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NEW YORK - NEW YORK - FOX 5 NY is updating this blog with the latest developments on the coronavirus outbreak so you can get the information in one spot.
11:08 PM: Department store chains all across the nation are facing a grim economic forecast as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, with experts predicting many stores to close.
10:44 PM: Johns Hopkins University is planning to cut salaries and expecting to furlough and lay off employees because of multimillion-dollar losses arising from the pandemic.
10:14 PM: The head of a government agency combating the coronavirus pandemic alleged Wednesday that he was ousted for opposing politically connected efforts to promote a malaria drug that President Donald Trump touted without proof as a remedy for COVID-19.
9:48 PM: Publishing company Penguin Random House announced it has donated 750,000 books to First Book, an education nonprofit dedicated to bringing books to students in need amid school closures due to COVID-19.
9:23 PM: With all American major sports shut down for more than a month because of the coronavirus pandemic, American sportsbooks say they expect this year's NFL draft to be the most bet on ever.
8:54 PM: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that will temporarily halt the issuance of certain green cards as he uses the coronavirus pandemic to push long-stalled immigration measures during an election year.
8:36 PM: Many Anericans are wary of reopenings as some US states loosen rules amid coronavirus pandemic
7:30 PM: Eventbrite removes an anti stay-at-home protest event scheduled for May in Canada.
7:18 PM: President Donald Trump says he told Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp that he "disagreed strongly" with Kemp's decision to begin allowing some nonessential businesses to reopen soon.
6:08 PM: The British government is being criticised for responding slowly to the coronavirus pandemic; Britain's chief medical adviser warns that social distancing may have to stay in place for the rest of this year and beyond.
6:04 PM: The CDC offers instructions on how to make face coverings using a T-shirt, a bandana, and one that requires stitching; remider: don't try to sanitize your mask in the microwave.
5:36 PM: Google's security team identifies more than a dozen government-backed malicious groups using COVID-19-related themes for phishing and hacking.
5:22 PM: The NYPD held a funeral for Traffic Section Commander Mohammed Chowdhury, who died Sunday.
5:09 PM: Notify NYC sends an alert with a resource for people who have lost their job: "If you're unemployed due to COVID-19 & have questions about benefits, visit https://access.nyc.gov/faq-for-pandemic-unemployment-benefits/"
5:06 PM: A new Nebraska website designed ramp up coronavirus testing logged about 20,000 new registrations on its first day.
5:04 PM: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus brushes off calls to resign and says he hopes the U.S. will restore funding.
5:01 PM: American Hotel and Lodging Association says that 15,000-plus hotels and motels in the U.S. are offering rooms for emergency and health care workers.
4:50 PM: Snohomish County, Wash., Sheriff Adam Fortney says he won’t enforce Gov. Jay Inslee's stay-at-home order.
4:45 PM: A hospital in Tokyo says 8 young children at its affiliated infant home have contracted the new coronavirus while showing no visible symptoms.
4:30 PM: The emergency department staff at Saint Joseph's Medical Center in Yonkers, N.Y., are working around the clock to help patients with COVID-19; this report showcases their efforts on a recent day.
4:01 PM: Striking photos from across the world show how coronavirus lockdowns have drastically decreased air pollution amounts over different metropolitan areas.
3:37 PM: Health commissioner Judith Persichilli says that the state is currently reporting its lowest percentage of people on ventilators.
3:27 PM: Murphy says he will continue to advocate for a bill providing federal funds directly to states in order to prevent dire cuts that will make recovery even more difficult.
3:25 PM: Murphy says he will sign legislation requiring hospitals to report to the Department of Health demographic and racial data for all individuals who have tested positive for coronavirus.
3:23 PM: Murphy says that the state’s Office of Emergency Management received a shipment of an additional 500 ventilators.
3:18 PM: Murphy says that New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are working together on a contact tracing program.
3:12 PM: Murphy says that the people must be prepared for the spike in new cases that will come when the state does reopen.
3:07 PM: New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy says that the curve in the state is beginning to flatten and thanks residents for their work observing social distancing.
3:06 PM: Murphy says that another 3,551 people have tested positive for coronavirus in New Jersey, bringing the state's total to 95,865. Another 314 people also died from the virus, bringing the state's death toll from COVID-19 to 5,063.
