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| Subject: New Yorkers should be prepared for a ‘shelter-in-place order,’ Mayor Bill de Blasio says Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:07 pm | |
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- San Francisco Bay area officials ordered some 7 million residents to “shelter in place” on Monday.
- Residents there are prohibited from leaving their homes, except under “limited circumstances,” according to the order.
- New York City officials are considering a similar move as they prepare for an “onslaught” of new coronavirus cases in the coming weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
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Great DepressionHe compared the reach of the disease to the 1918 influenza pandemic that infected a third of the world’s population and killed an estimated 50 million people and the economic impact to the Great Depression. “In terms of the economic dislocation, I think it’s fair to say we are going to quickly surpass anything we saw in the Great Recession and the only measure or the only comparison will be the Great Depression,” he said, adding that the federal government will have to intervene. The U.S. government is going to have to provide “direct income support on a vast scale,” he said. Over the weekend, de Blasio announced a number of measures to contain the virus’ spread, issuing executive orders to limit restaurants and bars to take-out services only, cancel elective surgeries at hospitals and postpone an election. He also ordered New York City schools to close until at least April 20.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/17/new-yorkers-should-be-prepared-for-a-shelter-in-place-order-mayor-bill-de-blasio-says.html |
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