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MADDIE MCGARVEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Large crowds turned out on Tuesday at the Franklin County Board of Elections for the first day of early voting in Columbus, Ohio.Social Distance, Civic Duty

BISMARCK, N.D. — WhenTammy Gimbel called to check onher 86-year-old father two weeksago, he sounded weak. He wasrushed to Sanford Medical Centerin North Dakota’s capital, wheredoctors said he had the coronavi-rus. But all the hospital beds inBismarck were full, his relativeswere told, and the only optionswere to send him to a hospitalhours away in Fargo, or to releasehim to be monitored by his daugh-ter, who was herself sick with thevirus.

Ms. Gimbel and her father hun-kered down in a 40-foot campingtrailer in her backyard to try to re-cover. He only got worse.

“There I sat in my camper,watching my dad shake profusely,have a 102 temperature with anoxygen level of 86,” Ms. Gimbel re-called. “I am sicker than I hadbeen the whole time, and I wantedto cry. What was I going to do?Was I going to watch my dad die?”

As President Trump returnedfrom the hospital, still tellingAmericans not to be afraid ofCovid-19, the coronavirus has ex-ploded in North Dakota. In thepast week, North Dakota reportedmore new cases per capita thanany other state. Hospitalizationsfor the virus have risen abruptly,forcing health care officials insome towns to send people to far-away hospitals, even across statelines to Montana and South Dako-ta.

Officials have huddled with hos-pital leaders in recent days to con-template ways to free up morehospital beds even as they con-tend with broader turmoil over vi-rus policy in a state that has seenresignations of three state healthofficers since the pandemic’sstart.

The rise in cases and deaths —September was by far the deadli-est month for North Dakota sincethe start of the pandemic — re-flects a new phase of the virus inthe United States. From Wiscon-sin to Montana, states in the Mid-west and Great Plains, many ofwhich had avoided large out-breaks in earlier months whencoastal cities were hard hit, areseeing the brunt. And in rural por-tions of the states now reeling,medical resources are quicklystretched thin for residents whocan live hours from large hospi-

North DakotaPushed to EdgeBy Virus Surge

By LUCY TOMPKINS

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Eddie Van Halen, whose razzle-dazzle guitar-playing — combin-ing complex harmonics, innova-tive fingerings and ingenious de-vices he patented for his instru-ment — made him the most influ-ential guitarist of his generationand his band, Van Halen, one ofthe most popular rock acts of alltime, died on Tuesday. He was 65.

Mr. Van Halen’s son, Wolfgang,said in a statement that his fatherhad “lost his long and arduous bat-tle with cancer.” The statementdid not say where he died.

Mr. Van Halen structured his

solos the way Macy’s choreo-graphs its Independence Day fire-works shows: shooting off rocketsof sound that seemed to explode ina shower of light and color. Hisoutpouring of riffs, runs and soloswas hyperactive and athletic, joy-ous and wry, making deeper ordarker emotions feel irrelevant.

“Eddie put the smile back inrock guitar at a time when it was

A Rock Original With Lightning in His FingersBy JIM FARBER

Eddie Van Halen in 2004. “I’m always pushing things past where they’re supposed to be,” he said.JOHN MUNSON/THE STAR LEDGER, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

EDDIE VAN HALEN, 1955-2020

Guitarist’s Skills Awed His Fans and Peers

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PITTSBURGH — The recruit-ers strode to the front of the room,wearing neon-yellow vests andresolute expressions. But to thehandful of tenants overwhelmedby unemployment and gang vio-lence in Northview Heights, thepitch verged on the ludicrous.

Would you like to volunteer for aclinical trial to test a coronavirusvaccine?

On this swampy-hot afternoon,the temperature of the room waswintry. “I won’t be used as a guin-ea pig for white people,” one ten-ant in the predominantly Blackpublic housing complex declared.Another said she knew of five peo-ple who had died from the flu shot.Make Trump look good? a man

scoffed — forget it. It’s safer tokeep washing your hands, stayaway from people and drink or-ange juice, a woman insisted, untilthe Devil’s coronavirus workpassed over.

