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Afghan officers rescuing a newborn baby Tuesday during an assault on a maternity ward in Kabul. At least 15 people died. Page A16.Escaping Death, After Only Hours of Life

Before the coronavirus crisis,three of New York City’s largestcommercial tenants — Barclays,JP Morgan Chase and MorganStanley — had tens of thousandsof workers in towers across Man-hattan. Now, as the city wrestleswith when and how to reopen, ex-ecutives at all three firms have de-cided that it is highly unlikely thatall their workers will ever returnto those buildings.

The research firm Nielsen hasarrived at a similar conclusion.Even after the crisis has passed,its 3,000 workers in the city will no

longer need to be in the office fulltime and can instead work fromhome most of the week.

The real estate company Hal-stead has 32 branches across thecity and region. But its chief exec-utive, who now conducts businessover video calls, is mulling reduc-ing its footprint.

Manhattan has the largest busi-ness district in the country, and itsoffice towers have long been asymbol of the city’s global domi-nance. With hundreds of thou-sands of office workers, the com-mercial tenants have given rise toa vast ecosystem, from publictransit to restaurants to shops.They have also funneled hugeamounts of taxes into state andcity coffers.

But now, as the pandemic easesits grip, companies are consider-ing not just how to safely bringback employees, but whether allof them need to come back at all.They were forced by the crisis tofigure out how to function produc-tively with workers operatingfrom home — and realized unex-

An Ecosystem Under Threat In Manhattan

By MATTHEW HAAG

Tenants are weighing a needfor office space in Manhattan.

CHANG W. LEE/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Deaths doubled in Lima, rival-ing the worst month of the pan-demic in Paris. They tripled in Ma-naus, a metropolis tucked deep inBrazil’s Amazon — a surge similarto what London and Madrid en-dured.

In Guayaquil, a port city in Ec-uador, the sudden spike in fatali-ties in April was comparable towhat New York City experiencedduring its worst month: morethan five times the number of peo-ple died than in previous years.

As the coronavirus’s toll easedin New York and in European cap-itals, a devastating wave struckcities in Latin America, one thatrivals the worst outbreaks in the

world, an analysis of mortalitydata by The New York Times hasfound.

Brazilian cities are resorting tomass graves to bury rows ofstacked coffins. Hundreds of Ec-uadoreans are still searching forthe bodies of family members whowent to hospitals and never re-turned.

And while the catastrophes in

Outbreak’s Untold Devastation of Latin AmericaThis article is by Anatoly Kur-

manaev, Manuela Andreoni, LetíciaCasado and Mitra Taj.

Some diggers in Brazil, which has over 11,500 virus deaths, have stacked coffins three layers deep.FELIPE DANA/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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JERUSALEM — The explosionflung him skyward, legs first, be-fore he crashed to the ground.

It was June 2002, at the heightof the second Palestinian intifada.Dvir Musai, then a 13-year-old Is-raeli schoolboy from a religiousJewish settlement, was on a classcherry-picking trip in the south-ern West Bank. On his way back tothe bus, he stepped on a mine laidby Palestinian militants and wasgravely wounded, along with twoother boys.

“There was a lot of smoke,clumps of earth falling, a smell ofburning and gunpowder,” Mr. Mu-sai, now 31, recalled.

Decades of agony followed. Mr.Musai’s right foot felt as if it werepermanently afire. And then lastyear, a surgeon offered him hope— and a disquieting disclosure.

In pre-op at the Hadassah Medi-cal Center in Jerusalem, Dr. Madiel-Haj told his patient that the ana-tomical atlas he would use toguide him through the intricatenerve pathways had beenproduced by Nazis. Its illustra-tions are believed to be based onthe dissected victims of the Nazicourts under Hitler’s Third Reich.

If there were objections, Dr. el-Haj told the Musai family, he couldoperate without it — but it would

Arab Surgeon,Jewish Patient,

Nazi TextbookBy ISABEL KERSHNER

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WASHINGTON — The Su-preme Court heard more thanthree hours of arguments on Tues-day on the powers of the presiden-cy and whether they protect Pres-ident Trump from the prosecutorsand House committees seeking toobtain troves of information abouthis business affairs.

The court considered two setsof cases, and there was a strongpossibility of a split decision.

A majority of the justices ap-peared skeptical of Mr. Trump’sargument, in response to a sub-poena from the Manhattan dis-trict attorney, that he was abso-lutely immune from criminal in-vestigation while he remained inoffice. But the court seemed more

receptive to Mr. Trump’s argu-ment that the House committeeshad asked for too much informa-tion for reasons unrelated to theirlegislative responsibilities.

Should the court order releaseof the president’s tax returns andother financial information in re-sponse to the House subpoenas,the records would almost cer-tainly be made public and voterscould consider them in decidingwhether to re-elect him in Novem-ber. The records may provide in-

sight into Mr. Trump’s businesspractices, foreign entanglementsand hush-money payments.

But if the Manhattan prosecu-tors prevail, the records would notimmediately be made public un-der the secrecy rules that apply togrand juries.

Because of the coronavirus, thecourt heard the arguments bytelephone, an experiment thatstarted last week. The justicesasked their questions one at atime, in order of seniority, whichgave the arguments a stilted, halt-ing quality and made them harderto assess than the free-for-allsthat are commonplace when argu-ments are held in the courtroom.

