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MINNEAPOLIS – An autopsy com-missioned by George Floyd’s familydetermined that “asphyxiation fromsustained pressure” was the cause ofFloyd’s death in an incident that hassparked tense protests and violenceacross the nation.

Dr. Michael Baden and Dr. AlleciaWilson performed the autopsy and saidthere was “neck and back compressionthat led to a lack of blood flow to thebrain,” Floyd family attorney BenjaminCrump said Monday. They added that“weight on the back, handcuffs and po-sitioning were contributory factors be-cause they impaired the ability of Mr.Floyd’s diaphragm to function.”

Floyd, 46, died May 25 after a Min-neapolis police officer knelt on his neckfor several minutes while he was hand-cuffed, crying that he couldn’t breathe.

Floyd’s brother Terrence urged Min-neapolis on Monday to keep his memo-ry alive but to protest in a peacefulmanner. He chastised those responsi-ble for violence and looting. “My family

Floydfamilycalls forpeaceSecond autopsycites asphyxiationas cause of deathLorenzo Reyes and Trevor HughesUSA TODAY

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Mourners gather Monday at the sitewhere George Floyd died onMemorial day outside a market inMinneapolis. JACK GRUBER/USA TODAY

In Wake Forest, North Carolina, atown of about 40,000 near Raleigh, asweeping national survey of COVID-19symptoms has exposed a staggeringethnic divide.

Nearly two-thirds of Wake Forest’sHispanic homes surveyed reportedsuffering the combination of symp-toms most closely tied to the corona-virus, compared with less than 1% ofeveryone else.

The survey by a marketing researchcompany is believed to be the largestmeasurement of symptoms of thevirus. Since March, 1.6 million peoplehave answered the basic question: Isanyone in your home experiencing

Latinos report high rateof COVID-19 symptomsNew data points towidening disparities

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“We’re forced to go

out and work and risk

getting infected.” Michael Torres, Wake Forest, North CarolinaSee HISPANICS, Page 2A

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Should we tell the children? How?Those are among the questions

parents across the nation are askingafter the deaths of George Floyd,Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor.Many white parents wonder whether totalk with their kids at all; parents ofcolor swallow their grief and fear to have“the talk” once again.

These deaths are part of a morecomplex story, one some parents havebeen telling for generations, and othershave long felt they’ve had the luxury toignore. Experts in child psychology saythese conversations are essential for allparents, and they underscore that thereare developmentally appropriate waysto talk to children of all ages about rac-ism in America.

“Silence will not protect you or them,”said Beverly Daniel Tatum, a psycholo-gist and author of, “Why Are All TheBlack Kids Sitting Together in theCafeteria? And Other ConversationsAbout Race.” “Avoiding the topic is not asolution.”

Racism persists, experts say, in partbecause of an unwillingness to have dif-ficult conversations.

“One of the most important things toremember is that you may not have allthe answers, and that is OK,” saidErlanger Turner, a clinical psychologistand professor at Pepperdine Universitywho studies mental health among racialcommunities.

USA TODAY asked Tatum and Turnerfor their advice on talking to children inthis time of national upheaval:

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Resources for parents❚ For books dealing with topics on social justice: Social Justice Booksvia socialjusticebooks.org

❚ For teenagers dealing with policeshootings: “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas

❚ For young children (ages 4-8):“Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice” by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collinsand Ann Hazzard; “A Terrible ThingHappened,” by Margaret Holmes; “Daddy Why Am I Brown?: A HealthyConversation About Skin Color andFamily” by Bedford F. Palmer.

❚ Especially useful for white parents:“Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America” by Jennifer Harvey

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Floyd. Arbery. Taylor. Racism.What do we tell our children?

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symptoms ranging from a dry cough todifficulty breathing?

Across the nation, Hispanic house-holds said yes to symptoms of COVID-19– the lung disease caused by the virus –nearly a third more often than others, aUSA TODAY analysis found.

When the list of symptoms is nar-rowed to what the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention recently identi-fied as the most serious pairs ofailments – dry cough and difficultybreathing, or fever and loss of taste orsmell – the differences were far starker:Hispanics experienced them almosttwice as often.

Overall, 1 in 12 Hispanic householdssaid someone in their home experi-enced those combinations at least oncefrom late March to late May, comparedwith 1 in 21 non-Hispanic households.

Data catching up with reality

Those findings made perfect sense toClarissa Martínez de Castro, deputy vicepresident of the nation’s largest Latinononprofit advocacy group, UnidosUS.

“Data is now emerging that matchesthe reality that we’re seeing,” Martínezde Castro said. “There are lots of factorsat play, but among the biggest is theoverrepresentation of Latinos in front-line jobs that don’t allow working fromhome.”

The gap between Hispanics and therest of the population is even wider inthe symptoms data than in confirmedcoronavirus case counts across 33states that break down their tallies byrace and ethnicity, USA TODAY’s analy-sis found.

That was true in the Wake Forestarea, too, where the proportion of His-panics reporting symptoms far exceedstheir showing in coronavirus casecounts both locally and statewide.Roughly a 10th of Wake County andNorth Carolina residents are Hispanic,but they account for a quarter of cases inthe county and a third of cases acrossthe state, according to Wake Countyspokeswoman Leah Holdren.

The grim picture “has only magnifiedhealth inequities that we have beenaware of for a long time,” said JoseCabanas, Wake County’s director ofemergency medical services.

“When I meet with patients in ourcommunity, it’s clear that their jobsmake it difficult for them to social-distance,” Cabanas said. “Add to that alanguage barrier, the need to provideshelter for large families and it ends upbeing hard to follow official recommen-dations.”

People of color hit hard

As the pandemic progresses, evi-dence is mounting that the virus has hitpeople of color the hardest for reasonsranging from chronic health problems toservice sector jobs. The symptoms sur-vey, however, offers a unique windowinto the hidden prevalence of COVID-19,public health experts said.

USA TODAY analyzed the responses,through an agreement that kept nameskept private, from a COVID-19 SymptomMap created by Dynata, an internationaldata and market research company. Dy-nata said the goal is to leverage the com-pany’s strength – the reach of 62 millionconsumers worldwide recruited to re-spond to its surveys – to help “solve the

biggest challenge of our time.”The symptoms data may offer a more

complete picture of the virus’s true toll,said Daniel Lòpez-Cevallos, associateprofessor of Latino/a/x Studies, EthnicStudies and Health Equity Studies atOregon State University.

The gap between symptoms reportedand cases, he said, suggests Latinosmay be less likely to seek testing for rea-sons that include mistrust in health caresystems. In Latino homes where somefamily members are undocumented,add to that a fear of being reported toand monitored by government agencies.

“We have already seen that the con-sequence of all these barriers is delayingcare until it is absolutely necessary,”Lòpez-Cevallos said. “That same logicapplies here.”

Wake Forest resident Michael Torres,18, his parents and his 12-year-old sisterhave managed to stay healthy so far. Buthe’s worried. Like many of the otherHispanics in the area, his family hasn’thad the luxury of working from home

during the pandemic.Since the remainder of his senior

year of high school was canceled in mid-March, Torres has been working fulltime with his father in his painting andconstruction business to help pay thebills. His mother, a hairstylist, has beenout of work for two months.

“I realized this is serious, and this ishow life is going to be,” Torres said.“There’s no more waking up and goingto the bus, seeing your friends at school,doing assignments every day. Now theonly reason to get up early is to work andtry to support my family.”

Torres thinks about catching the vi-rus each time he and his father go to ajob or the store to pick up materials. Hismother is nervous about returning towork, lest she falls ill and infects othersback at home.

That Hispanic families in Wake For-est have reported serious symptoms at amuch higher rate than non-Hispaniccame as no surprise to Torres.

“We don’t really have a choice,” he

said. “Most of the Latinx community areundocumented and work in construc-tion. We can’t get money from the gov-ernment. We can’t get help, basically.We’re forced to go out and work and riskgetting infected.”

The rate of serious symptom pairs re-ported by Hispanics exceeded the non-Hispanic rate in every U.S. state exceptWyoming, the survey data show. Bothrates have decreased since the surveybegan and started to plateau in recentweeks, but the Hispanic rate remainsmore than twice as high.

Ultimately, the plight of Latinos inthe U.S. needs to be addressed if onlybecause it is inextricably linked to thefate of the nation as a whole, saysPriscilla González, campaigns directorat Mijente, a national social justiceorganization.

“We are only as strong as the mostvulnerable among us. If the world wantsa full recovery, we need relief for com-munities that are hardest hit,” Gonzálezsaid.

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WASHINGTON – A deeply dividedSupreme Court refused Friday night toallow churches in California and Illinoisto reopen amid the coronavirus pan-demic with more worshippers thanstate plans permit.

Chief Justice John Roberts, who castthe deciding vote in the more conse-quential California case announced justbefore midnight, said choosing when tolift restrictions during a pandemic is thebusiness of elected officials, not un-elected judges. He was joined in the voteby the court’s four liberal justices.

Roberts, the only one of the five to ex-plain his vote, compared in-personchurch services to other forms of as-sembly. His conservative colleagueswho dissented compared the services tosecular businesses.

“Although California’s guidelinesplace restrictions on places of worship,

those restrictions appear consistentwith the Free Exercise Clause of theFirst Amendment,” Roberts wrote.“Similar or more severe restrictions ap-ply to comparable secular gatherings,including lectures, concerts, movieshowings, spectator sports, and theat-rical performances, where large groupsof people gather in close proximity for

extended periods of time.”Writing for three of the four conser-

vative justices who dissented, Asso-ciate Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Cali-fornia’s current 25% occupancy limit onchurches amounted to “discriminationagainst religious worship services.”

“The basic constitutional problem isthat comparable secular businesses arenot subject to a 25% occupancy cap, in-cluding factories, offices, supermarkets,restaurants, retail stores, pharmacies,shopping malls, pet grooming shops,bookstores, florists, hair salons, and can-nabis dispensaries,” Kavanaugh wrote.

The legal battle reached the high courtdays before Pentecost Sunday, whenchurches that have been restricted to vir-tual or drive-by services since beforeEaster are eager to greet congregants.

In the California case, the court sidedwith Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision tolimit in-church gatherings to 25% of ca-pacity, and no more than 100 people.

In a second, separate case arising in Il-linois, the justices earlier denied two Ro-manian American churches’ petition be-cause Gov. J.P. Pritzker lifted his state’srestrictions Friday, making the complaint

essentially moot. The court said thechurches could file “a new motion for ap-propriate relief if circumstances warrant.”

The religious disputes over governors’reopening plans are most heated in statesthat impose limits on religious gather-ings. While 30 states no longer have pro-hibitions, 20 and the District of Columbiaimpose restrictions, according to theBecket Fund for Religious Liberty. Theyare most severe in California, Maine, Ne-vada, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon,Rhode Island and Washington.

President Donald Trump, Vice Presi-dent Mike Pence and many religiousleaders have demanded that state andlocal governments treat churches thesame as most businesses. Last week,Trump labeled churches, synagoguesand mosques “essential places that pro-vide essential services.”

But some states and public healthauthorities, including the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention, havelinked religious services to outbreaks ofCOVID-19. In one example, the CDC said38% of those attending a rural Arkansaschurch in early March caught the virus,resulting in four deaths.

Justices won’t speed church reopeningsRoberts: Elected officials,not judges, should decide

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Monica Asitimbay prays at Holy TrinityChurch in Hackensack, N.J., May 17.AMY NEWMAN/USA TODAY NETWORK

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WASHINGTON – The State Depart-ment’s newly installed inspector general,Stephen Akard, has no investigative oroversight experience and faces a slew ofpotential conflicts of interest, accordingto an internal State Department email.

Akard has another job at the StateDepartment: director of the Office ofForeign Missions, a political appoint-ment he’s held since 2019. In that job,which he plans to keep, Akard reports toBrian Bulatao, a top adviser and long-time friend of Secretary of State MikePompeo’s.

Pompeo and Bulatao attended WestPoint together in the 1980s, and they co-founded a business, Thayer Aerospace, inthe 1990s. When Trump named Pompeoas CIA director, he tapped Bulatao as thespy agency’s chief operating officer.When Pompeo became secretary of state,he brought Bulatao with him as the agen-cy’s undersecretary for management.

In July 2019, Pompeo describedBulatao and his other business co-foun-ders as “my best friends in the wholeworld.”

Akard – who is serving in an actingcapacity as the IG after Trump ousted

his predecessor – is an ally of Vice Presi-dent Mike Pence. An Indiana native,Akard served on the state’s economicdevelopment corporation when Pencewas governor.

“This is just astonishing,” said WalterShaub, who served as director of theU.S. Office of Government Ethics beforeresigning over disagreements with theTrump administration. Inspector gener-als are supposed to be completely inde-pendent of the agencies they oversee,he said, but Akard is a Trump politicalappointee and part of the State Depart-ment’s management team.

“I’ve just never seen anything like it,”

said Shaub, a senior adviser to Citizensfor Responsibility and Ethics in Wash-ington.

The Office of Inspector General (OIG)is investigating two highly contentiousmatters that touch directly on Pompeo’sactions: allegations that he used a StateDepartment employee to run personalerrands for himself and his wife, andquestions about the State Department’sdecision to greenlight a highly contro-versial $8 billion weapons sale to SaudiArabia and the United Arab Emirates.

At Pompeo’s urging, President Don-ald Trump announced May 15 that hewas firing Steve Linick.

Democrats in Congress accusedPompeo of trying to shield himselffrom Linick’s inquiries. Pompeo flatlyrejected those assertions, saying Lin-ick’s ouster was not retaliatory.

In an email obtained by USA TODAY,Diana Shaw, the State Department’sdeputy inspector general, acknowl-edges the possible conflicts of interestand said Akard is working to address theissue. She said the complexity of disen-tangling his conflicts and identifying is-sues on which he will have to recusehimself could delay oversight work.

Shaw did not respond to emailedquestions. The IG office’s spokeswom-an did not return a voicemail seekingcomment, and the State Department’spress office also did not respond toemailed questions.

New IG faces conflicts, scrutinyQuestions raised aboutwatchdog at State Dept.

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, with President Donald Trump.MANDEL NGAN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Eight states and Washington, D.C.,will hold primary elections Tuesday,several of which were rescheduled asthe coronavirus pandemic disrupted thecampaign cycle.

Indiana and Rhode Island expandedtheir vote-by-mail options amid safetyconcerns about voting in person.

Although the results of the presiden-tial primary have been settled, races foroffices down the ballot could help deter-mine the battle for the House and Sen-ate in November.

King could be dethroned

The primary in Iowa’s 4th Congres-sional District will determine whetherRepublican voters in this largely ruraldistrict spanning northwest Iowa returnRep. Steve King to office. King has repre-sented the district since 2013 but hasdrawn criticism from both sides of theaisle for controversial statements aboutrace. After asking why phrases such as“white supremacist” were offensive in aNew York Times interview in 2019, Kingwas stripped of his committee assign-ments, including on the House Agricul-ture Committee.

King faces a strong primary challengefrom state Sen. Randy Feenstra, who ar-gued that King has lost his ability to ad-vocate for residents of the district by

losing his committeeplacements. Feenstra hasdrawn support from theNational Right to Life andthe U.S. Chamber ofCommerce.

Former baseball playerJ.D. Scholten is runninguncontested on the Dem-

ocratic side of the ballot. Scholten ranagainst King in 2018 and lost by 3 per-centage points, King’s smallest marginof victory. The district skews heavily Re-publican.

Dems jostle to take on Ernst

Iowa has a competitive Democraticprimary for the nomination to take onRepublican incumbent Sen. Joni Ernst.Real estate executive Theresa Green-field has the backing of several nationalorganizations, but former Navy Adm.Mike Franken won the endorsement ofthe state’s largest newspaper, The DesMoines Register, which is part of theUSA TODAY Network.

Ernst’s seat could be a pickup oppor-tunity for Democrats looking to takeback the Senate.

Greenfield has significantly out-

raised the other Democratic candidatesbut has not taken a commanding lead in

the race. At the end of thepast quarter, she had $4.7million cash on handcompared with Franken’s$49,570.

Greenfield picked upsupport from the Demo-cratic Senatorial Cam-paign Committee, Emi-

ly’s List and Reps. Dave Loebsack andAbby Finkenauer.

Iowa did not move the date of its pri-mary, but Secretary of State Paul Petesaid his office would send absentee bal-lot applications to all registered voters.

Republican war of words

New Mexico’s 2nd CongressionalDistrict sprawls across the southernhalf of the state and is represented byDemocratic Rep. Xochitl Torres Small.

Republicans eye the district as a po-tential pickup opportunity given itsgeneral Republican lean. Donald Trumpwon the district by a large margin in2016, and Torres Small won her seat byonly 1.8 percentage points in 2018.

Three Republicans are running forthe chance to take on Torres Small inNovember: businesswoman ClaireChase, businessman Chris Mathys andentrepreneur Yvette Herrell, who nar-rowly lost to Torres Small in 2018.

Chase and Herrell accused each otherof being “never Trump” Republicans.

Chase accused Herrell of using tax-payer money to attend “a California pi-ñata party where they hung PresidentTrump in effigy.” In a tea party-backedsuper PAC ad, a woman read Chase’s old

Facebook posts attacking Trump dur-ing the 2016 GOP presidential primarycampaign.

The two candidates released duel-ing ads in which they both assert theircloseness to Trump.

N.M.’s 3rd Congressional District

The 3rd Congressional District hasattracted a crowded field of Democrat-ic candidates to succeed Rep. Ben RayLuján, who is running for Senate. Oneof its candidates, former CIA officerValerie Plame, was the subject of a ma-jor espionage scandal after her coverwas leaked allegedly by PresidentGeorge W. Bush’s administration.

Attorney and activist Teresa LegerFernandez has won the backing ofpowerful national liberal groups suchas Emily’s List and the Sierra Club.

Maryland Democratic primaries

Maryland, which rescheduled itsprimaries from April 28, will vote inseveral congressional primaries.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyerfaces a primary challenge from the leftin McKayla Wilkes. Wilkes has signifi-cantly trailed Hoyer in fundraising.

After voting in a primary in Febru-ary, then in a general election in Aprilto fill the seat vacated after the deathof Rep. Elijah Cummings, voters inMaryland’s 7th Congressional Districtwill go back to the polls to decidewhether to reelect Rep. Kweisi Mfume.

Cummings’ wife, Maya Rockey-moore Cummings, is among the 19Democrats vying for the seat.

Contributing: The Associated Press

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Teresa Leger Fernandez of Santa Fe speaks at a March 7 gathering in Pojoaque,N.M. She is running for the 3rd Congressional District seat. MORGAN LEE/AP

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Former Vice President Joe Biden’slead over President Donald Trumpamong registered voters has increasedby 8 percentage points since March asapproval of Trump’s handling of thecoronavirus pandemic has slipped, ac-cording to a poll released Sunday byABC News and The Washington Post.

The presumptive Democratic nomi-nee leads Trump 53%-43% among reg-istered voters, the poll found. OnMarch 25, the same survey showed amuch tighter race, with Biden leadingby just 2 percentage points, 49%-47%.

And Trump’s overall approval rat-ing has slipped since the March 25poll, which for the first time in his pre-sidency found more Americans ap-proving (48%) than disapproving(46%) of the job he was doing. In May’spoll, his approval rating dropped 2points to 46% and his disapproval rat-ing jumped 7 points to 53%.

Democratic and Republican voterswere firmly behind their party’s stan-dard-bearers, 95% and 94%, respec-tively. But Biden had a wide leadamong registered independents, 56%-39%, after leading by just 1 point withthose voters two months ago.

The candidates’ support showedsharp divides by gender and race.Trump led by 8 points among malevoters (52%-44%) and Biden held a28-point advantage among femalevoters (62%-34%). Trump led by 9 per-centage points among white voters,53%-44%, while Biden was backed by89% of black voters and 69% of His-panic voters.

Trump’s slide has coincided withthe spread of the coronavirus acrossthe U.S.

The poll of 1,001 Americans wasconducted May 25-28 and does not re-flect the full impact of recent anti-po-lice brutality protests on voters’ opin-ions. The survey has a margin of errorof plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

Poll: Bidenwidens leadover Trumpto 10 pointsWilliam CummingsUSA TODAY

Joe Biden on Monday in Wilmington,Del. JIM WATSON/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

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Minneapolis and other U.S. citieswere bracing for more angry demon-strations Monday after protesters andpolice across the nation clashed for asixth straight night in the wake ofGeorge Floyd's death in police custody.More than 4,400 people have been ar-rested nationwide.

Obama hopeful of reforms

Former President Barack Obamacalled on a "new generation of activists"to channel outrage into “real change” inan essay published on Medium. He said“waves of protests across the countryrepresent a genuine and legitimate frus-tration over a decades-long failure to re-form police practices and the broadercriminal justice system.” An “over-whelming majority of participants havebeen peaceful, courageous, responsible,and inspiring,” he wrote, but a “minorityof folks who’ve resorted to violence invarious forms, whether out of genuineanger or mere opportunism, are puttinginnocent people at risk.”

Police chief association weighs in

Floyd's death was "unnecessary,avoidable and criminal," the Major Cit-ies Chiefs Association said. The group,whose members include police execu-tives from across the U.S., says it can behonest about its law enforcement histo-

ry dating back over two centuries "thathas included institutional racism" andviolence against African Americans.The group says every major city chiefmust take every action within their au-thority to hold officers accountable.

Federal riot teams sent to DC

Riot teams from the federal Bureau ofPrisons were being sent to Washingtonand Miami. The FBI also has directed itselite Hostage Rescue Unit to help in D.C.A weekend of rioting in the capital deepscars in the shadow of the White Houseand across the city where 88 peoplehave been arrested, while dozens of lawenforcement officers, including SecretService agents, were injured.

New York City under curfew

After three nights of violent pro-tests and looting, New York was undera citywide curfew from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New YorkCity Mayor Bill de Blasio said theyagreed to the curfew and would doublethe police presence in the nation'slargest city to help prevent violenceand property damage.

“I stand behind the protesters andtheir message, but unfortunately thereare people who are looking to distractand discredit this moment,” Cuomosaid. De Blasio’s daughter was amongalmost 1,000 people arrested sinceThursday.

NEWS BRIEFING Protests over George Floyd’s death

A peaceful vigil was held at the George Floyd memorial in Minneapolis, wherehe died May 25 in police custody. JACK GRUBER//USA TODAY NETWORK

At least 4,400arrests sinceFloyd protestserupted

is a peaceful family,” he told a crowd,pointing out rioters may be destroyingtheir own communities. “Let’s do thisanother way.”

The independent autopsy and theHennepin County medical examinerhave ruled the death a homicide.

The results of the family’s autopsydiffer from a preliminary autopsy reportas described in a criminal complaintagainst the officer charged, Derek Chau-vin. That autopsy found “no physicalfindings that support a diagnosis oftraumatic asphyxia or strangulation.”The report suggests Floyd’s existinghealth conditions – coronary artery dis-ease and hypertensive heart disease –combined with being restrained by po-lice and any “potential intoxicants in hissystem” contributed to his death.