Then an older woman turnedthe question back on Carla Ar-nold, a recruiter from a local out-reach group, who is well-known topeople in the Heights:

“Miss Carla, would you feelcomfortable allowing them to in-ject you?”

Ms. Arnold, 62, adjusted herseat to face them down, her eyesno-nonsense above a medicalmask.

“They already did,” she replied.The room stilled.Recruiting Black volunteers for

vaccine trials during a period ofsevere mistrust of the federal gov-ernment and heightened aware-ness of racial injustice is a formi-dable task. So far, only about 3 per-cent of the people who havesigned up nationally are Black.

Yet never has their inclusion ina medical study been more ur-gent. The economic and health im-pacts of the coronavirus are fall-ing disproportionately hard oncommunities of color. It is essen-tial, public health experts say, that

Vaccine Trials Struggle to Find Black VolunteersBy JAN HOFFMAN Encountering Fears of

Being a ‘Guinea Pigfor White People’

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After days of discord over howto address rising coronaviruscases in Orthodox Jewish areas,Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Tues-day imposed tough new restric-tions on parts of New York Cityand its northern suburbs thatwould have an especially pro-nounced impact on synagoguesand other houses of worship.

Mr. Cuomo also detailed an ar-ray of new rules that would shutdown schools, restaurants, barsand gyms in portions of Brooklynand Queens, as well as in Rock-land and Orange Counties and inBinghamton.

Mr. Cuomo’s order was in-tended to end confusion over howthe state and city governmentwould address the spreading out-break in neighborhoods with large

populations of Orthodox Jews,some of whom have flouted limitson gatherings, officials say. OnSunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio pro-posed that schools and nonessen-tial businesses in nine ZIP codesin New York City be shut down tocurb the virus.

A day later, Mr. Cuomo said hewould not approve the mayor’splan, indicating that he would of-fer his own that used different ge-ographic criteria, and noting thatthe mayor had not mentioned reli-gious institutions. On Tuesday, inannouncing his actions, Mr.Cuomo explicitly singled outhouses of worship for new capaci-ty limits, and prohibited massgatherings in certain areas wherethere are virus clusters.

Cuomo’s Tougher Virus RulesFall Heavily on Orthodox Jews

By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ and JESSE McKINLEY

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The White House that Presi-dent Trump woke up in on Tues-day morning was in full-blownchaos, even by the standards ofthe havoc of the Trump era.

Aides said the president’s voicewas stronger after his return fromthe hospital on Monday night, butat times he still sounded as if hewas trying to catch air. The WestWing was mostly empty, clearedof advisers who were out sick withthe coronavirus themselves ortold to work from home ratherthan in the capital’s most famousvirus hot spot. Staff members inthe White House residence werein full personal protective equip-ment, including yellow gowns,surgical masks and disposableprotective eye covers.

Four more White House offi-cials tested positive, includingStephen Miller, a top adviser toMr. Trump, bringing to 14 thenumber of people carrying the vi-rus at the White House or in thepresident’s close circle. Mr.Trump, found to have Covid-19last week, was still livid at hischief of staff, Mark Meadows,whose effort on Saturday to tampdown the rosy portrait of Mr.Trump’s condition given to report-ers by his chief doctor was caughton camera. Other officials wereangry with Mr. Meadows for noteven trying to control the presi-dent.

Some aides tried to project con-fidence — “We feel comfortableworking here, those of us who arestill here,” Alyssa Farah, theWhite House communications di-rector, said in an interview on FoxNews — but many saw the situa-tion as out of control. The pan-demic that Mr. Trump had treatedcavalierly for months seemed tohave locked its grip on the WhiteHouse. West Wing aides, shakenby polls showing the presidentbadly trailing Joseph R. Biden Jr.,worried that they were livingthrough the final days of theTrump administration.

