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Coronavirus in Texas

More Texans filed for unemployment in the last 4 weeks than all of 2019

The numbers are early — but incomplete — indicators of how dramatically and suddenly the state's economy has collapsed under social distancing orders officials issued to curb the still growing public health crisis spurred by the novel coronavirus.

Closed businesses on Austin's Sixth Street during the coronavirus pandemic on March 19, 2020.

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