Coronavirus, Immigration, Kim Jong-un: Your Tuesday Briefing

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Good morning.

We’re overlaying President Trump’s plan to droop immigration to the U.S. amid the coronavirus pandemic, the loosening of restrictions in some states, and questions on the well being of North Korea’s chief, Kim Jong-un.

President Trump plans to bar immigrants

The president stated on Monday that he supposed to temporarily suspend immigration to the U.S., which he stated would defend American employees as soon as the financial system started to recuperate.

A proper order briefly barring the issuance of latest inexperienced playing cards and work visas might come inside days, in line with a number of folks accustomed to the plan, though it was unclear what authorized foundation Mr. Trump would invoke to justify the transfer.

Listed below are the most recent updates concerning the coronavirus pandemic from the U.S. and from around the world, in addition to maps of the outbreak.

We’re additionally monitoring the virus’s development price in U.S. metro areas.

In different developments:

• The governors of Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee said they would start relaxing restrictions supposed to curb the unfold of the virus. Plans to reopen have been additionally transferring ahead in Ohio, the place a state jail has change into the nation’s largest-known supply of coronavirus infections.

• No less than 26,000 extra folks have died over the previous month than have been formally reported, a review of mortality data in 11 countries shows. The totals embrace deaths immediately attributable to Covid-19, in addition to these stemming from different diseases that couldn’t be handled by overwhelmed well being care programs.

• A dispute between Democrats and the White Home over virus testing has stalled a nearly $500 billion bipartisan agreement to replenish a mortgage program for small companies and supply extra financing for hospitals.

• The benchmark value for crude oil within the U.S. fell beneath zero on Monday for the primary time. It was the results of a quirk available in the market, however Neil Irwin, our senior economics correspondent, explains that it’s additionally an instance of the pandemic’s deflationary effect on the economy.

• The fast-food chain Shake Shack stated it would return a $10 million stimulus loan amid criticism that huge retailers have been getting aid funds meant for small, struggling companies.

• Ramadan begins this week. Our Cairo bureau chief reports on how the pandemic has forged a shadow over the holy month of fasting for the world’s 1.eight billion Muslims.

• Queen Elizabeth II turns 94 today. For the primary time in her almost seven-decade reign, her birthday won’t be commemorated by a gun salute — one other longstanding ritual halted by the pandemic.

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New York’s lengthy, exhausting street

Town has bounced again from different calamities — the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults, the 2008 Lehman Brothers collapse, the 1970s fiscal disaster — however none of them shut down New York as profoundly, or for as lengthy, because the coronavirus pandemic has.

The Instances interviewed greater than two dozen enterprise executives, metropolis and state officers, and trade teams to seek out out extra about the challenges facing New York, the place lots of of hundreds have misplaced their jobs and at the least $7.four billion in tax income is projected to be misplaced by the center of subsequent 12 months.

“I don’t assume the New York that we left shall be again for some years,” stated Gregg Bishop, the commissioner of the town’s small companies company. “I don’t know if we’ll ever get it again.”

Nearer look: Coogan’s, an Irish pub that opened in Higher Manhattan in 1985, stated on Monday that it was closing completely. Our Metro columnist Jim Dwyer remembers a place that was “the promise of New York incarnate: multiethnic, pleasant, welcoming, sensible.”

What’s subsequent: Gov. Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to fulfill with President Trump on the White Home this afternoon. Listed below are the latest updates from our Metro desk.

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A lethal undersea thriller

Few folks speak about what a Russian submarine, the Losharik, was doing close to Norway’s coast final 12 months when a hearth killed 14 sailors, together with among the most embellished officers in Russia’s submarine corps. Moscow has stated the submarine was merely a analysis vessel, and the Norwegian navy refuses to say what it might have seen.

Our reporters James Glanz and Thomas Nilsen write: “The extraordinary incident could provide one more clue to Russia’s navy ambitions within the deep sea, and the way they determine right into a plan to leverage Arctic naval energy to realize its strategic targets across the globe — together with the power to choke off very important worldwide communication channels at will.”

Right here’s what else is occurring

Uncertainty about North Korean chief: South Korean officers at the moment disputed a news report that Kim Jong-un was receiving treatment after present process coronary heart surgical procedure. Mr. Kim was final seen in public on April 11, and he missed an occasion final week honoring the birthday of his grandfather, North Korea’s founder.

