick was preceded in death
by his loving wife, Mary Alice Child Latimer.
Marlboro, Maryland, entered
into eternal life. Loving daugh-
ter of Zenobia D. Toomer Jor-
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ultimately chose Duke University, where he
Memorials can be made to the BCC Izaak dan (Charles) Shepherd and
joined a team with All-Star Dick Groat. At
Duke, Dick joined the Kappa Alpha fraternity. Walton League Land Fund, BCC Izaak Walton William Jordan Sr.; devoted sister of William
PLEASE NOTE:
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After graduating from Duke in 1952 with League, PO Box 542, Poolesville, MD 20837.
Memorial service details will be announced
C. Jordan Jr., Rishawn Turnage, Charles III,
Jeletalora, and Zy’on Shepherd. Also sur-
Notices must be placed via phone, fax or
email. Photos must be emailed. You can
washingtonpost.com/obituaries allow you
a Bachelor’s degree in Business Adminis-
tration, Dick enrolled in the Marine Corps at a later date. vived by many other relatives and friends.
Family will receive friends on Monday, April
no longer place notices, drop off photos
and make payment in person.
to express your sympathy with greater ease.
Officers Candidate School in 1953. After
serving his country, Dick joined Henry A. 20, from 10 a.m. until the time of funeral Payment must be made via phone with Visit today.
Latimer & Son, Inc. with his father. service at 11 a.m. at Wiseman Funeral
Chapel, 7531 Old Alexandria Ferry Road,
Already a superior athlete, Dick honed his
golf skills while serving in the Marine Corps
Clinton, Maryland. Interment Arlington
National Cemetery at a later date.
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mostly cloudy. Wind northwest 12–22 knots. Waves around a foot. Billings, MT 51/32/pc 53/36/c Indianapolis 56/41/s 58/38/c Providence, RI 44/33/r 59/45/pc Beijing 75/51/pc 76/50/pc Lagos 90/78/t 90/79/t Singapore 90/80/pc 90/80/pc
• Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, small craft advisory, Birmingham 71/50/pc 67/55/t Jackson, MS 73/61/c 76/59/t Raleigh, NC 68/40/sh 72/53/r Berlin 64/39/s 58/36/s Lima 74/68/pc 74/67/pc Stockholm 48/34/pc 52/35/pc
mostly cloudy. Wind northwest 15–20 knots. Waves 1–2 feet on the Bismarck, ND 54/24/c 56/34/c Jacksonville, FL 82/66/c 85/71/t Reno, NV 66/43/pc 64/39/c Bogota 66/49/t 66/49/t Lisbon 67/54/pc 65/53/s Sydney 72/57/s 67/56/sh
Boise 68/42/pc 65/41/pc Kansas City, MO 62/43/s 63/39/pc Richmond 64/38/sh 69/50/pc Brussels 64/47/sh 67/45/pc London 57/45/sh 64/48/c Taipei City 86/71/pc 88/72/pc
Potomac and 2–3 feet on the Chesapeake.• River Stages: The stage
Boston 41/36/sn 60/44/pc Las Vegas 75/57/pc 79/59/c Sacramento 70/49/pc 71/50/pc Buenos Aires 73/62/s 74/61/s Madrid 67/50/t 67/46/r Tehran 69/52/c 73/55/pc
at Little Falls today will be around 5.2 feet, falling to around 4.9 feet Buffalo 45/38/s 52/30/sh Little Rock 64/50/pc 68/50/t St. Louis 62/46/s 62/41/c Cairo 82/60/pc 83/59/pc Manila 95/82/pc 95/81/pc Tokyo 65/53/r 66/51/s
Sunday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet. Burlington, VT 51/34/pc 57/32/c Los Angeles 66/52/sh 65/53/pc St. Thomas, VI 87/78/sh 88/78/s Caracas 71/64/pc 72/63/pc Mexico City 81/57/pc 83/58/t Toronto 49/40/pc 53/28/c
Charleston, SC 83/58/sh 78/65/t Louisville 59/41/pc 63/45/sh Salt Lake City 62/47/s 59/43/pc Copenhagen 54/38/s 55/39/s Montreal 51/37/pc 49/28/r Vienna 72/53/pc 62/38/sh
Charleston, WV 53/35/pc 65/42/pc Memphis 64/51/pc 66/51/r San Diego 66/57/sh 67/57/pc Dakar 75/66/s 75/66/pc Moscow 45/31/c 44/30/sh Warsaw 55/34/s 54/32/pc
Today’s tides (High tides in Bold)
Charlotte 72/42/pc 69/53/r Miami 90/76/t 90/78/pc San Francisco 65/52/c 63/52/c Dublin 51/44/sh 55/43/c Mumbai 94/83/pc 95/83/pc
Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,
Washington 12:17 a.m. 5:48 a.m. 12:36 p.m. 6:12 p.m. Cheyenne, WY 50/25/s 51/30/s Milwaukee 58/45/s 50/33/pc San Juan, PR 87/76/sh 88/75/s Edinburgh 50/36/pc 56/37/pc Nairobi 76/61/t 73/62/c sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries,
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Annapolis 2:55 a.m. 9:05 a.m. 3:30 p.m. 9:27 p.m.
Cincinnati 56/39/pc 60/41/c Nashville 62/43/c 62/49/r Spokane, WA 57/39/pc 62/43/pc Geneva 74/51/sh 72/53/c Oslo 53/35/pc 59/39/s Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized
Ocean City 5:20 a.m. 11:43 a.m. 5:38 p.m. 11:51 p.m. Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air
Cleveland 52/41/s 58/34/c New Orleans 80/72/c 85/69/t Syracuse 48/35/pc 59/33/pc Ham., Bermuda 71/63/pc 68/59/pc Ottawa 51/36/pc 49/24/r quality data); National Weather Service
Norfolk 1:05 a.m. 7:28 a.m. 1:30 p.m. 7:45 p.m. Dallas 70/62/t 82/56/c New York City 50/41/r 63/47/pc Tampa 84/73/pc 87/76/c Helsinki 48/31/c 48/35/c Paris 71/53/sh 72/54/c * AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature®
combines over a dozen factors for an accurate
Point Lookout 5:16 a.m. 11:35 a.m. 5:53 p.m. 11:39 p.m. Denver 55/31/pc 59/36/pc Norfolk 63/45/r 71/56/pc Wichita 65/47/pc 69/44/c Ho Chi Minh City 95/79/s 96/79/s Prague 68/45/pc 58/34/pc measure of how the conditions really “feel.”

Correctional o∞cer implores Some safety agencies won’t reveal cases among workers
Hogan to give sta≠ face masks TRANSPARENCY from B1 and confidentiality,” Abernathy tracking individual cases in city their workers, but a survey of local
said last week. “If we reported the government would be a “difficult police and fire departments and
INMATES from B1 steward with the American feder- quests for case tallies among its number of police officers with this thing to do in a consistent and jails shows most have said they
ation of State, County and munici- thousands of police officers and infection, you’d want to know meaningful way,” and that report- would inform the public about
Public Safety and Correctional pal Employees (AfSCmE) and cor- firefighters, despite a rising cho- what unit they were in. If we ing only the city’s overall daily positive tests.
Services has also worked with lo- rectional officer at Jessup Correc- rus of concerns, and Columbus, reported the number of firefight- tally “is the best balance between That includes police and fire
cal jails to temporarily suspend tional Institution, implored Ho- ohio, stopped releasing such fig- ers with this infection, you’d want public safety and private health.” departments in montgomery and
intakes, utilized its authority to gan to provide guards and other ures at the end of march. to know what station house.” Jail officials in both Arlington Prince George’s counties in mary-
accelerate certain releases “where state workers with face masks and officials cite a range of consid- Some officials in public safety and Alexandria said they intend land, as well as the police and fire
safe and appropriate,” and provid- other tools to ensure their safety. erations, from worker privacy to unions have pushed back on that to provide information about pos- departments in Loudoun and
ed protective equipment to em- “If we on the front lines are not avoiding creating panic, but an stance, saying that they want the itive cases among inmates and fairfax counties in Virginia. A
ployees and inmates. being protected the way we should increasing number of critics say public to understand what these workers. As of friday, neither had spokesman for the Prince William
Among the long list of measures be protected we are bringing this the lack of information could be workers are facing and that they any. County police said the agency has
put in place by the department: virus to our families,” olaniyan putting the public and public safe- want their own members to have a fairfax County Sheriff Stacey not had any cases, but any “re-
temperature checks and screen- said during a call set up by union ty workers at risk and is eroding sense of how many are infected, so Kincaid announced in late march lease of such information would
ing for staff at each shift change; leaders. trust in the agencies. they can make informed safety that a jail inmate had tested posi- depend on the nature of how the
“grab n go” dining at most facili- olaniyan is in self-quarantine Dave Statter, a former TV jour- judgments. tive for the coronavirus, but she member potentially contracted
ties; waiving inmate medical co- after becoming exposed to anoth- nalist who advises public safety initially refused to disclose the the virus and their potential com-
pays; and extending recreation er guard who tested positive last agencies on communications, results of tests on at least two munity exposure on a case-by-
periods for inmates while sus- week. said departments could release members of her staff who worked case basis.”
pending contact sports. “We are not afraid of doing this the number of workers with “Public servants . . . there. Kincaid cited privacy con- Statter pointed to Washington
In a letter to the governor job,” he said. “We are afraid that covid-19 without violating any- cerns. as a model for openness.
Thursday, Democratic members we don’t have the proper equip- one’s privacy, as many agencies have rights to privacy.” Kincaid’s spokesman said the The District did not report two
of the maryland congressional ment” to do the job. are already doing. Brian Abernathy, sheriff’s office would inform any early cases in its fire department
delegation commended Hogan’s Earlier this week, the chief Statter said they have a duty to Philadelphia’s managing director inmates who came in contact with but then shifted to a policy of
administration for enhancing hy- judge of the state’s highest court do so since these workers are infected sheriff’s deputies and providing detailed information.
giene at state facilities and creat- took steps to reduce the number of coming into contact with the pub- conduct contact tracing. The of- The city has a website that lists
ing isolation units for those infect- juveniles and adults detained in lic in ways that could spread a All agencies interviewed for fice said it would begin informing coronavirus cases, the number of
ed with covid-19. But the delega- maryland. Chief Judge mary Ellen contagious disease. He said they this report said they were taking the public about positive cases workers tested and quarantined,
tion said such actions are not suffi- Barbera directed judges through- are also missing an opportunity to steps to quarantine sick workers, among deputies after questions and other data for all of its public
cient to protect inmates, state out the state to identify at-risk educate about the dangers these trace their contacts and isolate from The Washington Post this service agencies.
employees and their families. inmates for possible release. workers face. other employees with potential week. five deputies have tested D.C. authorities said that dur-
The delegation urged the gover- But civil rights advocates said “The public — that’s who you exposure. Each also said that it positive for the coronavirus, the ing the pandemic, the public has a
nor to use his commutation power only the governor can order the serve — they should know what’s would inform employees and fairfax Sheriff’s office said friday. right to know the medical status
to “accelerate the release of in- corrections department to work going on in the public safety agen- members of the public who were The initial lack of transparency of its first responders and other
mates who pose little risk to public with the parole commission to cies, particularly at a time of a directly exposed to an infected troubled fairfax County’s public law enforcement officials, includ-
safety but whose continued incar- come up with a list of inmates who crisis, like this pandemic,” Statter worker but that broader tallies defender, who has numerous cli- ing corrections officers and in-
ceration would increase the risk of are most vulnerable to the virus said. “The public does interact were problematic. ents at the jail. Speaking before mates at the D.C. jail, where one
an outbreak amongst the state’s and those who are close to finish- with you. They want to know, if officials in Arlington and Alex- the policy change, Dawn Butorac inmate has died of covid-19.
prison population.” ing their prison terms. you have people infected, how you andria said there was no need to said the sheriff should be making “We made the decision to re-
“The continuing spread among “There’s no way the courts can are dealing with it. And most are inform the public about cases at broader announcements about lease our data broadly to ensure
inmates puts them, the staff and operate with the breadth and dealing with it responsibly.” the police and fire departments, positive cases for the safety of transparency with our residents,”
the medical personnel assigned to speed and completeness with But cities and public service unless there were so many illness- inmates. There have been four mayor muriel E. Bowser (D) said
the correctional facilities at risk,” which the governor can act,” said agencies said they have to walk a es it began to affect operations. coronavirus cases at the jail in a statement. “In order for every-
according to the letter from Sens. Sonia Kumar of the American Civ- careful line between informing That hasn’t happened so far. among inmates. one to understand the urgency in
Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin il Liberties Union of maryland, the public and protecting sensi- “If the public need to know is “The deputy probably can’t list flattening the curve, we felt it
and reps. Jamie raskin, John P. which filed an emergency petition tive health information about em- there, they will know,” said Craig every inmate they have had con- important that our residents
Sarbanes, David Trone, Steny H. asking the state’s highest court to ployees. fifer, a spokesman for the city of tact with but the inmate can prob- know where we are. We’re all in
Hoyer, C.A. Dutch ruppersberger help speed the release of inmates. Philadelphia managing Direc- Alexandria. ably remember what deputy they this together, and the more infor-
and Anthony G. Brown. “Part of what is missing is that tor Brian Abernathy said releas- fifer noted, for example, that had contact with,” Butorac wrote mation we can share, the more
Lawmakers also raised con- sense of urgency,” she said. “The ing the data might chill doctors’ the city announced in march that in an email. “I think it is the only informed we can all be in our daily
cerns about the lack of personal fact that nothing to that effect has willingness to report such infor- a regular customer at murphy’s way that we can quarantine and routines.”
protective equipment for state happened is very troubling.” mation to the city and impede its Irish Pub had tested positive, be- test those that could be infected.” justin.jouvenal@washpost.com
employees working in correction- ann.marimow@washpost.com ability to manage outbreaks. cause there was no way to private- No one tracks how many public rachel.weiner@washpost.com
al, juvenile services and psychiat- ovetta.wiggins@washpost.com “Even in these challenging ly determine who else had been at service agencies across the nation peter.hermann@washpost.com
ric hospital facilities. times, people — public servants the bar. are withholding information
oluwadamilol olaniyan, a shop Erin Cox contributed to this report included — have rights to privacy But right now, fifer said that about coronavirus cases among Dan Morse contributed to this report.

