The effects of coronavirus on employment in the Miami area continue and are clearly evident in the May 1 unemployment rate of 11.3%. This is a drop, however, from the prior month’s level of 11.95%, and remains below the unemployment rate of 12.4% reached in August 2009. I think most people would have anticipated the effects of coronavirus on commerce would have resulted in a further increase in the May 1 number, thus this surely counts as a surprise development for those following.