3:04 PM: New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is holding his daily press conference on the state’s coronavirus response. https://www.fox5ny.com/live
3:03 PM: Two pet cats in New York state have tested positive for the coronavirus, marking the first confirmed cases in companion animals in the United States, federal officials said Wednesday.
2:54 PM: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announces an easing up on the prohibition of elective surgeries.
2:45 PM: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's plan to start opening the economy is facing hurdles: the state is struggling to increase testing for new coronavirus infections and boost tracking of those in contact with infected people.
2:39 PM: Two pet cats in New York state have tested positive for the coronavirus; the feds say these are the first pets in the U.S. to have confirmed cases.
2:31 PM: U.N. General Assembly rejects two resolutions, one from Russia and one from Saudi Arabia, on the coronavirus pandemic.
2:30 PM: Several fire departments are urging the public to never microwave masks or other face coverings because of the fire hazard; the FDNY says that thankfully its firefighters haven't had to deal with any fires related to this yet.
2:08 PM: The Connecticut town of Westport is testing drones that can monitor the temperature, breathing and health rates.
2:01 PM: AP-NORC poll: Majority of Americans say it's unlikely it will be safe enough to lift virus restrictions anytime soon.
12:37 PM: Cuomo ends coronavirus briefing.
12:36 PM: State official: $2.8 billion has been spent on COVID, half of that in New York City.
12:34 PM: Cuomo asked about nursing homes having issues getting ppes, fire houses: Whatever we have we distribute. We ask the federal government for ppes. This is madness that we are wholey dependent on China.
12:33 PM: Cuomo: Now is not the time to put your mother in a nursing home.
12:30 PM: Cuomo asked about costs of tracing: There is $1.3 billion from the federal government for tracing for New York.
12:26 PM: Cuomo asked about protesters outside who want to get back to work. Their point is the cure can't be worse than the illness. The illness is death. How can the cure be worse than illness if the illness is death? Economic hardship, very bad, not death. You have a responsibility to me. It's not all about you, its about me, too. We are moving heaven and earth to get the unemployment payments going.
12:23 PM: Cuomo asked when tracing will start: Tracing is starting now. On the 40,000 testing, testing is going on now. We have ramped up faster than anybody else.
12:21 PM: Cuomo asked about nursing home cases not having room for patients and having to take back COVID patients: The state doesn't run a nursing home. It's run by a private corporation. The Acme corporation says you should bring your mother to the best nursing home in the world. The nursing home gets paid for their service. They take care of senior people. We set a regulatory framework to do it. If they can't do it, they should say, I can't do it, then we'll help you did another facility for your mother. It's their patient, you have to take care of them with the COVID. If they can't , we'll make other accommodations. Any nursing home that says we can't do it, we'll take care of them.
12:15 PM: Cuomo asked about reopening schools in upstate: I don't know how you open businesses without opening schools. To say we're not going to open businesses until June, I'm not there yet. Plus, we're trying to coordinate with Jersey and Connecticut. Schools will not open until we say schools will open. Period. New sentence. Opening schools is very difficult. I wouldn't open schools unless I knew they were disinfected, that they had a protocol to disinfect, that they had a protocol for social distancing. That is a very big undertaking.Could you say north country schools are going to open with all those provisos, yes. You can argue those are isolated decisions.
12:14 PM: Cuomo asked about numbers at nursing homes: We are working on that number.
12:04 PM: Cuomo asked about NYC's effort to test and trace: It will all be coordinated. There is no tracing that can work in one jurisdiction. You cannot trace someone inside the boundaries of NYC. If that person goes outside the boundaries of NYC, goes to Westchester, take me. I live in Westchesterr. You (NYC) can't trace me in Westchester. We'll coordinate everyone. We are all going to do it. CIty, state, Nassau, Suffolk, Jersey, Connecticut. Michael Bloomberg will design the program and design the training. He'll put together an organization to hire the people. You have weeks to get this up and running. Super ambitious undertaking. Mayor Bloomberg will help coordinate the entire effort.
Melissa DeRosa: Johns Hopkins through Michael Bloomber is helping us coordinate with all the counties and NJ and Connecticut.
