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U.S. NEWS Monday 6 april 2020
Virus raises specter of gravest attacks in modern US times

Continued from Front much better than it was." federal officials who have
Trump has backed away urged them are "just looking
The number of people in- from comments weeks at the nation as a whole."q
fected in the U.S. has ex- earlier that large swaths "But whenever you look at
ceeded 300,000, with the of American life would re- our state, I think Dr. Fauci
death toll climbing past sume by Easter. would be very pleased with
9,000. Nearly 4,200 of those The president had no pub- the fact that we are beat-
deaths are in the state of lic events on his sched- ing some of our other states
New York, but a glimmer ule Sunday after a series in reducing the spread
of hope there came on of two-hour daily brief- and the commitment that
Sunday when Democratic ings on the outbreak. Vice we have to working every
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said President Mike Pence was day to accomplish that,"
his state registered a small scheduled to participate Hutchison said.
dip in new fatalities over U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams speaks about the in a task force conference Gov. J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., who
a 24-hour period. Still, Gov. coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White call from his residence in was among the first in the
John Bel Edwards, D-La., House, Friday, April 3, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President the afternoon. nation to issue orders that
said his state may run out of Mike Pence listens. Much of the country is un- his state's residents stay
ventilators by week's end. Associated Press. der orders to stay home, home, suggested the fed-
Former Vice President Joe Sunday. of the National Institute of and federal officials said eral government should
Biden suggested his par- "This is going to be the hard- Allergy and Infectious Dis- they have seen signs that step in and make the re-
ty's presidential nominat- est and the saddest week eases, said the toll in the people are listening to maining states follow suit.
ing convention, already of most Americans' lives, coming week is "going to the message about social "This virus knows no borders.
pushed from July into Au- quite frankly," Adams said. be shocking to some, but distancing. A few states, And so it was up to the fed-
gust because of the out- "This is going to be our Pearl that's what is going to hap- however, have declined eral government, to begin
break, may have to move Harbor moment, our 9/11 pen before it turns around, to issue such orders and with, to advise and to ask
fully online to avoid pack- moment, only it's not going so just buckle down." Adams was asked whether all the governors to put in
ing thousands of people to be localized. It's going to He also said the virus prob- they should join the rest of stay-at-home orders," Pritz-
into an arena in Milwaukee. be happening all over the ably won't be wiped out the country. ker said. "Those governors,
Also, the Defense Depart- country. And I want Ameri- entirely this year, and that "Ninety percent of Ameri- Republican governors,
ment released new require- ca to understand that." unless the world gets it un- cans are doing their part, would have done it much
ments that all individuals on For most people, the virus der control, it will "assume a even in the states where earlier if the president had
its property "will wear cloth causes mild or moderate seasonal nature." they haven't had a shelter suggested it much earlier."
face coverings when they symptoms, such as fever "We need to be prepared in place," Adams said. "But Adams appeared on "Fox
cannot maintain six feet of and cough that clear up that, since it unlikely will if you can't give us 30 days, News Sunday" and NBC's
social distance in public ar- in two to three weeks. For be completely eradicated governors, give us, give us ``Meet the Press." Fauci was
eas or work centers." some, especially older from the planet, that as we a week, give us what you on CBS' "Face the Nation."
The most dire warning, adults and people with get into next season, we can, so that we don't over- Biden was interviewed on
though, came from Ad- existing health problems, it may see the beginning of whelm our health care sys- ABC's "This Week" while
ams, who noted it was can cause more severe ill- a resurgence," Fauci said. tems over this next week." Hutchinson was on NBC.
Palm Sunday, which starts ness, including pneumonia, "That's the reason why Gov. Asa Hutchinson, R- Pritzker and Edwards were
the Christian holy week and death. we're pushing so hard in Ark., who has not issued a on CNN's "State of the
that concludes with Easter Dr. Anthony Fauci, director getting our preparedness stay-at-home order, said Union."q

Ex-NFL kicker, Saints hero Tom Dempsey dies at 73

By BRETT MARTEL cial cause of death. Demp- in a statement. “He exem- what is widely known as the
AP Sports Writer sey’s game-winning field plified the same fight and “The Dempsey Rule,” man-
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For- goal against Detroit on fortitude in recent years as dating that shoes worn by
mer NFL kicker Tom Demp- Nov. 8, 1970, stood as an he battled valiantly against players with “an artificial
sey, who played in the NFL NFL record for 43 years un- illnesses but never wave- limb on his kicking leg must
despite being born without til the Broncos’ Matt Prater red and kept his trademark have a kicking surface that
toes on his kicking foot broke it with a 64-yarder in sense of humor.” conforms to that of a nor-
and made a record 63- Denver in 2013. Dempsey was born in Mil- mal kicking shoe.”
yard field goal, died late Dempsey spent 11 seasons waukee without four fingers Dempsey returned to New
Saturday while struggling in the NFL: His first two sea- on his right hand and wit- Orleans after retiring from
with complications from sons were with New Orle- hout toes on his right foot. the league. About seven
the new coronavirus, his ans (1969-70), the next four He kicked straight on with years ago, he was diag-
daughter said. He was 73. with Philadelphia, then two a flat-front shoe that drew nosed with dementia and
The Times-Picayune/The with the Los Angeles Rams, protests from some who later moved to an assisted Former New Orleans Saints
New Orleans Advocate first one with the Houston Oilers saw the specially made living home, where he kicker Tom Dempsey speaks
reported Dempsey’s death. and the final two with Buf- kicking shoe as an unfair contracted the corona- with the media Thursday,
Ashley Dempsey said Sun- falo. He retired after the advantage. virus in March during the November 4, 2010 at the Saints'
practice facility in Metairie, La.
day that her father, who 1979 season. But Dempsey would coun- pandemic that has hit the Associated Press.
has resided in an assisted li- “Tom’s life spoke directly ter by saying he was merely city — and nursing home
ving home for several years to the power of the human doing the best he could — particularly hard. He is
after being diagnosed with spirit and exemplified his to use the foot with which survived by wife Carlene, greatest moments in the his-
dementia, tested positive resolute determination to he was born, and for the three children, a sister and tory of a franchise that did-
for the coronavirus a little not allow setbacks to im- most part, NFL officials, in- grandchildren. n’t make the playoffs until
more than a week ago. pede following his dreams cluding then-Commissioner His kick has remained part its 21st season in 1987, and
The Orleans Parish coroner and aspirations,” Saints Pete Rozelle, agreed. Still, of Saints lore and for a long didn’t win a playoff game
has yet to release an offi- owner Gayle Benson said in 1977, the NFL passed time stood as one of the until the 2000 season.q