Baden and Wilson said it appearedFloyd died at the scene.

“What we found is consistent withwhat people saw,” Baden said. “There isno other health issue that could causeor contribute to the death. Police havethis false impression that if you cantalk, you can breathe. That’s not true.”

Crump had strong words Monday. “For George Floyd, the ambulance

was his hearse,” he said. “He would bealive today if not for the pressure ap-plied to his neck. ... Mr. Floyd’s deathwas a homicide by officers who taunt-ed him while holding him down formore than eight minutes. And the offi-cer who stood by doing nothing was aphysical blue shield – a living symbolof the code of silence.”

Chauvin was charged with third-de-gree murder and manslaughter. Threeother officers have not been charged.

Contributing: The Associated Press

AutopsyContinued from Page 1A

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Mayor GregFischer said Monday afternoon that po-lice officers involved with NationalGuard personnel in the early morningshooting of the owner of a barbecuebusiness had not activated their bodycameras during the incident.

Fischer said Louisville Metro PoliceChief Steve Conrad, who announced hisresignation in May, has been fired, and anightly 9 p.m.-to-6:30 a.m. curfew hasbeen extended to June 8.

Gov. Andy Beshear ordered KentuckyState Police to investigate the fatalshooting by police and National Guardpersonnel.

The man killed was David McAtee,owner of a barbecue business next tothe Dino’s Food Mart parking lot wherethe shooting took place, McAtee’s neph-ew told The Louisville Courier Journal ofthe USA TODAY Network.

Police and National Guard troops,who have been monitoring protests,were breaking up a “large crowd” in thefood mart’s parking lot around 12:15 a.m.local time when someone shot at them,Conrad said Monday morning.

They returned fire, killing McAtee.No one else was injured.

Conrad said it is unclear if the de-ceased was the person who fired at offi-cers.

McAtee’s body was still at the sceneof the crime Monday afternoon. A groupof LMPD officers in face shields formeda line behind the crime scene tape, fac-ing neighbors and protesters.

Many of the observers said they ei-ther knew McAtee or had eaten his bar-becue. A group of about 100 people linedthe sidewalk across the street from theLMPD line. Many lived in the neighbor-hood, and some said they’d been at oth-er protests over the weekend.

The shooting outside Dino’s FoodMart came after a curfew had onceagain taken effect at 9 p.m. Sunday asamid protests and unrest over the deathof Breonna Taylor continued for thefourth straight night in Louisville.

Taylor, 26, an ER technician was fa-

tally shot in March by Louisville policeofficers serving a warrant inside herapartment.

Beshear announced Saturdaymorning that he was sending rough-ly 350 Kentucky National Guard per-sonnel to Louisville to “ensure thesafety of everybody” and “help keeppeace.”

“We cannot let Breonna’s legacy bemarred by violence and we can’t let ourstreets turn violent,” Beshear said.

“I hope everybody knows that thisis a big step and a tough step. It’s not one intended to silence any voicebecause I want to hear,” the governorsaid, “but I want to make sure, atthe end of the day, that we are all safe.”

Louisville police were on guard inside police tape at the intersection of 26th and Broadway on Monday after a man wasshot and killed by police and National Guard personnel outside Dino’s Market. MATT STONE/USA TODAY NETWORK

Police bodycams not on whenman was shot dead, mayor saysLouisville death involvesofficers, National Guard

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“We cannot let Breonna’s

legacy be marred by

violence and we can’t let

our streets turn violent.” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear

WASHINGTON – In dramatic fash-ion, President Donald Trump an-nounced Monday that he is sendingadditional federal resources to helpthe nation’s capital city quell violentprotests – and then walked across thestreet to visit a historic church burnedduring the unrest.

Declaring himself “the president oflaw and order,” Trump said during aRose Garden address that he is dis-patching “thousand and thousands” ofmilitary personnel and law enforce-ment personnel to Washington, D.C.,to stop rioting, looting, vandalism anddestruction of property.

Trump also urged governors to useas many National Guard troops as pos-sible to control violence and warned ifthey didn’t, he would deploy the U.S.military “and quickly solve the prob-lem for them.”

“These are not acts of peaceful pro-test,” Trump said of the unrest. “Theseare acts of domestic terror.”

Immediately after his remarks,Trump walked across nearby LafayettePark and visited St. John’s Church,which was set on fire by protestersSunday night. Trump held up a Bible infront of the boarded-up church, whichis referred to as the “church of presi-dents.” St. John’s was built in 1815 andhas been attended at least once by ev-ery president since James Madison.

Trump’s actions come after six daysof protests and riots in cities across thecountry following the death of GeorgeFloyd, a black man in Minneapolis whodied last week while in police custody.Police officer Derrick Chauvin hasbeen charged with third-degree mur-der and manslaughter in Floyd’sdeath.

Just minutes before Trump spoke inthe Rose Garden and headed to St.John’s, law enforcement officerscleared Lafayette Park with tear gas,rubber bullets, shields and horses.Though the Rose Garden was not with-in view of the protesters, reportersawaiting Trump’s speech reportedhearing a series of loud booms.

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Why should parents talk to children about whathappened to George Floyd?

Tatum: Even young children maysee or hear about highly publicized in-cidents. … Older children with Internetaccess may see online images on theirown. Initiating an age-appropriateconversation can give children a help-ful frame for understanding difficultrealities. If parents are silent, childrenwill draw their own often faulty con-clusions.

Turner: Many adults are hurt andangered by these events, and theirchildren may notice. … Have a healthyconversation around what happenedand talk about ways to cope when youwitness social injustice.

Does COVID-19 warrant avoidingthese conversations, given manychildren are already anxious?

Tatum: No. Not talking about upset-ting events only fuels fear, anxiety anduncertainty. Being able to talk aboutsomething with a supportive adult canreduce (it). Parents may avoid the con-versation because they don’t knowwhat to say, but it is a mistake to thinkthat their silence is helpful.

Turner: I don’t think that anxietyand fear about COVID-19 should stop aparent from talking about police bru-tality. … If you do talk with your child,don’t leave them in a high state of wor-ry. Make sure to end the conversationby engaging in a pleasant activity.

How do parents start these conversations?

Tatum: Balance acknowledging thereality of racism, or unfairness, withmessages about the possibility ofchange and the community of allieswho are working together to makethings better.

Turner: Start … with honesty. Takeownership of your feelings and (share)those feelings with your child. Thenyou can begin to allow them to sharewhat they may already know about ra-cial differences.

If a child of color asks if a policeofficer is going to kill them, what do you say?

Tatum: If it is a young child, a par-ent can be reassuring. “No, honey, youdon’t have to worry about that. Policeofficers don’t want to hurt you.”

In response to an older child, it canbe reassuring to say something like: “Iknow that it is scary to think thatsomething like that might happen, andI really don’t want you to worry. … Mostpolice officers want to help people, andmost police officers never fire theirguns. But sometimes they do get ner-vous and make mistakes. So it is im-portant for you to know what to do if apolice officer ever stops you.”

Black parents often refer to this as“the talk” they have to have with their

adolescent sons. Turner: Depending on the age of the

child, they may have some awareness ofyouth that have been killed by police.Obviously, you don’t want to respond ina way that is going to make children bemore fearful. … You should let childrenknow that most police officers work toprotect them.

How can parents talk about lawenforcement so children aren’tdiscouraged from seeking help?

Tatum: Most police officers becomepolice officers because they want to helppeople. And there are times when wewould really want a police officer to helpus – give some examples – if there’sbeen a car accident, or if someone tooksomething that belonged to us. Butsometimes a police officer does some-thing bad, like today. When that hap-pens, we might start to think that all po-lice officers are like that. But it’s impor-tant to remember that is not true.

Turner: Talk with them about how(police officers) protect rules in society.… You can also be honest about situa-tions such as police brutality and letchildren know that some police officersbreak laws. If you have a trusted officerin your community it may be good toallow the child to talk with them.

Should these conversations be different dependingon your child’s race?

Tatum: Children of color are likely toexperience racist encounters. … Parentsof color want to raise self-confident andempowered children who are not de-moralized by other people’s racism.

White children are often racially iso-lated as a consequence of segregatedschools and neighborhoods, and conse-quently limited in their understanding ofpeople different from themselves. Learn-ing to live in an increasingly diverse soci-ety is an important task for them.

Turner: According to research, whiteparents often don’t talk with their

children about race or may emphasize“not seeing color,” (which) is moreharmful than helpful and does not hon-or an individual’s identity. ... (Encour-age) more friendships with childrenfrom other races.

If a child says they’re afraid or angry, what do you say?

Tatum: Acknowledge the child’s feel-ings … “I know it’s upsetting to hearabout and see these things happening.It upsets me, too. ... Racism is very un-fair. But it makes me feel better to knowthere are lots of people who want tochange things.” Being able to offer spe-cific examples of community changeagents would be useful.

Turner: Don’t force them to hide theiremotional expression. However, be sureto help them identify ways to expresstheir anger in a healthy manner, whichmay include journaling or exercising.

If a child is afraid for a friend,what do you say?

Tatum: “I can see that you are wor-ried about your friend. What do youthink we could do that might help him orher?” … Talk about what it means to bean ally.

Turner: Identify how they can checkon their friend’s safety. ... Part of whatincreases anxiety is the fear of the un-known. If you have a plan of action, itwill reduce some of those fears.

What if, in the course of thisconversation, a child sayssomething racist?

Tatum: Inquire about it with curios-ity, not judgment. “I’m wondering why you said that.” After hearing moreabout what the child is thinking, youcan offer correction by providing newinformation. “You know, a lot of peoplemight think that is true, but I don’t be-cause ...”

Turner: (Don’t) get defensive. Youwant to foster open communicationwith your child. … Explore why theyhave that opinion, where did they learnit from, and tell them why what theysaid was wrong. It might be helpful foryou as a parent to think about ways thatyou may have unconsciously expressedracist attitudes.

Footage of many of these deathsgo viral. What should we say if our child asks to see it?

Tatum: There are many adults whodon’t want to see such footage. I wouldnot show it to a child. ... Once an image isin your head, it is very difficult to get itout. That said, it is reasonable to describewhat happened and talk about why it waswrong. It is also likely that children withInternet access can view the footagewithout an adult’s permission. … Talkingabout it after the fact will help.

Turner: You should not show yourchildren these videos as it may increasethe likelihood of them experiencingsymptoms of trauma or having night-mares. (Research shows) that individ-uals may be at a higher risk of develop-ing post-traumatic stress disorder eventhrough indirect exposure.

ChildrenContinued from Page 1A

Willie Coman takes his son Willie Jr., 4, to a march Sunday in Cincinnati toprotest the death of George Floyd.MEG VOGEL/USA TODAY NETWORK

DES MOINES, Iowa – A tense protestoutside police headquarters in DesMoines Sunday night ended in an unex-pected show of peaceful solidarity asdozens of officers agreed to protesters’calls to take a knee in honor of GeorgeFloyd, a black man who died at thehands of Minneapolis police.

The protesters had gathered acrossthe street from police headquartersandwere concerned that police would usetear gas and pepper spray and beginmaking arrests at 9 p.m. local time,when Polk County’s curfew, set earlierSunday, began.

Shortly before 9 p.m., the protestersall knelt down, telling police that theywere honoring the memory of GeorgeFloyd, the man who died in Minneapoliswith a police officer’s knee pinning hisneck, pleading that he couldn’t breathe.

The protesters then stood up, raisedtheir hands, and chanted, “Hands up,don’t shoot.” A shouted exchange fol-lowed, with protesters saying that if the

officers would kneel with them in honorof Floyd, they would leave.

At the urging of a pastor from thecommunity, senior Des Moines policeOfficers Irvin Franklin and Jack Kamer-ick knelt and said a prayer. The pastorspoke with the protesters and officers,

and convinced the protesters to assurethe other officers that they would leavepeacefully if all of the officers knelt for amoment of silence and prayer for Floyd.

At 9:01 p.m., the remaining officersknelt.

Another group of officers in riot gear

approached the crowd from the north,calling for them to disperse. The pastoragain negotiated between the twogroups and after protesters chanted“take a knee,” and some of them con-firmed they would leave peacefully ifthe officers did so, those officers alsoknelt.

The crowd cheered, then rose andwas gone within minutes, although oneprotester called for them to return Mon-day, “same time, same place.”

Police Chief Dana Wingert was on thescene and praised the actions of his offi-cers and the protesters.

“What you have here, you have menand women that know the differencebetween right and wrong and you havecommunity relationships that respectthat,” Wingert said. “That’s what thiswas all about. This is a success.”

Before the protest began, WillieBradley, a 33-year-old University ofIowa student, said he was hoping for apeaceful protest that allowed for somedialogue with the police.

“We don’t hate the police, we justhate the individuals that do thesesenseless killings. And I think that weneed the police to protect and serve, es-pecially unarmed black men and wom-en. And I think that we need to have thatdialogue,” he said.

In Iowa, police and protesters kneel jointly

Law officers and protesters take a knee in front of the Des Moines Police Station in an act of solidarity Sunday in Iowa. BRIAN POWERS/USA TODAY NETWORK

Stephen Gruber-Millerand Robin OpsahlDes Moines Register – USA TODAY NETWORK

Tense moments endpeacefully in solidarity

PROTESTS ERUPT ACROSS USA

Public health officials warn newcases of COVID-19 probably willemerge after mass gatherings fueledby the death of George Floyd inMinneapolis and racial unrest in cit-ies across America.

Health experts fear carriers ofcoronavirus, which causes the dis-ease, with no symptoms could unwit-tingly infect others at protests wheresocial distancing is simply not takingplace. The merits of the protesters’cause “doesn’t prevent them from get-ting the virus,” said Bradley Pollock,chairman of the Department of PublicHealth Sciences at the University ofCalifornia, Davis.

At least one protester in Tampa,Florida, is known to have COVID-19.Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan, whoexpressed dismay last week aboutFloyd’s death, tweeted Monday thatfive of his officers were exposed to theprotester, whom he did not identify.

Protesting – especially without amask – can put people at higher riskfor infection, said Dr. Michael Mina,an assistant professor of epidemiolo-gy at Harvard T. H. Chan School ofPublic Health.

“There’s no doubt in my mind thatthese can become breeding groundsfor this virus,” he said during a Mon-day media availability. “I would not besurprised to see in the next couple ofweeks that we see increases that maybe linked to protests.”

As businesses reopen, it will be dif-ficult to figure out whether someonecaught the virus at a protest or insome other encounter, Mina said.

Hopefully, the fact that protests aretaking place out of doors, will dilutethe virus and reduce disease trans-mission, he said. Wearing a mask willhelp reduce infections, though itwon’t completely eliminate risk.

“If there’s a floridly positive personwho is coughing and spending awhole day around a lot of other peo-ple, that person might very well getother people sick despite having amask on,” Mina added, but “there’s agood chance that even homemademasks will actually do quite a bit tohelp people not get infected and nottransmit.”

There is a historical precedent tosuggest that viruses can be spread bylarge public gatherings.

In September 1918, people in Phila-delphia held a parade to celebrate thereturn of soldiers from World War I.The gathering of 200,000 people,crammed shoulder to shoulder, reig-nited a deadly flu epidemic, leading tomassive closures and thousands ofdeaths, records show.

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When it comes to race relations,anyone who thinks rioting is the an-swer doesn’t grasp the question. Burn-ing, looting and committing mayhemdoesn’t bend the moral arc of the uni-verse; it breaks it.

Peaceful protests over GeorgeFloyd’s killing have been overshad-owed by images of rage-fueled violenceand destruction. Resorting to rioting isstrange because there is little disagree-ment that Floyd’s death in custody wassenseless and criminal. Few defend thepolice officers who were responsible;they were quickly fired, one has beencharged with murder, and the JusticeDepartment has opened an investiga-tion into the tragedy. Everyone is on thesame side of this issue.

Yet rioting sparked and spread.There is no rational purpose behindpeople burning buildings, torchingcars, breaking windows, spray-paint-ing obscenities and the other actionsthat have left city blocks looking likewar zones. Some say these are expres-sions of anger and frustration, andmaybe so, but they are also unjustified,foolish and counterproductive. Whilepeaceful protesters are trying to createsympathy and build understanding,the rioters have undone that effort withflying bricks and flaming city blocks.

MLK vs. fire hoses and dogs

The 1960s civil rights movementdrew inspiration from Gandhi’s con-cept of satyagraha, nonviolent resis-tance. Martin Luther King Jr. and hisfollowers met the fire hoses and dogsthey faced with marches, prayer,speeches and songs. King’s “I have adream” speech during the 1963 Marchon Washington was not followed bynights of terror and vandalism.

The nonviolent approach producedconcrete results, in the form of the his-toric Civil Rights and Voting RightsActs. But the ideal of peaceful protestwas tested by the Watts riots in 1965and shattered by the “long, hot sum-mer” of 1967. Over 150 riots broke outacross the United States, the worst ofthem in Detroit and Newark.

The Kerner Commission report onthe violence chalked it up to boiled-over black frustration at a society thatdenied opportunities to nonwhites.This has been the standard apologia forrioting ever since.

People of all races understand thattwo wrongs don’t make a right. For ex-ample, in 1992 civil unrest erupted inLos Angeles after the acquittal of policeofficers for beating Rodney King, an-other case of abuse caught on tape. AGallup poll found that 73% of whitesand 92% of blacks thought the notguilty verdict was unjustified, yet thesame poll found that 79% of whites and75% of blacks agreed that the riotingwas also wrong.

Regardless of why riots happen, they

never have a positive outcome. Busi-nesses are destroyed and neighbor-hoods ruined. Relations with law en-forcement worsen; in Baltimore, al-leged de-policing after the riotssparked by the death of Freddie Gray incustody in 2015 led to spiraling crimerates. And riots give those who did notwant to confront complex issues in thefirst place a perfect excuse to write it alloff to thugs being thugs.

However, it would be a mistake toconclude that what we are seeing is aproduct of the kind of black despair theKerner Commission believed causedpeople to burn down their own neigh-borhoods in the 1960s. A glance at thelivestream videos shows that there areas many if not more white people in-volved in the turmoil as blacks. Minne-sota Gov. Tim Walz suggested thatmuch of the violence has beenspawned by opportunistic groups ofoutside agitators exploiting the tensesituation for their radical ends.

‘This is not your space’

In one case caught on video, blackcommunity leaders in Minneapolisconfronted young white activists, tell-ing them that they would not let themcause “chaos and confusion” in theirneighborhoods because “this is notyour space. Period.”

On the other hand, there was rapperCardi B, who opined that people had“no choice” other than looting. But asshameful as the looting is, at least it hasa purpose, unlike burning down black-owned local businesses in the name ofsocial justice.

The rioters are doing significantharm to the protesters’ cause. Their ac-tions are completely unjustified. Theyhave no coherent message or stated ob-jective, but only spread misery, fearand anger.

Their primary targets, law enforce-ment and small business owners, areamong those most respected groups inAmerican society. Most people don’twant radicals invading their neighbor-hoods and transforming them into warzones. And a country just emergingfrom the disruptions of the COVID-19lockdown will not respond well to theiranarchic antics.

If the rioters are trying to force peo-ple to choose between them and the po-lice, for most people that is an easychoice.

James S. Robbins, a member of USATODAY’s Board of Contributors and au-thor of “This Time We Win: Revisitingthe Tet Offensive,” has taught at the Na-tional Defense University and the Ma-rine Corps University and served as aspecial assistant in the office of the sec-retary of Defense in the George W. Bushadministration.

Violent rioters hurtcivil rights protestsAgitators overshadowFloyd demonstrators

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As June begins, the United Statesfaces three intertwined crises: the con-tinuing coronavirus pandemic that hasclaimed more than 100,000 lives in thepast three months; the resulting eco-nomic crisis that has left more than 40million people unemployed; and nowthe policing crisis that has triggered thelargest wave of urban unrest since thelate 1960s.

Each disaster disproportionatelyharms people of color. Each feeds offthe other. The pandemic spawned theeconomic free fall, and mass protestsover the death of George Floyd a weekago in Minneapolis are likely to acceler-ate the pandemic.

Tinderbox times like these requireexceptional leadership. Such leader-ship is not coming from the WhiteHouse, where President Donald Trumpveers erratically from stilted expres-sions of sympathy for Floyd’s family toreckless statements that pour moregasoline on the fire.

Nor is it coming from Republicans inWashington who recognize that Trumpis unfitness but, with precious few ex-ceptions, remain afraid to break withthe president or cross his fervid base ofsupporters.

Nor is it coming from certain liberalDemocratic mayors who have all butopened the door to looters in their cit-ies, or who have failed to weed out badcops and confront the unions that pro-tect them.

That leaves others to fill the leader-ship vacuum, and here a quartet fromAtlanta is stepping into the void andshowing the way:

❚ Listen to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, theailing 80-year-old icon of the civilrights movement, who told the protes-ters, “I see you, and I hear you. I knowyour pain, your rage, your sense of de-spair and hopelessness. Justice has, in-deed, been denied for far too long. Riot-ing, looting and burning is not the way.Organize. Demonstrate. Sit in. Standup. Vote. Be constructive, not destruc-tive. History has proven time and againthat nonviolent, peaceful protest is theway to achieve the justice and equalitythat we all deserve.”

❚ Listen to rapper and activist Mi-chael Render, better known by his stagename Killer Mike. In a speech that Le-Bron James called “a mandatory listen,”Killer Mike noted that he’s the son of acity police officer and has two cousinsin law enforcement. “I got a lot of loveand respect for police officers, down tothe original eight police officers in At-lanta that, even after becoming police,had to dress in a YMCA because whiteofficers didn’t want to get dressed withn-----s. … It is your duty not to burnyour own house down for anger with anenemy. It is your duty to fortify yourown house so that you may be a houseof refuge in times of organization. Nowis the time to plot, plan, strategize, or-ganize and mobilize.”

❚ Listen to Mayor Keisha Lance Bot-toms, who delivered a stern message asCNN’s world headquarters was undersiege: “This is not a protest. This is notin the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.This is chaos. ... You are disgracing ourcity. You are disgracing the life ofGeorge Floyd and every other personwho has been killed in this country. Weare better than this. We’re better thanthis as a city. We are better than this asa country.”

❚ And listen to Erika Shields, thecity’s white police chief who wadedinto a group of protesters to listen totheir concerns. “You have a right to beupset, to be scared and to want to yell,”she told them. “I’m standing here be-cause what I saw was my people face toface with this crowd, and everybody’s

thinking: ‘How can we use force to de-fuse it?’ And I’m not having it. I’m nothaving that.”

America stands at a perilous mo-ment. At no time since 1968, a year ofshocking assassinations and turmoil inthe streets, has it felt so much like thewheels are coming off. Yet even as un-rest roiled the nation this weekend, thesuccessful SpaceX launch and dockingreminded us what the nation is capableof if we don’t tear ourselves apart.

If the country is to pull through thisconfluence of crises as it did a half-cen-tury ago, it needs more voices and ex-amples like the ones coming from At-lanta — and fewer opportunists tryingto exploit a terrible situation for per-sonal or political gain.

