Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Friday, May 15th. In today's news, the CDC puts out short reopening checklists after the White House blocks the release of substantive guidance.

Senator Richard Burr steps down as chairman of the Intelligence Committee,

while the FBI investigates his stock sales.

And an experiment shows human speech generates droplets that linger in the air for more than eight minutes. But first, the big idea.

The consequences of the coronavirus pandemic may prove more devastating than the disease itself for the

world's poorest countries as the global economy hurdles into recession.

People lose jobs by the hundreds of millions,

and the risk of hunger grows.

For now at least, COVID-19 seems to be largely a disease of the rich developed world, with 74% of the 4.4 million

cases reported worldwide occurring in North America and Europe, along with an overwhelming 85% of the deaths.

But economists and UN officials say that it is in developing countries where the vast majority

of the world's population lives

that the most damaging long-term repercussions will be felt.

International agencies have released stark figures in recent weeks

highlighting the risk that poverty and hunger could end up killing

even more people worldwide than the 40 million victims that researchers had projected would

die from the virus if no control measures were taken.

Some 1.6 billion of the world's 2 billion informal workers,

nearly half the global workforce, have already lost their jobs,

1.6 billion people.

That's according to a new report from the International Labor Organization.

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