Wednesday morning, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell revealed a devastating news statistic.

In households where people make less than $40,000 a year, more than a third lost a job in March.

While we're all affected, the burden has fallen most heavily on those least able to bear it.

He warned more layoffs and bankruptcies are possible.

The scope and speed of this downturn are without modern precedent, significantly worse than any recession since World War II.

And the number of people who have been killed by coronavirus, more than 83,000 confirmed so far,

is probably an undercount.

Most of us feel that the number of deaths are likely higher than that number because

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday, especially in the New York City area.

There may have been people who died at home who did have COVID, who were not counted as COVID,

because they never really got to the hospital.

Coming up, anti-mask protests in a major American city, more than a century ago,

and the arguments over reopening in professional sports.

This is coronavirus daily from NPR. I'm Kelly McEvers. It's Wednesday, May 13.

Across the country, how you feel about reopening seems to depend more and more on your politics.

The people want to go back. The numbers are getting to a point where they can.

And it just seems to be no effort on certain blue states to get back into gear.

And the people aren't going to stand for it. They want to get back to the country.

Increasingly, President Trump defines the issue more as a political argument,

than as a public health discussion.

He suggested, for instance, that blue state governors are delaying reopening to hurt him politically.

And I will tell you, you look at some cases, some people think they're doing it for politics.

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