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U.S. construction spending fell 2.9% inApril, the largest drop in 18 months,with broad declines across all buildingactivity as shutdowns hobbled pro-jects and workers were told to stayhome. The Commerce Departmentsaid that the April decline was thebiggest monthly drop since a 3.% fallin October 2018. It followed a basicallyflat reading in March. Spending onresidential construction dropped 4.5%in April with single-family constructiondown 6.6% and the smaller apartmentsegment down 9.1%.

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MONEY+LIFEWithout theaters, many of your popcorn movieswill stream straight to your home. Page 5B

The summer movie season willhave a different feel this year

Susan Tipton began making wineafter she and her husband settled onan 18-acre property in Acampo, Cali-fornia, in 2003. Inspired by a trip to theSouthern Rhône region of Francewhere she first tasted Châteauneuf-du-Pape wines, Tipton planted rows ofGrenache Blanc in the sandy soil there.

Soon, what began as a hobbybloomed into the award-winning Ac-quiesce Winery producing 4,000cases a year. But in March, COVID-19forced Tipton to shutter her tastingroom in a 100-year-old converted barnand, overnight, about half of her reve-nue evaporated.

The nation’s $30 billion wine indus-try stands to lose nearly $6 billion thisyear, with smaller wineries getting hitthe hardest, according to a report pre-pared for the Wine Institute by JonMoramarco, editor and partner withthe Gomberg-Fredrikson Report.

Wineries producing 1,000 to 5,000

cases a year could lose 47.5% of theirrevenue in 2020 due to tasting room andrestaurant closures. Those producingfewer than 1,000 cases could see a 66%plunge.

Rather than see revenue dry up,many wineries are doing somethingthey’ve resisted for years: They’re spir-iting more of their business into thedigital realm, blending internet savvywith the age-old tradition of winemak-ing and selling, says e-commerce expertPaul Mabray, CEO of Emetry.io, a cus-

tomer insights platform for the wine in-dustry.

“We are the last industry not to bechanged by the internet in a meaningfulway. Now, wineries are learning on thefly,” Mabray says.

At Acquiesce, customers, some ofwhom had never before purchased winefrom the winery, are loading up on bot-tles and cases online. Last year, e-com-merce made up 3% of Tipton’s sales. Sofar in 2020? 10%.

So these days, Acquiesce’s somme-lier, who’s usually on hand to make wineand wine pairing suggestions in thetasting room, is leading “Somm Thurs-days” on YouTube, while Tipton is try-ing her hand at Instagram Live. And anew marketing firm is helping the win-ery strategically place Facebook andGoogle ads.

“Any kind of spend that we wouldnormally put into the tasting room withevents and wine club pick-up parties,we are now putting into digital,” Tipton

The coronavirus pandemic forced Susan Tipton to shutter Acquiesce Winery’s tasting room. ACQUIESCE WINERY

Wineries going digitalas a key to survival Traditions get a taste of technology amid pandemic shiftsJessica GuynnUSA TODAY

“Any kind of spend that we

would normally put into the

tasting room with events

and wine club pick-up

parties, we are now putting

into digital.” Susan Tipton

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An unemployed stagehand is suddenly an e-com-merce mogul, peddling hard-to-find items such astoilet paper and home fitness equipment. A laid-offpersonal vacation adviser may have found her truecalling: teaching English online to students aroundthe globe. A recruiter is paying the bills as she awaitsher unemployment benefit checks by day-tradingstocks.

With the coronavirus pandemic throwing tens ofmillions of Americans out of work or reducing theirhours, many are scrambling to make ends meet bytaking on part-time jobs and other side hustles,launching new ventures or playing the market – of-ten from the safety of their homes.

The phenomenon isn’t captured by the Labor De-partment’s employment data because of the overalldevastation wrought by the virus. In April, a record20.5 million U.S. jobs were wiped out, and the de-

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says.Cooped up at home, people are cook-

ing more or they’re meeting up withfriends for Zoom cocktail hours. On Et-sy, homeschooling wine glasses are ahit. And with so many of life’s luxuriesindefinitely postponed, even the mostcasual oenophile is making room in thebudget for a nice vintage or two.

Shopping carts are brimming at wineretailers and on Drizly, Doordash, Insta-cart and other mobile apps. Shoppersare also clicking on or tapping their fa-vorite wineries or they’re discoveringnew ones. And this could be the statusquo for some time, says Rob McMillan,executive vice president and founder ofSilicon Valley Bank’s wine division.

“Restaurants and tasting rooms willbe forced to have fewer visitors, even ifvisitors are comfortable coming,” Mc-Millan says.

Pandemic-related shift

According to research firm Nielsen,wine sales for the week ending May 9were up 267% year over year. With CO-VID-19 lockdowns, more people are buy-ing that wine online from the comfortand safety of their homes and having itdelivered to their doorstep, says MaxMiller, president of Naked Wines, a ma-jor online retailer.

“At Naked Wines, we saw unprece-dented growth in demand for the prod-uct,” Miller says. “And we are not reallyseeing any reversion back to what it waspre-pandemic.”

At Wine.com, revenue has quadru-pled to more than $1 million a day sinceMarch 28, says the online retailer’s chiefexecutive Rich Bergsund. April revenuetopped $40 million and Wine.com ex-pects to bring in $100 million this quar-ter. And the company has hired 500people and tripled its marketing spend.

Wineries reach out

Some wineries already were pre-pared for this sudden shift to onlinebuying.

“E-commerce was coming for thewine industry whether the wine indus-try wanted it to or not. It just got expe-dited by COVID-19,” says Justin Noland,who was hired two years ago to leaddigital strategy and e-commerce atWente Family Estates in California’s Li-vermore Valley. He says he was shockedwhen, at an industry conference, wine-makers debated whether to use GoogleAnalytics on their websites.

“The wineries that were more pre-pared to pivot to digital have done betterin COVID-19,” he says, “and they arepoised to do better after COVID-19.”

At Wente, virtual tastings with Alexaor Google Home let people focus on thewine and each other, not a screen. TheWente Family stars in “Wine Wednes-day” Facebook and Instagram Live epi-sodes. And #MakeTime Bingo remindspeople to take time to read a book (andhave a glass of Wente).

“You can learn about the winery, the

grapes, the winemaking techniques andthe people behind it all,” Noland says.“You can buy the wine you love or youcan explore a huge range of small lotproduction wine you’ll never find in astore, and you can do it in pajamas fromthe comfort and safety of your home.”

Wente is also going where the de-mand is. In March, when Pennsylvaniaclosed liquor stores because of CO-VID-19, the winery targeted social mediaads to the state’s residents, shipping ca-seload after caseload.

At Duckhorn Wine Company in St.Helena in California’s Napa Valley, on-line sales are up about 250%, says CarolReber, its chief marketing officer.

The winery is bringing the winecountry into people’s homes, with virtu-al tastings for groups led by a winemak-er. About 10,000 people have tuned in sofar to watch Napa Valley chef NatalieNiksa of La Saison whip up seasonalrecipes from chicken enchiladas withRancho Gordo beans to maple-glazedbacon meatloaf with sweet potato mashand pair the dishes with Duckhornwines.

Online sales help

Baiocchi Wines, which usually sells80% of its inventory through its tastingroom at Sutter Creek in the Sierra Foot-hill Wine region of California, had tomake quick changes after COVID-19.

On March 17, when six Bay Area coun-ties locked down, owner and winemakerGreg Baiocchi launched a special pro-motion on Facebook, Instagram andTwitter for a three-pack of red blendsusing the #ShelterInPlace hashtag.Then he teamed up with the Sacramen-to chapter of Feed the Frontlines, whichdelivers free meals to health care work-ers and first responders, donating 10%of each $100 wine pack of wine he soldto the nonprofit.

“What we have learned through thisis that we should be focusing more at-tention online,” Baiocchi says. “I’ve al-ways done it on a regular basis. This hastaught me I should be doing it with morefrequency. It just puts you in front ofpeople more often and gives them a rea-son to purchase your wine.”

Last October, Anaba Wines, a sus-tainably farmed, wind-powered wineryin the Carneros region of California’s So-noma Wine Country, put the finishingtouches on a hospitality center de-signed to draw more visitors.

Right before the shelter-in-place or-der took effect, general manager JohnMichael Sweazey switched all of his wi-nery’s spending from driving foot trafficto e-commerce sales.

Shipping and other promotions haveproduced sales from new customers,and so have virtual tastings. On Sun-days, he and his wife, an Italian cook,create Instagram stories, pairing winewith homemade bolognese or with fo-caccia and cured meats and cheeses.

So far, Anaba Wines has topped lastyear’s sales.

“If we were just an e-commerce busi-ness, if we hadn’t built a tasting room atall and we were starting this fromscratch, I would say this could turn intosomething great,” Sweazey says.

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partment’s May jobs report Friday isprojected to record another 8 millionlayoffs, driving the unemployment ratenear 20%, highest since the Great De-pression.

But some private surveys are pickingup the trend of laid-off people snaggingpart-time work and side hustles. Sixty-four percent of Americans age 24 andolder who lost a job or had their hoursreduced have landed, or plan to seek, aside hustle, according to a TD Ameri-trade survey April 24-May 4. And 54%of all adults are planning a side gig, ac-cording to a mid-April survey by Sel-f.inc, a personal finance site.

FlexJobs – which advertises work-at-home, part-time and temporary jobs –has seen a 50% jump in traffic on its sitecompared with a year ago, says CEO Sa-ra Sutton.

“There has been a surge of this in thepast few months that is definitely attrib-utable to the number of people beinglaid off,” Sutton says.

Normally, big job losses trigger mas-sive searches for full-time jobs, but thiscrisis has been anything but normal.With much of the economy shut down,relatively few jobs have been available.Many unemployed people aren’t lookingfor traditional positions because theyfear they’ll catch the virus, says AndrewChamberlain, chief economist of Glass-door, the job posting site.

Others expect to be rehired when thepandemic eases, he says, and so they’rebiding their time and collecting unem-ployment benefits that include a $600federal supplement during the crisis.Some can’t work because schools areclosed and they need to take care oftheir kids.

Yet many jobless Americans need ex-tra income. Some don’t qualify for un-employment insurance despite expand-ed eligibility criteria, while others havebeen stymied in their efforts to receivebenefits because of swamped phone orcomputer systems. And unemploymentchecks simply aren’t enough for many.

Jobless benefit recipients who do aside hustle may still get unemploymentbenefits, though the amount probablywould be reduced,, says Michele Ever-more, a senior policy analyst at the Na-tional Employment Law Project.

Although jobs have vanished in mostindustries, warehouse, grocery and in-formation technology listings have ex-ploded, Glassdoor data shows, as Amer-icans work and play more from home.The number of restaurant servers seek-ing Amazon jobs increased sevenfoldfrom early January to mid-May, Glass-door figures show.

FlexJobs is seeing a surge in postings

for online English tutors, social mediaspecialists and gaming and computersecurity professionals.

Although all 50 states are graduallyletting businesses reopen, consumersare expected to return to restaurantsand shops warily, and unemployment islikely to remain elevated into next year.

Here’s a look at how several laid-offworkers are getting by:

Stagehand-turned-e-commercemogul

Mitchell Stern, 36, who lives in theSan Francisco area, made a six-figuresalary setting up exhibits and serving asan audio technician, among other tasks,at corporate events. But work virtually

disappeared in March asAmericans shunnedlarge gatherings.

“Every event was can-celed,” says Stern, who issingle, lives with his 19-month-old daughter andhad to dip into savings topay his April rent and

other bills. “I was starting to panic a lit-tle bit.”

Before the crisis, Stern planned todabble in selling a skin care product on-line but quickly realized that “people arenot going to be spending money on lux-ury items. … Everybody’s needs hadsuddenly changed,” he said.

He swiftly pivoted.“My solution was to create an e-com-

merce store that carried all of the itemsthat I thought people might start to buymore of in the new normal of social dis-tancing and working from home,” hesays. Many of the items were tough tofind at chain stores and even on Ama-zon, including toilet paper, hand sani-tizer, face masks, home fitness equip-ment, survival gear and kids’ games.

Stern turned to Shopify, an e-com-merce platform that provides technol-ogy templates for website design, mar-keting, ordering, shipping, paymentsand customer service.

“It lets you do anything,” Stern says.Still, he says, “I had to figure it all outmyself. I’m still finding my way.”

After hatching the idea in mid-April,it took him just a couple of weeks to setup the business.

Stern lists his products online at Wal-mart, eBay, Google Shopping and, soon,Amazon, as well as his own site, victory-garden.shop. When a customer orders aproduct, a manufacturer in China ar-ranges to ship it. At about 5:30 p.m. eachday, Stern presses a few keys on his lap-top to pay manufacturers for that day’spurchases. At 8 a.m. the next day, hetypes in tracking numbers to fulfill theorders, triggering payments to his bankaccount.

Each of those steps takes just a fewminutes. He spends the rest of the day

caring for his daughter and taking heron walks or to the park.

Stern notched $300 in sales the firsthour his enterprise was up and running.Now he’s taking in about $2,700 a weekin revenue, netting him roughly $1,100 inearnings based on a 40% profit margin.Sales, he adds, are growing “exponen-tially.”

He credits his success to low pricesthat narrow his profits but place himhigh in Google search results. “I didn’tget too greedy,” he says.

If the corporate events business re-covers, Stern says, “I can feasibly doboth.” Meanwhile, he plans to start oth-er e-commerce ventures, building theirrevenue and then selling them in sixmonths to a year, potentially earningmillions of dollars.

“I took lemons and I made lemon-ade,” he says.

Vacation adviser turned tutor

Holly Kramer, 33, of Arvada, Colora-do, booked luxury vacation homes untilsuch pre-pandemic indulgences evapo-rated and she was laid off in mid-March.Fortunately, her husband kept his job as

a paramedic firefighterand the couple could paytheir rent and other bills.

But Kramer wasn’t eli-gible for unemploymentbenefits and they had toscale back spending onrestaurants – whetherdine-in or takeout – from

once or twice a week to monthly. Andtheir frequent outlays on campingequipment became a thing of the past.

Kramer initially applied for a grocerystore job. “I was looking for anything,”she says. “It wasn’t ideal,” though, be-cause of the risk of getting the virus.

In mid-April she found a position onFlexJobs as an English language tutor.After two weeks of training, Kramer be-gan working Tuesday through Thurs-day, eight hours a day, giving 25-minuteonline video lessons to students incountries such as Spain, Germany, Tur-key and Brazil. Her clients include teen-agers who plan to attend college in theU.S., business executives and retirees.

A British native, Kramer once workedas a hiking and bicycle tour guide tellingparticipants about local cultures, so itwasn’t difficult to reactivate her teach-ing skills.

“I get to meet people from all differentcountries and help them get better,” shesays. When their English improves, “it’sa fantastic feeling.”

The pay – $15 an hour, or $360 a week– is less than half her vacation advisersalary, but it’s enough to allow Kramerand her husband to order takeout din-ners a couple of times a month. Andthey recently bought a new Dutch ovenfor camping trips.

Kramer has no plans to go back to thetravel and tourism business.

“We have more free time to do thethings we do outdoors,” she says.

Recruiter turned day trader

After she was laid off from herrecruiting job April 1, Charlotte Mahlerof Plano, Texas, waited about six weeksfor her unemployment checks. She re-cently received about four weeks of pay-ments – half of what she should have

gotten – and they didn’tinclude the $600 federalweekly supplement. The$2,000 was enough topay her rent but not util-ity and other bills.

Forced to draw fromher savings, Mahler, 52,has been day-trading

stocks through Ameritrade since shelost her job. Her father showed her thebasics in her 20s, and she has traded oc-casionally over the years. But this wasdifferent.

“I said now that I have availability allday, why not do it full-time?” she says.

Mahler wakes up daily at 7:30 a.m.Central Time so she can watch CNBCand read Zacks Investment Research re-ports to prepare for the New York StockExchange’s opening bell an hour later.Closely monitoring CNBC and her Ame-ritrade account throughout the day, herstrategy is elegantly simple: If a stockstarts to climb significantly, she buys it.When it begins to dip, even slightly, shesells.

She typically buys and sells five to 20stocks – amounting to $2,000 to $5,000– a day. When she saw beaten-downcruise ship and airline stocks climb re-cently, she bought some, quickly sellingthe next day as they started to dip andnetting about $1,000. She cleared about$400 on Peloton, the exercise equip-ment producer, and $700 on BeyondMeat, the maker of plant-based meatsubstitutes, buying and selling bothstocks within a day.

While watching Beyond Meat’s stockprice on her iPad, she had to run to thegrocery store for toothpaste and askedher mother to keep an eye on the stockand call her if it started falling. Fortu-nately, it didn’t.

Mahler says she never loses morethan $100 to $200 in a day, and typicallynets several hundred dollars to $1,000 aweek, which she promptly transfers toher bank account.

“That’s how I’m going to make moneyand pay my bills,” she says. “I have to beaggressive in the market.”

While she says day trading is fun,she’s looking for another job.

“It’ll be nice not to have to watch thestock shows,” she says. “Some days, Ifeel like I’m getting a little burned out.”

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Furlough?Be carefulwhat youask for

Johnny C. TaylorColumnist

USA TODAY

Johnny C. Taylor Jr., a human re-sources expert, is tackling your ques-tions as part of a series for USA TODAY.Taylor is president and CEO of the So-ciety for Human Resource Manage-ment, the world's largest HR profes-sional society.

The questions are submitted byreaders, and Taylor's answers belowhave been edited for length and clarity.

Question: Can I ask my employerto furlough me? I feel stressed, con-cerned for my family and my job ishigh risk. I'm a driver and am forcedto go into other companies that havehad confirmed cases of the virus.Thanks, Johnny. – Anonymous

Johnny C. Taylor Jr.: This is a goodquestion – and I have a short answer.

Yes, you could ask to be furloughed.But before you do, ask yourself: Is thistruly the right move?

Thirty-one percent of employershave laid off workers and 15% havepermanently cut head count with nointent to rehire. With that in mind, I’dcaution you against making a big deci-sion solely based on fear.

If your company is already imple-menting furloughs, you can tactfullyrequest one. However, your employeris not obliged to grant your request –

and it could offend or upset your boss.The bottom line here, though, is youcan’t refuse to come to work based onanxiety over exposure alone.

So, yes, you could ask to be fur-loughed. But with some 33 million job-less claims filed in the last sevenweeks, I would carefully weigh wheth-er furlough is your best bet. I can’t saywhat you should do, though, since Idon’t know your financial situation, orif you live with someone especially at-risk of contracting COVID-19.

This pandemic is forcing us all tomake difficult decisions. I hope thisfeedback makes yours at least a littleeasier.

Question: Due to the COVID-19outbreak, my company had to doseveral layoffs, and I was one ofthose who got cut. I’ve been applyingfor new positions, only to find thatmany of the places I am interested inhave implemented hiring freezes.Any advice on how to move forwardduring these circumstances? –Anonymous

Taylor.: I am sorry to hear you werelaid off. But it’s great this difficultyhasn’t deterred you. After all, puttingyour search on pause could meanmissing out on the job you want.

The key here is recognizing there isan opportunity in every challenge.While many companies aren’t hiring,some are – so think about where de-mand is rising under lockdown. Suchas Shipping and delivery, online learn-ing, and digital communications.

You also could search for an essen-tial job. These pandemic-resistantroles exist in virtually every sector,from technology and health care to ag-riculture and law enforcement. Forideas, see the list of essential workersfrom the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infra-structure Security Agency (CISA).

That said, even if a company isn’thiring now it doesn’t mean they’re notrecruiting for the future. Many em-ployers are still reviewing applicationsor conducting remote informationalinterviews, so keep submitting yourresume and requesting more informa-tion. Being proactive sends a positivemessage to hiring managers: You’re re-silient and eager to get back to work.

Remember this crisis is temporary.The economy will recover, businesseswill re-open – and you will land a job.

So, keep your head up!

With millions of jobless claims filedin the last seven weeks, I wouldcarefully weigh whether furlough isyour best bet.

ASK HUMAN RESOURCES

Our series “How I became a …”digs into the stories of accomplishedand influential people, finding outhow they got to where they are intheir careers.

When Misty Copeland took her veryfirst ballerina class on the basketballcourt at the Boys & Girls Club, her lifebegan clicking into place. Followingher humble beginnings on the basket-ball court, Copeland took the stageyears later as the first-ever AfricanAmerican female principal dancer forAmerican Ballet Theatre. Copelandhas since spent years dancing enpointe (on the tips of the toes) and in-spiring women and men around theworld, performing everywhere fromPrince’s purple piano to the stage ofthe Metropolitan Opera House.

USA TODAY caught up with the bal-lerina, author, and spokesmodel totalk about everything from finding bal-let as a child and dancing for 12 hours aday to diversifying the field of balletand realizing that everyone is human.

Question: How did you get yourstart with dance?

Misty Copeland: I was one of sixchildren, so we didn’t have a ton of op-portunity to really have any kind of in-dividual chance to go play a sport or gotake a dance class. We didn’t have themeans at all to that – we were con-stantly moving from city to city andnot always having a home. When I dis-covered who Mariah Carey was, I hadthis innate, visceral response and shebecame this kind of protection for me.... That turned into movement being anescape. I ended up auditioning for thedance team at my middle school, andthey made me captain even though Iliterally had no dance experience. Iwas 13 at that time, and that’s when Iwas discovered by a teacher that saw alot of potential in me and told me totake ballet class. (There was a) freeclass at the Boys & Girls Club, so I tookmy first ballet class on the basketball

court.

Q: What does a typical day look likefor you?

Copeland: It’s all over the place andconstantly changing, but if I were pre-paring for our spring season, it would be7:15 a.m. to 7 p.m. rehearsing. At thispoint, we’re preparing to go on tour andpreparing and creating new works forupcoming seasons, so I’m doing thatstuff but also am working on so manyother things that I’m doing outside ofABT. Just meetings with my productioncompany, the book, interviews, speak-ing engagements, things like that.

Q: What is your favorite part aboutyour job?

Copeland: Performing, but also trav-eling.

Q: What do you credit your successto?

Copeland: Support, mentorship,amazing examples, and incredible blackwomen throughout my life that havestayed with me, making sure that I wasgoing to live out what I think my pur-pose is, as well as my husband.

Q: How do you balance work, life,and such a busy schedule?

Copeland: I think having an amazingteam. I wouldn’t be able to find any bal-ance if I didn’t have a team who I trustedthat was truly looking out for my bestinterest ... That definitely allows me tobe present in whatever I’m doing fromday-to-day, which has been a learningprocess. When I first started workingwith them, I had this struggle with let-ting go of control, and when you’re so fo-cused and stressed about what’s tocome, especially as a dancer, you can’tjust be free and in the moment. Theyhave helped me to find my balance.

Q: What have been some of yourbiggest career highs?