Cuomo: You will trace as many positives as you can. You will be identifying more people than you can trace. You do the best you can. For every person you isolate, that's one less person infecting people.
12:03 PM: Gov. Cuomo takes questions from reporters.
12:00 PM: Don't make decisions under political pressure. I get the political pressure that local officials are under. We can't make a bad decision. Frankly, this is not time to act stupidly. I've said that numerous times to local officials. I know people want out. I also know more people will die if we're not smart. Blame the governor. Local laws can't counter state laws anyway. Listen to this quote: "When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then they ceased to be free." It's a quote by Edith Hamilton. To advocate for total responsibility, not here, not now.
11:57 AM: Cuomo: Today is Earth Day. In Afridan American communities, they have three time the asthma rate, respiratory illness rate, they have a higher rate of coronavirus.
11:54 AM: Cuomo: New York City has about 200 tracers. SUNY and CUNY, we will draw from medical students.
11:51 AM: Cuomo: Mayor Michael Bloomberg has volunteered to develop and implement the tracing program. He was the mayor of New York for three terms. He has tremendous insight governmentally and private sector knowledge. We thank him very much for taking it on. It will be coordinated as downstate and tri-state. I live in Westchester but I work in New York City, all these interconnections, you can't do it just within your own county. You will run into people who are cross-jurisdictional. Work together.
11:49 AM: Cuomo: We've been talking about testing, tracing and isolating. We've stated as our goal to go to 40,000 testing a day. We have about 300 labs that we regulate. That's the maximum capacity. That's where we set the goal because we need to. I'd rather set the bar high and try to get there and whatever we get we get. The tracing is a very big deal. Once you trace you find more positives and you isolate the positives. This entire operation has never been done before.
11:42 AM: Cuomo: In this moment, truth and facts, that's how we operate here in the State of New York. That has to guide our actions, period. We had a productive meeting at the White House yesterday. TO me a productive meeting means we spoke truths, we spoke facts and we have a plan going forward. I feel good about it personally. It's what should have happened. These are people in the White House who do not like me. The President has tweeted unkind things about me and my brother. That was put aside because who really cares how I feel or how he feels? We're not setting up a possible marriage here. The meeting was very good. We talked about testing and state funding. All the governors are saying we have to have funding from Washington. The President says he gets it. He will work on it in the next stimulus. Congress has passed stimulus for hospitals, and that's a good thing. They leave and they come back but this is not the time for baby steps. Your action should be proportionate to the problem, but it wasn't. The President also agreed to waive the state match for FEMA. Paying FEMA 25 percent of costs. That would be cruel to NY. How ironically cruel to penalize us for having the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country. That's a very big deal.
11:41 AM: Cuomo: Hospitalization numbers, intubations are going down. The number of people going into the hospital is still high. The numbers of lives lost is the worst news I have to give. 474 lives lost.
11:37 AM: Cuomo: Today is day 53. It's day 53 since this nightmare started. In the past, we've dealt with intense situations. 53 days is nothing. But that's across the board. People without pay checks coming in. That is a pressure. Families locked up, that's stressful. In our house, even the dog, Captain, is out of sorts. Captain doesn't like the boyfriend. It's nothing I said. It's a terrible period of time. I get it. But we are in a better place. The really bad news would have been if we could not control the spread of the virus. That was a possibility.
11:36 AM: NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo holds daily coronavirus briefing at this link. Watch LIVE now: https://fox5ny.com/live
11:29 AM: From the NYC Office of Emergency Management: DOE families: Get your remote learning device by 4/30. Complete the survey by 4/23: schools.nyc.gov or 718-935-5100 & choose option “5.”
11:14 AM: De Blasio ends briefing.
11:12 AM: De Blasio: We understand that this is going to take time. We can build this apparatus, this huge apparatus. We have to build the biggest, strongest apparatus we can during the month of May. And we need to keep the pressure on Washington to get the support we need. Let us pray that the testing supply becomes stronger so it reaches hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. I express my appreciation to all my fellow New Yorkers.
