Every week for the last month, we've been hearing about millions of Americans filing for unemployment.

But not everyone who has lost a job qualifies for those benefits.

So today, we get a more clear picture of the economy.

The Labor Department's monthly report revealed 20 million jobs were erased by the pandemic just in the last month.

That's an unemployment rate of almost 15 percent.

The highest since the Great Depression.

The next job support is going to look worse than this one.

In terms of at least the unemployment rate is going to probably go up to around 20 percent.

White House economic advisor Kevin Haset said it is not over.

I think we're definitely going to be looking at at least one more month of just, you know,

catastrophically and tragically bad data.

Coming up, why even people in the healthcare industry are losing their jobs.

And the one state where anyone who wants a test can get one.

This is coronavirus daily from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. It's Friday, May 8th.

Most people who get sick with COVID-19 produce antibodies.

That is one thing we know.

But do those antibodies mean you're immune for life, like with chickenpox or measles?

Or can you get sick again, like with the common cold?

This to me is one of the big, unanswered questions that we have.

Because it really says what is the full exit strategy to this?

And how long are we going to be contending with it?

Jeffrey Shaman at Columbia University says the best case is that people who develop antibodies

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