Copeland: Definitely my first perfor-mance of “Firebird” in New York City. Itwas a really, really special night and avery important season for me. I was stilla soloist (when I was given)] that role atAmerican Ballet Theatre, and the audi-ence was full of brown people for the

first time ever. I could open people’seyes and minds to what was possible interms of diversifying – not just thedancers on the stage, but the people inthe audience – and allowing them to feelaccepted, and that this was a space theybelonged in as well. And then, beingpromoted to principal dancer.

Q: What advice would you give tosomeone who wants to follow in yourfootsteps?

Copeland: I think it’s just aboutshowing the youth that hearing rejec-tion and receiving rejection or negativ-ity does not equate to failure. Just toknow that you have support around youand that you can’t do it on your own andthat’s not a bad thing – these are lessonsthat I’ve learned and that I just try togive to young people, just to let themknow that they may look at me and seethis perfect image of what they think mylife is like, and then I say that I’ve prob-ably experienced exactly what you’regoing through. I think it’s important forpeople to see that we’re all human.

Quick hits

❚ What’s your coffee order? A matchagreen tea latte

❚ What’s your favorite book? Proba-bly something by Ta-Nehisi Coates. I’malso definitely in children’s books mode,so when I think about “Where the WildThings Are” or those types of creativebooks that I feel like influenced me somuch growing up

❚ What’s your favorite song? “I GottaFind Peace of Mind” by Lauryn Hill

❚ Who has been one of your biggestmentors? I’ve had so many that havecome and gone but made equally as bigof an impact, but Raven Wilkinson –who passed last year – was probably thebiggest influence and motivator for meto see my capabilities and see my careerin a different way. It was beyond just be-ing on the stage and having a voice inthat way, but to be able to understandmy purpose and what I could representfor so many because she did that for me.

❚ What’s the coolest thing you’ve everdone? Dancing on top of Prince’s purplegrand piano at Madison Square Garden.

HOW I BECAME A ...

Misty Copeland is working on her many projects beyond American Ballet Theatre. UNDER ARMOUR

Copeland is en pointewith many venturesBallerina juggles rolesas author, entrepreneur

Susannah HutchesonSpecial to USA TODAY

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Norwegian Cruise Ln (NCLH) 17.29 +1.63 +10.4 -70.4

Apache Corp (APA) 11.73 +.94 +8.7 -54.2

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employed Americans alike," Levinsaid.

The losses from these claims are es-timated to be in the several hundredmillion dollar range, according to analert issued by the Secret Service. Thecrimes are fueled by data lost in leaks,breaches, phishing attacks and evenoversharing on social media.

As emails popped up in the past fewdays, some wondered whether theywere looking at another potentialscam. Why would the Michigan De-partment of Labor and Economic Op-portunity be contacting you about "aninternational criminal ring exploitingthe COVID-19 crisis"? Really? It justsounds so strange.

But it's legitimate. Some who filed unemployment

claims in Michigan began receivingemails May 27 to alert them that moreID verification would be needed,thanks to fears of an online crimespree. Some received letters in themail prior to the emails being sent.

When you go to the Michigan job-less claims site to apply for benefits,you’re also now alerted that you mightbe spotting a “Stop Payment” notice onyour account.

“There is a rise in unlawful unem-ployment claims across the nation,”said Steve Gray, the director of theMichigan Unemployment InsuranceAgency, in a statement. “And unfortu-nately, criminals are taking advantageof this global pandemic.”

The crooks already have plenty ofstolen personal information, includingSocial Security numbers, after severalmajor hacking incidents during thepast few years.

“Due to largescale fraud attemptsagainst state unemployment pro-grams across the nation,” the Michi-gan site says, “the UIA has developedadditional measures to protect certainclaimants by requiring further identityverification and claim eligibility au-thentication.”

The Michigan Unemployment In-surance Agency is warning residentsof the possibility that criminals will fileimpostor claims. “No personal datafrom claimants has been stolen fromUIA,” according to the Michigan agen-cy.

Many of those who have filed un-employment claims have begun re-ceiving emails from the State of Michi-gan to require them to verify theiridentities. People who are filing newclaims, as well as those with existingclaims, could face this new verificationrequirement in Michigan, too.

Some people who have already filedclaims may have received “Stop Pay-ment” notices on their accounts andnow must review instructions thatthey were sent for how to submit addi-tional information.

“If you received a ‘Stop Payment’notice on your account, detailed in-structions have been emailed andmailed to you on how to submit addi-tional identifying information in orderto receive your benefits," the site says."There is no reason to take further ac-tion until you receive the instructions.”

Some banks or credit unions alsomay place a hold on a customer’s ac-count if the financial institution sus-pects fraud. Customers need to workdirectly with the bank if that’s thecase.

The Michigan unemployment agen-cy is working with law enforcement todetermine the level of fraud there.

The state will temporarily suspendcertain payments to prevent fraudwhen it suspects malicious claims.

Scammers cash in asjobless claims surge

Susan TomporColumnist

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As if losing your job or a string of pay-checks during a coronavirus-relatedfurlough isn’t stressful enough, nowthose who file for unemployment bene-fits are being warned to watch out forprofessional crime rings.

And the crooks could create head-aches for you, too, even if you’re luckyenough to still be working or perhapseven retired.

Add this to a long list of COVID-19headaches.

Across the country, consumers arebeing warned that fraud is on the rise re-lating to jobless claims. The U.S. SecretService has already spotted trouble inFlorida, Washington, North Carolina,Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Oklaho-ma and Wyoming.

"It is extremely likely every state isvulnerable to this scheme and will betargeted if they have not been already,"according to the Secret Service alert is-sued May 14.

The alert noted that a significantamount of fraudulent claims have usedstolen ID information from school em-ployees, first responders, as well as gov-ernment employees. It is assumed, ac-cording to federal authorities, that thering has a massive database to "submitthe volume of applications observedthus far."

Some data being used might belongto anyone, whether they’re jobless ornot. Retirees, for example, report receiv-ing unemployment forms to verify theiridentity from the state when they didn'ttry to make any claims recently.

The online con artists claim to be gigworkers or self-employed workers insome cases to steal money from the un-employment system.

Unemployment benefits have be-come particularly lucrative for thievesduring the coronavirus crisis. An extra$600 in benefits may be added on top ofstate jobless benefits for those who losework because of the COVID-19 crisis un-der the new federal Pandemic Unem-ployment Assistance program.

"A Nigerian crime ring is the primesuspect, but doubtless there are others,"said Adam Levin, founder of Cyber-Scout, which offers identity theft pro-tection and data security.

"They have motive: financial gain.They have the means: They are expertsat phishing attacks and have an interna-tional network of money mules whohave been laundering money for themfor years. "

And Levin suspects that many un-suspecting folks who are desperate foradditional work at this moment couldbe caught in parts of this scheme, too.

On top of that, he noted, jobless callcenters in various states, includingMichigan, are overwhelmed. Some web-sites have crashed at various points be-cause of waves of people trying to fileclaims, get more information or sort outsuspicious transactions.

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Some shoppers have been waitingfor stores to reopen so they can returnthe unwanted merchandise that hasbeen stashed in car trunks or closetssince normal lifecame to a screechinghalt in mid-March.

But at many stores, the return proc-ess will look different from the way itdid before the coronavirus pandemic.

First, you’ll stand in a socially dis-tanced line at the customer service de-partment before having minimal con-tact with the cashier, who likely will bebehind a plexiglass divider.

Then, those pants, blazers or shoesyou’re returning will be placed in“quarantine” for at least 24 hours atmost stores, many of which have alsoextended their return periods to ac-commodate returns for when storeswere closed because of COVID-19.

“We’re quarantining returns thatcome into the stores right now,” OldNavy President Nancy Green told USATODAY. “They go into a separate areafor a period of time and then they getprocessed back into inventory that isavailable to sell as long as they’re notdamaged.”

Kohl’s CEO Michelle Gass said thather stores extended the company’s re-turn policy of 180 days by 30 days be-cause of the COVID-19 closings. Thereturned merchandise will be kept offthe sales floor for 48 hours.

Kohl’s continues to accept Amazonreturns, but to help with social dis-tancing, those returns are being han-dled in a separate part of the store.

Dick’s Sporting Goods has extendedits return policy from 60 to 90 daysfrom date of purchase and is acceptingcoordinated curbside returns for pur-chases made with debit or credit cards.

Sephora has extended returns for in-store purchases made on or after Feb. 15,with receipts for 30 days of reopeningand increased its return policy for on-line returns from 30 days to 60.

But Sephora won’t sell the returnedproducts.

Adjusted return policies atWalmart, Costco and Kroger

In the days and weeks after COVID-19led to closures, retailers that stayedopen also adjusted return policies.Some stores including grocers havetemporarily suspended all returns or re-turns of select merchandise.

Since April 20, Walmart temporarilystopped accepting returns of food, pa-per goods, home cleaning supplies,pharmacy, apparel, and health andbeauty items.

The retailer says that if you need toreturn an item and have a receipt, tostart on the Walmart app or website.

Target is currently accepting returnsagain with a couple of changes.

Returned items with hard surfaces,like board games, are cleaned and wipeddown before going on the sales floor,Target officials told USA TODAY, whileapparel items are placed in quarantinefor three days from the date of return.

Returning items tostores has a new lookKelly TykoUSA TODAY

A customer carries a package of toiletpaper at a Costco store on March 14 inNovato, Calif. GETTY IMAGES

Several Facebook employees havepublicly spoken out against the waythe company handles posts fromPresident Donald Trump.

Friday, Facebook CEO Mark Zucker-berg defended the social network’s de-cision to leave up a post by the presi-dent in which he warned, “When thelooting starts, the shooting starts.”

Twitter labeled Trump’s tweet as aviolation of rules against “glorifyingviolence.”

Facebook left the president’s postuntouched.

“I work at Facebook and I am notproud of how we’re showing up,” JasonToff, a product management director,wrote on Twitter.

“The majority of coworkers I’vespoken to feel the same way. We aremaking our voice heard.”

Jason Stirman, who works on re-search and development at Facebook,said the company’s decision is “not ac-ceptable.”

“I’m a FB employee that completelydisagrees with Mark’s decision to donothing about Trump’s recent posts,which clearly incite violence,” Stirmantweeted.

“I’m not alone inside of FB. Thereisn’t a neutral position on racism.”

According to The New York Times,several employees are participating in

a virtual walkout to protest Facebook’sstance.

Some employees confirmed on Twit-ter they will join the walkout, as first re-ported by CNBC.

“As allies we must stand in the way ofdanger, not behind,” Sara Zhang said.

Friday, Zuckerberg said in a Facebokpost that although he disagrees withTrump’s post, the content should be outin the open for users to decide on them-selves.

“I know many people are upset thatwe’ve left the President’s posts up, butour position is that we should enable asmuch expression as possible unless itwill cause imminent risk of specificharms or dangers spelled out in clearpolicies,” Zuckerberg said.

Last week, Twitter clashed withTrump over tweets posted by the presi-dent on mail-in ballots.

On two of Trump’s tweets, Twitterappended the message “Get the factsabout mail-in ballots,” linking to infor-mation disputing the president’sclaims. Trump blasted Twitter, threat-ening to “strongly regulate” social mediaplatforms.

Zuckerberg questioned the factcheck, saying private companies shouldnot serve as an “arbiter of truth.” TwitterCEO Jack Dorsey defended the decision.

“Our intention is to connect the dotsof conflicting statements and show theinformation in dispute, so people canjudge for themselves,” Dorsey said.

Facebook employees criticizeinaction on Trump’s postsBrett MolinaUSA TODAY

Andy Cohen is 52. Wayne Brady is 48.Awkwafina is 32.

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The summer movie season is looking a lot different than usual this

year. ❚ Because theaters are closed by coronavirus, many of the

huge blockbusters-in-waiting have been shifted to later this year

or even into 2021. That doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy new films

coming out in June, July and August, though. A lot are coming to

streaming services in the next few months that were either in-

tended for theatrical release or always meant for at-home enjoy-

ment. ❚ Some are hanging tough to their theatrical dates, from

major movies like Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” (slated for July 17),

Disney’s live-action “Mulan” (July 24) and superhero sequel

“Wonder Woman 1984” (Aug. 14) to Russell Crowe’s road-rage

thriller “Unhinged” (July 1) and the innovative Riz Ahmed musical

drama “Sound of Metal” (Aug. 14). While we wait to see if those

dates stick, what’s coming to streaming seems a lot more solid:

Here are 10 upcoming movies to definitely put on your quarantine

calendar:

‘Artemis Fowl’ (June 12)

Stars: Ferdia Shaw, Josh Gad andJudi Dench

Director: Kenneth BranaghThe skinny: Could this be the first

major movie franchise for Disney+?The adaptation of Eoin Colfer’syoung-adult fantasy adventure fol-lows a boy genius, the latest in a lineof criminal masterminds, who takeson a race of powerful fairies to rescue

his kidnapped father (Colin Farrell).Where to watch: Disney+

‘Da 5 Bloods’ (June 12)

Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Del-roy Lindo and Isiah Whitlock Jr.

Director: Spike LeeThe skinny: With Oscars leaning

into streaming efforts this year, is it

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Instead of focusing on the politicaldivide between red and blue, KristenBell wants everyone to start seeingpurple.

So Bell, and close friend BenjaminHart penned a children’s book, “TheWorld Needs More Purple People,” outTuesday.

In the book, readers follow a child,Penny Purple, on her quest to learnwhat exactly a purple person is andhow she can become one.

Why write a children’s book insteadof one for adults? “There’s a high prob-ability that if a child is reading thisbook, a parent is either near or readingit to them,” Bell told USA TODAY.

Bell knows how to appeal to bothadults and children. After all, in addi-tion to her recent work on the televi-sion series “The Good Place” and herupcoming voice work on new animat-ed series “Central Park,” Bell playedthe fearless and fan-favorite Anna inDisney’s animated hits “Frozen” and“Frozen II.”

Bell and Hart started writing thebook about two years ago, but Bell saysnow is really the perfect time for its re-lease. “Right now we are all experienc-ing something together, which is thisglobal pandemic. We have commonal-ity.”

The idea of writing this book came afew years back during a dinner withHart. “We were just lamenting on thefact that adults spend a lot of time ar-guing,” says Bell. “It occurred to us thatour children are running around us,

absorbing every-thing we talkedabout. And wewere all talkingabout divisive-ness.”

But while thedebate at the din-ner was among a

group of friends, Bell and Hart stillthought there was a problem. This ledthem to ask a very simple question.When do children hear adults talkingabout sameness, togetherness andseeing people as friends rather thanenemies? They decided, not enough.

“We wanted to create a road map forkids to first look for sameness,” saidBell. “The reason you’re able to have ahealthy debate with someone and per-haps have their eyes opened on a newtopic is because you first see same-ness. And we are living in a world thatsees differences first. We wanted tochange that.”

But how did they come up with pur-ple people?

“We needed a label,” Bell says. “But a label is tricky in and of itself

because a label means certain peopleare included and certain people are ex-cluded.“ After much deliberation, theysettled the color purple as a good de-scriptor.

It’s no accident that red and blue,the colors used to represent the U.S.’stwo major political parties, make pur-ple. Says Bell, “Don’t think I’m notsending this to everyone in our ... gov-ernment and probably every govern-ment around the world as requiredreading.”

Purple people, according to Bell, arepeople who ask really great questions,who are really silly, who use theirvoice, who work hard and are happyand confident to be themselves.

Bell did test the book out on herchildren (Lincoln, 7, and Delta, 5) whilewriting it. “I had kids so that I couldhave an at-home science experiment,”jokes Bell. “Honest to God, they’re agreat group to test on. They are littleguinea pigs, but I will say my kidscould care less that I was writing achildren’s book.” That is until artistDaniel Wiseman came on board todraw the illustrations.

Bell wasn’t offended because “forchildren, visual learning is really im-portant. And I think that is why mykids latched on and saw so much morewhen they saw it through his illustra-tions.”

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Bell’s‘Purple’focuses on unityMary CaddenUSA TODAY

Queen Elizabeth is back in the saddle,riding a pony at Windsor Castle,where she has been semi-isolated inresidence since the COVID-19 crisis.Photographs of the 94-year-oldqueen riding Fern, her 14-year-oldFell pony, were released Sunday byBuckingham Palace. In the first publicappearance since her coronavirusquarantine, the British royal wears acolorful head scarf, a tweed jacketand a determined look, bypassing aprotective helmet. The oldest andlongest-serving monarch (68 yearsand counting) in British history ispassionate about her equine pursuits,with daily horse rides that have con-tinued despite the pandemic.

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having a human conversation with me– a dad and a black man in pain. Yes, Iam a human, a father and a black manin pain and I am not the only one.Now I, along with an entire country inpain, call upon (Attorney GeneralKeith) Ellison to do the right thingand prosecute all those responsiblefor the murder of George Floyd to thefullest extent of the law. This is just afirst step. I am more determined tofight for justice than any fight mywould-be oppressors may have.”– Statement from Jay-Z posted to RocNation’s official Instagram Sunday.

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“The High Note” is special to TraceeEllis Ross in many ways. For starters, it’sthe “black-ish” funnywoman’s firstleading role in a movie, playing a pop di-va not unlike her real-life mom, the leg-endary Diana Ross.

But the morning before the drame-dy’s release on streaming platforms Fri-day, Ross was struggling to collect herthoughts. Minutes earlier, she posted anemotional letter on social media ad-dressing the recent wave of police bru-tality against black people includingGeorge Floyd, 46, whose death sparkedriots nationwide this week.

“Dear Black People, I love us,” shewrote, calling for comfort and connec-tion despite her rage.

“It’s a very complicated experienceinside my body: to have such excitementabout my movie premiering while alsohaving such heavy heartbreak,” Rosstells USA TODAY. “It’s been like an on-slaught: the combination of the loss oflives from coronavirus, the history ofbrutality against black people, the factthat the virus is disproportionately af-fecting black people, and those unem-ployed are majority black and brownwomen. There’s just a lot of genuine losshappening in our world right now that’shard to be with.”

Ross, 47, hopes “The High Note” canbe an escape with its catchy songs andcharming behind-the-scenes story ofMaggie (Dakota Johnson), an aspiringrecord producer and assistant to GraceDavis (Ross), a middle-aged superstarlooking to reignite her career. The ac-tress opens up about self-love, life inquarantine and following in her famousmother’s musical footsteps.

Question: Did you go back andwatch your mom’s performances ortry to channel her?

Tracee Ellis Ross: No, not at all. I un-derstand the comparisons – obviously, Iam her child and grew up watching heron stage, and I’m playing a singing sen-sation. But there were only two timesduring filming when it came up. Once,

when I just wanted to make sure(Grace’s) hair didn’t look like we wereconsciously trying to make me look likemy mom because we weren’t. And then

there was one song I recorded that Ithought to myself, “Oh, my goodness,the tone in my voice. I sound so muchlike my mom.”

Grace doesn’t hide behind anything,so I tried to find that ease and learn howto be comfortable with a mike. I watchedfootage of Rihanna, Beyoncé and CelineDion, who has a very specific way sheuses her microphone and hands. Andwhen you think of Mariah Carey, there’sa way she does a finger point when she’ssinging. So there were certain things Idid in the recording studio and thenwould notice (onstage), where my fin-gers helped me indicate where I was go-ing with the next note.

Q: What was your mom’s reactionwatching the film for the first time?

Ross: My mom has not seen themovie! I had a family screening sched-uled (to happen) two days after Los An-geles shut down. I asked her if she want-ed a link and she was like, “I kind ofwant to wait to see it (when) everybodyelse can,” which is very much my mombecause she loves that spirit of collec-

tive energy. When we originally starteddemoing the songs, I got her in my carand played her the music. We were hold-ing hands and we both cried. So it wasvery special to finally let my voice out inthat way.

Q: There’s a great moment whereGrace explains how everyone asks herwhen she’s going to find a man, but ul-timately says, “I’m happy with me.”As someone who’s frequently spokenabout self-love, was that somethingyou brought to the character?

Ross: That was already in the script,although I connected it to a really won-derful, honest space for me, Tracee. Thereality is the humanization of women,black women and black people on-screen makes a difference in how we seeourselves and how others see us. To tellstories that reflect the reality of human-ity is incredibly important in expandingthe ideas of what is possible, what ourchoices are, what happiness looks like,where one finds freedom, and how tocurate your own happiness.

Q: There’s another memorablescene where Grace cleans out hercloset Marie Kondo-style, trying tofind items that spark joy. What’sbrought you joy during quarantine?

Ross: I’m an executive producer onfive different projects and have a haircompany, so I’ve been extremely busy. Iusually walk around in my life with theidea of working hard, working smartand trying to balance self-care with theamount of output that I’m doing. That(ethos) has shifted in the pandemic to“easy, gentle and joyful.”

While still doing lots of work, the joyhas come in fresh-cut flowers, lettingmyself wake up sometimes without analarm clock, and making the most glori-ous food. I haven’t done any takeout atall and I love Thai food, so I’ve learnedhow to make green papaya salad andchicken larb. And honestly, just beingable to connect on a more regular basiswith my family and girlfriends: eatingdinner, sitting and talking on FaceTime.I don’t usually have time to luxuriate inthat way, so that brings me joy.

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‘High Note’ is a high point for RossPatrick RyanUSA TODAY

“This is not a story about women looking for boyfriends,” says Tracee Ellis Ross(right), shown with co-star Dakota Johnson. GLEN WILSON/FOCUS FEATURES

Diana Ross and daughter Tracee EllisRoss strike a pose together in 2014.FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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finally Netflix’s time to win bestpicture? Here’s the first realcontender of 2020, Lee’s warfilm about four African Ameri-can vets who return to Vietnamsearching for the remains oftheir dead squad leader (Bose-man) and a buried fortune.

Where to watch: Netflix

‘The King of Staten Island’(June 12)

Stars: Pete Davidson, Ma-risa Tomei and Bill Burr

Director: Judd ApatowThe skinny: “Saturday

Night Live” regular Davidsonstars and co-wrote the scriptfor this semi-autobiographicaldramedy about a young NewYorker who’s been in a state ofarrested development since hisfirefighter dad died in the line ofduty.

Where to watch: iTunes,Vudu and FandangoNOW

‘7500’ (June 19)

Stars: Joseph Gordon-Le-vitt, Omid Memar and Murath-an Muslu

Director: Patrick Vollrath The skinny: He’s back! In

his first major role since 2016’s“Snowden,” Gordon-Levittstars as an American co-piloton a jaunt from Berlin to Pariswhen terrorists storm the cock-pit with makeshift knives. Anemergency landing becomesnecessary when hijackersthreaten murder if they’re notlet in.

Where to watch: Amazon

‘Irresistible’ (June 26)

Stars: Steve Carell, RoseByrne and Chris Cooper

Director: Jon StewartThe skinny: Former “Daily

Show” alums work togetheragain in this comedy writtenand directed by Stewart andstarring Carell as a Democraticpolitical consultant who helpsa retired Marine colonel (Coop-er) run for mayor in his smallWisconsin town.

