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Ferdi German, an Army veteran and former college baseball player who worked as a subway car inspector in New York City, died on Thursday in a hospital in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 41.

The cause was the novel coronavirus, his wife, Aitza, said.

Mr. German was one of more than 6,000 workers for New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority who have fallen sick or have self-quarantined because of the virus. At least 59 have died.