Joe Biden’s fund-raising gap: New figures present that Mr. Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, and his celebration are nearly $187 million behind President Trump and the Republican Nationwide Committee.

Snapshot: Above, the photographer Maggie Steber welcoming a brand new day at her house in Miami. We requested photographers across the U.S. to capture our unusual state of isolation through the coronavirus pandemic.

Michael Jordan’s spin transfer: The previous basketball nice, ever picture aware, appears to be utilizing a brand new 10-part documentary collection to reaffirm his legacy within the LeBron James period, our columnist writes.

Late-night comedy: After protesters known as for the tip of stay-at-home orders, Jimmy Kimmel said, “It’s like if the Titanic was headed in the direction of the iceberg, and half of the passengers have been like, ‘Are you able to please pace this factor up?’”

What we’re studying: This article in The New Yorker. Jennifer Steinhauer, a reporter in our Washington bureau, says: “I’m typically awake today at 2 a.m., which has change into my time for studying The New Yorker. This piece covers a subject I assumed I knew nicely — the origins of the ‘By no means Trump’ motion — however unpacks it with immense element.”

Cook dinner: Tonnato sauce made with canned fish may be spooned onto steamed or uncooked greens.

Watch: That is precisely the correct time to stream documentaries about very strange things (aggressive endurance tickling, for example). And the designer Mary Ping made a bag out of newspaper for T, The Instances’s model journal.

Cope: Right here’s how to set up your home work space so you possibly can put away your “workplace” on the finish of every day. And if you’re feeling lonely, we’ve got some concepts to assist.

Now we have extra ideas about what to read, cook, watch and do whereas staying protected at house.

And now for the Again Story on …

The coronavirus and gender

The virus is killing extra males than girls, although an infection charges are roughly the identical. That’s as a result of the male physique and the feminine physique reply in a different way to viruses. However not like many different international locations, the U.S. is not systematically tracking Covid-19 gender data.

Francesca Donner, who leads our Gender Initiative, spoke with Caroline Criado Perez, the writer of “Invisible Ladies,” and Alisha Haridasani Gupta, a reporter for The Instances. Their dialog is excerpted from the In Her Words newsletter:

Francesca: We all know variations between female and male immune programs exist, but we all know little or no about them.

Caroline: The rationale we don’t know that a lot is that, traditionally, we’ve most popular to check the male physique.

We do know the feminine immune system is extra lively than the male immune system. The speculation is that it’s as a result of girls give start and the feminine immune system has advanced round that. That may be dangerous for girls in that ladies make up 80 % of these with autoimmune ailments. Ladies additionally are likely to have extra frequent and extra antagonistic reactions to vaccines.

The result’s that we’re much less good at diagnosing ailments in girls. In the event you take a look at one thing like coronary heart illness in Britain, girls are 50 % extra more likely to be misdiagnosed than males. One end result is that within the U.S. and Britain, girls are extra seemingly than males to die following a coronary heart assault. And but you continue to encounter resistance within the analysis group, who say issues like, “The feminine physique is simply too sophisticated, the menstrual cycle will intrude with the outcomes.”

Francesca: Alisha, give us somewhat background on the intercourse knowledge being collected.

Alisha: The U.S. is one in every of 11 international locations that aren’t systematically monitoring infections and deaths by women and men. Since we printed the sex-data article, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention did launch a report that included a race and a intercourse breakdown. However even that was a snapshot, drawing info from hospital networks in components of 14 states.

Francesca: What implications does this have in our seek for a vaccine?

Alisha: The Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses is already in phase one human trials for a potential vaccine on 45 wholesome adults. It stated it could want a bigger variety of members to have the ability to disaggregate knowledge by intercourse. That’s to not say that it’s not possible to have disaggregated knowledge proper from section one — as a result of Johnson & Johnson stated that’s what it’s going to do because it heads into human trials in September.

That’s it for this briefing. See you subsequent time.

— Chris

Thanks
To Melissa Clark for the recipe, and to Theodore Kim and Jahaan Singh for the remainder of the break from the information. You may attain the staff at briefing@nytimes.com.

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