Where to watch: iTunes,Vudu and FandangoNOW

‘Hamilton’ (July 3)

Stars: Lin-Manuel Miranda,Daveed Diggs and Renee EliseGoldsberry

Director: Thomas KailThe skinny: This one’s for

everybody who hasn’t seen theTony Awards-conquering mu-sical that captured culturalimagination, lost out on seeingthe original cast on Broadway,or even had their recent plansat the theater changed becauseof the coronavirus. This filmedproduction of the stage show,starring Miranda as AlexanderHamilton, aims to bring thetheatrical experience to thosestuck at home.

Where to watch: Disney+

‘The Old Guard’ (July 10)

Stars: Charlize Theron, Chi-

wetel Ejiofor and MatthiasSchoenaerts

Director: Gina Prince-Byth-ewood

The skinny: In the actionflick based on the comic bookseries, a team of centuries-oldimmortal mercenaries (led byTheron) discovers a young newrecruit (KiKi Layne) with theirsame hard-to-kill abilitieswhile also dealing with theirsecrets being exposed.

Where to watch: Netflix

‘Palm Springs’ (July 10)

Stars: Andy Samberg, Cris-tin Milioti and J.K. Simmons

Director: Max BarbakowThe skinny: A hit at this

year’s Sundance Film Festival,the romantic comedy featuresSamberg and Milioti as twoguests who hook up at a PalmSprings wedding and then gettrapped in a “Groundhog Day”-style time loop.

Where to watch: Hulu

‘The Rental’ (July 24)

Stars: Alison Brie, Dan Ste-vens and Sheila Vand

Director: Dave FrancoThe skinny: Franco makes

his directorial debut with thishorror thriller that centers on

two couples who rent a week-end getaway online to celebratea business venture. The localeis idyllic but the situation turnssinister when they thinkthey’re being spied on and se-crets are exposed among thefriends.

Where to watch: iTunes,Vudu and FandangoNOW

‘The Tax Collector’ (Aug. 7)

Stars: Bobby Soto, GeorgeLopez and Shia LaBeouf

Director: David AyerThe skinny: “Fury” collabo-

rators Ayer and LaBeouf returnfor this LA-set action thrillerabout a pair of guys (Soto andLaBeouf) who collect the prof-its from various street gangs fora local crime lord, though trou-ble comes to town in the form oftheir boss’ Mexican rival.

Where to watch: iTunes,Vudu and FandangoNOW

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Steve Carell, right, plays a Democratic political consultant aiming to help a retired Marine (Chris Cooper, left) win a mayoralelection in “Irresistible.” DANIEL MCFADDEN/FOCUS FEATURES

Carefree Nyles (Andy Samberg) and reluctant maid of honorSarah (Cristin Milioti) get stuck in a time loop in the romanticcomedy “Palm Springs.” CHRISTOPHER WILLARD/HULU

Sheila Vand stars in “The Rental.” IFC FILMS

“The King of Staten Island.”UNIVERSAL PICTURES

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY’s Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases.

1. “The Vanishing Half”by Brit Bennett (Riverhead,fiction, on sale June 2)

What it’s about: Bennett’sdeeply compelling new noveldepicts a Southern communityborn from the legacy of slaveryand twin sisters of color whochoose to live in two differentworlds: one black and onewhite.

The buzz: “There are mo-ments in ‘The Vanishing Half ’that stun with quiet power,”says a eeeg review for USATODAY.

2. “A Burning”by Megha Majumdar (Knopf,fiction, on sale June 2)

What it’s about: Three livesbecome entwined when Jivan,a poor 22-year-old Muslim girlliving in the slums, is accusedof executing a terrorist attackbecause of a Facebook com-ment.

The buzz: “This novel right-fully commands attention,”says a eeeg review for USATODAY.

3. “The Book of Rosy: AMother’s Story ofSeparation at the Border”by Rosayra Pablo Cruz andJulie Schwietert Collazo(HarperOne, nonfiction, onsale June 2)

What it’s about: In this dev-astating memoir, Pablo Cruzshares her harrowing migrationstory. After her husband wasmurdered, the Guatemalanmother fled her country’s vio-lence seeking asylum in theU.S.

The buzz: “This wrenchingstory brings to vivid life theplight of the many families sep-arated at the U.S.-Mexico bor-der,” says a starred review inPublishers Weekly.

4. “Humankind: A HopefulHistory”by Rutger Bregman (Little,Brown and Company,nonfiction, on sale June 2)

What it’s about: Dutch au-thor and journalist Bregman’sargument is simple but radical:Most people are good, and wedo ourselves a disservice bythinking the worst of others.Bregman argues that believingin human kindness is a founda-tion for lasting social change.

The buzz: “A powerful argu-ment in favor of human virtue,”says a starred review in KirkusReviews.

5. “The Persuasion”by Iris Johansen (GrandCentral, fiction, on saleJune 2)

What it’s about: This latestEve Duncan thriller finds theformer forensic sculptor’sdaughter Jane in the cross hairsof a brilliant psychopath.Meanwhile, romance blossomsbetween Jane and her formerlover, Seth Caleb.

The buzz: “Those who liketheir romantic suspense with adash of the paranormal will bepleased,” Publishers Weeklysays.

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Week’s picks feature stories ofmothers, sisters, ‘Humankind’

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8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30NETWORK

ABC The Conners Darlene staysin jail for a night.

The Conners Beverly Rosegoes on a road trip.

Modern Family

Jay receives an award.Modern Family

Phil checks on his father.The Genetic Detective CeCe Moore investigates themurder of a mother and daughter. (N)

Local Programs Jimmy Kimmel Live

CBS NCIS Homeless veterans are being attacked; three are punished for actions.

FBI Unknown thieves steal truck that had rifles witharmor-piercing ammunition.

FBI: Most Wanted Team pursues young man who was radicalized by a traumatic mass shooting.

Local Programs The Late Show with

Stephen Colbert (N)

Fox Hell’s Kitchen Chefs have first individual challengeand prepare dinner service for guests.

Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back

Gordon teaches inexperienced owner.Local Programs

NBC America’s Got Talent The auditions continue as various acts and contestants audition for an opportunity to win a grand prize of $1 million; The Golden Buzzer returns. (N)

World of Dance The qualifiers continue as the contestantsperform in a stripped-down warehouse. (N)

Local Programs The Tonight Show

Starring Jimmy Fallon (N)

PBS Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents Assassination plot. Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents Enemy aristocrat. Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents Amanpour and Company (N)

CW DC’s Stargirl Pat warns Courtney not to pursue. (N) DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (N) (Season finale) Local Programs

ION Criminal Minds Abduction case. Criminal Minds Prentiss returns. Criminal Minds A serial killer in Virginia. Criminal Minds Families died due to possible bullying.

Telemundo Cennet 100 Días para enamorarnos (N) La Reina del Sur 2 - Edición especial (N) Noticias Telemundo (N) Noticias (N)

Univision Te doy la vida Padres intentan curar a su hijo. Amor eterno El amor de jóvenes se pondrá a prueba. Como tú no hay 2 Vida ajena. Noticiero Univisión (N) Noti. Univi. Ed. noc. (N)

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A&E The First 48 Young man is shot and left to die. The First 48 Double-shooting in New Orleans. Accused: Guilty or Innocent? Son defends himself. (N) The First 48 An elderly woman is found in her home.

AMC Man on Fire A former assassin hunts the people who kidnapped a nine-year-old child. Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning (2004) The Silence of the Lambs Jodie Foster (1991)

Animal Planet Alaskan Bush People: Wild Life Exploring bush. (N) Alaskan Bush People: Wild Life Billy’s project. (N) Homestead Rescue A diverter trench. Homestead Rescue Bee-obsessed owner.

BBC America The Hunt for Red October An advanced Soviet nuclear submarine goes rogue on its maiden voyage. Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin (1990) Robin Hood An archer becomes an English hero.

BET Kidnap Mother attempts to find kidnapped son. (2017) The Family That Preys A scandal threatens the lives of two families, so the mothers must save them. Kathy Bates, Alfre Woodard (2008)

Bravo Vanderpump Rules TomTom celebration. Vanderpump Rules Max talks about a secret fling. (N) Vanderpump Rules Max talks about a secret fling. Below Deck Mediterranean

Cartoon We Bare Bears We Bare Bears American Dad! American Dad! Bob’s Burgers Bob’s Burgers Family Guy Family Guy

CMT Mom Christy dates. Mom Christy dates Fred. Mom Bonnie avoids ex. Mom AA newcomer. Mom Marjorie’s wedding. Mom Women smuggle. Miss Congeniality Sandra Bullock (2000)

CNBC Shark Tank Hummus with a twist; edible cups. Shark Tank Coding subscription for children. The Profit A pie company is not turning a profit. The Profit Marcus tries to save a drum company.

CNN Anderson Cooper 360° (N) Cuomo Prime Time (N) CNN Tonight with Don Lemon (N) CNN Tonight with Don Lemon (N)

Comedy The Office The Office Jim’s “affair.” The Office The Office The Office The Office Daily Show with Trevor The Office

Discovery Deadliest Catch The fleet gets hit by harsh winter conditions; Monte and Sig track snow crab. (N) Deadliest Catch Family business.

Disney Sydney to the Max Coop & Cami Ask BUNK’D BUNK’D BUNK’D Gabby & the Unsittables Coop & Cami Ask Coop & Cami Ask

DisXD Player Select Parker Plays Big City Greens Big City Greens Big City Greens Gravity Falls Player Select Player Select

DIY Building Off the Grid: Floating Castle Building Off the Grid: Episode 3 (N) Building Off the Grid: West Coast Island Getaway Building Off the Grid: Volcano Home

E! Chrisley Knows Best Chrisley Knows Best Chrisley Knows Best Chrisley Knows Best Chrisley Knows Best Chrisley Knows Best Chrisley Knows Best Chrisley Knows Best

Food Chopped A pork theme battle and a Bloody Mary. Chopped Special seafood. (N) Supermarket Stakeout Calabasas, Calif. (N) Supermarket Stakeout Nacho platter.

Fox News Tucker Carlson Tonight (N) Hannity (N) The Ingraham Angle (N) Fox News @ Night(N)

Freeform The Waterboy (1998) Wedding Crashers Two friends sneak into weddings to prey on romantically inspired women. Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn (2005) The 700 Club

FX Pitch Perfect 3 The Bellas receive the opportunity to reunite and sing for an overseas USO tour. (2017) Pitch Perfect 3 The Bellas receive the opportunity to reunite and sing for an overseas USO tour. (2017)

FXX The Simpsons The Simpsons Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Bob’s Burgers Bob’s Burgers

GSN America Says Master Minds Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud Family Feud

Hallmark A Country Wedding A musician reconsiders his future after reconnecting with his childhood love. (2015) The Golden Girls The Golden Girls The Golden Girls The Golden Girls

HGTV Bargain Mansions 1938 cottage has great potential. Bargain Mansions 1978 Tudor home. (N) House Hunters House Hunters House In a Hurry House Hunters

History Lost Gold of World War II Drill into mountain. Lost Gold of World War II Decode map. (N) The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (N) (Season finale) The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch Intel community.

HLN Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files Forensic Files

ID People Magazine Investigates Woman goes missing. The Truth Behind Joe Exotic: Rick Kirkham Story (N) Body Cam A K9 is let loose; officers hunt felon. (N) Body Cam A man shoots his coworkers.

IFC Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation

Lifetime What Happens in Vegas Strangers get drunk and get married. Ashton Kutcher, Cameron Diaz (2008) Baby Mama An infertile businesswoman chooses an obnoxious girl to be her surrogate. Amy Poehler (2008)

MotorTrend Overhaulin’ Overhaulin’ (N) Faster with Finnegan (N) The Fastest Cars in the Dirty South

MSNBC All in with Chris Hayes (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell (N) The 11th Hour with Brian Williams (N)

MTV Teen Mom Maci makes a difficult decision. (N) Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness Ridiculousness

NatGeo 24 Hours After Hiroshima The atomic bomb. Drain the American Revolution War wrecks. (N) Kingdom of the Mummies Cult discovery. (N) Drain the American Revolution War wrecks.

NatGeo Wild World’s Deadliest: Lions World of lions. World’s Deadliest Crocs Crocodiles examined. World’s Deadliest: Super Snakes Deadly snakes. World’s Deadliest: Lions World of lions.

Nick Danger Force SpongeBob. Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends Friends

OWN If Loving You Is Wrong Relationship test. If Loving You Is Wrong Eddie’s disdain. If Loving You Is Wrong (N) If Loving You Is Wrong Relationship test.

Oxygen Chicago P.D. Olinsky is stabbed in prison. Chicago P.D. Bad heroin. Chicago P.D. Intelligence learns more about the fire. Chicago P.D. A teenage girl is kidnapped.

Paramount Paramount Movie Ink Master Tattoo artists compete for $100,000. Paramount Movie

Pop Made of Honor A man realizes he loves his best friend. Patrick Dempsey (2008) One Day at a Time Made of Honor A man realizes he loves his best friend, who just got engaged to a Scotsman. (2008)

Science Unearthed (N) Unearthed Investigations on greatest structures. Unearthed Investigations on greatest structures.

Sundance Monk Monkey witnesses a UFO in the night sky. Monk Monk goes undercover as a mob assassin. Monk Monk’s phobias cause courtroom trouble. Monk Panning critic is chief murder suspect.

Syfy Gone in 60 Seconds Nicolas Cage (2000) (6:30) Jurassic Park A billionaire invites scientists to inspect his island park filled with living dinosaurs, but the trip turns deadly when the dinosaurs escape captivity. (1993)

TBS Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory Big Bang Theory The Last O.G. (N) Conan (N) The Last O.G.

TCM Black Legion A secret society contacts a worker. Humphrey Bogart (1937) Dodge City A frontier sheriff sets out to rid his town of its growing criminal element. Errol Flynn (1939) Footloose (1937)

TLC OutDaughtered Sneak peek into seventh season. (N) OutDaughtered A surprise. (N) (Season premiere) 7 Little Johnstons A family dinner. (N) Sweet Home Sextuplets Kids run wild.

TNT 2 Guns Two men discover they have been set up by the mob to investigate each other. (2013) Training Day A rookie police officer rides with a training officer who makes his own rules. (2001) (10:15)

Travel Ghost Adventures Paranormal sites. Ghost Adventures Paranormal sites. Ghost Adventures Virginia City, Nev. Ghost Adventures Site in Globe, Ariz.

TruTV Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Tirdy Works (N) Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers

TV Land Loves Raymond Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Meddling parents. Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men The King of Queens The King of Queens

USA Law & Order: Special Victims Unit A teen’s secret. Dirty John Dirty John Chicago P.D. Dirty John

VH1 Wild ‘N Out (N) Wild ‘N Out Wild ‘N Out Wild ‘N Out Wild ‘N Out Wild ‘N Out Wild ‘N Out Wild ‘N Out

Viceland America on Drugs on VICE Terrorists and drug lords form alliance; pharmaceutical industry takes over. I, Sniper Lethal road trip. (N) (Series premiere) VICE News Tonight (N) Black Market M Williams

WE Law & Order Detectives investigate janitor’s murder. Law & Order Murder of a deadbeat father. Law & Order Suspicions abound in rich man’s murder. Law & Order Witness is a former FBI informant.

Weather Weather Gone Viral Cruise ship. Weather Gone Viral Worst events. Weather Gone Viral Unstoppable fury. Ice Pilots: NWT The Electra’s landing gear is stuck.

WGN America X2 The X-Men join Magneto to battle a government agent’s genocidal plan. Patrick Stewart (2003) (7:00) X-Men: The Last Stand A “cure” for mutants provokes Magneto’s Brotherhood to war against humanity. (2006)

MOVIE NETWORKS

Cinemax The Change-Up Two best friends, a lawyer and a playboy, mysteriously switch bodies, giving each a chanceto learn more about the other as they live the other’s life. Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman (2011)

Isn’t It Romantic A cynic awakes to a life as the leading lady in a romantic comedy.Rebel Wilson, Liam Hemsworth (2019) (9:55)

Death Becomes Her

Meryl Streep (1992) (11:25)

Encore Two for the Money An injured football player begins anew career in the sports gambling business. (2005)

La Bamba In 1950s California, a 17-year-old Mexican-American migrant worker named Ritchie Valens encounterspersonal problems on the road to rock ‘n’ roll stardom. Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto (1987)

Funny People A famous actor with a fatal disease hires a struggling comic as an assistant. (2009) (10:51)

FXM 300 In the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, a king and 300 Spartan soldiers fight to the death againstanother king and the enormous Persian army. Gerard Butler, Lena Headey (2007) (7:35)

300 In the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, a king and 300 Spartan soldiers fight to the death againstanother king and the enormous Persian army. Gerard Butler, Lena Headey (2007) (9:55)

Hallmark Movies Hailey Dean Mysteries: Dating is Murder A dating apphelps Hailey track killer. Kellie Martin (2017) (7:00)

Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: An Inheritance to Die For Sally’s wealthy Aunt Gladys dies from poisoningduring a wedding reception. Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter (2019)

Murder, She Wrote A terminally ill nun appears tohave committed suicide.

HBO I Know This Much Is True Dominick prepares forimportant hearing; Joy tries to fix relationship.

I Know This Much Is True Dominick decides to go back towork and recalls Thomas’ first hospitalization.

Hanna A teenager has been raised by her ex-CIA agent father to become a trained killer, but her missionbecomes complicated by opposing forces. Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana (2011)

Lifetime Movie Stalker in the Attic After a single mother’s boyfriend moves out following their breakup, she finds her life injeopardy when mysterious occurrences begin to transpire in her house. (2020)

Sinister Stalker A man saves an ER doctor from an attack, but she ultimately learns that he is somehowconnected to her past and is quite unstable. Marci Miller, Kelly Blatz (2020)

Showtime Ray Donovan Although Ray tells Bridget to steerclear of Marvin, she decides to meet him.

Escape at Dannemora The tension between Matt and Sweat increases as theyrun for their lives.

Mr. Brooks A devoted father and serial killer is tracked by a tough detective.Kevin Costner, Demi Moore (2007) (10:40)

Starz Tears of the Sun A Special-Ops squad must save a doctorand refugees from jungle rebels. (2003) (6:58)

Hightown Jackie goes to rehab for investigation; Ray and Renee go too far.

Seven Pounds An engineer with a mysterious secret begins a journey to change the lives of seven strangers,but soon he begins to fall in love with one of the strangers. Will Smith, Rosario Dawson (2008)

TMC Seven Two detectives team up to track a serial killer who chooses each of his victims based on one of theseven deadly sins and executes them accordingly. Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman (1995)

Carriers As a viral pandemic ravages the globe, four young friends try to flee to asafe and isolated place, passing through a crumbling social infrastructure. (2009)

Charlie Says Student teaches infamous murderers.

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ESPN College Basketball 30 for 30 Without Bias SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt

ESPN2 NBA 2K League (Live) NFL Live

FS1 WrestleMania 31 WWE Backstage

Golf Golf’s Greatest Rounds 2010 Ryder Cup - Singles at Celtic Manor Golf Central College Golf

MLB To Be Announced To Be Announced

NBA NBA Special NBA Action NBA Special NBA Special NBA Special

NBCSports NHL Hockey NHL Overtime Miracle on Ice

NFLN NFL 100 Greatest Games Part 2 NFL 100 Greatest Games Part 3 NFL 100 Greatest Games Part 4 NFL Total Access

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TONIGHT ON TV

Amanda Peet jokes about the 1980smakeup she wore while playing murder-ous ex-wife in USA’s “Dirty John: TheBetty Broderick Story.”

She compares herself at the end of aday of filming to “a middle-age, female(version) of the Joker.”

It’s fitting she brings up Gotham’sgreen-haired villain because her perfor-mance in the eight-part limited series(premiering Tuesday, 9 EDT/PDT) re-veals her ability to transform into a real-life killer is as impressive as JoaquinPhoenix’s Oscar-winning portrayal ofArthur Fleck.

In its first season, “Dirty John” (thenon Bravo) told the story of John Meehan(Eric Bana), who conned Debra Newell(Connie Britton). Its followup, with anew cast, is based on another captivat-ing true-crime saga.

Betty mentally crumbles followingthe dissolution of her marriage to distin-guished medical malpractice attorneyDan Broderick (Christian Slater). OnNovember 5, 1989, days shy of her 42ndbirthday, Betty fatally shot her unfaith-ful ex-husband and his new wife Linda,28, in their Southern California home.She was sentenced to 32 years to life.

The limited series depicts the cou-ple’s early years, as Dan attends medicalschool at Cornell and then law school at

Harvard. He and Betty escape from fi-nancial struggles and food stamps tothe finer things of life, but begin to growapart. Dan’s attention shifts to his newassistant, Linda, and Betty begins to un-ravel.

There’s no question about it, Peetviews Betty as a murderer. “She mur-dered the father of her children, so I willnever be able to get beyond that,” the ac-tress says, although she believes Bettyfelt “cornered in a lot of ways.”

Betty focuses on being a good wifeand raising four children while Dan es-tablishes his career and connections intheir community. Their split becomes socontentious that at one point she drivesher truck into his house, which Slatersays is the first scene he and his co-starfilmed together.

Slater says the series allows viewersto see the former couple as more than“tabloid fodder” and “delve(s) into theirhumanity.” He believes the man he

views as a power-hungry egomaniacjust “stopped being interested in what(Betty) represented,” a past that embod-ied “a history of struggle.”

Both actors leaned on show creatorand executive producer Alexandra Cun-ningham as a resource for developingtheir characters. Peet says Cunninghammade Betty “relatable for me,” in termsof “how badly (Betty) wanted to beloved,” her desire to “keep up with theJoneses” and “how staunchly she heldonto the illusion of her marriage.” Peetalso recognizes “the depths of (Betty’s)jealousy,” conceding she, too, can be “ajealous person,” and understands feel-ing like one’s identity is wrapped up inbeing a wife. (Since 2006, she has beenmarried to David Benioff, co-creator andexecutive producer of HBO’s smash hit“Game of Thrones.” They have threechildren.)

“I can relate to feeling like ... ‘Whatam I beyond that?’”

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Peet’s transformation into Broderick is no jokeErin JensenUSA TODAY

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Ty Dillon, grandson of Richard Childress, says,this is “not a time to be silent.” Page 3C

NASCAR driver speaks outabout George Floyd, racism

Like everything amid the fallout from COVID-19,some will lose more than others. Page 4C

Gauging the impact of a shortened baseball season

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WIDE WORDS OF SPORTS

Burning down our own com-munities will only delay the

progress and CHANGE that wedesperately need! WE ARE ALLANGRY AND HURT! But this is notthe way! I don’t proclaim to havethe perfect solution, but I can per-sonally choose to use my platformto spread love not hate. Enoughlives have been lost!”

Pro Bowl CB Patrick Peterson of theArizona Cardinals on social media,saying he was compelled to speak outone week after a white police officerkilled George Floyd, an unarmed blackman, in Minneapolis. The NFL releasedits own statement Saturday nightreiterating an “urgent need for action”with the “pain, anger and frustrationthat so many of us feel.”

His story is not unique.Countless others have also

experienced this use of excessivepolice force while trying to havetheir voices heard.”

