The New York Times - USA (2020-10-10)

THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2020 Y A

In 2019, the Broadway industry’s

theaters drew 14.6 million

theatergoers and sold $1.8 billion

worth of tickets.

Broadway to Stay Dark at Least Through MayC

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The United Nations World Food

Program estimated that the

number of people experiencing

life-threatening levels of food

insecurity could more than double

this year, to 265 million.

World Food Program Is Awarded
Nobel Peace Prize for Work in PandemicA

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Of the 10 N.L. Championship Series

from 1991 through 2001, the Atlanta

Braves played in nine.

Braves at Last Return to a Place
They Once Frequented: the N.L.C.S.B

The father of the poet Louise Glück

helped invent the X-acto knife.

A Poet Who Confronts the Monsters in UsC

Bicycle fatalities in New York nearly

tripled last year, to 29, from 10 in

2018. This year, at least 14 people on
      bicycles have been killed.
      Helping Bikes and Cars Share the StreetB

• A Williams College study last year of
  18 major U.S. museums found that
  85 percent of artists in their
  collections were white and that 87
  percent were men.
  Black Trustees Form Alliance to Diversify
  Art MuseumsC


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  Peatlands make up only about 3
  percent of global land area, but
  contain roughly twice as much as
  carbon as the world’s forests.
  They’re Squishy and Pungent and an Essential
  Ingredient of Fighting Climate ChangeA

  
  

Of Interest

NOTEWORTHY FACTS FROM TODAY’S PAPER

AURÉLIA DURAND

Trump Lashes Out at His Cabinet With Calls to Indict
Political Rivals

In phone interviews, a video and a series of Twitter messages,
the president berated former Vice President Joe Biden and
his Democratic running mate, Senator Kamala Harris. He
also criticized several of his top administration officials for
not taking legal action against Mr. Biden and former Presi-
dent Barack Obama. This was Friday’s most read report.

World Food Program Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

For Work During Pandemic
The Nobel committee said the United Nations agency’s work
to combat a surge in global hunger had laid the foundations
for peace in countries ravaged by war. Last year, the program,
the largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger
internationally, assisted nearly 100 million people.

Trump’s Taxes Show He Engineered a Sudden Windfall
In 2016

New findings in The Times’s continuing investigation cast
light on the president’s financial maneuverings during a time
of fiscal turmoil, including millions in unusual payments
from his Las Vegas hotel to other Trump companies.

The Conversation

THREE OF THE MOST READ, SHARED AND DISCUSSED POSTS
FROM ACROSS NYTIMES.COM

HAYTHAM AL ACHKAR/GETTY IMAGES

This week, The Times published an article by Audra D. S.

Burch about Carl and Jesse Crawford, who are riding out the

pandemic at home with their six children. Their story is the

first in a series from the National section called Family, Inter-

rupted. On Twitter, Ms. Burch shared some details about what

she learned while reporting it; excerpts follow.

Spotlight

ADDITIONAL REPORTAGE AND REPARTEE

FROM OUR JOURNALISTS

Read about the Crawfords at nytimes.com/by/audra-d-s-burch.

So Jesse took over the household for a month, which

meant caring for and teaching the six children while

working remotely for a beauty company. In some ways,

the Crawfords capture what many American families are

facing as their home rhythms are unmoored.

As the virus spread in the early spring, the parents

decided Carl would move out of the house in Sterling,

N.Y., because he is an essential worker, a manager at a

nuclear power plant. Their greatest fear was Carl getting

sick and giving it to his family.

The Crawfords wanted to share their story about coping

with the changes imposed by the virus. Carl said: “Like

everybody else, our lives were uprooted. We have

frustrations and we are trying to deal with the unknowns.

We wanted people to know they are not alone.”

They said it was hard trying to find a way to explain to

their children something invisible and deadly. And to

somehow make the last months of the academic year

work in the kitchen or family room. And to shield against

their children’s natural inclination to socialize.

Audra D. S. Burch @abscribe

It’s inevitable. In the fall and winter your

child is likely to develop a fever, runny

nose or cough. Maybe even all three. But

now parents are bound to wonder: Are

those symptoms a sign of Covid-19?

Because the symptoms of Covid-

mimic so many other typical childhood

illnesses, it’s really hard to tell.

“Unfortunately, there is no one very

distinguishing feature,” said Eva Cheung,

a pediatric cardiologist and critical care

specialist at NewYork-Presbyterian Mor-

gan Stanley Children’s Hospital and Co-

lumbia University Medical Center.

The most common Covid-19 symptoms

in children are a cough or a fever, or both,

according to the Centers for Disease Con-

trol and Prevention. The doctors we spoke

with said they’ve often observed fever,

diarrhea or congestion in children who

have tested positive.

But there are a lot of other potential

ways that the virus presents itself in chil-

dren — symptoms can also include loss of

taste or smell, abdominal pain, headache,

sore throat and difficulty breathing. Some

of those symptoms are also signs of other

illnesses that circulate during cold and flu

season.

Some infected children won’t have any

symptoms. But it’s difficult to know what

percentage of children will be asymptom-

atic in the general population because we

don’t know the total number of children

who have had Covid-19 — many of them

may have never been tested.

While it can be challenging for parents

to identify Covid-19 symptoms from the

usual cold or the flu, the Covid-related

multisystem inflammatory syndrome, now

known as MIS-C, has more distinguishable

symptoms and characteristics. The condi-

tion, which affects children, is usually

characterized by a fever of 101 or higher

that doesn’t go away; a red rash; and

abdominal pain accompanied by diarrhea

and vomiting. The syndrome, however, is

quite rare.

Remember that “parents know their

children best,” said Meg Fisher, a pediatric

infectious disease specialist. If your child

always gets allergies this time of year, for

example, then it’s probably safe to assume

that’s what’s causing her runny nose. But

if your child’s symptoms seem out of the

ordinary, it’s best to talk to your child’s

pediatrician. CHRISTINA CARON

Here to Help

HOW TO DECODE A CHILD’S COLD SYMPTOMS THIS YEAR

IRENE RINALDI

Fat Bear Week, which pits the pre-hiber-
nation brown bears of Katmai National
Park in Alaska in a well-rounded com-
petition, has come to an end, with bear
747 crowned the most corpulent con-
testant. He’ll celebrate with months and
months of unconsciousness, which
sounds pretty good right about now.

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“He was like a master

chess player who used

his brain to take the

bat right out of my

hands.”

WALT DROPO,a former Red Sox first
baseman, recalling what it was like to
face Whitey Ford in the book “Bomb-
ers.”

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