The court’s ruling, expected byJuly, could require disclosure ofinformation the president has

Justices Hint at Split in 2 Cases on Trump RecordsBy ADAM LIPTAK Skepticism of Idea That

President Is Immunein Criminal Inquiry

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WASHINGTON — Two of thefederal government’s top healthofficials painted a grim picture ofthe months ahead on Tuesday,warning a Senate panel that thecoronavirus pandemic was farfrom contained, just a day afterPresident Trump declared that“we have met the moment and wehave prevailed.”

The officials — Dr. Anthony S.Fauci, the nation’s top infectiousdisease expert, and Dr. Robert R.Redfield, the director of the Cen-ters for Disease Control and Pre-vention — predicted dire conse-quences if the nation reopened itseconomy too soon, noting that theUnited States still lacked criticaltesting capacity and the ability totrace the contacts of those in-fected.

“If we do not respond in an ade-quate way when the fall comes,given that it is without a doubtthat there will be infections thatwill be in the community, then werun the risk of having a re-surgence,” said Dr. Fauci, thelongtime director of the NationalInstitute of Allergy and InfectiousDiseases, who is at the forefront ofefforts to find a vaccine.

If states reopen their economiestoo soon, he warned, “there is areal risk that you will trigger anoutbreak that you may not be ableto control,” which could result notonly in “some suffering and deaththat could be avoided, but couldeven set you back on the road totrying to get economic recovery.”

Dr. Fauci’s remarks, during ahigh-profile — and partly virtual— hearing before the Senate Com-mittee on Health, Education, La-bor and Pensions, along withthose of Dr. Redfield, made clearthat the nation had not yet pre-vailed.

They appeared to rattle themarkets, driving the S&P 500down as investors weighed the po-tential of a second wave of infec-tions against Mr. Trump’s prom-

ises that the economy wouldbounce back once stay-at-homerestrictions were lifted. Worri-some reports of spikes in infec-tions in countries like China,South Korea and Germany, wherelockdowns had been lifted,seemed to confirm the Americanofficials’ fears.

Here in Washington, Dr. Fauciand Dr. Redfield, who have beenbarred by the White House fromappearing before the Democratic-controlled House, drew a very dif-ferent picture of the state of thepandemic than the president, whohas cheered for a swift reopening,championed protesters demand-ing an end to the quarantine and

predicted the beginning of a “tran-sition to greatness.”

Dr. Fauci told senators that co-ronavirus therapeutics and a vac-cine would almost certainly not beready in time for the new schoolyear, that outbreaks in other partsof the world would surely reachthe United States and that humil-ity in the face of an unpredictablekiller meant erring on the side ofcaution, even with children, whohave fared well but have recentlyshown new vulnerabilities.

Dr. Redfield pleaded with sena-

OPENING TOO SOONPOSES DEADLY RISK,

SENATE IS WARNEDMarkets Are Rattled as Health Experts

Veer From President’s Optimism

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci testifiedremotely to a Senate panel.

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Answers from Alec Baldwin, the Rev. Al Sharpton and more. Above, a Brook-lyn Cyclones game in 2019. PAGE A14

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-15

What New Yorkers Really MissCity arts leaders are meeting on Zoomto connect and commiserate. Above, theMetropolitan Opera House. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

A Call for CultureThe evening meal is usually a time forcommunity, but this year, Muslims haveto adapt. Above, the table for the Nat-sheh family in Plano, Texas. PAGE D1

FOOD D1-8

Breaking the Ramadan Fast

With the red carpets in storage, ourwriters discuss what the event meansto movies and moviegoers. PAGE C1

When Cannes Is Canceled

About 40 teams gathered over theweekend for a youth baseballtournament in Missouri. The unevensocial-distancing practices madeepidemiologists cringe. PAGE B8

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B8-9

Too Soon to Take the Field?

After the shooting death of AhmaudArbery in Georgia, critics are calling forsuch laws to be repealed. PAGE A18

Behind Citizen’s Arrest Laws

Like many other small-business own-ers, a florist in Oakland, Calif., has hadto reinvent her shop on the fly. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-7

Putting the Bloom Back

Jimmy Glenn, a boxer and trainer, ranJimmy’s Corner, which has endureddespite Times Square’s changes. He was89 and had the coronavirus. PAGE A24

OBITUARIES A24-25

A Bar Owner With Clout

Mary B. McCord PAGE A27

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27The nation’s largest four-year publicuniversity system said it would contin-ue to hold most classes online. PAGE A12

Cal State Won’t Reopen in Fall

Measures to bolster California’s sen-tencing laws are headed to the ballot,years after the laws were softened toallow more early releases. PAGE A23

NATIONAL A18-23

Revisiting Three Strikes

WASHINGTON — A federaljudge overseeing the criminalcase of President Trump’s formernational security adviser MichaelT. Flynn opened the door lateTuesday for legal experts andother outside parties to opposethe Justice Department’s motionto drop the case, suggesting hehas at least some skepticismabout the government’s argumentthat Mr. Flynn should never havebeen charged.

In a brief order, Judge EmmetG. Sullivan of the United StatesDistrict Court for the District ofColumbia said he would set aschedule for outside parties topresent arguments about the gov-ernment’s request to dismiss thecase. He did not directly addressthe Justice Department’s motionto drop the charge, but legal ex-perts said he appeared open toconsidering not only the depart-ment’s arguments but also thosewho have challenged its move aspolitically motivated.

The judge’s order is the latesttwist in a high-profile criminalcase that has provoked wide-spread criticism of Attorney Gen-eral William P. Barr and has re-newed questions about politicalinfluence over the Justice Depart-ment. In an extraordinary move

Asked to DropFlynn Charges,Judge Hesitates

By SHARON LaFRANIERE

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