N.Y. Today: New York Put Recovering Virus Patients in Hotels. Soon, 4 Were Dead.

The deaths revealed lapses in the monitoring of people sent to isolation.

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Brittainy Newman/The New York Times   New York Put Recovering Virus Patients in Hotels. Soon, 4 Were Dead. The deaths revealed lapses in the monitoring of people sent to isolation, a critical part of the city’s efforts to slow the outbreak. By Ashley Southall and Nikita Stewart

He Got Off the Table After Cancer Surgery to Take On the Virus Gov. Philip Murphy of New Jersey is skipping a restful recovery to lead the state in the crisis, even as he remains in Andrew Cuomo’s shadow. By Nick Corasaniti ‘They Want to Forget Us’: Psychiatric Hospital Workers Feel Exposed At least 30 people have died of the coronavirus at New York’s psychiatric centers, and staff members say patients and workers have not been sufficiently protected. By Danny Hakim ‘Playing Russian Roulette’: Nursing Homes Told to Take the Infected California, New Jersey and New York have made nursing homes accept Covid-19 patients from hospitals. Residents and workers fear the policy is risking lives. By Kim Barker and Amy Julia Harris those we’ve lost Mario César Romero, 78, Art Historian of East Harlem, Dies He celebrated the neighborhood’s artists, including Alice Neel and James de la Vega. By David Gonzalez those we’ve lost Fred the Godson, Nimble New York Rapper, Dies at 41 The Bronx musician was a forceful presence on mixtapes, filling his rhymes with clever punch lines. By Jon Caramanica

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