Nevada received an unprecedented flood of claims following Gov. Steve Sisolak’s closure orders to slow the spread of the coronavirus. March 2020 saw the largest number of new claims since the U.S. Department of Labor started collecting the data in 1971. State officials paid three times the amount of new claimants in April than they did in March. In contrast, the third highest month for claims previously was December 2008 during the Great Recession. There were only 36,414 — a sixth of what DETR saw in March.