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Snopes is
busy with
coronavirus
fact-checks
BY E LAHE I ZADI

The people wanted to know:

Did self-described psychic sylvia
Browne predict the 2020 corona-
virus pandemic in 2008? so they
turned to the place one goes to
find the answers to such ques-
tions: snopes.com.
The Internet’s original myth-
busters tackled this query on
March 4, and the resulting post
became one of the site’s most-
read pieces that month, along
with a look into whether the
Trump administration actually
fired the U.s. pandemic response
team in 2018 and the one about
whether Costco truly issued a
toilet paper recall.
They deemed the sylvia
Browne matter a “mixture” of
truth and fiction. Yes, Browne 12
years ago wrote that “in around
2020 a severe pneumonia-like
illness will spread throughout
the globe, attacking the lungs
and the bronchial tubes and
resisting all known treatments.”
But “it’s unclear whether
Browne’s ‘prediction’ was more
of a lucky guess,” the snopes
team wrote, “considering the
book was written after the sARs
outbreak.”
But since then, snopes, which
delves into everything from bi-
zarre urban legends to intricate
government policies, has been
overwhelmed with so many
covid-19-related questions that it
THE WASHINGTON POST ILLUSTRATION; ISTOCK can’t keep up. so the company is
publishing fewer stories. There
have been no furloughs or lay-
offs; but snopes is encouraging

Six feet and no hands

employees, whose lives have
been turned upside down by the
pandemic, to take time off if
needed.
It’s a predicament other fact-
checkers are facing: As the novel
coronavirus has swept the globe,

T
‘I would pay $50 he pandemic has a profound effect on all five senses. some who have the so has misinformation about the
for a two- virus lose the ability to smell or taste. We all see images of crowded hospitals, virus. The World Health organi-
zation has referred to the abun-
body bags, lonely funerals without mourners. We hear a new urban
minute hug’: dance of articles, commentary
soundtrack where traffic is muted and sirens scream through the stillness. ¶ and social media postings about
True stories of For many, touch has become the rarest quarantine provision, harder to come by than this one topic as an “infodemic”
that “makes it hard for people to
self-quarantined ground beef, eggs or toilet paper, and just as essential. We’re lucky to be alive, say those find trustworthy sources and
people who craving physical contact, but we don’t feel so human without it. not knowing when reliable guidance when they
need it.”
long for the they’ll be able to get back to hugging, cuddling or sharing a bed with someone makes The pandemic presents a par-
ticularly difficult challenge for
human touch. the craving more acute. some describe the lack of touch as its own sensory experience: professional fact-checkers.
A dull ache. skin that hurts. A hole in the pit of the stomach. An illusion that you’re Covid-19 has its roots in what is
essentially a science and medical
BY L ISA B ONOS wearing an eggshell, nerves encased in a thin layer of calcium. ¶ “We’re mammals — story, requiring many journalists
we’re built to touch,” says Helen Fisher, a senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute. to quickly get up to speed. It
remains a mystery even to many
“It’s absolutely essential, and we will get back to it.” ¶ Just as shoppers wander the of the professional scientists who
empty supermarket aisles in search of substitutes for long-gone staples, the could explain it to a reporter. And
the stakes are high: The conse-
touch-starved are trying to sate themselves by burrowing under weighted blankets, quences of promoting a bogus
working out harder and sexting for the first time. see TouCH on C3 diagnostic technique or false
cure — such as the church that
tried to sell its members on
ingesting a common swimming
pool cleaner — could be deadly.
see snoPes on C2

MUSIC REVIEW
Protest photo is a dead
Sam Hunt’s new release is a bit south of his debut ringer for zombie films
BY C HRIS R ICHARDS
BY M AURA J UDKIS the protesters in the back.
sam Hunt seems so easy to fall “I thought this was a screencap
in love with — and during “Kin- The insatiable flesh-hunger of from a zombie movie,” tweeted
folks,” a clearheaded country hit zombies wasn’t exactly on pho- one woman.
about falling crazy in love at first tographer Joshua A. Bickel’s “some strong ‘shaun of the
sight, the feeling is mutual. sere- mind when he was covering an Dead’ energy in this photo from
nading some beautiful rando he anti-social-distancing protest at the protests in ohio,” tweeted
just met at the bar, Hunt sings the statehouse in Columbus, another man.
with warmth and self-possession, ohio, on Monday. But it was all It looked awfully familiar to
making his lack of impulse con- that was on the, well, Michael satrazemis, the director
trol sound perfectly rational: “I braaaaaains of people who saw of photography for “The Walking
wanna introduce you to my kin- Bickel’s work on social media, Dead” and director of “Fear the
folks, to my old friends, to the where the photo went viral for its Walking Dead,” two shows that
house in the pines where the road parallels to classic zombie films. seem a little scarier these days,
ends.” As a pickup line, that’s The Columbus Dispatch pho- since they’re about a zombie
pretty serial-killery. Good thing tographer’s image is frightening apocalypse that begins with an
it’s music. and compelling. Approximately uncontrollable pathogen.
Keep listening and Hunt’s 100 protesters who were urging The visual trope is “classic hor-
voice will keep changing the ohio Gov. Mike DeWine to end ror,” says satrazemis. It plays on
song’s meaning. He goes from the state’s stay-at-home order and the common fear of claustropho-
presumptuous and overconfi- reopen businesses pressed up bia, making the audience “feel the
dent to candid and self-aware, against the glass doors to the walls are closing in and the world
the subtle patience in his phras- statehouse, chanting and bang- is shrinking around you. And
ing neutralizing the impatience ing windows. there’s no way out.”
implied by his sweet-talk. He one wears a Guy Fawkes It’s a device his show has
wants to show us who he is by mask. Two men wear Trump- deployed across seasons: In their
showing us where he stands — in branded baseball caps. Two pursuit of humans, the walkers
his bloodline (the kinfolks), in his women, the closest to the win- have been trapped against chain
social circle (the old friends), in dows, shape their mouths into link fences, and, in a particularly
society (the house), in the ecology the same elongated howl as ed- memorable scene, a revolving
BEN HIDER/BEN HIDER/INVISION/ASSOCIATED PRESS
(the pines). on top of that, his ace vard Munch’s “The scream.” glass door. (“That was really,
see musIC reVIew on C2 sam Hunt’s new release, “southside,” suffers from a number of production misfires. American flags obscure some of see zombIe on C3
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Minecraft music fest: Pixelated mosh pits, lots of creepers

BY T RAVIS M . A NDREWS

Around 6 p.m. last Saturday,

thousands of people gathered for
a music festival featuring emo
titans American football, chip-
tune trailblazers Anamanaguchi
and electropop pioneer Baths —
while still respecting proper so-
cial distancing.
These concertgoers weren’t
standing six feet apart. In at least
one instance, three attendees
were actually teetering on one
another’s shoulders like a bizarre
statue, the top fan touching the
ceiling.
But that wasn’t a problem, be-
cause the entire thing was virtual.
Welcome to Nether meant, a mu-
sic festival that took place entirely
within the video game minecraft.
The event was the latest in
digital festivals created and cu-
rated by open Pit, a virtual events
producer. Instead of spending
months creating massive festival
grounds like they have for
Coachella and mine Gala, the
team spent two weeks creating a
pixelated, scale re-creation of the
actual Brooklyn venue Else-
where, which they dubbed Else-
wither. Their primary goal? To
provide some at-home quaran-
tine entertainment with “fun,
unique, community-driven cha-
os,” said robin Boehlen, the orga-
nization’s community manage-
ment lead.
IMAGES BY OPENPIT
Interested parties could “at-
tend” in a few different ways.
Some watched on the video game fooTBALL” proved a common flowing at a thousand miles an
streaming site Twitch. To really refrain. hour.” Almost none of the messag-
get into the action, though, you Also like at an actual rock es could be reprinted in a family
needed to log into minecraft, plug concert, things didn’t roll as newspaper.
in the proper server info and, smoothly as they could have. “It was sort of poetic how gross
voilà!, you’d pop to life in a hall- overloaded servers proved prob- and over-the-top it was,” Lamos
way and then explore the venue lematic early in the evening. But said. “Hearing our band sound-
through your first-person view- eventually, the room filled with tracking this thing and then
point. blocky avatars doing their best to watching the river was almost an
Purchasing a VIP pass (with dance. minecraft’s minimalist aesthetic experience and not a
real money) allowed access to sensibility doesn’t allow for dy- pleasant one.”
special cordoned-off parts of the namic character movement, but Despite the bugs, Lamos
venue and the chance to chat with audience members jumped to- thought the event might have
the artists on the gamer hangout gether in the pit during certain brought the band’s music to a new
app Discord. meanwhile, the songs, emulating a mosh pit best audience. “I think this is a win-
nearly 100,000 unique viewers on as they could. You could join in dow to the future,” he said.
Twitch were encouraged to do- the jumping by tapping your While Nether meant was much
nate money to disaster recovery space bar, and the screen would smaller in scale than open Pit’s
organization Good360, which bob up and down — in tune with other online festivals, it drew a
ended up with roughly $8,000 in the music, if you were rhythmical- much larger crowd. That’s partly
proceeds. ly inclined. because American football
Like at any traditional concert, “faster! faster! The music’s brought a new audience — but
there’s the stage, and a bar on the getting faster!” the crowd chant- also because people stuck at
other side of the room. (Despite ed all together via text during a home are thirsting for a commu-
this reporters’ best attempt, it did particularly exciting crescendo in nal experience.
not appear possible to purchase a the Sleepycatt & Y2K set, which “I think there’s going to be a
virtual brew.) People’s avatars also included a call and response bigger need for them in the com-
mulled about in the pit. A few chorus: “I say mine, you say craft! ing year,” said Wiesenfeld, before
checked out the in-game mer- mine! Craft!” referencing a recent report in
chandise, such as an American The music was not performed which bioethicist Zeke Emanuel
football T-shirt for their avatars. live, but the bands did record The nether meant music play some fun stuff that we’d ing in the group chat. suggested concerts will not re-
Some attendees sauntered up the unique sets for the night, includ- festival took place last week never really play, even in a DJ set,” Still, despite the best efforts turn until fall of 2021. for Wiesen-
stairs to find various pieces of art, ing banter. When American foot- inside the minecraft video said Anamanaguchi guitarist Pe- from the event’s moderators, feld, online shows include some
which were accompanied by ball took the stage, frontman game. For the show that ter Berkman, explaining “no one’s trolls showed up en masse in both of the same “thrill and excitement
small nameplates bearing the mike Kinsella quipped, “We’re so featured performances really expecting anything.” minecraft and Twitch, intoxicat- of things in a live venue experi-
name and Twitter handle of their happy to be here, wherever ‘here’ recorded by various artists, for a first-timer, the experi- ed on everything from ketamine ence.” And he sees nothing but
creators. is. . . . So this is the future, huh? concertgoers were able to mull ence can be equal parts fascinat- to cocaine to good ol’ booze, if potential for expanding the con-
The primary method of com- Honestly, I thought there’d be around in front of the stage. ing and confounding. To avoid their incessant messages can be cept to include actual live music,
munication was an enormous more pixels.” disappointment, it’s best to believed. Eventually these trolls more fan interaction and even
group text chat — the game Will Wiesenfeld, a producer think of it more like a video could persuade even the most better graphics.
doesn’t allow for individual con- who records as Baths, took the game than an actual concert — enthusiastic of concertgoers to open Pit has a few more mine-
versations — which mimicked advice of Anamanaguchi drum- particularly since the music isn’t turn off the chat function. craft festivals planned — where
crowd noise. much like at an mer Luke Silas to make his set actually live. most of the fun American football drummer thousands will gather online to
actual rock concert, some attend- “bespoke” and “as weird as possi- comes from exploring the world, Steve Lamos agreed with a mes- keep hitting the space bar to the
ees shouted out their favorite ble.” He wasn’t the only one. dressing up your avatar, hearing sage he noticed that said, “This beat, dancing alone, together.
bands, as “I LoVE AmErICAN “It gives us an opportunity to the curated set lists and engag- text thread is like a river of filth travis.andrews@washpost.com