11:07 AM: De Blasio asked about door-to-door testing at NYCHA and why weren't NYCHA residents prioritized earlier: We just didn't have the personnel or the testing in the beginning. From the city perspective, we were focused on saving lives and the way to save lives was to keep the hospitals open. To keep the hospitals open, we had to protect our workers. We had to ensure we had enough ppes and ventilators. Those hospitals served NYCHA residents. Everything was this last line of defense. The notion of having the ppes, the kits, would have been impossible just a couple of weeks ago.
10:57 AM: Dr. Varma asked how many people will be tested? Are they immediately put into isolation? For De Blasio, asked if he can describe why NYC is different from other towns that have allowed 'open streets? The models that have been looked at around the country, streets that are pedestrian, they are not blocked off physically and there's not enforcement. In California, drivers stop at intersections. This is a very different culture. Many of raised the question about speeding lately. I'm not comfortable with streets just for pedestrians. Police have social distancing to enforce. We are much more densely populated and we have a different driving culture. It cannot be devoted to open streets.
Dr. Varma: I the beginning we will focus on the hardest hit communities. As we build more testing capacity, we intend to make use of it for all New Yorkers.
10:51 AM: De Blasio asked how many people will be employed for the Test and Trace program: 5-10,000 would not surprise me at all.
De Blasio asked about what is the point of isolation at hotels: The people you spend the most time with it can spread to them.
10:47 AM: De Blasio asked about union for EMTS, paramedics wanting a pay raise for members: We have been supplying them with protective gear, military personnel to support the hospitals, hundreds of ambulances from outside, to take some of the burden off them. I think that Senator Schumer is right. There should be money for first responders in the next federal stimulus bill that is voted in May. Our heroes deserve that. The notion we can honor everyone, healthcare workers will appreciate that.
10:45 AM: De Blasio asked about the 50,000 ppes promised from Aria, others. Where do we stand with ppe?: Most of the supply from Aria has come in. This is the first week where we have a supply that we could have a community-based approach.
10:41 AM: De Blasio asked about why testing didn't happen sooner: We didn't have anywhere near the testing capacity. We cannot forget that two weeks ago we thought we were going to go into a massive ascent and it was going to take more and more testing just to save the lives of frontline workers. It's only been in the last couple of weeks that we have begun to come down from that situation. I am hopeful these pieces keep coming together. There has to be a sustained supply of testing to do that.
We will have an announcement shortly about expanded telemedicine options and grassroots outreach. We want to engage those clinics for actual, on the ground work.
10:40 AM: De Blasio asked what the city is doing to prepare for summer: We are developing a plan. We still don't know what we're confronting. Whatever we do has to be with a health and safety focus. We will announce a plan on how we will begin with the warmer weather. We have to protect people who want to go to beaces even if they're closed. We do need a process to protect people during heat waves. We can do that even with social distancing. This plan is something we will talk about in the next few weeks.
10:37 AM: De Blasio asked about cost in putting on fireworks display worth the time? Macy's has furloughed thousands of employees. Macy's is a huge company that's been hit with a financial blow. We are going to find a version of this that is safe and limit other things around it. It's a sacred day. It's part of our effort to fight back, but to do it in a different way. It's very generous and patriotic of Macy's to do this. It will take not cost a lot of money.
10:35 AM: De Blasio asked how will all three indicators go down at the same time for weeks at a time? This was created knowing that it was possible. We didn't want to make the mistake of reopening and letting the disease back. Absolutely, these are attainable measures. If you saw ICUs and people admitted starting to go up that would not be the time to enact these measures.
10:28 AM: De Blasio asked about the testing and city not having the capacity to test so many people. Is it impossible to succeed? I would say that it is like any other moment in history, to borrow from Apollo 13, failure is not an option. It's the only way out of the current situation we are in. Shelter in place alone won't get us there. You're seeing the glass half empty. We are looking to a day when results come back more quickly. This model is based on speedy test results. There is more and more work being done on that front across the country.
As for contact tracing, we saw it in the case of the lawyer in New Rochelle, it is finite. That kind of tracing we can do. We didn't think we had enough hospital beds, and military personnel working in hospitals, we had to innovate.
Dr. Jay Varma: Close contact is physical contact: hug, kiss or spent prolonged time with patient. Prolonged contact is 15 minutes or longer.
