By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux & Meredith Conroy @ FiveThirtyEight.com, May 13

Democrats aren’t uniformly progressive on #MeToo issues.

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic.  Read about others here.

By Sam Roberts @ NYTimes.com, May 12

With an 8th-grade education, she emigrated to Brooklyn, where she invested her savings in real estate, rented out apartments and ran two laundromats.

Edith Richemond’s moniker in her Brooklyn neighborhood was “Big,” not in the mocking way that portly people are sometimes called “Tiny” or tall ones “Shorty,” but because of the disproportionately large heart that was assumed to beat within her diminutive frame.

But the nickname alluded not just to her giving spirit. In her tightly knit Haitian immigrant enclave in East Flatbush, she was known as much for her gumption, having arrived in New York with little money or education but with a drive to succeed.

And that she did, ending up investing in real estate and owning two laundromats. To her niece Athalie LaPamuk, her aunt was “Big” because she was also “a big deal” in her neighborhood [....]

Drs. Anthony Fauci and Robert Redfield gave a grim assessment of the months ahead, contradicting President Trump’s insistence that the nation has put the virus behind it.

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg @ NYTimes.com, May 12

[....] The officials warned of dire consequences if the nation reopens its economy too soon, noting that the United States still lacks critical testing capacity and the ability to trace the contacts of those infected.

“If we do not respond in an adequate way when the fall comes, given that it is without a doubt that there will be infections that will be in the community, then we run the risk of having a resurgence,” said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, an infectious disease expert and the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

He added that “there is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control” if the economy opens too quickly, “leading to some suffering and death that could be avoided.” [....]

Dr. Fauci told senators that a vaccine would not be ready in time for the new school year, that outbreaks in other parts of the world would surely reach the United States and that humility in the face of an unpredictable killer meant erring on the side of caution, even with children who have fared well but have recently shown new vulnerabilities.

“We are not out of the woods yet,” Dr. Redfield said, “but we are more prepared.”

The two were among four government doctors — the others were Dr. Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of food and drugs, and Adm. Brett P. Giroir, an assistant secretary for health — who testified remotely during the hearing. Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, who like Drs. Fauci, Redfield and Hahn is in quarantine after being exposed to the coronavirus, presided from his home in Maryville, Tenn. [....]

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