A pandemic of covid-19 veloped” or “manufactured” by

anyone, anywhere.
“Did millions of canceled cell-
‘Southside’ doesn’t have
claims inundate Snopes phones reveal unreported coro-
navirus deaths in China?” This
one Snopes could only call “un-
allure of Hunt’s debut
proven.”
snopes from c1 Snopes during the last two weeks for many American journal- musIc reVIew from c1 ing. on “Downtown’s Dead,” he
of march. The site is trying to ists, the closest equivalent to the rues a nightlife that’s gone life-
“When demand increases, pick its targets and amplify credi- pandemic was the 9/11 terrorist melodies make self-exposure feel less: “There ain’t no way that I
there is no economics that sup- ble sources, highlighting the attacks — which, “for all its like fun, allowing Hunt to can- can paint a ghost town red.”
port an increase in production at Centers for Disease Control and intricacies and profundities, nonball into the superficiality of During “Breaking Up Was Easy in
a fact-checking organization,” Prevention and WHo in particu- didn’t necessarily involve the the dating pool as his truest self. the ’90s,” he artfully laments the
said Vinny Green, general man- lar. (They’re also still posting kind of scientific and health in- That’s a neat little metaphor digital proximity he has with his
ager of Snopes.com. “The only some timely non-coronavirus formation that is peculiar to for Hunt’s big-time stardom, too. ex without using the words
way for us to do more is to pass fact checks, like one about flori- covid,” marchionni said. Scolds and squares continue to “lurk,” “swipe” or “u up?”
that burden on to our staff and da residents allegedly finding And Sept. 11, 2001, predated dismiss this guy as the most But there are too many pro-
2015 PHOTO BY STEVE HELBER/
try to make them rise to the porn-filled Easter eggs in their ASSOCIATED PRESS social media when “the focus was vapid pretty boy in Nashville, a duction misfires on “Southside,”
occasion, even though they’ve mailboxes.) on email listservs and Yahoo town that certainly knows how to the worst of which goes bang
been working their a--es off day The avalanche at Snopes re- Did pat robertson blame oral groups, and it was still a problem transform fleeting puffs of vapid during “Hard to forget,” a dread-
in and day out.” flects what fact-checking organi- sex for covid-19? not really, to handle urban legends and prettiness into towering piles of fully midtempo thing that incor-
Since the pandemic began, zations around the world are snopes researchers found. conspiracy theories,” orsek said. cash money. But here’s the truth: porates a stuttering sample of
Snopes has looked into questions seeing. The International fact- “But given the flow of informa- you won’t find a more skillful Webb Pierce singing “There
about whether Pat robertson Checking Network at the Poynter quine and azithromycin are tion now, it’s absolutely a differ- syncretist working in country Stands the Glass” way back in
blamed oral sex for covid-19 (not Institute recently started a data- “game changers” in the fight ent challenge for everyone in this music today. 1953. The seams are showing
really, but it seems some readers base of more than 3,000 fact- against covid-19. field right now.” Hunt’s 2014 debut “monteval- here, and Hunt ends up sounding
misinterpreted a lame satirical checks from around the world. Snopes got its start in 1994 as It’s especially difficult now for lo” stands as the most imagina- like the country-rap sandwich
piece as news); explored a rumor It’s “the largest collaboration the “Urban Legends reference fact-checkers to determine tive mainstream country album artist that his skeptics accuse him
about thieves distributing masks among fact-checkers ever, and Pages,” an early Internet forum whether misinformation is an of the previous decade, as well as of being.
laden with toxic chemicals (false, that by itself is a pretty strong concerned with folklore and innocuous rumor or part of a the first to cross-pollinate coun- All in all, this album is a lot
it turns out); and investigated indicator that the amount of hoaxes such as whether Charlie coordinated campaign, particu- try with rap in a way that felt messier than it needs to be, but
claims that Ivanka Trump stands misinformation around covid-19 Chaplin’s stolen remains were larly when a myth first pops up more like a spiritual practice “Sinning With You” might help
to profit from the pandemic be- is unprecedented,” said director truly held for ransom. over the on Chinese social media plat- than a marketing strategy. When- wipe your mind clean. It’s the
cause of a trademark on coffins Baybars orsek. years the rebranded “Snopes” forms, which don’t share data, ever Hunt toggled between sing- most humane piece of music to
in China (yes, she holds the myths about the virus move turned into a trusted arbiter of orsek said. ing and speaking, he was pluck- ever float from Hunt’s lips: a
trademark, but no, there’s no from country to country as the fact and fiction on the Internet. But even Western platforms ing the secret cosmic thread that ballad about how no one should
evidence she’s selling coffins). pandemic does; fact-checkers in Under normal circumstances, can be a challenge. A new study connects Conway Twitty to Bone be made to feel guilty for their
Snopes has seen a record Spain started seeing the same Snopes tackles a variety of weird this week from oxford University Thugs-N-Harmony. And while his physical desires, or for who those
amount of traffic since the dawn myths that their Italian counter- things, such as whether the researchers found more than half phrasing made “montevello” feel desires are aimed at. The only
of the crisis — 37 million visitors parts had already debunked, quokka is a real animal (yes and of the debunked misinformation legit, the sturdy softness of his gender mentioned in the song is
from late february to late march, orsek said. Among the most it’s very cute) and whether House about covid-19 remains on Twit- voice made it feel genuine. Then God’s. “His grace and your grace
Green said, a jump of 43 percent prevalent conspiracy theories: Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually ter without a warning label. and now, his vocal cords sound felt like the same thing to me,” he
from the previous 30-day period. that covid-19 is a biological weap- used $15,000 worth of pens to Green argues that Google and like a pair of two-by-fours uphol- sings. “I never felt like I was
But more eyeballs doesn’t always on developed in a lab. sign the articles of impeachment facebook need to invest more stered in velveteen. sinning with you, always felt like
translate to more revenue: many “readers around the world are against President Trump (false). money into paying fact-checkers. Nearly six years have passed I could always talk to God in the
news outlets are breaking read- asking us about possible cures, Now Snopes is mostly covid-19 “Even with this traffic boom and since “montevallo,” and Hunt has morning.”
ership records these days but and possible behaviors we might questions. for example: the rise in prominence and re- finally returned with “Southside,” As personal as “Sinning With
seeing declining ad sales. Some take to keep from getting the “Was Charles Lieber arrested sponsibility at this moment a follow-up album that sounds You” feels, it’s ultimately more
are pleading with readers to virus,” Snopes managing Editor for selling the covid-19 coronavi- when people are relying so heavi- heavily toiled-over, for better and generous than intimate. Hunt is
become paid subscribers; Snopes Doreen marchionni said. “We’re rus to China?” mostly false: The ly on fact-checkers for credible for worse. There are a few songs singing his truth, but still creat-
sells premium memberships. also debunking a fair number of Harvard chemist was arrested, information, we have no hopes like “Kinfolks” where Hunt’s ing enough room for others to
readers submitted roughly comments from the president,” but it had nothing to do with for scaling up our businesses.” lonely-man lyricism is as pains- live inside it.
10,000 covid-related queries to such as whether hydroxychloro- covid-19, nor was the virus “de- elahe.izadi@washpost.com taking and perceptive as his sing- chris.richards@washpost.com
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JOSHUA A. BICKEL/COLUMBUS DISPATCH/ASSOCIATED PRESS ROGUE PICTURES/EVERETT COLLECTION

the photo of protesters of ohio’s stay-at-home order made by Joshua A. bickel of the columbus Dispatch drew comparisons online to zombie movies such as “Shaun of the Dead.”

Angry faces pressed against glass called ‘classic horror’

zombie from c1 zombies pursue humans in a Savini sees comedy. “It re- part. Themes from the last
shopping mall. Seeing the ohio minds me of ‘Shaun of the Dead,’ ” month, he says, may show up in
really a crazy sequence just be- protest image for the first time, The resemblance of Joshua A. Bickel’s photo the 2004 British “Dawn of the that season, whenever they get
cause to get out, [the humans] he was drawn to the different Dead” parody, he says. Promo- the chance to finish it.
had to revolve it,” says Sa- attire and personalities of the to a zombie movie didn’t occur to him until tional images for that film do the Savini says current events
trazemis. But the way they were people in the glass, much like glass trope, too. There’s an ele- make him feel like he’s in the film
positioned in the door, it meant the film. other people pointed it out on Twitter. ment of humor in the ohio image “28 Days Later.” That one is about
someone would get pushed out “The zombies were all sorts of for Satrazemis, as well: Though a highly contagious rage-induc-
to the zombies, and eaten.) He types of people. There was a guy the people might look as though ing virus, where survivors must
thinks the device works best in a suit, like he had come directly in Satrazemis’s revolving door, testers. They see heroes. they could have been on his show, make their way through an aban-
when the pressure of so many from the funeral home. There they’re the protagonists — and Bickel saw door frames. “We wouldn’t style it with so doned London and a quarantined
bodies against the glass cracks it were football players. Clowns. A they’re trapped as they try to flee “When I was making the pic- many funny hats.” Britain.
slowly until it shatters and the woman in a wedding dress,” says the zombies. ture, I thought the windows and Satrazemis was in the middle “What makes it seem like a
zombies come pouring in. “You Savini. “It’s very, very similar to The barrier provides a decisive door were an interesting compo- of shooting the upcoming season horror movie to me is when I walk
can really kind of build up and ‘Dawn of the Dead.’ ” moment for them: It’s time to sitional element, but not much of “fear the Walking Dead” last a block away from my house and
intensify the horror,” he says. But the trope works two ways fight back. People who aren’t in beyond that,” he told The Post via month when the production was all the stores, the restaurants . . .
Tom Savini acted and did the — both in horror, and in Bickel’s favor of social distancing and are email. The resemblance to a zom- shut down because of the corona- are empty, closed, dark on friday
makeup and prosthetics for photo. often, the screaming faces pushing to quickly reopen the bie movie didn’t occur to him virus. It felt like life imitating art night,” he says. “That’s like, what
George romero’s “Dawn of the pressed up against the glass are economy see prey, not predators until other people pointed it out — well, the virus part, not the the hell’s going on?”
Dead,” the 1978 film in which the monsters. But sometimes, as in the screams of the ohio pro- on Twitter. shuffling, flesh-eating monster maura.judkis@washpost.com

Sorry, be her stand-in masseuse: Nich-

ols, who hasn’t experienced any
covid-19 symptoms after a month
of isolating, will drive to her

we’re friend’s place and shower, and

they’ll both put on masks. Then
her friend will get to work.
he’s trading photos

just not with a cam girl.

“It’s not the same as the real
thing,” a 26-year-old man says of

feeling it his sexting sessions with a cam

girl he met through a video
streaming site she uses. He’s liv-
ing with his parents in michigan,
with his job at a local bookstore
touch from c1 on hold, so he has little privacy
and limited money (and asked to
Here are the stories of what remain anonymous for personal
eight people are missing and how privacy reasons). “But I definitely
they’re coping. think it’s helped,” he says.
He pays $60 to $100 an hour to
She knew it would be trade texts and explicit photos.
her last hug for a while. “my love life is not bustling dur-
Just before the Bay Area began ing normal times,” he says, so it’s
sheltering in place in mid-march, especially nice to “feel wanted
melissa forde visited a friend and still intimate during all of
who would be closing her shop in this.”
San francisco’s mission District. His wisdom for those who are
“Whatever happens, I got you,” new to virtual intimacy? “Give
forde told her, handing her friend yourself the allowance to be awk-
a small gift and enveloping her in ward and goofy at first. If you’re
a hug. As forde drove home, she doing this with someone you’re
started crying. “I knew it was attracted to . . . let that feeling
going to be the last time I touched take over.”
someone for a long time,” said the
37-year-old yoga teacher and for- her lover is quarantined
mer nurse. with someone else.
Without physical touch, forde WASHINGTON POST ILLUSTRATION; ISTOCK “It’s comforting to fall asleep
describes her nervous system as with someone and they’re there
“on edge.” To try to regulate it, she’s ‘Are you okay?’ ” and move back to the West Coast. a guy from okCupid, getting more started off sheltering in place when you wake up,” says Nia
walking a lot with her dog, Pepper; montgomery remembers the He wasn’t quite sure how to end intimate and revealing quicker together but after a few days Brown, a 24-year-old in oakland,
taking slow, deep breaths; bathing last time she was this hungry for things. Then social distancing than in past relationships, exam- decided to split. They’re not on Calif.; she considers it more inti-
in Epsom salts; and lying in her human touch: It was 2010 and she went into effect, classes were can- ining their deepest fears (Hers: the same relationship timeline, mate than sex. Brown, who’s im-
backyard to feel sun on her skin was reeling from a breakup. A celed, and this 21-year-old stu- being alone. His: not achieving he has roommates, and self-quar- munocompromised, is in a
and the earth beneath her. She’s friend dropped everything to dent (who spoke on the condition his full potential). They have giv- antine has a swift way of clarify- polyamorous relationship with a
relieving muscle tension with a come over and let her cry into his of anonymity so as not to affect en each other sneak peeks of their ing whether two people are going man who’s self-quarantining
foam roller and tracing her shins shoulder for five minutes. “I’ll his future dating life) had a con- bodies (and masturbated togeth- to make it. with another one of his partners.
with her fingertips every time she remember it forever,” montgom- venient excuse for a breakup: It’s er) over video chat, but they’re So now she’s constructed a So these days, she’s sleeping
emerges from a forward-fold yoga ery says of that powerful hug. “I not you. It’s quarantine. holding back from meeting in “cuddle nest” on her couch: three alone, feeling like the little kid
pose. “It’s not the same to touch felt less alone in the world. . . . It “I kind of liked having the out,” person, even at a distance. Kadil- to four blankets, six pillows and a who can’t play at recess because
yourself, but I do think that that’s was a huge gift.” he says. He’d been hooking up lak would rather wait to meet stuffed Eeyore she hugs while they’re hurt.
helpful,” forde says. Though montgomery is new to with a friend as well, estimating when they can safely embrace: “It watching movies. “I’m spending She’s not jealous. “I could do
She’s been through long peri- online dating and sexting, she’s that, before social distancing, he feels like we deserve more intima- way too much time cocooned up,” two days max at someone’s house
ods without physical touch be- had some practice that now was having sex two to three times cy,” she says. Yugovich says of her nest. She and then I’m dying to go home,”
fore, but there was always the comes in handy: She once wrote a a week. Now he’s staying with his While she’s enjoying the con- considers lack of touch to be a she says, adding that she prefers
effervescent potential for a three-part romance novel in- mom in frederick, md., and his versations, Kadillak is worried mental health issue. “When you a blend of “space and closeness.”
dance-floor make-out. “The play- spired by her secret celebrity sex life is on hold. “I would love they might lose interest before go without it for too long, I think Now, that balance is heavy on
fulness and spontaneity of con- crush. So when she and an okCu- human contact right now,” he social distancing is up. “I’m still it warps you in some way.” the space. Brown and her lover
necting with new people is just pid match started texting about says. He sometimes sneaks away protecting my heart a little bit,” have tried faceTime sex. (It
completely missing,” she says. what they might do if they were to release tension by self-pleasur- she says. She wonders if she actu- She needs touch feels “too robotic,” she says.) He
together, she guided him toward ing, but it’s hard to find privacy to ally has feelings for her video to heal her PtSD. picks up Brown’s groceries and
She finally tried sexting. creating a sultry scenario. “I’m in do so. beau. or is her excitement “just In 2007, Aubree Nichols was in prescriptions, and they’ll stand
“I am so touch-starved I would a sweatshirt and yoga pants, because I’m extraordinarily lone- an explosion in New York, leaving on her rooftop, conversing six
pay $50 for a two-minute hug right freezing my butt off, but we’re She doesn’t want ly?” her with post-traumatic stress feet apart. recently she broke
now,” says Karina montgomery, 50, describing a scene where we’re to touch him — yet. disorder. firm touch, usually ad- down and hugged him.
in San Diego. She’s happily fresh out in the park,” hooking up in While sheltering in place She made a ‘cuddle nest.’ ministered through weekly mas- Brown has filled her bed-
off a divorce, but isolation with her public while another couple looks might push some to break up, it Adriana Yugovich, a 42-year- sage, is a crucial part of her room walls and cellphone back-
cat, Tobias, gets lonely. “A hug is on. At the end, montgomery text- gives others, like Lara Kadillak, a old woman in Los Angeles, has a recovery. “It helps me feel safe ground with images of space:
grounding. . . . It’s physically and ed her match that those two voy- 32-year-old woman in Denver, an specific cuddling position that and grounded,” says Nichols, the milky Way, comets and a
emotionally warm. And it’s a level eurs . . . well they broke up, be- excuse to take things slow. “I still she misses: She calls it the “spoon who’s now 42 and living in Venice, galaxy shaped like the human
of care that you can’t get over cause they never had it so good. struggle with that idea of a wom- twist,” where her on-again, off- Calif. Without it, she says her skin heart. She finds solace in these
Zoom or from a piece of mail or an pleasing everybody,” Kadillak again partner is spooning her and hurts and she feels as if she’s not celestial bodies that look close
from a delivery guy with a mask on. he’s used to having sex says, noting that dating pre-self- Yugovich fits her toes into a tiny in her body. together in photos, but actually
my pet can curl up next me and a few times a week. quarantine often came with ex- spot between his ankle and the Though it hasn’t been classi- are so far apart — a visual
suck warmth from my body, but Last month, a junior at Ameri- pectations of getting physical ear- side of his foot. “I’ve never seen it, fied as such, Nichols thinks mas- reminder that, even in isola-
he’s not coming to me and putting can University was seeing a se- ly on. but I feel it,” she says of that foot sage therapy should be an essen- tion, we’re still connected.
his paw on my body and saying: nior who was about to graduate She’s been video chatting with nook. Yugovich and this partner tial service. A friend has agreed to lisa.bonos@washpost.com