10:24 AM: De Blasio asked how the ticker-tape parade can happen with people standing next to each other? Reporter says she called 311 about senior food delivery, she was told that the senior needs to call back to place another order after receiving order days earlier. That is something that we will improve. I want to ensure that the food supply is constant. I don't want it to be time-limited like that. It was created that way because they were building up the food distribution system. But we have to go with the bias that this is ongoing. You should see that in the coming days.
On the parades, we don't know when that time will be. It will mean that we have to have a much different environment. I mean a parade that people can come out and celebrate. It works because everyone has to come together. When that day comes, it will be indicative that we went out of widespread transmission and into low-level transmission and that we have very few cases.
10:23 AM: De Blasio makes statement in Spanish and then takes questions from reporters.
10:21 AM: De Blasio: For the daily number admitted to hospitals for COVID-19 at 252 from 204 as of April 19. Daily number in ICUs went down 821 from 857. Number who tested positive citywide went down to 33 percent; and at the public labs the number went down to 54 percent. Real progress.
10:19 AM: De Blasio: The question came up yesterday about the Fourth of July. How are we going to do that? There is no day like the Fourth of July. We have to mark it. So I reached out to the CEO of Macy's. I said to Jeff, look, we may not be able to do it they way we have but we should mark the day. Jeff said we want to do that, too. One way or another, the show will go on. One way or another we are going to celebrate the Fourth of July in New York City. There will be fireworks. We have to do it a way that is safe and smart. This is a day we cannot miss.
MORE: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/nyc-will-celebrate-july-4th-with-fireworks-mayor-says
10:16 AM: De Blasio: Finally, a lot of seniors feel particularly isolated. There are so many seniors who do not have access to technology. We are making a $5 million investment to 10,000 seniors in NYCHA to provide them with tablets and internet service. Thank you to T-Mobile.
10:13 AM: We have to make sure NYCHA residents get more support in terms of supplies. Face coverings and gloves for all NYCHA residents starting next week. Hand sanitizer for all seniors. Third, we're going to focus on hunger. 100s of thousands of New Yorkers have lost their jobs. No New Yorker will go hungry. Going to 311, nyc.gov/getfood. We are going to do a special effort around NYCHA buildings and senior buildings. We are going to do something different for senior buildings. We are going to provide the meals right to their doors. Fourth, we are going to be calling to seniors and those most vulnerable to see what care they may need.
10:08 AM: De Blasio: It's deeply unfair its hitting hardest where people have the least income and least healthcare. We're going to devote more testing to the hardest hit areas. One of the groups we are most concerned about is our 400,000 New Yorkers who live in NYCHA buildings. These are folks who are the backbone of our city and fight through such tough odds all the time. A lot of people are living in buildings that have not got the kind of maintenance they deserve.
MORE TESTING FOR NYCHA RESIDENTS
Opening this Friday: H&H Community Testing Sites:
Cumberland Health Center, Crown Heights
Belvis Health Center, Mott Haven
Governeur Health Center, Lower East Side
Opening Next Week: NYCHA Testing Sites:
Jonathan Williams Houses, Williamsburg
Woodside Houses, Woodside
St. Nicholas Houses, Harlem
10:05 AM: De Blasio: Too often we have been left to fend for ourselves. We will set up this entire apparatus. We will creat this. But we won't have the quantity if the other pieces don't come together. This will be growing through May. I can't give you the exact day when we get to low-level transmission. It's a function on how much we do testing. We are going to build a very aggressive effort. We are going to need you to be part of this effort.
10:00 AM: De Blasio: You want to know the second you get a positive test. We could be talking about 10s of thousands of people in isolation. We will keep expanding. It is the only way we protect people. We will provide transportation to the hotels. We have to provide food. We have to provide laundry services, just the basics. Obviously, we have to provide healthcare. Every day we drive back the disease, more and more healthcare workers can be driven to this- the isolation sites. We are going to use telemedicine. All those pieces are not in place today, but they will be in place next month.
9:58 AM: De Blasio: The tracing is tracking down each and every individual who has tested positive and every single person you have had close contact with. Imagine it just happening over and over again. That's how we restrict this virus. We can see every single person who has the coronavirus at that time.