Former Braves All-Star Dale Murphyon Twitter saying his son had beenshot in the eye with a rubber bulletwhile “peacefully protesting for justicefor George Floyd” in Denver. Murphy,who played 15 seasons in Atlanta, didnot identify which of his seven sonswas injured. Murphy posted a photo ofhis son’s injury and credited onestranger for handing out goggles toprotesters and another for driving hisson to the emergency room.

I hope that our country canlearn from the injustices that

we have witnessed, to becomemore like the locker room whereeveryone is accepted.”

Super Bowl-winning QB Patrick Ma-homes of the Chiefs.

We cannot continue to ignoreracism as though it has ended,

or never happened.”

Super Bowl-winning QB Russell Wilsonof the Seahawks.

Why is the color of my skinsuch a crime for a country I

represent so proudly.”

Olympic hurdler Ashley Spencer

With my white friends or non-black friends, they are very

empathetic to what’s going on.With my black friends though, ithits more personal. It hits closer tohome because in every person thatyou see murdered, that could bemy dad. That could be my cousin.In some instances, it could be me.”

Golfer Cheyenne Woods

I see those of you who arestaying silent, some of you

the biggest of stars, yet you staysilent in the midst of injustice. Nota sign from anybody in my indus-try, which of course is a whitedominated sport. I’m one of theonly people of colour there, yet Istand alone.”

Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton.

He’s not just divisive. He’s adestroyer. ... He will eat you

alive for his own purposes. I’m ap-palled that we have a leader whocan’t say ‘Black Lives Matter.’That’s why he hides in the WhiteHouse basement. He is a coward.He creates a situation and runsaway like a grade-schooler. Actu-ally, I think it’s best to ignore him.There is nothing he can do to makethis better because of who he is: aderanged idiot.”

San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Po-povich to The Nation on racism andwhat he described as a failure of lead-ership at the White House.

From staff and wire reports

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AUBURN, Ala. — Pat Dye, the leg-endary football coach who led Au-burn’s football program to greatheights during the 1980s, died Mon-day, according to his son, Pat Dye Jr.He was 80 years old.

Dye was hospitalized late lastmonth because of ongoing kidney is-sues. He tested positive for COVID-19during his stay but was asymptomatic,his son said.

The coach led Auburn to a 99-39-4overall record in 12 seasons, includingnine in a row with winning records.The team won four Southeastern Con-ference titles, and Dye was named SECCoach of the Year three times.

There wasn’t any morning, or any daythat went by, when Dye didn’t thinkabout how blessed he was to be a part of

Auburn: the football pro-gram, the university andthe community.

That’s what he toldmany of his former play-ers at a reunion of his1989 Tigers team a littlemore than six monthsago, the Friday before the2019 Iron Bowl. It was the

30-year anniversary of the first IronBowl played at Jordan-Hare Stadium, agame he was such an integral part ofmaking happen.

“I didn’t have anything to do withbuilding it or making it like it is,” Dyesaid. “I just bought into what they al-ready believed.”

But Dye did have so much to do withbuilding Auburn into the football pro-gram that it is today. He was the firsthead coach after Doug Barfield, whichmade him just the second since Ralph“Shug” Jordan’s 25-year run ended in1975. The Tigers went 29-25-1 during thefive seasons before his arrival, not mak-ing a bowl game once. Among his play-ers was Heisman winner Bo Jackson.

Dye wasn’t an Auburn person. Hewas born Nov. 6, 1989, in Blythe, Geor-gia. He played football at the Universityof Georgia, one of Auburn’s oldest andmost hated rivals. His first coaching jobwas as an assistant in charge of line-backers at Alabama, on Bear Bryant’sstaff, from 1965 to 1973. The CrimsonTide defeated the Tigers six times inthose nine seasons and won two nation-al championships.

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Pat Dye

Stick to sports was always a crutchfor the comfortable and cowardly.

It was a dirty, disgraceful lie, prom-ulgated by those who see the athletesthey watch as two-dimensional in-struments of their own entertainment,not as people whose platform shouldbe used to tell the truth about the ex-perience of being black in this country.

It is an avatar for why America is

burning. It can’t be allowed to happenagain.

Eventually, the protests, which werestarted after the death of George Floyd,will calm down. Floyd, an unarmedblack man, was killed in police custodyMay 25 in Minneapolis.

Sports will come back, even as a pan-demic has killed more than 100,000 ofour fellow citizens. The games will lookdifferent for a while. We won’t havethose filled stadiums and the imagesthat allow people with no desire to liftthe rug on this country’s history todrone on about how sports bring us to-gether.

But that’s not really true. Not when

the people who play them, and some-times cover them as journalists andcommentators, are shouted down fortrying to make the rest of us understandthat even wealth and fame don’t inocu-late anyone from racism.

Stick to sports sounds silly today,doesn’t it?

It has to when you think about JaylenBrown driving 15 hours from Boston toAtlanta and Malcolm Brogdon leading apeaceful protest in their hometown at atime when the NBA is trying to figure outhow to come back in July.

It has to when you see the Connecti-

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As America burns, don’ttell athletes to be silent

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Never have I wanted sports more.Never have we needed them less.

Sports have always been our greatunifier in times of national tragedy,providing both a common bond and arespite – however temporary – fromthe hurt and despair we feel. We saw iton a grand scale after 9/11, and on asmaller scale after the mass shootingsin Sandy Hook, Parkland and Orlando,among others.

But we can’t afford to be distractedright now. The brutal death of GeorgeFloyd beneath the knee of a white policeofficer, and the rage and frustration ithas released, deserves our full atten-tion. And not simply for a couple ofdays.

“All these other cases that’s going on, you see the protesters, you see ev-erything. But then, after a while, they’reout of the scene. Nobody is saying noth-ing,” Floyd’s brother, Terrence, said dur-ing a prayer vigil Monday in Minne-apolis.

“This is what I’ve been saying to peo-ple … Keep my brother’s name ringing!Keep my brother’s name ringing! Keepmy brother’s name ringing! Keep my

brother’s name ringing! Keep my broth-er’s name ringing!”

Americans tend to have the attentionspan of a toddler. We get consumed ortransfixed by something and poof!within a few days, sometimes withinjust a few hours, we either lose interestor something else comes along to divertour attention. A moment that hadseemed so monumental, felt as if it wasgoing to have a profound and lasting im-pact, fades to become little more thanbackground noise.

Were there baseball games now, or anNBA playoff race, we’d have an excusenot to dwell on the racism that remains

Usually a great healer, sports thedistraction we don’t need now

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On Sunday evening, in the midst ofprotests and violence across the nationin the wake of the death of George Floyd,well-known NBC figure skating com-mentator Johnny Weir sent out a tweetthat read, in part, “I shouldn’t have to goto bed with a loaded gun nearby,” endingit with two hashtags: #ICantBreatheand #StopLooting.

The full tweet, since deleted, saidthis: “I understand that I’ll never under-stand. I understand that you’ll never un-derstand. Make peace. Love your peo-ple. I shouldn’t have to go to bed with aloaded gun nearby. #ICantBreathe

#StopLooting”As a series of comments criticizing

the tweet built in theearly-morning hours,Weir sent another tweetat 4:55 a.m.: “Just awokein the night and realized Imade a major typo/errorand that completelychanged what I was try-ing to express. I didn’tcheck it again before I

slept & was horrified when I saw myblunder. Please excuse me.”

He did not explain what the major ty-po/error was.

Weir, a three-time U.S. nationalchampion and two-time Olympian, did

not reply to a request for comment madethrough NBC public relations. Networkspokesperson Dan Masonson emailedthat Weir’s manager said “he’s busy on ajob today.”

Three days before Weir’s tweet, two-time U.S. national champion and 2018Olympic ice dancer Zach Donohuewrote this: “Humanity needs an update#AllLivesMatter #takeastand #enough-isenough”

Several hours later, after receiving aseries of critical replies on Twitter, hesent another tweet saying he had de-leted the #AllLivesMatter tweet.

“First, I want to admit clearly that mytweet was a mistake. An uneducated,poorly thought out reaction. While I

cannot undo or defend what was actu-ally tweeted, I want to clarify that my in-tention was not to in anyway detractfrom the #blacklivesmatter movement.And most certainly not to support anymovement or peoples that would standagainst equality or try to belittle thevery real racism and white privilege ex-isting in our world.”

In another figure skating socialmedia development, three-time worldchampion Evgeni Plushenko appearedon his official Instagram account wear-ing a gray T-shirt featuring RussianPresident Vladimir Putin wearing a red“Make America Great Again” hat.

It’s unlikely there will be an apologyfor that one.

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JohnnyWeir

cut women’s basketball team declaredefinitely, courageously that, “Yes, weare rioting. And yes, we are protestingbecause we are tired of innocent blacklives dying at the hands of police officerswho do not care about our humanity.”

There were many, many more state-ments this weekend from pro athletes,from college athletes, from coaches andfrom team owners that expressed anger,sadness and uncertainty about how thisends. You can question the sincerity ofthem if you wish. In some cases, partic-ularly among many NFL owners, thereare reasons to doubt whether the sud-den willingness to address racism andpolice brutality are anything more thana short-term public relations ploy.

But this time, it feels as if we’re notgoing back.

Athletes are not going to stick tosports anymore. Not just black andbrown athletes, but more and morewhite athletes, too. They’re going to callracism by its name, and they’re not go-ing to aid and abet the comfort of thosewho don’t want the reality of being blackin America shoved in their face.

Stick to sports, after all, is a cancer.It’s insidious. It grants emotional refugeto those who deny the inequality in ourmidst because it allows them to feel asthough rooting for a black person in asporting event does not make them aracist.

Of course, we know that is not true.Athletes hear those epithets from thestands. They see them on social media.And yet they’re expected to turn the oth-er cheek and not complain or speak out.God forbid they get involved in politics

or support a candidate for president.That would be really offensive, wouldn’tit?

This is the game that people like FoxNews host Laura Ingraham play whenthey tell LeBron James to “Shut up anddribble.” The black athletes? They cantake anything, no matter how often theyget racially profiled or how many of theinnocent people from their communityget killed by police. In that universe ofbad faith, it’s the offended white fanswho really need the protection fromtheir feelings.

It’s time to stop protecting them. It’stime to stop worrying about what theythink. It’s time to instead welcome themto the real world.

Stick to sports is for the feeble.Its underlying theory is that people

watch games because they want a goodtime without the complication of havingto think about the people they’re watch-

ing, who they really are and where theycome from. And the people who pro-mote it will tell you that even a smallamount of discomfort to watch some-one do amazing, awe-inspiring thingswith a football or basketball is too high aprice. Well, the price just went up.

It went up because the reality aboutsystemic racism in America has beensuppressed too many times and sportstoo often used as an excuse to suppressit. It went up because athletes havegrown tired of the charade that kum-baya corporatism has wanted them toobey. It went up because suppression oftheir voice has finally boiled over. Itwent up because honesty is the onlyway to accomplish what all these san-guine statements from teams and ath-letic departments say they want for ourfuture as a country.

Stick to sports is not honest. And itneeds to go away forever.

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ingrained in our society, and its directlink to the deaths of Floyd, Breonna Tay-lor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many others.We could obsess over whose odds arebetter of winning the NBA title, LeBronJames or Giannis Antetokounmpo, rath-er than trying to figure out how to im-prove schools, transportation and eco-nomic opportunities in minority com-munities.

We could let ourselves get lost in thefun and games for an hour or two, notrealizing that we’ve lost some of ouroutrage and good intentions in the proc-ess.

Now, there are some who have ac-cused reporters who’ve preached cau-tion about resuming sports during theCOVID-19 pandemic of wanting to ruinsports. No doubt they will say the sameabout this idea that we don’t needsports right now. Which is ludicrous,given that not having sports would alsoruin our livelihoods.

I also know that sporting events canserve as the platform for powerful state-ments on social justice. Eight years lat-er, the image of LeBron James, DwyaneWade and the rest of the Miami Heatwearing hooded sweatshirts in honor ofTrayvon Martin, who was stalked andkilled by a neighborhood watch volun-teer, remains haunting.

If we had games right now, perhapsthey would begin with the ball being

held for almost nine minutes, represent-ing the amount of time white officer De-rek Chauvin pressed his knee into

Floyd’s neck. Maybe James or otherplayers would kneel during the nationalanthem.

We might even see Chicago WhiteSox pitcher Lucas Giolito, who postedan eloquent statement calling forchange, pull up his jersey as he came offthe mound to reveal a T-shirt withFloyd’s name on it.

But as impactful as those momentswould be, that’s all they would be. Mo-ments.

We need real, lasting change, and theonly way to achieve it is to get comfort-able with our discomfort. See – reallysee – the impact a society with racism atits foundation has on people of color.Force the conversations that will makewhite Americans recognize the manyprivileges they have simply because ofthe color of their skin.

“The thing that strikes me is that weall see this police violence and racism,and we’ve seen it all before, but nothingchanges. That’s why these protests havebeen so explosive,” San Antonio Spurscoach Gregg Popovich told Dave Zirin ina story published Monday in The Na-tion.

“But without leadership and an un-derstanding of what the problem is,there will never be change. And whiteAmericans have avoided reckoning withthis problem forever, because it’s beenour privilege to be able to avoid it,” Po-povich added. “That also has to change.”

And it won’t if our attention is else-where.

As much as we desperately wantthem back, sports aren’t what we need right now. Fundamental change is, and we can’t be distracted until weget it.

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For seven straight days, peopleacross the U.S. and the world have beenprotesting against racial injustice andpolice brutality. They’re also demandingjustice for those who police have killed,specifically George Floyd, a black manwho died on Memorial Day after a whiteMinneapolis police officer held his kneeon Floyd’s neck for almost nine minutes.

While several sports figures havespoken out in support of protesters andjustice for Floyd, the NASCAR commu-nity – which is based in Charlotte, NorthCarolina, one of dozens of cities with re-cent protests – has been largely silent.

Going into Sunday afternoon’s race atBristol Motor Speedway, Ty Dillon wasthe only white Cup Series driver tospeak about Floyd on social media andoffer a substantial statement againstsystemic racism. Other drivers whohave commented on social include Dar-rell “Bubba” Wallace Jr., Daniel Suarezand, after the race, Tyler Reddick.

In a lengthy Instagram post, Dillon, a28-year-old driver in the No. 13 GermainRacing Chevrolet, wrote about racism,religion and his own white privilege. Inhis Instagram stories Sunday, he alsolinked to a video of Martin Luther KingJr. speaking about how “a riot is the lan-guage of the unheard,” which sportsjournalist Jemele Hill originally postedto the site.

“I have never been accused, hated orphysically harmed because of the colorof my skin,” Dillon wrote, in part.“Around the country, a lot of my bothersand sisters are currently hurt deeplyand have been for hundreds of yearswithout change. I want to be part of thegeneration that forever changes thisnarrative.”

For The Win spoke with Dillon byphone Sunday night after the race abouthis Instagram post, nationwide protestsand why he hopes more people in thesport speak out.

(Note: This interview has been con-densed and edited for clarity.)

Q: In the last several days, therehave been protests across the coun-try, including in Charlotte, against po-lice brutality and demanding justicefor George Floyd. What is your reac-tion to that?

A: I’m a Christian man, and my familyis Christian. And, to me, I just want tostand with those who are hurt. And inthe body of Christ, color doesn’t matter.We’re all brothers and sisters, and noneof us are OK if there’s a part of our familythat’s hurt. And, for me to be a whitemale, I wouldn’t know what it’s like tohave the hurt and pain of racismthroughout my life or affect my family. Iwouldn’t know that. I’m not educated onthat level because of the way I was born.

But I do know what pain feels like,and I’ve been through pain in my life.And to see the faces of people protestingwho are hurt and have been goingthrough this for 400 years and thingshaven’t changed, I’m so for protesting.Things need to be changed, and we don’tneed to stay silent. I think that’s why Iwanted to just post and say somethingabout the fact that I don’t want to beseen as someone who’s silent.

Q: The reactions in the commentsto your post seem to be mostly posi-tive. Has anyone in the industryreached out (besides NASCAR seniorVP and chief communications officerEric Nyquist, who replied on Twitter)?

A: Before I called, Bubba Wallacereached out to me and was thanking meto begin with, which I don’t even know if

it’s something to be thanked for. It’s partof my heart to love others. And not real-ly, (no one), other than Bubba, hasreached out to me. But there’s beensome other crew members that havereached out, that I know in NASCAR,who on the post said that they’re thank-ful and things like that.

It certainly wasn’t my intention tolook good. To me, the only way we canchange it and help create change – I justwant to be a part of that – is for, in everysituation, we all have a role to play. Weall have a purpose in life. And for me, I’min NASCAR, and I have a platform, and Ihope I can help create change in a placewhere people aren’t afraid to speak upbecause there are goodhearted peoplein our sport. I want to be a part of thechange so that my kids see a differentworld, a more equal, caring world.

Q: Among drivers, teammates andpeople in the industry, are issues ofracial injustice things that need to betalked about in the garage, so tospeak?

A: I think so. I think it needs to betalked about across the world, acrossthe country, especially in NASCAR. Ithink not talking about it is probably theworst thing we can do, and the conver-sations need to be had so we can all beeducated and understand how we canmake a difference and help each other. Ithink no matter where you are, the con-versation needs to be had (if) you’re likeme and growing in your understandingand education and empathy for theblack community and what that lookslike to be part of racism. And I say that ina humble manner.

So I feel like it’s my duty as a humanto educate myself. And education – itdoesn’t cost anything to talk to some-body, and we have technology. It’s awonderful thing about technology thatyou can research and learn and studyand educate yourself.

And then just life too. Put yourself inother people’s shoes and take yourselfout of your own comfort zone I think isthe best way to grow. I know I have along way to go and I just want to be clearwith my statements that I’m not some-one who thinks this is OK at all for oneminute.

Q: On Instagram, you wrote abouthow you know you’ve never beentreated differently because of the col-or of your skin. Was there a particularmoment when you became aware ofyour white privilege or has it been aprocess?

A: It’s an ongoing learning process.This offseason, I took a lot of time be-cause I don’t have much more than ahigh school education in general, and Iwas so focused on my sport that I didn’tpay attention a lot in school. But I didn’twant that to be an excuse for not grow-ing in life.

So I’ve just tried to challenge myself. Ispent a lot of time studying Dr. King thisoffseason and trying to educate myselfabout social injustice in general. Like Isaid, I have a long way to go to be well-educated. I’m not standing here like Iknow everything. I just know the pain inmy brothers and sisters in Christ that Isee in their hearts, and I just want to bethere to understand and to help makechange.

Q: What stuck with you so far asyou read and learn about Dr. King orother civil rights activists?

A: The way that (King) createdchange through love. If you look at peo-ple who change things in the world, theydid it through love. Dr. King understoodhow to make things change by not fight-ing hate with hate, but also standing upfor justice in a system that’s broken.With so many things in this world, we’reso quick as human beings to fight firewith fire or hate with hate.

And for me, just how he brought themovement so far through love and loveof Jesus, he was an amazing Christianman and pastor, and how he just exem-plified that in all that he did was special.To me, he’s a model of a man that Iwould love to be able to emulate, espe-cially his love for humans, in my life aswell.

Q: At this point, you’re one of a fewdrivers to say something publiclyabout George Floyd and systemic rac-ism. Why do you think that is?

A: I don’t know. I can’t speak for ev-eryone else in our sport. I just know forme, I don’t believe that racism and hateand someone being treated lesser thanbecause of the color of their skin is right,ever. So I can’t speak for other drivers ortheir motives, whether they’re speakingout or not.

I do hope more people say things. I dohope people use their voice because Ithink people don’t realize how muchthey can change the world with a plat-form they have and to use their platformfor good and not just for self gain.

Q: Can you expand on why youthink it’s important to use that plat-form?

A: I’ve been entrusted with my plat-form from God as far as being a race cardriver. There’s a lot of great race cardrivers out there and a lot of great ath-letes out there who might not ever getthe platform to have a bunch of follow-ers on social media.

I see it as a blessing, and if I can everuse it for good, that’s my only intention,to try to use the platform I have now andthrough my career to reach others andhopefully make one more person to-night or tomorrow want to speak out ortalk to a friend or educate themselves onthis subject.

Q: Do you think you’ll try to talk tofellow drivers and other crew mem-bers about this?

A: I don’t think it’s my nature to pushmy fellow drivers, but you never knowwhere your life’s going to lead you to. I,for one, won’t not say anything. I want tohave conversations.

If it continues where there’s more si-lence from our sport, I hope to reach outto more people and ask questions be-cause I want our sport to grow throughall this and reveal the true hearts thatare in this sport. Hopefully, no one willcontinue to remain silent.

Q: In trying to encourage the sportor culture of it to grow, do you think itwould help for NASCAR or drivers tospeak out against racial injustice?

A: I can’t speak on behalf of NASCARbecause it’s such an entity outside ofme. All I can do is speak to how I feel,and that’s what I did.

And if NASCAR wants to have thatconversation with me, I would love totalk with them, because I do feel like ev-eryone in the world, it’s not a time to besilent.

Q: Is there anything you’d like toadd?

A: I think NASCAR has worked reallyhard, and there’s a great movement overthe years to end this Southern pridementality that’s been put over NASCARfor a long time. And there’s been anamazing amount of work in the diversi-ty program for NASCAR, and it’s some-thing I’ve been so proud to watch andsee that it’s grown so much.

I wouldn’t want NASCAR to be shownin a bad light because they have done somuch. But it is a great time for us to con-tinue to use the platforms that we haveto continue the good work that has beenstarted. In this time, there’s no bettertime to show the support of NASCAR inall diverse communities.

Ty Dillon: ‘Not a time to be silent’Michelle R. MartinelliFor The WinUSA TODAY Network

Ty Dillon on why he posted a message on Instagram about George Floyd and racial injustice: “And to see the faces ofpeople protesting who are hurt and have been going through this for 400 years and things haven’t changed, I’m so forprotesting. Things need to be changed, and we don’t need to stay silent.” JARED C. TILTON/GETTY IMAGES

Five-time champion Lewis Hamiltonhas criticized Formula One for its si-lence as an industry while a number ofsports organizations and athletes areshining the spotlight on the Black LivesMatter movement.

The death of George Floyd by a whiteMinneapolis police officer has led toboth peaceful and violent protests in theUnited States and worldwide. A numberof sports stars have been speaking outon social media, while Sunday’s Bun-desliga soccer games in Germany sawBorussia Moenchengladbach striker

Marcus Thuram take a knee and a num-ber of Borussia Dortmund players showmessages reading “Justice for George

Floyd” after scoring.Thuram’s pose was

shared by his club’s offi-cial Twitter account,while NFL CommissionerRoger Goodell released astatement saying “thereremains an urgent needfor action.” However,with no official comment

from F1 itself or another driver at thetime, Hamilton, Formula 1’s first blackdriver, called out his sport for not doingmore about racial injustice.

“I see those of you who are staying si-

lent, some of you the biggest stars yetyou stay silent in the midst of injustice,”Hamilton wrote on Instagram. “Not asign from anybody in my industrywhich of course is a white-dominatedsport.