The Movie Directory has gone dark. We will raise the curtain again
as soon as events warrant.
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This year you will not
take everything so
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vigorous you adapts brilliantly
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your approach to love affairs.
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ARIES
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Expression of your creativity
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You are one of the most
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today.
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DUSTIN THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN precious today. Remember
not to become anxious about
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partners.
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contacts. Allow the one you
admire to express individuality
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meeting about what each
person can contribute.
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might be unwell or who merely
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McCa≠rey can do it all, and that’s valuable

nothing explains the
complicated state of
the nFL running
back better than the
reaction when a
great one gets paid.
Jerry Christian McCaffrey
Brewer is the latest to reset
the market, which
means he is the latest to make
everyone queasy about the
likelihood that he can offer a good
return on the Carolina Panthers’
gigantic investment.
Four years, $64 million? And the
extension doesn’t kick in until
2022? Forget that he is deserving.
Forget that, in 2019, he became just
the third running back in league
history with 1,000 rushing and
receiving yards in the same season.
Forget that he has a preposterous
303 receptions in his first three pro
seasons. While his play easily
justifies the fat new contract, we
still doubt whether his future
production will verify he was worth
all the cash.
such is the life of the nFL
running back, the position in which
accomplishments devolve into
concerns about durability. As the
depressing data of injury risk
mounts, the value of a highly paid
back is always in question. In
addition, anecdotal and statistical
evidence suggest the position isn’t
as vital to success as it used to be.
so here comes McCaffrey, trying
to reverse the perception. Fittingly,
he became the highest-paid
running back (on a per-season MIcHAel conroy/AssocIAteD Press

basis) in nFL history during the Carolina’s Christian McCaffrey became the highest-paid running back in nFL history when he signed a four-year, $64 million contract extension.
same offseason in which the Los
Angeles Rams waived Todd
Gurley II, a former standard-bearer. catchers and true three-down play in space. similar to basketball, rebuilding, and the hope is that, by
Gurley, who has a history of knee players. There already has been the positional lines are blurring in the time McCaffrey’s extension
problems, was cut less than two significant movement in this football because the athletes are kicks in, Coach Matt Rhule will
years after he signed a four-year, direction, and it increases the value changing and becoming more have the Panthers in position for
$60 million deal that included of backs with that skill set. versatile. Football always will be perennial contention.
$45 million guaranteed. McCaffrey takes it to another physical, but speed has never been “I don’t look at him as just a
overTheCap.com, which tracks level: He could be a wide receiver if more important. running back,” Rhule told
nFL contracts and analyzes trends, he focused on it. It’s in his blood; his For running backs to regain their Charlotte’s WFnZ-AM. “We see him
published a detailed look at father, ed, had 565 receptions and status in the evolved sport, as a weapon. He can be a wideout,
running back contracts of at least 55 touchdowns, and he earned longevity will be as important as running back and returner. He’s not
three years since 2011. I won’t go too three super Bowl rings. In his three skills. Can McCaffrey be the new- a player who you can pigeonhole.”
deep into the numbers, but here seasons, McCaffrey is more than school Faulk for 12 seasons? Can Rhule and new offensive
was the overwhelming conclusion: halfway to his dad’s catch total. He Kamara start posting 1,000-yard coordinator Joe Brady must be
Long-term commitments are can run between the tackles and rushing seasons to complement his careful to maximize him as a
no bueno. And it’s even worse than fight for tough yards. He is a 80 receptions for an extended weapon and not make him a crutch.
imagined. touchdown waiting to happen in period? Can Barkley, who weighs There’s a big difference. Despite his
“Teams had an unfavorable the open field. He can catch it out of 233 pounds and might possess the history of durability, he can’t
outcome about 83% of the time the backfield to make something most impressive combination of continue to carry the ball nearly
with the team overestimating the out of nothing, and he has the skills ever seen in a running back, 300 times and catch more than
length of the contract,” Jason potential (which Carolina hasn’t stay healthy? If they dominate the 100 passes, as he did in 2019, while
Fitzgerald wrote. fully unlocked) to run just about next decade, the game changes for playing behind a suspect offensive
so it’s not just boilerplate “I don’t look at him every route, making him even more the nFL running back. line and with a shaky quarterback.
negativity. of all the lucrative of a matchup nightmare. Let’s throw ezekiel elliott, who is The Panthers have a lot of needs,
positions in the nFL, running back as just a running back. McCaffrey, Kamara and Barkley more traditional in style but still and it will take multiple seasons to
is by far the riskiest to make an — and younger players aspiring to versatile, into the mix as well. still get it right. Until then, they need to
investment in. But McCaffrey is also We see him as a be them — have a chance to be more just 24, he is on a historic pace. If he be wise about McCaffrey’s
a new breed of back, a descendant than a special subset of running stays out of trouble and remains workload.
of Marshall Faulk in style, with a weapon. He can be back. They could change the healthy, perhaps he can justify the It’s not just important for the
modernized approach. still just 23, position. six-year, $90 million contract Panthers that McCaffrey lasts. It’s
he’s as versatile as it gets, and when a wideout, running Think about how the tight end, extension Dallas gave him in important for the entire running
you put him with Alvin Kamara and much more of a blue-collar position september. Like McCaffrey, elliott back position. It’s important for the
saquon Barkley, the trio could back and returner. historically, has added value now must defy the recent trend, but he’s belief that these versatile hybrid
create a new genre of tailback that that the tight end-wide receiver another durable, freakish athlete. backs could increase the value and
fits the evolution of football. He’s not a player who hybrid has emerged. Think about McCaffrey hasn’t missed a game longevity of the position.
By the end of this decade, the the growing value of the hybrid in three nFL seasons. now he is the jerry.brewer@washpost.com
pure run-first back will be nearing you can pigeonhole.” linebacker-safety — a reason face of the Carolina franchise. Cam
extinction. The demand will be that Matt Rhule, new carolina Panthers Clemson’s Isaiah simmons will be newton is gone. Luke Kuechly For more by Jerry Brewer, visit
all backs must be good pass coach, on christian Mccaffrey drafted high next week — who can retired at 28. The Panthers are washingtonpost.com/brewer.

Lured to job by recent Redskins draft classes, Rivera looks to build on them
Before this year’s draft begins into a dependable interior line-
Thursday, we took look back at men who figures to be part of the
Past three years created those past three classes to deter- team’s core moving forward.
young core that has mine what the Redskins have and After the Redskins released
how they got it. nicholson this offseason follow-
plenty of experience ing a three-year stint that includ-
2017 ed off-field issues, Moreau is the
This class began the Washing- 2017 draft pick with the most left
BY S AM F ORTIER ton Crimson Tide. The Redskins to gain. The team traded top
drafted Alabama defensive tackle cornerback Quinton Dunbar last
When Ron Rivera considered Jonathan Allen when he slipped month and is relying on Moreau
the Washington Redskins’ coach- to the 17th pick and then chose to help fill the void. He flashed
ing job, one of the things he Alabama outside linebacker Ryan potential last season while re-
noticed was the team’s age. The Anderson in the second round. placing Josh norman — three
roster wasn’t just one of the nFL’s now there are 10 Alabama alums interceptions over a pair of mid-
youngest; the youth also had ex- on the Redskins’ 75-man roster. season games — but ended the
perience. owner Daniel snyder Though neither Allen nor Ander- season on injured reserve with a
emphasized to Rivera how he son has reached the heights some hamstring injury.
could mold these young players expected, Allen has developed From this draft, there are three
into a foundation. Rivera bought into a solid anchor and picks who made little to no im-
in. pass-rushing presence for the pact with the Redskins: oklaho-
“The last three drafts have interior defensive line. ma running back samaje Perine
been really good, young draft even though the Redskins (fourth round), Georgia state
classes,” the coach said Thursday found value throughout the draft wide receiver Robert Davis
during his virtual leadership lun- — UCLA cornerback Fabian (sixth) and Auburn cornerback
cheon. “You got to see it in the Moreau (third), Michigan state Joshua Holsey (seventh).
play. You see how many first-, safety Montae nicholson The legacy of the 2017 draft will
second-, third-year guys were get- (fourth), Arkansas tight end Jere- rest on how the defensive players
ting a lot of playing time, so you my sprinkle (fifth) and Louisville produce coming up. If they step
know there’s some potential for safety Josh Harvey-Clemons (sev- up, this season could be long-
continued growth and develop- enth) — their steal was Wyoming awaited validation for the Red-
ment. . . . I’m excited about it. center Chase Roullier. The Red- skins’ approach of gambling on
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Hopefully we can couple it with skins snagged him in the sixth players who slid because of
some good draft picks.” round, and he quickly developed see redsKIns on C10 defensive tackle Jonathan Allen (93), drafted 17th overall in 2017, developed into a productive starter.
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No surprises here: Ionescu goes first at the WNBA draft

BY K AREEM C OPELAND player in NCAA Division I history, and repurposed a drying rack as a point shooters. We love people
male or female, to total place to hold jerseys. who can space the floor, but that’s
On a night when the first draft 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds and Mystics Coach/General Manag- not her only skill. She’s got the
pick — Sabrina Ionescu to the New 1,000 assists. er Mike Thibault had planned to wingspan of 6-3. Terrific shooter
York Liberty — was a foregone Ionescu was followed by Ducks set up a big-screen TV, a laptop, an form distance. . . . She knows what
conclusion, the WNBA became the teammate Satou Sabally, the No. 2 iPad and two phones. Thibault, she’s walking into. She’s watched
first American sport to show what pick by the Dallas Wings. They who orchestrated a trade for for- our team play. She’s going to have
drafting from home looks like dur- became the third set of teammates mer MVP Tina Charles on to battle the veterans for a spot on
ing a global pandemic. The result: to go 1-2 in WNBA draft history, Wednesday, taking the Mystics out this team, but I think she’s up to
an expeditious three-round draft and fellow Duck Ruthy Hebard of the first round, said pre-draft the challenge.”
that included 36 picks in about went eighth to the Chicago Sky. preparation would be vital this Said Agnew: “The first thing I
90 minutes of television time. “Being able to go one and two year without being able to chat texted one of my assistant coaches
There were glimpses in the with Satou is a really cool feeling,” quickly with staff members hud- was, ‘I’m going to be in training
homes of the top picks, choppy Ionescu said, “and just kind of dled in the same room. camp with Elena Delle Donne and
video feeds, the buzz of cellphones shows all the hard work we put in Each player was in another lo- Tina Charles.’ That’s so awesome.
getting caught by live micro- this year to get to this point paid cation, surrounded by family and Super excited and super grateful.”
phones and just enough studio off. I’m really proud of her and friends. The league incorporated Alarie’s selection at No. 5 by
analysis to keep the show moving. what we were able to do as team- video messages from NBA players Dallas was the first surprise of the
cHrIs pIetscH/assocIated press
By the time it was over, the mates. . . . I’ve been working for Kevin Durant and Kevin Love and night. The three-time Ivy League
Liberty had snared the biggest this for my entire basketball ca- Sabrina Ionescu, above, and Oregon teammate Satou Sabally even gymnast Simone Biles. player of the year was expected to
star in Ionescu; two other Oregon reer and just super excited to be were the first two selections of the WNBA draft Friday night. LeBron James tweeted that he was be a first-round pick, but few pro-
Ducks went in the first round; able to see that come to fruition. watching from home. jections had her going that high.
Princeton star Bella Alarie (Na- I’d just say obviously very hum- WNBA draft: First round Thibault had joked earlier in the She is the third WNBA first-round
tional Cathedral) went fifth to Dal- bled and excited for the opportu- week that the Mystics got the best pick whose father was a first-
las; and the defending champion nity.” 1. New York Liberty 7. Dallas Wings player in the draft when they trad- round pick in the NBA. Mark Alar-
Washington Mystics landed If there was any doubt about sabrina Ionescu, g, oregon tyasha Harris, g, south carolina ed for Charles. On Friday, 23 picks ie went 18th to the Denver Nug-
Creighton forward Jaylyn Agnew whether New York would take to passed before the Mystics took Ag- gets in 1986.
with the 24th pick and Texas Ionescu, that was answered: Her 2. Dallas Wings 8. Chicago Sky new, the Big East player of the year. Maryland’s Kaila Charles land-
guard Sug Sutton with the final new Liberty jersey sold out online satou sabally, F, oregon ruthy Hebard, F, oregon She led the Bluejays team in points ed on the Connecticut Sun with
selection, 36th overall. by the end of the first round. 3. Indiana Fever 9. New York Liberty (20.8), rebounds (6.3), assists (3.3) the 23rd pick. She will have a
In between, teams wholly re- Despite being something of a and blocks (1.0) per game and shot chance to play alongside a pair of
made themselves or added miss- guinea pig for the virtual format Lauren cox, F, Baylor megan Walker, F, connecticut 37.4 percent from three-point fellow Terps: Alyssa Thomas and
ing pieces for a season that does (the NFL will try something simi- 4. Atlanta Dream 10. Phoenix Mercury range. Her free throw shooting Brionna Jones.
not have a firm start date. lar next week), the WNBA seemed chennedy carter, g, texas a&m Jocelyn Willoughby, g-F, Virginia (95.0 percent) led the nation. “We had Kaila Charles on our
Ionescu added to an impressive to pull off the event without any Thibault said the Mystics first top-10 draft board for literally the
5. Dallas Wings 11. Seattle Storm
legacy, closing her college career major glitches. Teams submitted interviewed Agnew about a week last two months, and to watch her
at Oregon as the unanimous na- their picks to the league via con- Bella alarie, g-F, princeton Kitija Laksa, g, Latvia ago and were hoping she would be continue to slip in the second
tional player of the year and as a ference call, but the teams’ staffs 6. Minnesota Lynx 12. New York Liberty on the board at the end of the round was almost unbelievable
three-time winner of the Nancy were in different locations. Com- m. Herbert Harrigan, F, s. carolina Jazmine Jones, g, Louisville second round. But she has work to for us,” Sun Coach/GM Curt Miller
Lieberman Award, given to the missioner Cathy Engelbert an- do to make a veteran roster com- said.
country’s top college point guard. nounced the selections from her ing off the franchise’s first title. kareem.copeland@washpost.com
A three-time all-American, the New Jersey home, where she Mystics’ draft selections: Jaylyn agnew, F, creighton (24th overall); “She fits the mold of our team,”
5-foot-11 standout became the first transformed a room into a studio sug sutton, g, texas (36th overall) Thibault said. “We love three- ava Wallace contributed to this report.