9:55 AM: De Blasio: Testing: it's widely available, plenty of sites, plenty of tests. If you test negative, you will get instructions for moving forward and continue to follow smart precautions. If you test positive, then we get you care right away. If you can't isolate at home, we get you a hotel room. We put care in place. Once you're done with the disease, you can go back to your regular life.
9:54 AM: De Blasio: We want to find a way to expand production locally and find every other source around the world and get the help from the federal government. We will then need, more and more sites to do the testing. We are identifying public sites all over the city. Every day the number of cases declines, the possibility of doing that gets greater. We still have work todo. We see progress.
9:52 AM: De Blasio: The plan is called Test and Trace. The test has to be plentiful and it is our job to make it accessible everywhere. If something happens to you, how will affect the rest of your friends, family, co-workers, we are going to lay it out to you.
9:48 AM: De Blasio: Today I am going to give you an update on testing and tracing contacts. A few days ago we talked about the phases of this disease. We are in the wide-spread transmission phase. The next phase is called low-level transmission. To get to low-level transmission you need a huge amount of testing. As many as 100s of thousands of tests per day for whoever needs it when they need it. You can isolate the, quarantine them and then help all those people as well. We have to be ready.
9:47 AM: De Blasio: We can change this situation if we get the help we need for testing. A whole world of possibilities is going to open up. It will give us more power to push on to the next phase, that new reality, when things really do start to get better.
9:45 AM: De Blasio: One of the most challenging parts of this is that there is so much we just don't know. All of us are asking if we have contracted the virus or are we exposing others to it. Where we have had community transmission. We haven't had the difference maker: testing.
9:44 AM: Mayor Bill de Blasio holds daily coronavirus briefing at this link: https://fox5ny.com/live
9:33 AM: First Lady Tammy Murphy: The fund has distributed to 108 food pantries in 20 counties. The bulk was spent in COVID areas. www.njPRF.org to donate. We have one donor who is underwriting all administrative costs. Every dollar that comes in online is going to the fund. HQTrivia is partnering with the fund. For every player tonight they are donating $1.
9:32 AM: First Lady Tammy Murphy: The NJ Pandemic Relief Fund was set up four weeks ago by private individuals, conscientious citizens and through pro-bono work from blue-chip companies. Jersey 4Jersey airs tonight on My9 at 7 p.m.
9:29 AM: NJ First Lady Tammy Murphy previews tonight's 'Jersey 4Jersey' benefit for the NJ Pandemic Relief Fund during Good Day New York. Watch: https://fox5ny.com/live
8:41 AM: The embattled Louisiana pastor who made headlines for flouting social distancing measures and was arrested Tuesday after being accused of nearly running over a protester with a bus is asking congregants and other Americans to donate their stimulus checks to his church.
8:32 AM: New York State & New York City Stats
· New York State: 258,589 cases; 19,118 deaths
· New York City: 144,190 cases; 14,887 deaths
8:20 AM: The novel coronavirus has mutated into at least 30 different genetic variations, according to a new study in China. The results showed that medical officials have vastly underestimated the overall ability of the virus to mutate, in finding that different strains have affected different parts of the world, leading to potential difficulties in finding an overall cure.
MORE: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/coronavirus-has-mutated-into-at-least-30-different-strains-study-finds
7:29 AM: U.S. equity futures are pointing to a higher open, the day after stocks suffered another nasty plunge. The major futures indexes are indicating a rise of 1 percent when trading begins on Wednesday.
MORE: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/stock-futures-rise-despite-oil-market-turmoil
7:00 AM: Watch 'Good Day New York' at this LINK: https://fox5ny.com/live
6:55 AM: President Donald Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida is temporarily laying off 153 workers because of the new coronavirus, according to a notice posted this week to a state website.
MORE: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/trumps-mar-a-lago-furloughs-153-servers-cooks-amid-coronavirus-pandemic
6:34 AM: A snapshot of your commute this morning:
6:00 AM: Roughly 1.2 million U.S. citizens did not receive stimulus checks because they are married to immigrants who don’t have social security numbers and joint-filed their taxes. David Hessell-Cercado, 51, is one of those who didn’t receive a $1,200 government-relief check because his husband does not have a social security number.
MORE: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/people-missing-out-on-stimulus-checks-because-spouses-are-immigrants