“I’m one of the only people of colorthere, yet I stand alone. I would havethought by now you would see why thishappens and say something about it butyou can’t stand alongside us. Just knowI know who you are and I see you…”

Hamilton later added a further postsaying he does not support violent pro-testing, while also drawing attention tohis own experiences of oppression inEurope.

“I do not stand with those looting and

burning buildings but those who areprotesting peacefully. There can be nopeace until our so called leaders makechange.

“This is not just America, this is theUK, this is Spain, this is Italy and allover. The way minorities are treated hasto change, how you educate those inyour country of equality, racism, class-ism and that we are all the same. We arenot born with racism and hate in ourhearts, it is taught by those we look upto.”

Following Hamilton’s posts, Williamsdriver Nicholas Latifi posted a tweetsimply saying, “This has to stop” andthe hashtags #JusticeForGeorgeFloydand #BlackLivesMatter.

Hamilton calls out F1’s silence over George FloydChris MedlandRACER MagazineUSA TODAY Network

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There’s just one guarantee as MLBaims to wedge an 80-plus game sched-ule and expanded playoffs into a pan-demic-driven four-month window:Roughly half the season is gone forever.

Some franchises have pointed to2020 for several years as the momenttheir plans would coalesce. Others de-cided, in a more impetuous fashion, togo all-in on this season. And dozens ofplayers will lose wages, statistics, rec-ords and indelible pieces of their lega-cies they can never get back.

But like everything amid the falloutfrom COVID-19, some will lose morethan others.

Provided health and financial con-cerns are mitigated, everyone will get ashot at the 2020 World Series. But hereare the teams and individuals who willmost feel the gut punch that comes witha lost half-season of baseball:

Mookie Betts and the Dodgers

Theirs was to be a temporary mar-riage, almost certainly: Betts, the bestright fielder in the game and 2018 Amer-ican League MVP, and his new club join-ing forces to end LA’s increasingly frus-trating title drought before Mookievaulted into the $300 million players’club via free agency.

Now, they are joined at the hip in try-ing to make the best of a situation thatquickly turned sour.

Yes, it’s still possible the Dodgersgave up three young players to the RedSox and won’t see Betts take an at-batfor them due to the novel coronavirus.That alone casts a pall over what wouldhave been something resembling asuperteam in more conventional cir-cumstances.

And it’s also a bummer for Betts’ for-tunes. Adjusting to a new league is apain, anyway, and 80 to 100 games al-lows little runway to overcome a slowstart. In moving from east to west, ageographically based schedule meanshe’ll be facing almost entirely unfamiliarpitchers and playing in largely foreignballparks. Betts will still probably fare

better in free agency than he would haveentertaining extension offers from theRed Sox but will face a winter in whichfranchises will cry poor (some of themjustifiably) due to big losses in 2020-21.

Meanwhile, a team that has won sev-en consecutive division titles – most ofthem in convincing fashion – faces amore daunting foe than any of their Na-tional League West rivals: short-seasonrandomness. Sure, the Dodgers mightgo 50-30 and roll into the playoffs. Butthe Diamondbacks and Padres, mostnotably, have a much better shot atbeating them over 80-plus games than162.

The incredible shrinking Cubs

Wipe most of a season from a calen-dar, and it only makes 2016 seem evenfurther in the past. Joe Maddon is goneand David Ross is the manager, which isweird enough, but now the Cubs’ morepressing issues are on an even fastertrack.

First, pass the hat for ownership,which claims 70% of its revenue comefrom game-day proceeds, a considera-bly higher rate than other franchises.Here’s hoping the Ricketts family canweather these uncertain times.

Now, consider the fact that at leastone of Javier Baez, Kris Bryant, AnthonyRizzo or Jon Lester have played their lastgames in front of the Wrigley faithful,assuming no fans are let in until nextyear.

The Cubs hold 2021 club options onRizzo and Lester. But the huge decisionswill come on Baez and Bryant, both freeagents after 2021 and headed for certainnine-figure paydays. That makes 2020far more crucial for the Cubs than formost franchises.

How does one chart a course for thefuture based on 80 or 100 games? Does asluggish but inconclusive .500 seasoncause the team to retrench? Wouldsnagging one of the expanded playoffberths engender false hope?

A new TV network needs distributionand development continues apacearound Wrigleyville. Meanwhile, theteam’s soul is very much in limbo – andperhaps headed for its own last dance.

Marcus Semien and the A’s

It’s already been a disastrous 2020for the Athletics, all of it self-inflicted.The A’s have decided not to pay theirrent, not to pay many of their employeesand now are the only franchise on rec-ord not paying their minor leaguers afterMLB-provided stipends expired May 31.

It can only get better, right?In theory. But this Oakland team was

built to win in 2020.All-Star third baseman Matt Chap-

man and Gold Glove-winning first base-man Matt Olson are in their primes.Shortstop Marcus Semien, who finishedthird in last year’s AL MVP voting, willwalk into free agency after this season.

And a pitching staff that will wel-

come back ace Sean Manaea after anabbreviated 2019 figured to glean sig-nificant advantages over a full seasonwith its enviable depth in both the bull-pen and the rotation.

What’s more, if there’s one thing thatseems baked into Oakland’s DNA asmuch as bidding superstar players fare-well, it’s starting slowly. The Athletics’past two teams won 97 games andclaimed wild-card berths, but only afterstarting 15-21 in ’19 (and sitting fifth inthe wild-card standings after 82 games)and not clearing the .500 mark until the73rd game in 2018.

Urgency would come in many formsfor Oakland in a 2020 season.

A smaller serving of Trout

This is not Ted Williams losing threeseasons of prime production due toWorld War II. Or Kirby Puckett’s careerending amid 10 consecutive All-Starseasons due to an eye condition.

But Mike Trout is this generation’sWilliams or Willie Mays or Hank Aaron,and there is a glorious symmetry to hiscareer that will be undeniably disrupt-ed.

Sure, he’s spent several stints on theinjured list, and his other-worldly ratestats (the man has a .419 career on-basepercentage and 1.000 OPS) could con-ceivably be better in a shorter season.

But consider how the proverbial backof his baseball card looks:

Never fewer than 27 home runs a sea-son.

Never fewer than 92 runs scored.Never a season in which he didn’t

have at least 172 hits or 94 walks.Had he equaled his 45 home runs of

2019, Trout would have 330 in his career,through his age-28 season. That’s ex-actly halfway to Mays, who had 250 tothat point (and also lost a season to mil-itary service).

Should the season come off, Troutwill almost certainly eclipse 300 homeruns, about a year older than Alex Rodri-guez, youngest to 300, was when hepulled it off. That’s certainly nothing todownplay.

And like the game itself, a little lessTrout in 2020 is better than none at all.

Who loses most in condensed MLB season?Gabe LacquesUSA TODAY

Mookie Betts, the latest superstar to join the Dodgers, will have less time toadjust to playing in the National League. JOE CAMPOREALE/USA TODAY SPORTS

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As college football programs race tobring players back to campus for work-outs beginning as early as this week,confidence in a season beginning ontime is under-girded by statistics thatsuggest the odds of a college-age athletedying from COVID-19 are extremely low.

Conference commissioners, collegepresidents, athletic directors have ac-knowledged that as football teams re-turn to play, there will inevitably becases and perhaps even outbreaks thatpop up in athletic facilities. The belief –or maybe it’s merely a hope – is thatplayers who contract the virus will re-cover because they are healthy andyoung.

But that assumption, according tosome infectious disease experts, mightignore a hidden danger lurking in everylocker room: Does the sheer size of of-fensive linemen put them into a higher-risk category for COVID-19 complica-tions?

“Yes, I’m concerned about playerswith high BMI (Body Mass Index) ascompared to players who do not havehigh BMI,” said Gretchen SnoeyenbosNewman, an infectious disease fellow atthe University of Washington. “I don’tknow what that means in a lived clinicalway for these athletes, and I don’t thinkanybody knows yet. That’s the scarypart.”

Though physicians and scientists arestill in the relatively early stages oflearning about COVID-19, including keyquestions such as why some peoplehave no symptoms and others get ex-tremely ill and whether a severe casecould result in long-term damage to thelungs, there is broad agreement thatobesity is a potential risk factor for com-plications from the virus.

According to the Centers for DiseaseControl, a BMI of 40 qualifies someoneas severely obese and puts them “athigher risk for complications fromCOVID-19.” For an adult male, thattranslates to someone who is 6-3, 320pounds. In last season’s national cham-pionship game, the average size of the starting offensive linemen was 6-4,325 pounds for Clemson and 6-4, 321 pounds for LSU.

Of course, while offensive linemencarry a lot of weight by necessity of theirtrade, their muscle-to-fat proportion isnot the same as regular people. Never-theless, it’s a question that has largelygone unanswered and even unasked upto this point: Would a 300-pound offen-sive lineman be more susceptible to a

severe case of COVID-19 and perhapseven at greater risk of death than otherplayers?

“Everything being equal, individualswho are obese by Body Mass Index dotend to have more of a tendency to de-velop severe infection than someonewho is not obese, and that applieswhether you’re an athlete or not an ath-lete,” said Amesh Adalja, a senior schol-ar at Johns Hopkins and an expert in in-fectious disease who is part of theNCAA’s coronavirus advisory panel.“The cardiopulmonary fitness of a line-men who has a high Body Mass Index …they may be better off (than the non-athlete), but in general obesity is a riskfactor we have to think about.”

Due to their anomalous nature aselite athletes who also happen to carryaround a lot of extra weight, linemenhave been the subject of multiple stud-ies related to various health conditions.

A 2005 paper in the New EnglandJournal of Medicine concluded thatplayers with higher BMI were more like-ly to develop MRSA, a difficult-to-treatstaph infection.

A study that tracked 126 college foot-ball players over multiple years waspublished last fall in the Journal of theAmerican Medical Association Cardiol-ogy and found that the rapid weight gainassociated with being a lineman was as-sociated with early cardiovascular risklike blood pressure and thickening ofthe heart and arteries.

The lead investigator of that study,Jonathan H. Kim, is a sports cardiologistat Emory University and works with all

three major professional sports teamsin Atlanta. As is the case with manyquestions surrounding COVID-19, hesaid, the answer is that we don’t reallyknow whether certain types of playersare more at-risk of a severe infection.

“It’s very fair to state that collegefootball players, regardless of position,are still overall healthy and so my initialopinion would be they’re not at higherrisk for cardiac complications post-COVID,” Kim said. “But these are thequestions we want to ask because ulti-mately we know COVID is going to bewith us for the foreseeable future andwe need to know the best way to takecare of these athletes and try to mitigatepotential cardiac risk down the line forthem.”

Kim more recently co-authored anopinion piece laying out recommenda-tions for athletes who return to trainingand exercise after they recover fromCOVID-19. Even for athletes who experi-ence only mild symptoms and aren’thospitalized, these guidelines put forthby the American College of Cardiology’sSports & Exercise Council suggest twoweeks of no exercise after symptomssubside plus cardiac testing to look forany underlying heart inflammation orinjury before a return to play.

Though he acknowledged that somecritics would call that approach too con-servative, the unknown is part of whatmakes the clinical approach to the virusso vexing.

“We’re going to learn. The data is go-ing to come,” Kim said. “If there is anygood news it’s that we’re going to garner

the data that we need to make betterrecommendations.”

Thomas Russo, an infectious diseaseexpert with the University at Buffalomedical school, said it was an “interest-ing question” whether linemen wouldbe more at risk than other players of de-veloping a severe infection but tied itmore to the nature of their position thanbody weight. Whereas a wide receivermight have more limited close contactwith a cornerback through the course ofa game, someone on the line of scrim-mage is lining up face-to-face with anopponent on every play.

“They’re the ones who are in thetrenches getting pelted with respiratorysecretions,” Russo said. “You’re insomeone’s face every play and breath-ing hard and you’re in these piles all thetime. They might get a huge viral load ifsomeone on the field was infected.”

Though doctors aren’t certain aboutany of these issues, the mere fact thatthey haven’t been studied should poten-tially give some pause to athletic de-partments as they move quickly to pre-pare for a football season starting ontime in late August and early Septem-ber.

As Russo said, rather grimly, “Thiswhole concept of, ‘Oh they’re young,they’re healthy they’ll recover,’ is aflawed concept. Whoever comes upwith this is clearly someone that isn’tthinking about this from a medical pointof view. No one is bulletproof on this,OK? There are still going to be peoplewho are younger, in their late teens or20s that perhaps for genetic reasons aregoing to have a bad outcome. It’s statis-tics.”

And because COVID-19 hasn’t beenaround but a few months, there’s no wayto quantify the long-term risk, even ifsomeone recovers. It’s also currently in-clusive, according to both experts andthe Sickle Cell Disease Association ofAmerica, whether sickle cell trait – acommon factor in sudden football-relat-ed deaths – is a factor in COVID-19 out-comes.

If college athletic programs aren’tmaking those unknowns abundantlyclear to the players under their care, it’sa dereliction of their duty.

“You have to think about not just areyou going to die but are you going to getreally, really sick and what might thatmean for your career,” SnoeyenbosNewman said.

“It’s definitely not all or nothing.There’s a huge spectrum of illness thathappens, and some of it is quite severeand long lasting. There are outcomesthat are bad that are not death.”

O-linemen may be at greater COVID-19 risk Dan WolkenUSA TODAY

The average offensive lineman for LSU in the national championship game was6-foot-4 and 321 pounds. JASON GETZ/USA TODAY SPORTS

NEW YORK – The end of Foley’s longBroadway run was announced in a two-minute video posted to Twitter.

Inside his empty bar, Shaun Clancyspoke in a measured tone, so unlike theoptimistic voice with the Irish lilt thathe’d raise to be heard within the crowd-ed, memorabilia-clad walls on West33rd Street.

“This is the end of the inning, but notthe end of the game,’’ Clancy said in hiscoda, after thanking his staff and pa-trons over 16 years.

Foley’s could not survive the CO-VID-19 crisis, and now it goes the way ofToots Shor’s and Runyons, the legend-ary New York places where sports fig-ures and celebrities mingled with fansand tipplers.

I was lucky, so lucky, to be in thatsphere. Luckier still that Shaun Clancyis my friend.

Modern-day Toots Shor

Shortly after I moved to Manhattan,Clancy opened Foley’s. I was there onopening night, and countless nightsthereafter.

Sweeny Murti made the introduc-tion.

We were covering an event in Mid-town on a snowy early February eveningand he mentioned that a new baseball-themed bar was opening near my neigh-borhood, owned by a baseball-mad fel-low from Ireland.

Clancy told me he wanted to createanother Toots Shor’s, and he did it.

How he did it was by the force of hispersonality, a supremely caring natureand the unique ability to balance hisbusiness, his family, his incredible char-ity work, and a growing list of umpires,players, scouts, writers, broadcasters –friends he’ll move heaven and earth tomake happy.

The place to be

Over the years, I’ve been happy toadd to Clancy’s collection of baseballstuff; press passes, etc.

If you wanted to see posters and pen-nants that hung in my room as a kid,they were on the walls, the ceiling andeven in the men’s room – above the clas-sic urinals.

About those urinals: They came fromthe original Waldorf-Astoria across thestreet, which was leveled to make wayfor the Empire State Building.

Over at table one, Shaun’s father,John – who worked at Toots Shor’s –would hold court on afternoons andlook after the bar.

David Cone and Brian Cashmanwould tend that bar during charityevents. Jon Hamm would walk in towatch the St. Louis Blues in the StanleyCup playoffs.

David Wright had his first meal as abig-leaguer here and made sure Foley’swas his final stop on the night he retired.

And on and on.

End of an era

No one will ever forget what Shaundid to raise money when ShannonForde, the Mets’ media relations direc-

tor, was battling cancer, or his con-tinued work for charities such as UmpsCare. And there is no greater championof baseball scouts than Shaun.

More than occasionally, they’d be atthe bar, with Shaun there to make all ofthe introductions.

If the game I covered at Yankee Stadi-um ended at a decent hour – or not – thenight (early morning) often ended atFoley’s, with the West Coast games onTV.

I was thrilled to be asked to host theIrish-American Hall of Fame ceremon-ies at Foley’s, and thrilled again whenShaun created the “I Didn’t Know TheyWere Irish” award named for me and

Duke Castiglione (good customers, ’tisall).

Today, I’m heartbroken for Stephieand Sputty and Ailish and all the staff atFoley’s, people who always made mefeel at home.

I’d often say Foley’s was my livingroom. Sometimes, it was my kitchen –like the time Shaun allowed me to trans-fer my perishables in his freezer duringthe Super Storm Sandy blackout.

“Foley’s was always about the peo-ple,” Shaun Clancy said during the fare-well to his saloon.

Shaun made it all possible.Here’s to you, and Foley’s, and to the

next chapter for us all.

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The son of Lance Armstrong appar-ently has developed a different moralviewpoint than his father about the useof performance-enhancing drugs insports.

In the new ESPN film about the dis-graced cyclist, Luke Armstrong is askedif he’d consider using such illicit drugs,much like his dad did to boost himself inraces. Luke Armstrong currently is acollege football player at Rice Universityin Houston.

“I’ve always felt like grinding forsomething, and really working for a spe-cific goal has always been so much moreworth it than taking the shortcut,” LukeArmstrong said in Part 2 of the film,which aired Sunday night. “I also feelthat, like, if I ever did that and gotcaught, for random people, they wouldbe like, ‘He’s just like his dad.’ ”

His father then is asked by MarinaZenovich, the film’s director, how hewould feel if his son wanted to dope. Hesays it would be a “bad idea” in collegebut suggests his mind could change ifhis son made it to the NFL, even thoughsuch substances are banned in thatleague. The NFL regularly tests its play-ers for such drugs and suspends them ifcaught.

“It might be a different conversationif you’re in the NFL,” Lance said he’d tellhis son. “But at this point in life, in yourcareer, not worth it.”

After Part 1 last week focused onArmstrong’s rise to fame, Part 2 largelyfocused on the dismantling of his em-pire of lies. Here are other takeaways:

No apology tour stop for Landis

In January 2013, Lance Armstrongmade a big public show about how heowed certain people apologies after hebullied them and cast aspersions onthem for trying to tell the truth about hisdoping. This came during his televisioninterview with Oprah Winfrey, when hefinally confessed to doping after years oflying about it. He named a list of people,including his former teammate FloydLandis.

“I owe them apologies, and wheneverthey’re ready I will give them,” Arm-strong told Winfrey then.

More than seven years later, Arm-strong hasn’t apologized to Landis. Inthe film, he mocks him as badly as hedid during the height of their feud.

“Could be worse,” Armstrong says inthe film. “I could be Floyd Landis … wak-ing up a piece of (expletive) every day.”

Zenovich then asks him if that’s whathe thinks. “Yeah, yeah, that’s what Iknow,” Armstrong said. “I don’t think it.I know it.”

From there, the film moves to an in-terview with Landis in Leadville, Colo-rado.

“I hope he’s changed, and I hope hefinds some peace,” Landis says of Arm-strong. “I don’t know why people can’tmove on, but here we are.”

Their conflict goes back more than 10years and includes the bombshell in2010 when Landis himself confessed todoping and said Armstrong was guiltyof it as well. That same year, Landis alsofiled a federal fraud lawsuit againstArmstrong that was settled in 2018, withArmstrong owing $6.65 million to Lan-dis, his attorneys and the U.S. govern-ment.

Martyr-like speech

Armstrong portrays himself as a vic-tim of sorts near the end of the filmwhen he suggests he and two other cy-clists paid far more for their sins thanothers even though doping was ram-pant in the sport.

He essentially compares himself to1998 Tour de France winner Marco Pan-

tani, the Italian who was dogged bydoping allegations before dying of a co-caine overdose in 2004. He also sympa-thizes with 1997 Tour de France winnerJan Ullrich, who confessed to dopingand later was admitted to a psychiatrichospital amid personal problems.

By comparison, others like Ivan Bas-so, an Italian rider, and George Hinca-pie, Armstrong’s American teammate,did not suffer such harsh public down-falls after serving doping suspensions.

Armstrong said, “The country ofAmerica idolizes, worships, glorifiesGeorge Hincapie, invites him to races,gives him jobs, buys his (expletive). Andthey disgrace and destroy me.”

Armstrong is excluding the fact thatnone of these other cyclists were nearlyas big of a star as he was and thereforedidn’t endure nearly as steep of a down-fall. Other factors also put Armstrong ina class by himself among dopers:

❚ Unlike Armstrong, other dopersdidn’t bully or sue those who dared totell or seek the truth.

❚ Armstrong benefited from havingfriends in high places who had incentiveto protect him for the sake of the sport,unlike cyclists with lower profiles.

❚ U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Tra-vis Tygart also told USA TODAY in 2012that Armstrong might have been able toretain five of his seven Tour de Francetitles if he had cooperated with USADA’sinvestigation then, as other cyclists did.Armstrong fought USADA instead andsays in the film he “wouldn’t change athing” about that.

Cancer ‘doesn’t excuse the doping’

The film makes the case that Arm-strong’s advocacy for fellow cancer sur-vivors can be separated from his mis-deeds while also showing he used can-cer as a “shield” to falsely deny his dop-ing. After surviving testicular cancerand brain surgery, Armstrong won theTour de France seven consecutive timesfrom 1999 to 2005 – titles that werestripped in 2012.

His impact on cancer “doesn’t excusethe doping,” cancer survivor LindsayBeck says in the film. “Equally as impor-tant, doping doesn’t erase his impact on

the world of cancer. And I feel like every-one wants to lump them together andthrow them all out, because everyonewants it to be black and white. The truthis, it’s gray. I truly believe if you were di-agnosed with cancer in America today,your experience is better than it waspre-Lance.”

Livestrong, the charity Armstrongfounded, has helped cancer survivorspreserve their fertility by providingthem with resources and support whenthey were at risk of losing it. ThoughArmstrong was ousted from Livestrongamid scandal in 2012, Beck said hehelped remove the stigma of being ayoung adult with cancer and made thefertility risks of cancer patients less of ataboo subject by speaking up about it.

Pulling the levers of power

When the doping cops were in hotpursuit of Armstrong in 2012, Arm-strong went to great lengths to save hisreputation. He even tried to get the peo-ple in charge of the doping cops – Con-gress – to call off the dogs.

In the film, political adviser MarkMcKinnon said Armstrong also wantedto enlist the help of then-Sen. JohnMcCain.

“When things started closing in onhim, he wanted me to call John McCain,”said McKinnon, a former board memberof Livestrong who worked with McCainand former President George W. Bush.“Lance asking McCain to do somethingknowing that he was actually guilty?Yikes. I’m so glad I didn’t.”

By contrast, Wisconsin Congress-man Jim Sensenbrenner went to bat forArmstrong against USADA in 2012. Hewrote a letter to the federal Office ofNational Drug Control Policy sayingUSADA seeks to “strip Armstrong of hisachievements and the substantial win-nings that accompanied them withoutoffering him even basic due process.”

He asserted that USADA’s authorityover Armstrong “is strained at best.” Notlong after that, USADA did strip Arm-strong of his titles in the Tour de Franceand released a huge file of evidenceagainst him. Armstrong then confessedto doping in January 2013.