NBA, union agree to plan that will withhold part of players’ pay during hiatus
BY B EN G OLLIVER son that runs from April through ers. In terms of priorities, you many games were lost in the times, and like other companies salvaged. The league sought to
June. Before the agreement, play- begin with safety. We’re not at a event of a major disaster, such as across all industries, we need to increase its credit line in March
With professional basketball’s ers were continuing to receive point yet where we have a clear a pandemic. The average NBA take short-term steps to deal with from $550 million to $1.2 billion
schedule paralyzed by the novel their standard payments even protocol and a path forward team completed 65 of 82 games the harsh economic impact on in response to the pandemic, and
coronavirus pandemic, the NBA though Commissioner Adam Sil- where we feel like we can sit this season. In a joint statement our business and organization,” Silver said the NBA and its teams
and the National Basketball Play- ver had suspended the season down with the players and say we Friday, the NBA and NBPA said an NBA spokesman said at the are responsible for 55,000 jobs,
ers Association agreed to a plan March 11. can resume the season. Human the new agreement will “provide time. including arena workers and oth-
that will see 25 percent of each Silver said Friday that the NBA life trumps anything else you players with a more gradual sala- Financial fallout from the pan- er personnel.
player’s remaining 2019-20 pay- has not formulated a return-to- could possibly be talking about.” ry reduction schedule” to smooth demic has touched multiple NBA “Our revenue has essentially
checks withheld during the play timeline, that it has not The NBA will monitor new the potential effect of lost wages. teams. The Utah Jazz announced dropped to zero, which is having
league’s shutdown. decided on a cutoff date for coronavirus case counts, the Collectively, player salaries to- layoffs this month, and Houston a huge impact on our team
The plan, announced Friday, deciding whether to resume the widespread availability of test- taled more than $3.7 billion for Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta business and arena business,”
will take effect for the May 15 season and that it has not “seri- ing, the possibility of a vaccine the 2019-20 season, according to furloughed 40,000 employees in Silver said. “There’s a strong
payment cycle. If the season ously engaged” in so-called “bub- and guidelines from the Centers Basketball-Reference.com. The his casino and restaurant busi- recognition [among owners] that
resumes, withheld money could ble” scenarios that would allow for Disease Control and Preven- NBA’s salary cap was set at a nesses. there are thousands of jobs im-
be returned to the players. If the NBA to hold games at a tion and state governments as it record $109.1 million per team Silver announced in February pacted by the NBA, not just the
unplayed games are canceled, single-site location. proceeds with determining when this season. that strained relations with Chi- ones the fans see. While this virus
team owners would be able to “It’s about the data and not the it is safe to resume play. The cost-cutting move comes na following comments about is a dire public health issue, so is
retain some of the withheld wag- date,” Silver said on a conference Officially canceling the games three weeks after Silver an- Hong Kong by Rockets General shutting down the economy. I
es. call following the league’s annual would trigger the “force majeure” nounced that he, Deputy Com- Manager Daryl Morey in October think that’s why the league sees it
Most NBA players receive their Board of Governors meeting. clause of the collective bargain- missioner Mark Tatum and doz- had cost the NBA up to $400 as our obligation, to the extent
salaries every two weeks on a “There’s too much unknown to ing agreement between the own- ens of the league’s top-earning million in revenue, and the NBA we can resume play in a safe way,
12-month cycle, even though the set a timeline. There is no appe- ers and players, which would executives would have their sala- is facing a potential $1 billion to look at every potential way of
season typically runs from Octo- tite [among owners] to compro- cause players to forfeit a percent- ries reduced by 20 percent. revenue hit if the rest of this doing so.”
ber through April with a postsea- mise the well-being of our play- age of their salaries based on how “These are unprecedented season and the playoffs cannot be ben.golliver@washpost.com

Don’t drop nonrevenue college sports in hard times. Cut football coaches’ salaries.
The regularly CEO of Columbia sportswear
scheduled start of reduced his salary from
the college $3 million to $10,000. The heads
football season is of most major airlines have
still some declined salaries through June —
41/2 months off, some beyond that. The CEO of
Barry and it’s impossible Marriott, the world’s largest hotel
Svrluga to say whether chain, won’t have a salary
that will happen. through the end of this year.
Uncertainty defines life right So if athletic directors are
now, and at some level wondering looking to cut costs in a time
whether college kids can play when people nationally are,
football as planned seems almost invariably, cutting costs,
insignificant, even inappropriate, couldn’t they look at themselves
particularly before we know — and, more impactfully, their
when college kids will be allowed football coaches?
back on campus. Take Ohio State as an example.
The resumption of college The Buckeyes paid their assistant
sports is important enough, coaches a total of $7.245 million
though, that Vice President Pence in 2019, according to data
held a conference call with its compiled by USA Today. Head
major stakeholders Wednesday. coach Ryan Day is due
There are truths about college $5.4 million this year. Five
football that would have existed members of Day’s staff make at
had the novel coronavirus least $900,000 each.
pandemic not crippled the world. Clemson Coach Dabo Swinney
But those truths, with the season made more than $9.3 million last
threatened, are laid bare at the year, according to USA Today, just
moment. College athletics exist in one of 10 coaches who made more
the most fragile ecosystem. And than $6 million. Thirty-one head
the entire enterprise depends on coaches made at least $4 million,
football. and 31 schools pay their staffs of
Not just football being played. 10 assistants at least $4 million. If
But football being played in revenue trends downward —
packed stadiums. whether because seasons are
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“If you don’t have a season,” shortened or because fans are
Ohio State Athletic Director Gene Dabo Swinney made more than $9.3 million last year, per reports. He is one of 31 college football coaches paid at least $4 million annually. reluctant to pack closely into
Smith told reporters last week, stadiums — it seems clear where
“do the math on that.” Stadium — capacity 104,944 — gathering environment. Why commissioners are willing to talk athletes in the other sports some cash could be saved. After
Where college sports are because they need the revenue would it be safe for the players?” about a delayed season — even football supports. all, $9.3 million goes a long way
concerned, there is so much math from seven home games at Ohio Given the above math, there are potentially beginning in 2021 and College sports are often in Clemson, S.C. Ol’ Dabo could
to be done. If Major League Stadium. Playing without fans, clearly other factors at work as playing in the spring. There must referred to as the front porch of a get by on, say, $4 million, couldn’t
Baseball can’t play this summer Smith said, would cost the well. be football. If preserving the given university. But the reality is, he?
and fall, it impacts both players Buckeyes between $5 million and College football needs the fans current model is the goal — and once you’re on the porch and There are signs that this could
and owners financially, for sure. $7 million per game. If seven because college football needs the whether that should be is another open the front door, there’s at best be a consideration. Washington
But if college football can’t be games go away, then — poof — money because the rest of college discussion entirely — then there a rickety bridge stretching across State announced that its athletic
played this fall, it affects not the there goes somewhere between sports — at so many schools — must be football. to the academic side of the school. director, football coach and men’s
wallets of the players but the $35 million and $49 million — exist only because college football The NBA or the NHL could lose Most big-time athletic basketball coach will take
mere existence of an opportunity potentially nearly a quarter of the does. So when Oklahoma State this year’s playoffs and start again departments operate as separate 5 percent pay cuts through the
for gymnasts and lacrosse $210 million in expenses the Coach Mike Gundy says football next year, and there would be an corporations. What they share end of the next academic year. It’s
players, wrestlers and runners. department needed to keep should return ASAP because “we economic impact, for sure. But if with their schools amounts to a a step. There should be more.
Athletic departments across the 36 sports afloat last year. need to run money through the college football punts an entire particular shade of a specific Any return of any sport must
Power Five conferences are built And that doesn’t include the state of Oklahoma,” he is being season, the infrastructure that color and a couple of chants. be about public health and safety.
on the revenue football rakes in. revenue football brings in both tone-deaf and honest. supports so many of the 170,000 That doesn’t mean athletic But if college football coaches and
If that revenue evaporates — or through television broadcasts. That this money is generated Division I athletes would all but departments can’t lead in how to administrators sound a little
even shrinks — something will Yes, maybe some money would be by young men who don’t receive collapse. respond to the economic desperate to stage a normal
give. salvaged if games could be played anything approaching their fair If revenue doesn’t evaporate — hardships so many people already season in an abnormal world, it’s
Here’s an idea: Why not start in empty stadiums. Smith said on share of the cash is inescapable, meaning, if there’s some sort of a are enduring. CEOs across the because they are.
with the salaries of coaches? the conference call with of course, the constant thread season — but just declines, then country are taking pay cuts as barry.svrluga@washpost.com
First, the math Smith spoke of reporters: “If we don’t have fans that runs through all those can’t- costs must decline, too. It would both a show of goodwill and a
last week. The Buckeyes annually in the stands, we’ve determined miss fall Saturdays. But there’s a be a shame, then, if the hit to cost-saving measure during these For more by Barry svrluga, visit
host seven games at Ohio it’s not safe for them in a reason conference football’s largesse was felt by the economically crippling times. The washingtonpost.com/svrluga.
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Three-month furloughs
reduce sta≠ at SB Nation
BY B EN S TRAUSS familiar with the situation, the
furloughed SB Nation employees
The future of one of the earli- were offered severance packages
est sports websites, SB Nation, is that they can accept by may 31,
in doubt after a raft of furloughs which several staffers said raised
friday left the outlet without concerns about the future of the
nearly all of its national writers site and whether the company
for the next three months and wants them back.
potentially longer. “It’s hard to look at this and
In a memo sent to staff by the think sbnation.com would con-
CEo of Vox media, SB Nation’s tinue to exist as any reader has
parent company, Jim Bankoff known it,” one furloughed writer
wrote: “We face a new reality, said.
precipitated by the pandemic. To In a statement, Vox media
achieve necessary cost savings publisher melissa Bell wrote,
. . . there will be consequences to “We recognize the uncertainty of
people’s income and livelihood being on furlough during this
resulting from the actions we are time is not tenable for some
implementing today.” people, so if some of our employ-
Bankoff added, “Areas dispro- ees need to take severance now,
portionately impacted include we’re discussing that with them.”
revenue areas where short-term The national SB Nation site
demand will be lower such as stood out for Hall’s essays about
sales, sales support, production, college football; inventive videos
events; [and] editorial areas in- and interactives produced by Jon
cluding SB Nation’s national Bois, who remains at the site; and
sports coverage.” its college football vertical,
SB Nation is best known for its Banner Society.
network of more than 300 team- friday’s furloughs hit other
centric blogs, run mostly by low- aspects of Vox media, including
paid contractors or volunteers. technology website the Verge
But the site also employs around and real estate-centric publica-
100 full-time staffers, and fri- tion Curbed. But most affected
day’s furloughs, which last from was SB Nation, founded in 2005
JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST
may 1 to July 31, wiped out much and the original website of what
of the editorial team that writes became Vox media’s sprawling running back derrius Guice was drafted in the second round in 2018, but three knee injuries have overshadowed his flashes of potential.
and edits for the national site. portfolio.
Among those affected were Several SB Nation employees
former editorial director and
writer Spencer Hall, prominent
basketball writer mike Prada,
described the situation as tense
going back several years. While
the company expanded in other
Rivera liked what he saw in Redskins’ young roster
feature writer Natalie Weiner areas of the business, little in-
and a team of college football vestment was made in SB Nation, redsKins from C8 threat. He hauled in 58 catches for
reporters and editors. In all, they said. When prominent writ- 919 yards and seven touchdowns
around 20 people were fur- ers and editors left the site, they health concerns, such as Allen and is the team’s top long-term
loughed, roughly one-fifth of the almost never were replaced. (arthritic shoulders) and moreau building block among offensive
full-time staff and nearly all of SB Nation is the latest sports (torn pectoral muscle). playmakers.
the site’s employees who focus on outlet to contract, a trend that Another important variable in
writing. predates the novel coronavirus 2018 this draft was then-team presi-
The Vox media Union tweeted pandemic but has been exacer- Though all eight picks remain dent Bruce Allen’s decision to
that it disagreed with the fur- bated by it. Deadspin imploded with the redskins, this class re- trade this year’s second-round
loughs, arguing that hundreds of last year, and Sports Illustrated mains full of question marks. It’s pick to move up at the end of the
Vox media employees had offered experienced deep staff cuts both headlined by running back Derri- first round. The redskins select-
to take pay cuts in lieu of them. before and during the sports us Guice, the second-round pick ed mississippi State edge rusher
The union said it had won guar- shutdown. ESPN furloughed its out of LSU who has flashed po- montez Sweat, following the ten-
antees of no additional layoffs, game production staff and asked tential — 10 carries for 129 yards dency to target talented players
furloughs or pay cuts through the its highest-paid employees to and two touchdowns against the who slipped because of injury
end of July. take temporary pay cuts. Carolina Panthers last season — concerns. Sweat was inconsistent
According to four people ben.strauss@washpost.com but also suffered three serious as rookie, but it is too early to
knee injuries in two seasons. determine whether the trade was
If Guice finds a way to remain worth it.
on the field and produce at the The late-round gem in 2019
level the team expects, he might JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST was North Carolina linebacker
DI G ES T
end up being one of the redskins’ The development of quarterback dwayne Haskins, the 15th pick in Cole Holcomb, selected in the
better recent selections. But to 2019, will determine the success of the redskins’ draft last year. fifth round. He started right away
SOCCER HIGH SCHOOLS this point his impact has been and, though there were ups and
The D.C. State Athletic minimal, and rivera appeared to After the first two rounds, the didn’t win the starting job. downs, developed into a reliable
MLS pushes back Association canceled its spring acquire an insurance policy by redskins mainly collected role player. He has the athleticism to
2019
restart, eyes pay cuts sports season amid the signing veteran Peyton Barber players and special teamers: Penn play outside in the defense’s new
coronavirus outbreak, ending this offseason. State safety Troy Apke (fourth The redskins used the 4-3 scheme.
major League Soccer pushed campaigns for all D.C. public and The second biggest question round), Virginia Tech defensive 15th pick on a potential franchise other late picks will get a
back restarting the season to at private schools before many mark is Da’ron Payne, the red- tackle Tim Settle (fifth), Alabama quarterback in Dwayne Haskins, chance to prove they are worthy
least June 8 and said it is began playing games. The news skins’ second Alabama interior linebacker Shaun Dion Hamilton but he was a contested choice of significant roles. North Caroli-
discussing possible salary cuts came about 21/2 hours after mayor defensive lineman first-round (sixth), Virginia Tech cornerback even inside the building. Wheth- na State wide receiver Kelvin
with the players’ union. Muriel e. Bowser (D) pick in as many years. He has Greg Stroman (seventh) and er he develops into a high-level Harmon (sixth round), James
Teams played two matches announced school buildings will been the run-stopper he was SmU receiver Trey Quinn starter for Washington probably madison cornerback Jimmy
before the season was suspended remain closed through the end of projected to be — particularly (seventh). will define the class. moreland (seventh) and Indiana
march 12 because of the novel the academic year. useful in the NfC East against The last uncertainty of this To this point, however, it has guard Wes martin (fourth)
coronavirus pandemic, and the D.C. spring sports include running backs Saquon Barkley of draft is Geron Christian, the been Haskins’s ohio State team- should compete for starting jobs.
league had been looking at baseball, softball, lacrosse, tennis the New York Giants and Ezekiel third-round pick from Louisville mate Terry mcLaurin who has Stanford running back Bryce
possibly resuming play in mid- and outdoor track. Virginia had Elliott of the Dallas Cowboys — who was selected to back up been the standout. Drafted in the Love (fourth) missed all of last
may. The league still would like to already canceled its spring sports but hasn’t developed into a dis- starters Trent Williams and mor- third round, he was expected to be season recovering from a knee
play a full season. season. ruptive pass rusher, with seven gan moses. But even when Wil- a depth wide receiver and special injury but should get a chance to
mLS also said it is exploring “We are disappointed for sacks and 12 quarterback hits in liams’s holdout stretched on teams ace, but he transformed earn playing time in 2020.
possible “changes to player those student-athletes who will 31 games. throughout last season, Christian into the team’s most dynamic sam.fortier@washpost.com
compensation” because of the not have the opportunity to
financial hit the league and teams compete and showcase their
are facing. . . . skills during their senior season,”
English Premier League clubs
discussed the coronavirus testing
required and scenarios that could
DCSAA executive director Clark
ray said in a news release. “But
we fully support the mayor’s
Duke-bound Roach isn’t hindered by the hype
allow the season to resume in decision and recognize the
June at the earliest, with the aim importance we collectively play It takes a special talent to be the Blue Devils’ point guard, but the Paul VI star is used to lofty expectations
of playing all matches. in helping to flatten this curve
The league wants to restart and stop the spread of this BY M ICHAEL E RRIGO We wanted to be there for him
June 8 after a three-month deadly virus.” and help him and let him know
absence, presenting an — Kyle Melnick All elite high school basketball we wanted him just as badly. We
optimistically tight time frame isaiah Todd became the players reach a point when they knew how he would attack the
for players to regain match fitness second player to jump from high must start thinking of themselves rehab.”
if social distancing is relaxed. . . . school to the G League this week. not only as prep stars but also as roach committed to Duke on
Bob Hermann, the soccer Todd was a highly recruited college recruits. Each season be- may 8, 2019.
executive who launched the forward at Word of God Christian comes about more than just carv- “man, that was a big day,” he
Hermann Trophy given annually Academy in raleigh, N.C. ing out minutes and winning said. “It was honestly a big sigh of
to the top college players in the championships. There is the relief. To have that weight off my
country, died at 97. His family COLLEGE BASKETBALL future to consider. shoulders, I could just focus on
said he died monday at his home Guard Malachi Flynn, a for Paul VI guard Jeremy my rehab again and then my
in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue. consensus all-American and the roach, that mind-set adjustment senior season.”
A key figure in the rise of the mountain West Conference came with his first scholarship roach returned to the court for
professional sport in the United player of the year, will forgo his offer. It arrived in october of his his senior season and averaged
States in the 1960s, Hermann was senior season at San Diego State freshman year, before he had 17.9 points, 5.2 rebounds and
inducted to the National Soccer and enter the NBA draft. . . . played a varsity game for the 4.8 assists while leading the Pan-
Hall of fame in 2001. . . . North Carolina freshman Cole Panthers, and it was from the thers to the Virginia Independent
norman Hunter, a former Anthony, a 6-foot-3 point guard University of Virginia. Schools Athletic Association
Leeds defender who was part of who averaged a team-high “Just to know that a school and state championship. He earned
DOUG KAPUSTIN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
England’s World Cup-winning 18.5 points this past season, will coach like that has confidence in mcDonald’s all-American and
squad in 1966, died of covid-19, enter the NBA draft. you at a young age gives you a Jeremy roach received his first college scholarship offer — from first-team All-met honors.
the disease caused by the boost,” roach said. “But with that Virginia — before he made his debut on the varsity team at Paul Vi. roach, who signed in Novem-
coronavirus. He was 76. MISC. first offer, I tried to keep it ber, is part of a six-man recruiting
NASCAr postponed the may 9 low-key.” people would yell at me, ‘Go here, then he also hit some timely class for the Blue Devils, who
OLYMPIC SPORTS race at martinsville Speedway in from that moment on, roach, go there!’ They’re in the Twitter shots. Coach loved him. right finished 25-6 overall and 15-5 in
USA Track & field laid off seven Virginia, which is under a stay-at- a five-star talent who would even- [direct messages], Instagram away, Jeremy stuck out to him.” the ACC this past season. With
people from its 65-person staff, home order into June. . . . tually sign with Duke, was more Dms, too.” The Blue Devils already had sophomore point guard Tre Jones
and CEo Max siegel is taking a Defenseman dustin Byfuglien than just a high school hooper. Basketball provided an escape, roach on their radar, but they headed to the NBA, roach is in
20 percent pay cut to offset lost and the Winnipeg Jets mutually He was the 14-year-old with a but every time he was on the offered a scholarship that sum- line to take up some ballhandling
revenue because of the pandemic. agreed to terminate his contract, Virginia offer, a reputation that court he had to play like the kid mer and quickly made him a duties when he arrives in Dur-
The organization that runs the potentially marking the end of a grew as more elite programs fol- with a boatload of Division I priority. on the local level, the ham, N.C.
country’s largest summer sport playing career for the 14-year lowed suit. By the time roach offers. more often than not, he hype reached new heights head- The 6-foot-2 roach knows
was forced to cancel dozens of NHL veteran. . . . finished his sophomore season, delivered. In the summer after ing into roach’s junior season. point guard at Duke is one of the
events, including the olympic The Columbus Blue Jackets he could turn on any college his sophomore season, he had a Just before it started, he cut his most scrutinized positions in col-
trials, which were scheduled for signed all-star goaltender Joonas basketball game and think about strong showing at Peach Jam, sizable list of potential schools to lege basketball. But after four
June. In 2016, the trials produced Korpisalo to a two-year contract whether he wanted to attend arguably the biggest AAU event four, each of which has won at years as a local attraction and a
around $5 million in revenue. worth a reported $5.6 million. . . . either of the schools competing. of the year. In the stands, looking least one national championship constant source of praise and
They will be rescheduled to mesh The BmW International open Just about every option was open. on with a few assistants, was in the past 10 years: Duke, Ken- criticism, he believes he is ready
with the olympics, which have in Germany and the open de His high-profile recruitment Duke Coach mike Krzyzewski. tucky, North Carolina and Vil- for the challenge. His Duke
been pushed into 2021. france golf tournaments were followed him on and off the court. “He didn’t even have a big lanova. coaches believe the same.
Sports Business Daily reported canceled because of the friends, teammates and even scoring game,” remembered Two weeks later, roach tore his “It takes a very unique player
that all the cuts came in divisions coronavirus pandemic, and the strangers had no problem telling Duke associate head coach Jon ACL and missed the entire sea- that has that point guard mind-
that support the 8,000 live events Scottish open was postponed. . . . him what they thought he should Scheyer, who led roach’s recruit- son. But as he sat on the sideline set and also the talent,” Scheyer
the USATf sanctions each year. The Chicago Bears released do with his life. ment. “But he affected the game or rehabbed at home, he said. “We feel like Jeremy has
Siegel made $1.14 million in tight end Trey Burton. “Everyone is a college fan,” in so many different areas — his continued to hear from Duke. that. It takes some time, and you
2017, according to the USATf’s — From news services roach said with a laugh. “I would on-the-ball defense, his leading, “We didn’t skip a beat,” Scheyer learn. But we feel he can do that.”
most recent public tax filing. and staff reports just want to do regular stuff, and his passing, his playmaking. And said. “No discussion on our end. michael.errigo@washpost.com
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widespread McMansionization. 3
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Guarding
the quaint
against the
McQuaint
Residents of Bethesda
enclave treasure their
historic homes, old trees
BY J ESSICA W OLFROM

