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download and watch. The

Washington Post is not reveal-

ing the naming convention that

Zoom uses, and Zoom was alert-

ed to the issue before this story

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without a password. It does not

affect videos that remain with

Zoom’s own system.

But because Zoom names ev-

ery video recording in an identi-

cal way, a simple online search

can reveal a long stream of vid-

nudity, such as one in which an

aesthetician teaches students

how to give a Brazilian wax.

Many of the videos appear to

have been recorded through

Zoom’s s oftware and saved onto

a separate online storage space

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he had a key role in revelations

that led to the impeachment. a

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BY ANTHONY FAIOLA AND

ANA VANESSA HERRERO

The body was wrapped in a

plastic tarp, swollen, already

attracting flies. He had been a

neighbor, a man Rosangelys

Valdiviezo passed while walk-

ing home from work, though

they’d never exchanged words.

now he lay in front of his

home, one of an untold number

of bodies cast out in the streets

of Guayaquil, ecuador, a swel-

tering south American city

b eing ravaged by the novel cor-

onavirus. Valdiviezo, a 30-year-

old seafood worker, said the

body had been out in the tropi-

cal heat for six days.

“I am very afraid,” Valdiviezo,

a Venezuelan migrant who

moved to Guayaquil, said by

telephone. “I’m terrified of dy-

ing so far from home.”

ecuador’s largest city, a com-

mercial center of nearly 3 mil-

lion, is emerging as the epicen-

ter of the novel coronavirus

outbreak in Latin America. In

local news accounts, videos

shared on social media and

telephone interviews, officials,

aid workers and others in the

p overty-stricken metropolis are

reporting fly-covered bodies on

sidewalks and corpses left in-

side homes for days.

ecuador confirmed its first

case of covid-19, the disease

caused by the coronavirus, on

Feb. 29: a 71-year-old ecuador-

an woman who returned to

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In Ecuador’s epicenter, bodies in the streets

BY DREW HARWELL

Thousands of personal Zoom

videos have been left openly

viewable on the Web, highlight-

ing the privacy risks to millions

of Americans as they shift many

of their personal interactions to

video calls in an age of social

distancing.

Videos viewed by The Wash-

ington Post included one-on-

one therapy sessions; a training

orientation for workers doing

telehealth calls that included

people’s n ames and phone num-

bers; small-business meetings

that included private company

financial statements; and ele-

mentary school classes, in

which children’s faces, voices

and personal details were ex-

posed.

Many of the videos include

personally identifiable informa-

tion and deeply intimate con-

versations, recorded in people’s

homes. other videos include

Thousands of

Zoom video calls

left exposed

on the Web

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Millions spent on

mask readiness

yield no help now

BY JON SWAI

In september 2018, the Trump

administration received detailed

plans for a new machine designed

to churn out millions of protec-

tive respirator masks at high

speed during a pandemic.

The plans, submitted to the

Department of Health and Hu-

man services (HHs) by medical

manufacturer o&M Halyard,

were the culmination of a venture

unveiled almost three years earli-

er by the obama administration.

But HHs did not proceed with

making the machine.

The project was one of two n

mask ventures — totaling

$9.8 million — that the federal

government embarked on over

the past five years to better pre-

pare for pandemics.

The other involves the develop-

ment of reusable masks to replace

the single-use variety currently so

scarce that medical professionals

are using theirs over and over.

expert panels have advised the

government for at least 14 years

that reusable masks were vital.

That effort, like the quick mask

machine, has not led to a single

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U.S.’s scramble to

scoop up supplies

rankles allies

BY JEANNE WHALEN,

LOVEDAY MORRIS,

TOM HAMBUR

AND TERREN MCCOY

The Trump administration’s

global scramble to secure more

protective masks for U.s. health-

care workers has sparked ten-

sions with allies including Cana-

da and Germany, which fear they

could face shortages as they battle

their own coronavirus outbreaks.

The White House late Thurs-

day ordered Minnesota mask

manufacturer 3M to prioritize

U.s. orders over foreign demand,

using its authority under the De-

fense Production Act (DPA) to try

to ease critical shortages of n

masks at U.s. hospitals.

The Trump administration had

asked 3M to stop exporting the

masks to Canada and Latin Amer-

ica, and to import more from 3M’s

factories in China, the company

said Friday.

At the same time, officials in

Berlin expressed outrage over

what they said was the diversion

to the United states of 200,

masks that were en route from

China, while officials in Brazil

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on a Jan. 15 conference call, a
leading scientist at the federal
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention assured local and
state public health officials from
across the nation that there would
soon be a test to detect a mysteri-

ous virus spreading from China.

stephen Lindstrom told them the

threat was remote and they may

not need the test his team was

developing “unless the scope gets

much larger than we anticipate,”

according to an email summariz-

ing the call.

“We’re in good hands,” a public

health official who participated in

the call wrote in the email to

colleagues.

Three weeks later, early on

Feb. 8, one of the first CDC test

kits arrived in a Federal express

package at a public health labora-

tory on the east side of Manhat-

tan. By then, the virus had

reached the United states, and

the kits represented the govern-

ment’s best hope for containing it

while that was still possible.

For hours, lab technicians

struggled to verify that the test

worked. each time, it fell short,

producing untrustworthy results.

That n ight, they called their lab

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For weeks, scientists’ alarm over flawed test grew

Bureaucratic demands,

administration’s refusal

to pivot fast led to dismay

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mourning rites: a chinese tradition

honoring the dead is curtailed. a 12

grocery altruism: a Virginia body

shop worker foots the bill for many. b

media access: a challenge to tell

stories from outside the hospitals. c

separated, but united: d.c.’s soccer

players try to keep spirits high. c

BY ARELIS R. HERNÁNDEZ

AND NICK MIROFF

SAN ANTONIO — President

Trump has used emergency pow-

ers during the coronavirus pan-

demic to implement the kind of

strict enforcement regime at the

U.s. southern border he has long

wanted, suspending laws that

protect minors and asylum seek-

ers so that the U.s. government

can immediately deport them or

turn them away.

Citing the threat of “mass, un-

controlled cross-border move-

ment,” t he president has shelved

safeguards intended to protect

trafficking victims and persecut-

ed groups, implementing an ex-

pulsion order that sends migrants

of all ages back to Mexico in an

average of 96 minutes. U.s. Bor-

der Patrol agents do not perform

medical checks when they en-

counter people crossing into the

country.

Homeland security officials

say the measures are necessary to

protect U.s. agents, health-care

workers and the general public

from the coronavirus. Tightening

controls at the border and pre-

venting potentially infected pop-

ulations from streaming into the

United states minimizes the

number of detainees in U.s. immi-

gration jails and border holding

cells.

At a time when much of the

nation is locked down, they say,

strict border controls are an es-

sential public health response, as

each unmonitored crossing po-

tentially exposes U.s. communi-

ties to what Trump has called an

“invisible enemy.”

“our nation’s top health-care

officials are extremely concerned

about the grave public health con-

sequences of mass uncontrolled

cross-border movement,” Trump

said last month in announcing

new immigration restrictions.

The border with Mexico and

the huge steel barrier the presi-

dent is building there — still

under constant construction dur-

ing the crisis — remain key cam-

paign issues for the president.

During White House briefings on

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Trump tightens

restrictions at

Mexican border

some migrant protections suspended

Amid pandemic, president implements his vision