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Coronavirus brings New York to a standstill

By Associated Press

April 2, 2020

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The Empire State building is lit in red and white lights to honor emergency medical workers in New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.
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The Charging Bull stands in Manhattan's financial district in New York. The virus pandemic that has killed over 40,000 people worldwide is also wreaking havoc on corporate profits, with Wall Street forecasting a double-digit decline in the second quarter and no return to growth the rest of the year.
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Medical personnel wearing personal protective equipment remove a body from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center to refrigerated containers parked outside in the Brooklyn borough of New York. As coronavirus hot spots and death tolls flared around the U.S., the nation's biggest city was the hardest hit of the all, with bodies loaded onto refrigerated morgue trucks by gurney and forklift outside overwhelmed hospitals, in full view of passing motorists.
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Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center Moses Division hold an "urgent community speak out" and press conference in front of the hospital, demanding N95s and other critical personal protective equipment to handle the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center Moses Division hold an "urgent community speak out" and press conference in front of the hospital, demanding N95s and other critical PPE to handle the COVID-19 outbreak in New York.
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Patricia Armand, an anesthesia nurse at Montefiore Medical Center, speak during an "urgent community speak out" and press conference in front of the hospital, demanding N95s and other critical personal protective equipment to handle the COVID-19 outbreak in New York.
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Alla Kirichenko performs leg lifts for exercise with her face mask lowered and weights on her ankles beneath the parachute jump at Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The Trump administration is formalizing new guidance to recommend that many, if not all, Americans wear face coverings when leaving home, in an effort to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. The recommendations were still being finalized Thursday, and would apply at least to those who live in areas hard-hit by community transmission of the virus.
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Evan Demaree, a Heartland Disaster Response Team ambulance attendant from Lafayette, Ind., dons his face mask before taking a stroll on the boardwalk at Coney Island while awaiting a call to duty in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Demaree and other emergency responders have been contracted by FEMA to help the New York Fire Department's overtaxed emergency response workers during the current coronavirus crisis.
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A face-mask wearing cyclist pedals past a mural of a tropical fish on the Coney Island boardwalk in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The Trump administration is formalizing new guidance to recommend that many, if not all, Americans wear face coverings when leaving home, in an effort to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. The recommendations were still being finalized Thursday, and would apply at least to those who live in areas hard-hit by community transmission of the virus.
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High school teacher Joe Martucci, right, from the Staten Island borough of New York, hands a straw to a panhandler after buying the man a meal from Nathan's Famous hot dogs in Coney Island in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Martucci, teaching remotely during the current coronavirus outbreak, decided to drive out to Coney Island to pick up a hot dog on a sunny day. He said he felt comfortable getting out of the house because he's always reachable on his cell phone. Martucci said he often offers to buy panhandlers food instead of giving them money.
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Physical trainer Boris Enrique gets in his exercise by doing "bend squats" on a path in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in New York, as a New York City Department of Parks and Recreation enforcement vehicle pulls up behind him. The city's playgrounds have been closed recently due to the recent coronavirus outbreak in the hopes of preventing people from gathering too closely and spreading the new COVID-19 virus. Because gyms are closed during the outbreak, Enrique said most of his work has gone online in virtual sessions.
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Grace Cole, 5, runs up and down mounds of dirt in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in New York, as her caretaker Karen Jack assists her. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered the city's playgrounds closed on Wednesday to further slow the spread of coronavirus. Cuomo' order followed calls from public-health experts and many City Council members to shut all playgrounds, but it added another challenge for families weathering a lockdown.
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