At a time when many older

homes in Montgomery County are
being torn down and replaced by
behemoth beacons of modernity,
Greenwich Forest stands in stark
contrast to the McMansionization
of neighborhoods that surround
it.
This small Bethesda enclave,
composed of 94 houses, takes
pride in its historic homes hidden
among large oak trees.
These houses are not shacks.
They sell for high prices and sel-
dom go on the market. But the
value of these homes is more than
BOnnIe JO MOunt/tHe WAsHIngtOn POst
their square footage.
“When I saw Greenwich Forest, Having won a battle to preserve their historic houses, Greenwich Forest residents are focused on protecting the neighborhood’s large,
I was just taken with how charm- mature trees. “You walk around, it still looks like you’re in the 1930s or ’40s,” said David Schindel, former citizens association president.
ing it is,” said Christine Parker, a
longtime resident who wrote a FRED. 270
“As soon as the builder got permis- Greenwich Forest would “appeal house to be happy,” Parker said.
book on the history of the neigh- CO. HOWARD sion, it was knocked over in an to those who love the beauty of a “Better to have a place that has
borhood. “I have more of a Euro- MONT.
CO. hour and a half.” rich woodland setting combined charm and is respectful of the
pean sort of taste. I’m not someone CO. MD. Stylistically, these newer homes with restrictions for architectural Earth.”
495
who likes things big.” LOUD. Detail P.G. stand apart from other houses in and social control.” Living there: The neighbor-
When the teardown, build-over CO. VA. CO. the neighborhood. One is on the “Sadly, restrictions by race and hood is bounded by Huntington
mentality threatened to turn the FAIRFAX D.C. 355 market, listed for $3.6 million. ethnicity through deed covenants Parkway on the north, Overhill
CO.
neighborhood’s Colonial and Tu- “We lost our most historic were common in early 20th-cen- Road and Moorland Lane on the
dor Revivals into oversized villas MARYLAND house, but we managed to save the tury subdivisions,” said Kelly. east, Wilson Lane on the south,
Alta Vista MONTGOMERY
and modern boxes, the neighbor- neighborhood,” Parker said. Even though Greenwich Forest and Hampden Lane on the west.
EWING DR.

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hood sprang into action. The 187
“Greenwich Forest is much more now welcomes anyone who can There are two listings on the
Greenwich Forest Citizens Associ- MEDICAL than any one house being impor- afford to live here, its demograph- market: a four-bedroom, six-bath-
CENTER
OLD G E O

ation applied for a historic desig- Bradmoor tant. It’s the fabric of the commu- ics haven’t changed much. room house for $3.6 million and a
ROCKVILL

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PKWY.
nity. It’s the way they put together “We don’t have any African six-bedroom, six-bathroom house
“We have fairly big pieces of GE
and blended the Tudor Revival American owners,” Schindel said, at $2.7 million.
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property in ratio to the houses, so Greenwich RD and Colonial Revival into this very adding the neighborhood attracts Last year, the average price of

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we knew that we were prime for Forest peaceful, lovely community.” an international community. homes sold was just under
Bethesda
BRA D LEY

teardowns,” Parker said. “When WILSON LN. There are no sidewalks here. Now that Greenwich Forest has $1.3 million. The lowest-priced
we saw what was happening BETHESDA Wide roads curve gently around preserved its historic houses, the was a four-bedroom, four-bath-
around us, the neighborhood real- FAIRFAX the U-shaped perimeter of the neighborhood is focused on pres- room house that sold for
BL

RD.
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ly banded together.” neighborhood, and people often ervation of a different kind. It is $825,000. The highest-priced was
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191
Now Greenwich Forest, first 1/2 MILE
stroll the sloping streets. dedicated to protecting the neigh- a five-bedroom, five-bathroom
imagined by the builder and de- Source: Maps4News/HERE “You walk around, it still looks borhood’s large, mature trees. The house that sold for $2.4 million.
veloper Morris Cafritz and archi- MEGHAN KELLY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST like you’re in the 1930s or ’40s,” citizens association allocates Schools: Bradley Hills Elemen-
tects Alvin A. Aubinoe and Harry Schindel said. funding for the replacement of tary, Thomas W. Pyle Middle
L. Edwards, and built between Since the designation was trees and manages a tree-planting School and Walt Whitman High
1926 and 1949, is protected by architects designed garages that granted, the drama over the neigh- program. School.
Montgomery County’s Planning curved around the back of houses, borhood’s future has subsided. “The real character, besides the Transit: Greenwich Forest is
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Department and Maryland’s His- out of sight from the streetscape. “It’s been pretty quiet here, but houses, is the tall, mostly oak served by several bus routes and is
toric Trust. Not all homes have been saved that’s why people move to the trees. It’s 10 degrees cooler in the about a mile from the Bethesda
“It’s a very well-preserved ex- from redevelopment. One of the forest, right?” Schindel said. neighborhood in summer,” Schin- Metro station on the Red Line. The
ample of an early automobile sub- oldest homes in Greenwich Forest Greenwich Forest’s quaint set- del said. “But we’re always dealing nearest main thoroughfares are
division,” said Clare Lise Kelly, an was razed shortly before the ting is in contrast with its darker with Pepco and the county about Old Georgetown Road and Brad-
architectural historian. neighborhood received its historic history. When the neighborhood not removing trees to protect the ley Boulevard.
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Cafritz and Aubinoe were some designation, and the original lot was first marketed, the advertise- power lines.” jessica.wolfrom@washpost.com
of the first developers to plan and was subdivided into three parcels. ments made clear not everyone Greenwich Forest is an enclave
construct a neighborhood around “It was demolished with pro- was welcome, particularly African for people who like historic houses
the automobile. Cars had become testers around,” said David Schin- Americans. and nature. Those who do tend to  to see more photos of green-
more widely available to Ameri- del, former president of the Green- According to an ad in The stay for a long time. wich Forest, go to washingtonpost
cans during this period, and the wich Forest Citizens Association. Washington Post in August 1933, “You don’t really need a huge .com/realestate.
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Mortgage Rates
Weekly averages for
Figures are flat as the Fed’s popular mortgage types
5%
rently parked in the bond market
would have likely led to a drop in
interest rates to at least 2 per-
Meanwhile, fueled by refinanc-
es, mortgage applications picked
up last week. According to the
intervention calms market cent,” said George Ratiu, senior
economist at Realtor.com. “But
latest data from the Mortgage
Bankers Association, the market
4
instead, rates remained roughly composite index — a measure of
BY K ATHY O RTON The 15-year fixed-rate average 3.34 consistent this week. One of the total loan application volume —
ticked up to 2.8 percent with an 3 3.31 largest drivers contributing to increased 7.3 percent from a week
The Federal Reserve has average 0.7 point. It was 2.77 rate stickiness has been the tight- earlier. The refinance index
soothed the mortgage market, at percent a week ago and 3.62 per- 2.80 ening of underwriting standards jumped 10 percent and was 192
least temporarily. After weeks of cent a year ago. The five-year 2 by banks and lenders in response percent higher than it was the
volatility, the Fed’s purchases of adjustable rate average fell to 3.34 to the historical number of unem- same time last year. The refinance
mortgage-backed securities have percent with an average 0.3 point. 30-YEAR FIXED ployment insurance claims. As we share of mortgage activity ac-
had a calming effect on rates the It was 3.4 percent a week ago and 1
15-YEAR FIXED
move forward in these anything counted for 76.2 percent of appli-
past two weeks. 3.78 percent a year ago. but normal times, we can expect cations.
5-YEAR ARM
According to the latest data “The wild swings have calmed investors to continue their risk- The purchase index continued
released Thursday by Freddie in recent weeks after a period of averse behavior as they try to to slide, falling 2 percent. It is 35
’18 ’19 ’20
Mac, the 30-year fixed-rate aver- extreme fluctuations,” said Mat- navigate market volatility.” percent lower than it was a year
age slipped near its all-time low, thew Speakman, a Zillow econo- Source: Freddie Mac Bankrate.com, which puts out ago. The purchase index, which
dipping to 3.31 percent with an mist. “This suggests the historic THE WASHINGTON POST a weekly mortgage rate trend started March at 280.7, has fallen
average 0.7 point. (Points are fees intervention by the Federal Re- index, found that half the experts to 182.6, a 35 percent decline over
paid to a lender equal to 1 percent serve has successfully eased some then sells it to investors. it surveyed predict rates will re- the past five weeks.
of the loan amount and are in of the strains that had plagued Mortgage rates are usually main about the same in the com- “During these challenging
addition to the interest rate.) It the market just a few weeks ago, based on MBS prices. The Fed’s ing week. times for the U.S. economy, re-
was 3.33 a week ago and 4.17 though challenges remain.” unlimited MBS buying pushes “Same story, different week, cord-low rates continue to benefit
percent a year ago. The 30-year Last month, the Federal Re- prices up and rates down. but there’s no real reason to see the many homeowners able to
fixed average sank to a record-low serve restarted its massive bond- However, normal market dy- any significant drop in rates while refinance and save money on
of 3.29 percent in early March. buying program. The Fed has namics have gone out the window lenders work around continuing their monthly mortgage pay-
Freddie Mac, the federally been purchasing mortgage- during the coronavirus outbreak. changes in product and eligibili- ments,” said Bob Broeksmit, MBA
chartered mortgage investor, ag- backed securities — or MBSs as What causes mortgage rates to ty,” said Gordon Miller, president president and chief executive.
gregates rates from 125 lenders they are often known — which are move has less to do with the usual of Miller Lending in Cary, N.C. “Given the rise in unemployment
across the country to come up bundles of mortgages sold on a factors such as long-term bonds “Jumbo loans are almost unavail- and stay-at-home orders aimed at
with national average mortgage secondary market. When a bor- than investors’ concerns over bor- able now and it’s getting harder to curbing the spread of [the corona-
rates. It uses rates for borrowers rower takes out a loan such as a rowers’ inability to pay their lend to self-employed borrowers virus], the spring home-buying
with flawless credit scores. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, a mortgages. as we now have to establish that season showed further weak-
rates quoted are not available to lender often bundles that loan “Under normal circumstances, the coronavirus has had no im- ness.”
every borrower. with other loans into an MBS and the high volume of money cur- pact on their business.” kathy.orton@washpost.com