The disarray was at the sametime spreading across Washing-ton. Almost the entire Joint Chiefsof Staff, including its chairman,Gen. Mark A. Milley, went intoquarantine on Tuesday after com-ing in contact with Adm. CharlesW. Ray, the vice commandant ofthe Coast Guard, who tested pos-itive for the coronavirus. Late inthe day, the stock market took adive when Mr. Trump abruptlycalled off talks for a congressionalcoronavirus relief bill after the

‘His House’ Emptiesin an Eerie Scene

By MAGGIE HABERMANand ANNIE KARNI

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WASHINGTON — Hours afterthe Federal Reserve chair, JeromeH. Powell, warned that the econ-omy could see “tragic” resultswithout robust government sup-port, President Trump abruptlycut off stimulus talks, sending thestock market sliding and deliver-ing a final blow to any chance ofgetting additional pandemic aid tostruggling Americans before theelection.

Mr. Trump, in his first full dayback at the White House after be-ing hospitalized with Covid-19,said in a series of conflicting mes-sages on Twitter that the economywas “doing very well” and “com-ing back in record numbers,” sug-gesting that no additional helpwas needed. But he also tweetedthat “immediately after I win, wewill pass a major Stimulus Billthat focuses on hardworkingAmericans and Small Business.”

The prospects for enacting an-other trillion-dollar package be-fore the election had already beendim. But Mr. Trump’s directivecarried heavy stakes both for him-self and for members of his party,making clear that it was the presi-dent himself who was unwilling tocontinue seeking an agreement.Some Republicans rushed to con-demn the move, as they preparedto face voters in less than a month.

Markets fell as the reality sankin that the economic recovery,which is slowing, would not getanother jolt anytime soon. TheS&P 500, which had begun toclimb before Mr. Trump’s an-nouncement, slid more than 1 per-cent soon afterward, and endedthe day 1.4 percent lower.

The president’s political calcu-lation in calling off talks while ne-gotiations were underway — andwhile financial markets wereopen — remained unclear, though

AS INFECTIONS JOLTWEST WING, TRUMP

ENDS TALKS ON AIDFed Chair Warns of

‘Tragic’ Slowdown

This article is by Jeanna Smialek,Emily Cochrane and Jim Tankersley.

Source: Refinitiv THE NEW YORK TIMES

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In the Sahrawi refugee settlement inAlgeria, baking workshops help createcommunity bonds. PAGE D4

FOOD D1-8

Cooking, and ChangingReinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez andRoger Penrose were awarded the NobelPrize in Physics. PAGE A16

INTERNATIONAL A14-16

3 Win for Work on Black Holes

A House report urges changing antitrustlaws to effectively break up Amazon,Apple, Facebook and Google. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-5

A Challenge to Big Tech Power“Zoom Where It Happens” holds read-ings of sitcom scripts, using all-Blackcasts, for a civic cause. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-6

Actors With Big Ideas

America’s face-to-face diplomacy withits Asian allies speaks to fears of Chi-na’s rise. PAGE A14

Pompeo’s Message in Japan

People protesting Breonna Taylor’sdeath are drawing on the city’s robusthistory of civil rights activism. PAGE A17

Inspired by Louisville’s Past The head of a family business is tryingto keep eight properties afloat despitenervous lenders and fewer travelers.He may not succeed. PAGE B1

The Many Hats of a Hotelier

Financially struggling British universi-ties beckoned students back to campus,and then locked them down. PAGE A13

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-13

Really on Their Own in U.K.Diego Schwartzman beat DominicThiem in Paris for his first Grand Slamsingles semifinal berth. PAGE B7

SPORTSWEDNESDAY B6-8

Well Worth the Five Hours

Dylan Wissing is a session drummerwith a passion for meticulously dupli-cating famous rhythms. PAGE C1

He’s Here to Keep the Beat

To be a faster, more creative cook, takea cue from restaurant chefs and rely onculinary building blocks. PAGE D1

How to Build a Better Dinner

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“We need to take away children,” for-mer Attorney General Jeff Sessions toldU.S. attorneys along the Mexico border,a draft report says. PAGE A21

NATIONAL A17-21

Pushing for Family Separation

Today, cloudy, windy, late-afternoonshowers, high 74. Tonight, clearing,windy, low 53. Tomorrow, partlysunny, windy, a bit cooler, high 65.Weather map appears on Page A22.

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