Residents wearing masks against the new coronavirus pass by government propaganda posters featuring Tiananmen Gate in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Thursday, April 16, 2020. Top Chinese officials secretly determined they were likely facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus in mid-January, ordering preparations even as they downplayed it in public. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
April 16, 2020
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April 16, 2020 11:02 a.m.
US job losses mount as economic pain deepens worldwide
The ranks of Americans thrown out of work by the coronavirus have ballooned to at least 22 million