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Buying New Pacifica in northwest Washington

A condo building at home in the neighborhood

BY A UDREY H OFFER

In the Dupont Circle area of Northwest

Washington, a line runs down the middle of
N Street marking the southern boundary of
a D.C. historic district. Buildings on the
north side of the street are protected by
strict regulations governing demolition and
exterior alterations. Those on the south side
are not.
Pacifica, a newly built nine-unit condo-
minium at 2122 N, between 21st and 22nd
streets, is on the south side of the street.
Nevertheless, J Street Cos. still had to satisfy
local authorities and respond to angry
neighborhood residents on its way to re-
placing a pair of aging rowhouses there with
new construction.
“We explained that our intention was to
create a structure much nicer than what
existed,” said Bruce Baschuk, chairman of J
Street. “The two townhouses weren’t attrac-
tive.”
The company turned to GTM Architects.
“We were conscious of the appearance of
the buildings across the street and the uni-
formity of the rowhouses,” said Molly Heff-
ner, an associate at GTM. “We wanted to
design a building that spoke to the historic
fabric of the neighborhood.”
Wide bay windows facing N Street match
those in nearby houses. At the same time,
the window panes are arranged in a grid of
PHotos by benjamin C tanKersley for tHe WasHington Post
modern slender, black metal frames. Other
design elements strike a similar balance. ABOVE: A view of N Street NW from the rooftop deck of one of two penthouse units at Pacifica, a nine-unit condominium in the
“We designed a large cornice [decorative Dupont Circle area of the District. BELOW: The exterior was designed to fit in with the other buildings in the neighborhood.
molding around the roofline] to make the
building’s presence felt, while still allowing PACifiCA
it to blend seamlessly with the rest of the 2122 n st. nW, Washington
street,” Heffner said.
Baschuk said the building had won over there are nine condominium units in the
the opposition. “At the end of the project, the building. three are sold. six are for sale at
most vocal, negative individuals came up to prices ranging from $995,000 to
me one by one to say they like it,” he said. $2.4 million.
He also expressed confidence that the Builder: j street Cos.
building will look good for a long time. “I features: each unit has a secure parking
told the [Advisory Neighborhood Commis- space. the units have nine-foot-high coffered
sion] I anticipate in 30 to 40 years, they’ll
ceilings and abundant closet space.
designate this building because it will be
Kitchens are outfitted with Viking appliances,
worthy of historic protection,” he said.
“ ‘You won’t want to tear it down,’ I predict- including a 36-inch refrigerator, a 30-inch
ed.” gas stove with a hood and a microwave
drawer in the island. Counters and
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On the inside, the model unit showcases a

mix of finishes and design elements intend- backsplash are Calacatta Vagli marble.
ed to make condo living feel like a single- Custom cabinets in the kitchen and
family experience. “While many contempo- bathrooms have a glossy white lacquer
rary finishes were used and open concept finish, and faucets are by Waterworks.
living-dining-kitchen areas were created to bathroom floors and shower walls have
appeal to today’s condo buyers,” Heffner Porcelanosa tiles. Kallista made the
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said, “we also wanted the units to feel like bathtubs and fixtures.
single-family residences. We used a lot of Bedrooms/bathrooms: 1 to 3 / 2 to 4
trim work, with crown moldings and cased the dining room is around the corner. The Schools: Elementary and middle, School
openings [framed openings without doors] living room has a stone-tile gas fireplace, Without Walls; high, Cardozo Education Square footage: 1,200 to 2,100
to convey a sense of space and room desig- which is standard in all units. Campus. Condominium association fee: about 60
nation.” Off the dining room, there is a den with a Transit: Dupont Circle is the heart of cents per foot
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The entry to Unit 5 opens to a little double glass door. The space is suitable for a walkable Northwest Washington. Side- View model: by appointment.
hallway. The smaller of the two bedrooms is guest room, a nursery, a home office, a TV walks are wide. Street parking for residents
on one side, and the master bedroom is on lounge or a dining-room extension for a and visitors is plentiful. Bike lanes are pretty Contact: matt Cummings at 202-350-2802
the left. An en suite bathroom is reached large dinner party. common. Dupont Circle Metro station on or thepacificalivingdc.com
through one of two walk-in closets in the Nearby: The neighborhood has many the Red line is two blocks from Pacifica to
master bedroom suite. restaurants and bars. There are grocery the north and the Farragut North Metro in the other direction. Many major traffic
Down the hallway, the unit has another stores, drugstores, banks, liquor stores, station, also on the Red Line, is a few blocks corridors — including Massachusetts, New
bathroom, a laundry closet and a double- shoe stores and museums. Inside the traffic Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut
door coat closet. Beyond the hallway is the circle, Dupont Circle has a park with a avenues — pass through the circle or run
open-plan living space, facing N Street. The fountain that is surrounded by a wide walk-  to see more photos of Pacifica, go to nearby.
L-shaped kitchen faces the living room, and way, benches, grass and trees. washingtonpost.com/realestate. realestate@washpost.com
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COVER STORY

Making the most of a

life plan community
Hybrid programs cover the gamut from independent to assisted living and beyond

BY M ICHELE L ERNER • I LLUSTRATION BY L ILA A SH

Mark and Sharon Brender, retirees who live in a townhouse in Arlington, love living in an urban envi-
ronment, walking to shops and restaurants and hopping on Metro for cultural opportunities in normal
times. ¶ But at 70, Mark Brender says he realizes that he and his 73-year-old wife may not always want
to live in a three-level home with stairs. ¶ “We’re planners who want to maximize our life and enjoy it
without worrying about how we’ll take care of each other as we age,” he says. ¶ The couple made a depos-
it at the Mather, a “life plan community” in Tysons Corner that is anticipated to be ready for its first resi-
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dents in 2023. A life plan community, also known as a continuing care retirement community, is a hy-
brid of an active adult community and other types of senior housing. ¶ At the Mather, the amenities will
include dance classes, play-reading groups, seminars, an art studio with group and individual classes,
and concierge services for everything from event tickets to private chef services. The community will have
a fitness center, an exercise studio for classes, a spa, an indoor pool, a library, a movie theater and multi-
ple dining venues. In addition, residents will have valet parking and housekeeping twice per month. ¶
Unlike most active adult communities, which are designated for people 55 and over, life plan communi-
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ties target residents at different ages such as 60 or 62 or perhaps older. In addition to the recreational
and social amenities of an active adult community, they also usually include several sections or buildings
that offer independent living, skilled nursing, assisted living and sometimes a memory care center for
people with dementia. “Life plan communities typically appeal to people who want a lifestyle component
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similar to an active adult community and are also planners who want their future care secure,” says Beth
Mace, chief economist and director of outreach with the National Investment Center for Seniors Hous-
ing and Care (NIC). “They don’t want to wait for a health event to occur or to have to go to a place they
don’t want if they need assisted living in the future.” ¶ Typically, residents live in the independent section
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of the community as long as possible and sometimes for their entire stay in a life plan community, says
Lana Peck, a senior principal with NIC. They can be moved to the skilled nursing center to recover from
a hip replacement or other surgery and move back to their home or move to the community’s assisted liv-
ing or memory care center when they need more help. “These communities allow people to age in place
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A retirement living option that includes many levels
communIty from t8 According to CBrE’s report, the a nursing home facility averaged
average deposit in 2018 was $8,517 in 2019, according to Gen-
in the same location, and they are $335,000 and can rise to nearly worth, a long-term care insur-
guaranteed to be able to stay $1 million in some high-cost ance provider. In the Washington
there until the end of their lives,” housing markets. area, that average cost was
says Peck. “Couples want to stay “The effect of the deposit is to $12,440.
together and enjoy the lifestyle subsidize the monthly fee and “Knowing our costs takes the
and wellness services of the inde- future health care,” says Peck. worry out of our financial plan for
pendent living section. Then, if “often people sell their home and the future,” says mark Brender.
one of them needs more care they use the proceeds to pay the depos- “The expectation is that the fee
can at least be on the same it. Depending on the market area, may increase by 2 or 3 percent
campus or even in the same some developers tie their deposit annually, but some years there
building for easier visits.” amount to the median sales price may be no increase at all.”
for homes in the area.” Life plan communities have
Planning for all possibilities At the mather, 7929 Westpark various ways to handle someone
Like the Brenders, Diane and Dr., required deposits will range struggling to pay the monthly
Curt Stowell opted for a life plan from $660,000 to more than fees.
community in part because they $4 million when the community “We had one woman live to 112,
don’t have children and wanted opens in 2023, says morgan. The but she only spent a couple of
to make sure they don’t burden amount varies because the apart- months in the assisted-living fa-
friends or other relatives with the ments range from an 850-square- cility,” said morgan. “If someone
potential need for care in the foot one-bedroom to a penthouse outlives their resources, they
future. with more than 3,300 square feet. have the option of drawing down
“I’m 75 and Curt is 81 and we’re The mather is accepting deposits from their deposit or staying in
very active now,” says Diane Stow- at discounted preconstruction the community on a scholarship.”
ell, a resident at mather’s Splendi- pricing. Life plan communities typical-
do Life Plan Community in Tuc- Nationally, the average month- ly require financial and medical
son. “We moved from Alaska to an ly fee for a life plan community approval for residents, says mace.
active adult community in Tuc- was $3,251 in 2018, according to Depending on someone’s age,
son 15 years ago, but we wanted to CBrE’s report. But fees vary wide- the mather requires new resi-
move to Splendido so we know ly according to the services pro- dents to demonstrate that they
our health-care needs will be tak- vided, and residents can choose have 11/2 times or more of the
en care of.” different contracts that impact entrance fee in assets and the
When not physically distanc- their fees. monthly fees at the monthly income from invest-
ing themselves because of the mather range from $3,500 to ments to pay the monthly fee. for
coronavirus, the Stowells partici- $11,000. example, someone paying an en-
pate in line dancing, yoga classes, “We pay about $7,000 a month trance fee of $1.5 million would
MARK AND SHARON BRENDER
hiking, biking and social activi- but whatever we pay now is the need $2.25 million to $3 million
ties just as they did at their active mark and Sharon Brender plan to move into the mather, a life plan same as what we pay if we go into in assets and the ability to pay
adult community. While the community in tysons corner, scheduled for availability in 2023. the assisted living section,” says about $7,500 per month.
Stowells typically enjoy restau- Diane Stowell. “If one of us goes In addition to the financial
rant meals in their community, all ing with a contemporary feeling into assisted living and the other approval, new residents undergo
meals currently are delivered to and an urban environment,” says one stays in our current apart- medical certification by a health
follow social distancing guide- Peggy Love. ment, we’re technically getting professional from the mather to
lines. Typically, life plan community two homes for the same fee. The show that they are in average
Peggy and Jim Love, a retired residents move in when they are only extra we would pay is for the health for their age and can cur-
couple with three children and in their late 70s to mid 80s, additional meals in assisted liv- rently live independently, mor-
five grandchildren, recently according to a report by CBrE, a ing.” gan says.
made a deposit at the mather in company that provides invest- most life plan communities, “The majority of the people
Tysons. ment opportunities across a including the mather, offer peo- making deposits at the mather
“my husband is retired from broad spectrum of senior housing ple a choice of an all-inclusive are under 75, with most between
the military and both of our properties. At the mather, resi- contract that covers unlimited 65 and 75,” she says. “The time to
parents are military families, so dents must be 62 or older. lifetime care or a contract that move in is when you’re enjoying
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we’ve naturally relocated and covers 90 days of care and then your retirement. If you wait, you
spent most of our lives overseas,” Paying for future care requires a higher monthly fee won’t qualify.”
says Peggy Love, who sold her A life plan community is nei- after 90 days. Usually people with Wellness is a big component of
global corporate relocation busi- ther a rental apartment nor a long-term care insurance choose the mather, which offers personal
ness before retiring in 2015. She is condo, says Gale morgan, senior that second option, says morgan, training in the fitness center,
71 and her husband is 73. vice president of sales for mather, because it’s about $1,000 less per yoga and Pilates classes, guided
“our kids live in New York, a nonprofit organization and de- month. meditation and, nutritional
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mexico and malaysia at the mo- veloper of Life Plan Communities “Everyone has to make a choice coaching. The first building at the
ment and are global nomads,” in Tucson, Evanston, Ill., and Ty- We want to about which contract they want mather will have 186 units, and in
Peggy Love adds. “my parents and sons Corner. hear from you when they move in and they can’t 2024 the second building is antic-
Jim’s parents moved to life plan “residents pay an entrance fee Are you buying or selling a change it,” says morgan. “Couples ipated to open with 114 residenc-
communities and so we always and then ongoing monthly fees home or planning a move don’t have to have the same con- es.
intended to do the same. It’s a gift that cover the amenities, house- during self-quarantine? The tract, but they can’t transfer the The mather offers a luxurious
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our parents gave us that we want keeping and dining,” says mor- Washington Post is
contract from one person to the level of senior housing that most
to give to our kids.” gan. “The residents can choose other.” people fund by selling their
reporting on how the
The Loves, who live in Arling- between two types of contracts While the monthly fees are house, says morgan.
coronavirus pandemic is
ton near the East falls Church for their services, which also cov- costly, at the mather they cover all “We want to move under our
affecting home sales, and
metro station, chose the mather ers any future health care they services and amenities, one meal own steam and redecorate a new
we are interested in your
for its semi-urban location in may need. Ninety percent of the a day at one of its three restau- home rather than have to be
Tysons where they will be able to deposit they make is returned to experience. Share your rants, housekeeping and all utili- moved because of an intervention
walk to shops, restaurants and them when they move out or goes story at wapo.st/moving ties. At the same time, the fees by our kids,” says Peggy Love.
the metro. to their estate if they pass away function as an insurance policy “This isn’t desperation, this is a
“We like the idea of moving before moving.” for future care. Nationally, the fun move.”
into a brand-new high-rise build- Those deposits can be steep. monthly cost of a private room in realestate@washpost.com
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and private-resort style amenities for 55+
active-adults. Here, choosing to simplify
doesn’t mean sacrificing lifestyle and
luxury; it’s an opportunity to downsize in
style at an affordable price point.
Let’s touch on the master planned com-
munity design that offers much more
than you could ever imagine. A first-class
clubhouse, known as The Lodge, serves
up an expansive club room, separate bar also a very important aspect of this neigh- two Ryan Homes floorplans – both with
borhood’s location. Holy Cross German- first-floor owner’s suites. The Calvert is a
room with seating, game room, multiple
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outdoor patios, yoga studio, fitness cen-
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ter, virtual golf, outdoor pool and putting
In-Home Amenities home begins at 1,742 sq. ft. with an op-
green. A beautifully designed Open Air
tion for finishing the lower level which
Pavilion with fireplace offers a unique There are three options available to adds 646 sq. ft. Or choose from the Grif-
outdoor gathering place for socializing potential buyers in The Woodlands of fin Hall, a 3-bedroom villa as well, with a
and events while bocce ball courts, pick- Urbana. Ryan Homes is currently selling two-story great room, two bathrooms, a
le ball courts and basketball offer add- condos from the $300,000 price range powder room, and two-car garage. This
ed outdoor activities. Artfully designed and attached villas from the $400,000 home begins at 2,198 sq. ft. with an op-
fire pits and walking trails weave in and level. For those buyers looking for a little tion for finishing the lower level which
out of the neighborhood and link to the more space, NVHomes has single-family adds 905 sq. ft. Other options include
amenities. The area known as the Gath- detached homes available starting in the the ability to extend the great room and
ering Green, is a perfect spot for a respite $500,000 price range. owner’s bedroom, as well as add a sun
under the heavily trussed and elongated room or covered porch.
gazebo with a view of the lawn. And if These first-floor owner’s suite homes
you have a green thumb, an elaborate feature all of the modern details you NVHomes is selling detached single-fam-
Potting Shed with raised beds invites would expect to find in a community of ily homes, where buyers can choose from
homeowners to plant in a communal this caliber. Standouts include state-of-the- four floorplan types. Homes range from
type setting. And let’s not forget the two art appliances, modern floor plans, smart 1,766 – 2,438 sq. ft. with options for 2,
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main level owner’s suite. Other thoughtful hobby rooms and formal dining spaces.
Area Overview Residents enjoy a two-car front-load ga-
details include available grab bars, com-
Urbana, Maryland is a fantastic area for fort height water closets, comfort height rage, arrival center, and available covered
active adult homebuyers to plant roots. counters, wider owner’s bathrooms, and rear porch or screened-in porch.
It is equally located between Baltimore many other age-in-place features. The homeowner’s association covers
and D.C., making day trips into the city the lawn maintenance and snow remov-
Floor Plan Overview
a breeze. Downtown Frederick, just a 15 al, helping to make this true low-mainte-
minute drive from the neighborhood, is Ryan Homes offers the Chambord con- nance living. With six decorated models
an added bonus offering a plethora of dominium floorplan, which is a two-bed-
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authentic small town atmosphere. And includes a private 1-car garage, drive- to learn more. Schedule a visit today!
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House of the Week
Already
a winner,
now it’s
even better
BY K ATHY O RTON

What attracted owner Mark

Mendelsohn to the David Jame-
son-designed contemporary
house in Bethesda, Md., “was the
way the house relates to its envi-
ronment and the outdoors,” he
said. “It had wonderful indoor-
outdoor living, which is not so
typical in this area.”
His wife, Jacqueline, was
drawn to the glass box atop the
living room.
“The house is defined by this
large glass cube,” she said. “That
was a really striking feature to us.
When you are in the main living
room on the main floor of the
house, you really feel all of that
light coming in. I think it’s pretty
typical of David’s architecture. He
likes to say natural light is his
favorite design material.”
But when they bought the
house in Glen Echo Heights in
2016, it wasn’t quite right for their
family, which now includes two
teenagers and a 16-month-old
daughter. So before he put in an
offer, Mark called the architect to
discuss the possibility of expand-
ing the house, particularly on the
lower level.
K

“I was thinking small,” Mark

said. “He was thinking big.”
In 2013, for a previous owner,

6415 daHlonega Rd.,

BetHesda, Md.
$3.5 million
Features: the David Jameson-
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designed house has an exterior

made of stucco, corten steel, glass PHotos by HomeVIsIt

and shou sugi ban, or burnt TOP: A view from behind the award-winning house at 6415 Dahlonega Rd. in Bethesda, Md. ABOVE: A glass box, at left, is on the upper
Japanese wood. the main and level, and above the living room, at right. The floating stone firepolace surround anchors the living room. Iron stairs are to the right.
upper level floors are white oak.
the lower level floors are marble. Jameson had transformed what By extending the lower level, a light glass cube on the upper level, wood contrasts with the coolness
the kitchen has fumed larch had been a 1969 brick rambler new outdoor space off the main above the living room. The opaque of the Calacatta marble counter-
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cabinetry and Calacatta marble into an American Architecture level’s living room and master exterior in front contrasts with tops.
countertops. the upper terrace Award-winning contemporary bedroom was created. Mark en- the transparent exterior in back. Iron stairs lead from the main
and glass pool house have green house. As Mark understood it, joys sitting out there in the early Asked if he felt like he was level to the upper and lower levels.
roofs. the lower terrace has a fire budget constraints limited what evenings. living in a fishbowl, Mark said The upper level has an office and
pit. Jameson could do initially. The “That time of day is really magi- “the honest answer is no because outdoor seating. Jacqueline en-
Mendelsohns gave him an oppor- cal, especially when you get one of of the slope. Much of what you are joys the large window in the office
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Bedrooms/bathrooms: 5/7 tunity to fulfill his vision for the the pink or purple sunsets,” he looking at is the trees and the that looks out onto the treetops.
approximate square-footage: house. said. outdoors.” “You just feel like you’re sus-
4,850 Most of the work was done on The slopping backyard was The two-story living room is pended up there,” she said.
lot size: 0.36 acre the lower level and the outdoor landscaped into terraces. A swim- anchored by a wood-burning fire- According to Mark, there is no
spaces. The lower level was ex- ming pool and a glass pool house place with a floating stone sur- wasted space in the house.
listing agent: Lauren Davis, ttR tended about 12 feet, and its ceil- was added. round. The minimalist kitchen re- “We really use the whole house,
sotheby’s International Realty ing height was raised. It was also The house is a study in con- sembles a piece of furniture. Ex- which is unusual I think,” he said.
 For more photos of this house reconfigured to accommodate trasts and features several Jame- cept for the stove and vent hood, The five-bedroom, seven-bath-
and other houses for sale in the area, three bedrooms, a family room, a son hallmarks. The dark, heavy every appliance is hidden behind room, 4,850-square-foot house is
go to washingtonpost.com/realestate. music room, a laundry room and a shou sugi ban, or burnt Japanese fumed larch panels that mimic the listed at just under $3.5 million.
420-bottle wine room. wood, contrasts with the airy, cabinetry. The warmth of the kathy.orton@washpost.com
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Essay
DOWNSIZING

Leisure World beckoned — but could they get rid of enough stuff?
BY B EVERLY S ILVERBERG packed. We had to get the job
done in one day. That was all the
A pandemic was not one of the elevator time we had from the
contingencies my husband and I Leisure World folks.
considered as we thought about And by the way, we’d been
moving. We were looking for a moving things to the apartment
retirement community that of- for weeks: fragile things like
fered activities we wanted to pur- glassware; valuable things like
sue such as fitness programs, art silverware; and birth and mar-
classes, a book club, a wood shop riage certificates. Did I mention
and trips to theaters. None of all of my mother-in-law’s beauti-
which has happened yet. ful artwork? Approximately 20 oil
I loved the garden in my home paintings, collages and art of vari-
but grew to hate the deer that ate ous sizes that we inherited when
my hosta to the ground and my 98-year-old father-in-law died
thought the flowers I planted 10 years ago had to come with us
were their salad bar. The mainte- to the new apartment.
nance on the house had become Luckily, there are lots of walls.
onerous and in the weeks before The framed family pictures, how-
we moved, a gutter sprang a leak, ever, are an impossible challenge.
a pipe in the basement had to be They still are sitting in a pile
repaired and a section of wall staring at us every time we walk
needed to be replaced, convincing by them. For years, some of those
us that we had made the right pictures graced the piano we
decision. were fortunately able to give
An apartment that was beauti- away, and some of them came
fully landscaped, with a phone from our parents’ homes when
number to call if anything failed they downsized. As we unpacked,
and no worries about leaf- or we realized what a poor job we
snow-blowing seemed just the had done of divesting ourselves of
right thing for us. stuff.
But since we moved into Lei- Did I really need the Keurig my
getty ImAges/IstocKpHoto
sure World in Silver Spring four 98-year-old mother had left be-
weeks ago, we’ve barely seen a Decades’ worth of accumulation in a home can take a surprisingly long time to sift through, so if you’re hind when she moved to my
soul in the halls, in the elevators contemplating downsizing to a retirement community, allow enough time for that part of the process. brother’s home last year? Our
or on the streets. We take our coffee maker, Melita coffee pot
evening walks with our masks household goods); to the library dear ones or bought on trips to knew she was right. Not fair to and coffee press already were too
and gloves and paper towels for to donate bookshelves full of faraway places were painful to burden her with all our things, much for our little galley kitchen.
touching elevator buttons and books; to A Wider Circle (a non- give away or sell. particularly when she was quick The large electric fry pan was
getting mail. The few folks who profit that takes usable clothing Truth be told, some of them to say she didn’t want anything. great in our house, but would I be
are out are similarly garbed, and for people needing them); and made it to the new apartment, Not the china, not the silver, not making potato pancakes for a
we wave and give each other a trips to the hazardous waste dis- which has no fireplace mantels, the crystal, not anything. She crowd for Hanukkah in our new
wide berth. posal, electronics recycling and and they now must find another ended up with the dining room apartment? Not likely.
I look forward to the day we the dump — we still had a whole home. Silver, brass, pewter, crys- set anyway. It simply would not fit How about the Teflon coated
can meet our neighbors, swim in lot of stuff to get rid of. tal, vases, mirrors, lamps, bas- in the apartment, and I couldn’t turkey roaster that could easily
the pool, eat at the restaurants For months we’d been selling kets, Christmas paper, postcards, bear to give it away, except to her. handle a 25-pound bird? I should
and not have another box to beloved possessions using our lo- greeting cards, 45-rpm records, She’s not wholly to blame; the never have brought it to the new
unpack. cal email group. What a treasure an espresso machine, ice buckets, stairs and maintenance on a large kitchen, and I’d already given my
For five months we had been that community group turned out furniture, bookcases, filing cabi- home finally took their toll. Well, other roasting pan to my son-in-
giving away, throwing away and to be. Hubby parted with his nets, rugs and art all found new back to the move. The original law. Did I mention the stainless-
selling the possessions we had barbells, riding mower, chipper homes. I couldn’t part with the estimate for the move was $1,300; steel poacher? All sitting on a
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spent more than half a century shredder, snowblower and leaf record albums, so they came with the final cost was $2,890. Yes, ledge above the cabinets in the
accumulating. We had filled our blowers (yes, plural), not to men- us, as did a record player. more than double. Can’t blame kitchen and destined for new
attic, our basement, our two-car tion his pressure washer, 16-foot The local elementary school the moving company really. I do homes when the threat of this
garage, a tool shed, four bed- ladder, and assorted and sundry got lots of office supplies. I’m blame them for busting a hole in pandemic ends.
rooms, an office, a living room, a tools. going to miss my Eliot Porter the wall and breaking some of the I won’t get into the things my
dining room, a den, a basement He gave all kinds of power tools posters of spring and fall and my furniture, although every other husband could not bring himself
living room, bar, a utility room, to his brother-in-law, nephew, beautiful print of Georgia O’Keef- household item arrived intact. to get rid of, but as I look around
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workbenches, laundry room and son-in-law and neighbors. The fe’s red poppy. Household items They must have chopped down a our office and in the space that
a kitchen with stuff. chain saw, rakes, shovels, wheel- were sold, some were given away forest for the boxes and paper houses our stack washer-dryer,
Now, within months, we need- barrow, seed spreader and other and other goodies went out the they used to pack everything. which he has stuffed with the
ed to dispose of it or move it to a useful items went to whoever door with the “junk” man, includ- After all the giving away, sell- remains of his workbenches, I
three-bedroom apartment. What would take them. When you have ing tables, chairs and a wonderful ing and hauling away, we still had shudder.
a herculean feat, which we totally three workbenches and four tool roll-top desk whose dimensions five large boxes of framed family Use your imagination. I envi-
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underestimated and failed at mis- boxes, there are a lot of tools. were too big for the folks who pictures, closets of clothes, kitch- sion a day when not only is the
erably. Downsizing is truly daunt- Some even came with us. Too expressed an interest in having it. en dishes, glassware and gadgets, pandemic over, but our downsiz-
ing! many, actually, but that’s my take. Lawn furniture went along with and hubby’s tools and wires that ing is done.
My husband and I, both pack I, meanwhile, was stripping the grill and patio flower pots. he thought he might need, and May they both come quickly!
rats, were on a collision course three fireplaces of tools and a You might ask, why did we do many of those are still in boxes.
with reality. As many trips as we truly magnificent Beaux-Arts this? We occasionally ask our- The movers, when they saw what Beverly silverberg was the metro
took — to Community Forklift (a fireplace fan I’d named Minerva. selves the same. It’s all our daugh- was left to pack, immediately spokesperson in the 1980s and
nonprofit that takes tools and My niece got some fireplace tools ter’s fault. She looked around our called in two extra men and a president of Beverly silverberg
building materials); to Value Vil- and Minerva found an apprecia- house one day and said: “Mother, total of 47 boxes in addition to communications, specializing in
lage (a nonprofit that takes al- tive buyer. Fireplace mantel you are not allowed to die until several wardrobes and the 30- crisis communications, until her
most anything in the way of adornments that were gifts from you get rid of all this stuff!” We plus boxes we had already retirement.
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