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The line of cars usually begins toform well before 11 a.m. outside SharonElementary school in Newburgh, Indi-ana, a town of less than 4,000 peoplealong the Ohio River.

Stella Antey, an 8-year-old second-grader, has sat in one of those cars withher older sister, younger brother andparents every weekday for the past twomonths. The wait for cafeteria workersto hand them free lunches and break-fasts for the next day has often been thehighlight of their mornings sinceschools closed in March.

“My favorite is the breakfast,” shesays. “I like the cereal and milk.”

Her mother, high school civics anddance teacher Amanda Antey, enjoysthe break the trips give her childrenfrom the sometimes restrictive learn-from-home routine.

Still, the free meals are far from a lux-ury. Antey and her drama teacher hus-band, Eric, still receive pay from War-rick County but can no longer teach theafter-school dance and theater classesthat provided extra income for theiryoung family of five. Antey says thatloss, along with rising food prices dur-ing the pandemic, makes the free schoolmeals for their three children crucial.

“Nothing goes to waste,” AmandaAntey says. “Whatever the kids don’teat, my husband and I eat it.”

Necessity – both to prevent studentsfrom going hungry and to keep the peo-ple feeding them safe – is what drivesShenae Rowe through the long days andweekends since she joined hundreds of

school nutrition directors across thecountry who, in a matter of days, trans-formed their school meal operationsinto emergency feeding programs.

The efforts come at a price. In thepast 10 weeks alone, school districts andnonprofit organizations tasked withfeeding children during the pandemichave lost at least $1 billion. The losses

climb with every lunch and breakfastworkers serve and could force pro-grams across the county to go into debtor dip into money dedicated to teach-ers and classrooms to stay afloat.

Challenges have come from allsides.

Although nearly half of America’sschoolchildren were on free or reducedlunch before the pandemic, schoolshutdowns eliminated the revenuethat came from other children whosefamilies paid for the meals.

At the same time, costs havesoared. Protective equipment for em-ployees, extra cleaning measures,steps to ensure social distancing infood prep, hazard pay in some cases –they all cost more. It’s also more ex-pensive to package meals that can betaken home or to buy individuallywrapped foods that are more portableand easier to serve from a social dis-tance than the soups and family-stylemeals cafeteria workers used to ladleout one at a time to long lines of chil-dren.

All told, spending for many feedingprograms has outstripped federal re-imbursements for the emergencymeals. The House’s most recent reliefbill allocated $3 billion for child nutri-tion programs from now through Sep-tember 2021, but the bill will faceheavy challenges in the Senate, andschool food coordinators say they’reunclear on how much of that moneywill go to individual districts even if itpasses.

Still in emergency mode, school nu-trition directors like Rowe, whose pro-gram has lost $500,000 since March,say they’re too overwhelmed to evenbegin thinking about what they’ll do

Cars wait for deliveries of prepackaged breakfast and lunch outside Chandler Elementary in southern Indiana. Asprogram costs soar across the nation, revenue has shrunk. PHOTOS BY SHENAE ROWE/WARRICK COUNTY SCHOOL CORP.

School meal programslose millions of dollars

A worker with the Warrick CountySchool Corp. in southern Indianacarries a tray of meals to a waiting caron May 8.

“Nothing goes to waste.

Whatever the kids don’t eat,

my husband and I eat it.”Amanda AnteyTeacher receiving meals for her children

Feeding hungry childrencreates budget dilemma

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Thanks to COVID-19, the hurricaneseason that officially began Mondaywill be unlike any other.

“The combination of an ongoingpandemic and what NOAA has fore-cast to be a busy hurricane season is acataclysmic scenario,” according to thedisaster policy group SmarterSaferCoalition.

Federal forecasters at the NationalOceanic and Atmospheric Administra-tion last month predicted as many as19 named storms would form, of whichas many as 10 will be hurricanes. It’sjust one of many forecasts that predictan unusually busy season in 2020.

“This could be a very active season,”said AccuWeather meteorologist DanKottlowski. “The more active the sea-son, the more likely we’ll have at leastone, two or three major events.”

Astrid Caldas, a climate scientistwith the Union of Concerned Scien-tists, said: “The intersection of thepandemic with hurricane season isunprecedented and unfortunate, as itwill play out as FEMA’s resources and

staff are stretched thin with the pan-demic response and a series of disas-ters since 2017, which will make itharder for the agency to rise to thechallenge of simultaneously occurringdisasters.”

Even without the pandemic, this“would be a challenging hurricane sea-son,” said Rachel Cleetus, also of theUnion of Concerned Scientists, be-cause of the predicted number ofstorms. “As a nation, we’re not pre-pared, and this is putting people’s livesat risk.”

The nation’s ability to keep peoplesafe is going to be severely tested, sheadded, and in large part depends onhow well FEMA and state and local au-thorities work together under theseunprecedented circumstances.

“Other disasters like ongoing Mid-west flooding and the upcoming wild-fire season also put pressure on theagency’s resources,” Cleetus said.

FEMA said it’s ready for hurricaneseason: “While FEMA continues to

Hurricaneseason’sdangersintensifyPandemic may create‘cataclysmic scenario’

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People at Missouri’s Lake of theOzarks drew a scolding from across theinternet Memorial Day weekend afterimages of shoulder-to-shoulder partiersin a swimming pool went viral.

The lakefront wasn’t the only place todraw a huge influx of holiday visitors toits hotels, restaurants and stores.

A USA TODAY analysis of cellphonedata found about 400 ZIP codes wherefoot traffic at businesses more thandoubled from the previous weekend.The data, supplied by location datacompany SafeGraph, included the firsttwo days of the long holiday weekend.

Although the data can’t tell whetherpeople clumped together in ways on dis-play at Lake of the Ozarks, it shows the

drive to recreate was widespread.The list of hot spots was filled with

waterfront resort towns, national land-marks and destination casinos spreadfrom Lake Erie to the Grand Canyon,from the Gulf of Mexico to the OuterBanks of North Carolina, from LakeGeorge in upstate New York to inlandlakes in the South.

Almost a third of the 400 ZIP codesactually received more foot traffic thanon Memorial Day 2019, long before any-one dreamed of an illness called CO-VID-19.

All but three states – Connecticut,Delaware and Massachusetts – had atleast one ZIP code with a massive in-crease in business visitors.

“Clearly, there were many, many peo-ple who just threw off the halter and de-cided they were not going to do any

semblance of social distancing, at leastfor that weekend,” said WilliamSchaffner, an infectious disease doctorand professor at Vanderbilt UniversitySchool of Medicine. “These are the cir-cumstances that COVID-19 looks for-ward to.”

Other health experts warned that themovement of people from cities tosmaller resort towns risked fresh out-breaks. Most of the counties with Me-morial Day hot spots reported compara-tively low infection rates as of Fridaybefore the holiday, according to USATODAY’s database of coronavirus casecounts.

In the majority of the 19,000 U.S. ZIPcodes for which reliable cellphone datawas available, foot traffic to businesses

Vacation hot spots surged during holiday weekendMatt WynnUSA TODAY

Crowds flock to Eddy’s Bar, part of theShangri-La resort at Oklahoma’s GrandLake, as people took advantage of thelong Memorial Day weekend.SHANGRI-LA RESORT See VACATION, Page 2D

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when schools reopen in the fall. “Honestly, we haven’t been able to

get past looking at today, day by day andweek by week,” Rowe said. “We justkeep going.”

Cash-poor, cost-rich

In Orlando, Florida, where nearlythree-quarters of students at OrangeCounty Public Schools qualified for freeor reduced-price lunch, Laura Gilbertsaid her food service program nonethe-less brought in $2.2 million from paidlunches in March of last year.

This year, Gilbert estimates her pro-gram lost $4 million in March. Thatnumber grew to $6 million to $8 millionin April and probably the same for May.

Emergency meals have now all butwiped out the cash reserves Gilbert tookyears to build. Without outside help, shesaid, there will be no more money left byAugust.

Orange County schools averaged 1million meals served to students everyfive days when they were open. Theemergency program now serves 115,000to 117,000 meals a day, struggling to findprepackaged items like the cereal barsthat were popular with students forbreakfast before schools closed.

For years Gilbert had worked to keepproduct and labor costs down wherevershe could while offering students mealslike freshly baked pizzas, hummus fromscratch and trendy dishes like Koreanstir-fry tacos.

But even those innovations, she said,cost less to produce than the emergencymeals the district serves from 52 loca-tions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri-days, sending each student home withsix meals every Friday.

“That’s our biggest challenge be-cause it costs a lot more money to giveout four or six meals at a time as op-posed to having a kid come through thelunch line and get one breakfast or onelunch,” Gilbert said.

Julie Beer, food service coordinatorfor the Ukiah Unified School District inMendocino County, California, said herteam is already “grasping at straws tokeep the kids fed.”

About 80% of the 6,000 students inthe district are low-income, a percent-age so high that it qualifies all studentsfor free meals. The district is servingabout 57,000 free meals a week, eitherat distribution points where familiesdrive through to pick up items or byschool bus delivery at drop-off points.

Katie Wilson, executive director ofthe Urban School Food Alliance, saysthe 12 large school districts in her asso-ciation, which includes Orlando, are los-ing $38.9 million a week by serving foodto their students during the school clo-sures.

Diane Pratt-Heavner, spokeswomanfor the School Nutrition Association,said the 861 districts in the survey whoagreed to list their lost revenue reportedcollective losses of $626.4 million.

The price of safety

As much as Rowe’s program has lost,money is a secondary concern. Al-though the Anteys and other familieshave shown overwhelming support forthe five-day-a-week food distributions,Rowe knows that it also increases thechance of a coronavirus outbreak if oneof her staffers is infected.

“Every time I get a text early in themorning, I’m afraid I’m going to look atmy phone and get a message that some-one (working in the cafeteria) has gottensick,” she said.

The fear is real. Soon after schoolsacross the country started emergencyfeeding programs, several had to eithershut down temporarily or move to otherlocations after food prep workers testedpositive for the coronavirus.

Most recently, officials in Puerto Ricoordered the shutdown of 30 school cafe-terias and a few food warehouses afterdozens of workers in the U.S. territorytested positive for the novel coronavi-rus.

A group of mothers and several non-profits responded by suing the island’sDepartment of Education, accusing it ofdodging its responsibility to feed the is-land’s nearly 300,000 public schoolchildren.

Because of the risks, school food ser-vice leaders in many places offer hazardpay to front-line workers, and large caf-eterias designed to cook a high volumeof meals operate at only a fraction oftheir capacities so workers can operateat a safe distance.

Pratt-Heavner says many membersof her association are already reportingshortages of personal protection equip-ment like masks and gloves, as well as ashortage of cleaning supplies.

And school food coordinators likeGilbert say they are saddled with the ad-ditional food safety costs of transport-ing and storing items like milk, meatand juice at cold temperatures.

Gilbert had to rent 15 refrigeratedtrucks to store large quantities of itemsthat her staff is now handing out in bulkfrom a few centralized locations instead

of the many schools they served fromdaily when school was in session.

Reimbursements not enough

Aside from cash reserves, if they hadany, these school programs now dependalmost exclusively on government reim-bursements from a U.S. Department ofAgriculture program normally designedto feed students during summer andwinter breaks.

USDA’s Summer Food Service Pro-gram has also been a resource for schoolfood programs in emergency situations,like hurricanes or tornadoes. But theprogram has never been used for a crisisthis widespread.

The reimbursement rate for mostsites is $2.375 per breakfast and $4.15for every lunch. But Gilbert and otherfood service coordinators are often sur-passing that amount because they’rehaving to pay more for individuallywrapped items, increased transportcosts and packaging.

Congress in March passed a measurethat cleared the way for families to re-ceive food stamp benefitsto cover thecost of meals children would have nor-mally eaten in school. Only 30 stateshave qualified for the program so far,and school food officials say lines arestill long at their drive-thru and walk-upmeal pickups.

On April 27, a group of more thanthree dozen national school associa-tions, nutritional groups and other non-profits sent a letter urging Congress toprovide school meal programs nation-wide with $2.6 billion in the next con-gressional relief package “to mitigate aportion of the estimated, significant fi-nancial loss that school nutrition pro-grams have and will continue to experi-ence.”

The House responded by including$3 billion earmarked for school nutri-tion programs in the $3 trillion HeroesAct, which passed in May by a narrowmargin. Senate Majority Leader MitchMcConnell said last week that if law-makers consider another relief bill itwould have to be narrower in scope than

what the House passed.

Grim outlook for fall

As stretched thin as school food op-erations are now, program leaders saytheir needs will only intensify if schoolsreopen in the fall, especially if there’s nomoney for school nutrition in anotherrelief bill.

Aside from social distancing for stu-dents, schools will also have to figureout how to prepare and serve foods incafeterias while adhering to social dis-tancing measures for employees.

And while cafeterias are already run-ning low on protective equipment andcleaning supplies, Wilson and otherssay they’ll need a stockpile of thoseitems before they welcome childrenback.

Pratt-Heavner of the School Nutri-tion Association predicts that the in-creased need for free and reduced lunchwill present another problem thatschools will have to handle in the fall.

In current emergency feeding pro-grams, children and parents don’t haveto prove that they qualify for free meals.That will change in the fall, and with un-employment rates skyrocketing be-cause of the pandemic, it is unclear howmuch more profound the needs will be.

And unless schools receive a specialwaiver to serve all meals for free, theywill have to charge children full price formeals unless their parents completeand turn in free lunch applications.

“The application is challenging, andthey also have to be processed,” Pratt-Heavner said. “At a time when schoolsand parents will already be dealing witha number of complicated questions,they’d also have to worry about that.”

Another concern, for Gilbert, Roweand other food service coordinatorsacross the county, is that the quality ofthe meals they feed students will suffer,meaning children like Stella Antey won’thave as many healthy options at school– whether they pay for them or not.

“Things won’t be as fresh,” Gilbertsays. “We won’t be able to cook as muchfrom scratch.”

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Cafeteria workers in southern Indiana send a greeting to students. SHENAE ROWE/WARRICK COUNTY SCHOOL CORP.

fell over the holiday weekend from theweekend before.

Traditional vacation hot spots were astark contrast.

Cellphone data showed ZIP codesaround Lake of the Ozarks had huge in-creases in foot traffic, as one wouldgather from images on social media. Thenumbers were still down from last year.

The surge at the Missouri lake was farfrom the biggest in the country. About90 ZIP codes had bigger week-over-week increases in foot traffic than themain Lake of the Ozarks magnet, ZIPcode 65072.

Places that beat 65072 includedparts of rural New England, such as theshore of New Hampshire’s Lake Winni-pesaukee.

No place witnessed a bigger surge ofactivity than 2.2 million-acre Yellow-stone National Park, just as ZIPS adja-cent to Mount Rushmore and the GrandCanyon showed major growth from theprior weekend. The National Park Ser-vice has started reopening many suchlocations in phases.

Statistics from the federal agencybacked up what cellphone data suggest-ed for Yellowstone, America’s oldest na-tional park.

Although snow closed the park Sat-urday, vehicle traffic in Yellowstone’ssouthern half nearly matched last year’sSunday-Monday total: More than 4,500vehicles entered through the park’s twoWyoming gates.

Stan Werkema, manager of the OldFaithful General Store, said the area

outside was bustling over the holidaywhile workers in the store prepared toopen this week.

“People want to go out. What is a bet-ter place to get out to than YellowstoneNational Park?” Werkema said.

Five ZIP codes around Oklahoma’s60-mile-long Grand Lake were amongthose with huge retail traffic increases.

Eddy’s Lakeside Bar, part of theShangri-La resort, had people lined upwaiting for a seat for 14 hours a day,noon until 2 a.m., until rain hit May 25,director of communication Mike Wil-liams said.

The bar was alone in offering live mu-sic at the lake over the weekend, whichmay have contributed to people liningup for seats.

Management placed tables 6 feetapart and removed two-thirds of the barstools, among other measures, Williamssaid.

Williams guessed about half the pa-trons were happy to see the precau-tions, while the other half thought theywere unnecessary.

Was it enough?“I guess we’ll know in two weeks,

right?” he said, alluding to the upperlimit of time for COVID-19 symptoms toemerge after infection.

Elsewhere in Oklahoma, ZIP code74366 had more traffic than on Memori-al Day 2019.

A major source of the increased ac-tivity: the Salina Highbanks Speedway.

The track’s website listed the “AllenFrailey Memorial Race and CustomCoatings Appreciation Night” for May23, an event that promised a free hotdog to the first 550 spectators in thestands.

In Ohio, at the Lake Erie island of Put-

in-Bay, docks were full, the boardwalkbustling over the weekend. Hotels re-ported occupancy of 60% to 70%, saidPeter Huston, director of the island’sChamber of Commerce.

Bill Market, co-owner of Miller Fer-ries, said the company’s three vesselscarry hundreds but reduced capacity byabout a third for safety. Crew memberssanitized high contact areas such ashandrails and benches between eachtrip.

“We rely on the tourist industry tosurvive the whole season,” Market said.“There’s no doubt there’s risk involved,but I think for the most part, people areanxious to get out.”

In some places, travel was largelylimited to day trips. Even that couldhave its problems, according to WilliamHanage, an associate professor of epi-demiology at the Harvard T.H. ChanSchool of Public Health.

Consider Lake George, in the Adiron-dacks of upstate New York. About 90%of visitors to the area came from withinthe state, USA TODAY found – including17% from the New York metro, amongthe areas hardest hit by COVID-19 na-tionwide.

“Movements from places where weknow there’s a high population preva-lence to a low give the opportunity to in-troduce it where it’s currently not com-

mon,” Hanage said.In Arizona, where the biggest in-

crease in foot traffic was in ZIP codesnear the entrance to the Grand Canyon,the tiny town of Jerome experienced aspike.

A popular day trip destination 110miles north of Phoenix, Jerome received90% of its Memorial Day visitors fromwithin Arizona, the SafeGraph datashow.

The historic Connor Hotel, even witha new requirement that guests stay aminimum of two nights, was completelybooked all weekend. The hotel reopenedMay 16 with new coronavirus safety pro-tocols. Rooms would stay vacant 24hours after a guest left.

Monica Medina, who runs the frontdesk at the hotel, said she saw Phoenixresidents escaping the heat as well asvisitors from California and Colorado.Both are a few hours’ drive from Jerome.

“They’re traveling, but they’re stay-ing close to home. They’re taking tripsthey can just drive to,” Medina said.

Rex Peters, manager of the JeromeArtists Cooperative Gallery, said thetown was very crowded all weekend.Visitors, he said, practiced appropriatedistancing and wore masks.

Still, he has yet to reopen his gallery,a popular showcase of local artists. Hehopes that could happen by July.

“We’re an artist cooperative, so we’remostly old people with varying degreesof underlying health conditions,” hesaid. “Nobody is in a hurry to open andget in the midst of it.”

Contributing: Karen Weintraub, EllieMelero, Melissa Yeager, Eric Lagatta,Philip Drake, Greg Holman, TrevorMitchell, Dennis Wagner, USA TODAYNetwork

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A day of virtual learning – the20th, to be exact – gave way to a balmy evening in Eze-chiel Kagiraneza’s tidy neighborhood, near the south-western edge of Jefferson County, Kentucky.

His younger siblings bounced carelessly on a back-yard trampoline, the sound of their giggles boundingover a wooden fence and into the family’s cul-de-sac.Every few minutes, a band of neighborhood kidszoomed by on dirt bikes – the fleeing hours of daylightat their tail.

But on that evening in early May, Ezechiel, a 17-year-old high school senior, was nowhere in sight.

Though Jefferson County Public Schools hadscrambled to find thousands of students after the cor-onavirus pandemic forced school buildings to close,Ezechiel was not among them.

An honor roll student with perfect attendance, Eze-chiel kept in contact with his teachers and kept at hisschoolwork when remote learning began.

But the coronavirus brought new responsibilitiesfor the teen, who came to Louisville as a refugee fromhis native Rwanda when he was 12. And even thoughEzechiel remained engaged with school the best hecould, the abrupt shift to at-home learning was farfrom ideal.

“At school, you have to talk with other students,share ideas with teachers,” he said. “But here, you haveto work alone. Some assignments are really hard, andyou don’t even know what to do.”

He’d overcome difficulties before. Ezechiel’s nativelanguage is Kinyarwanda. But his English is strong. Inbecoming a refugee, Ezechiel “had to quit school” for aperiod of time, he said.

As he looked forward to graduating from IroquoisHigh School, Ezechiel’s education was interruptedagain. Though he tried “really hard” to complete his as-signments remotely, it wasn’t easy, he said.

Among the challenges Ezechiel faced were simplelogistics.

There are, including him, seven school-age childrenin his family’s Valley Station home. But the school dis-trict provides only one Chromebook per low-incomefamily.

He and two of his brothers, a sophomore and a sixthgrader, decided to trade the Chromebook back and

forth. His other siblings take turns borrowing a sep-arate computer, normally used by Ezechiel’s olderbrother, a student at Jefferson Community and Tech-nical College.

Ezechiel said he was sad to miss field trips, promand other activities planned for the Class of 2020. Hewas supposed to retake the ACT in April – hoping toget a higher score – “but the corona messed it all up.”

On that May morning, long before his block wouldcome alive with the sounds of pre-dinnertime play,Ezechiel took his turn with the Chromebook, using itto complete an assignment for a medical class at Iro-quois.

Accepted to Eastern Kentucky University, Eze-chiel is considering becoming a paramedic.

Later in the day, his responsibilities moved be-yond school, as he accompanied his mother, whodoesn’t speak English well, to the grocery store.

After touching base with his college counselor,Ezechiel granted himself a short break in front of theTV. But by early evening, he was up and movingagain.

This time, Ezechiel set off in his Mazda sedan forthe Tyson Foods poultry plant in Corydon, Indiana.

As the only member of his family with a driver’slicense, Ezechiel has started shuttling his father toand from his job there.

That day’s trip lasted two hours.After snaking through snarled traffic on Dixie

Highway, Ezechiel and his dad pulled into their drive-way, each adorning a surgical-type mask.

Again, Ezechiel appeared unfazed.Ezechiel’s routines and responsibilities would

continue right up until he graduated last week.Throughout, Ezechiel said he tried his best to stay fo-cused on school – something neither his dad nor hisgrandfather were able to do.

“My generation is the first one to go to school,” hesaid. “... I think I’ll get through it.”

He did.

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Ezechiel Kagiraneza, 17, right, with his dad, Samuel Kirumwame. SAM UPSHAW JR./USA TODAY NETWORK

Virus can’t stop dreamfor onetime refugee Mandy McLarenThe Courier-JournalUSA TODAY NETWORK “My generation is the first one

to go to school. I think I’ll get

through it.”Ezechiel Kagiraneza, former refugee in Kentucky

The emergencies chief of the World Health Or-ganization said Central and South America are wit-nessing the most intense transmission of the coro-navirus worldwide, but it’s difficult to predict whenthe epidemic might peak there.

In the last 24 hours, Dr. Michael Ryan said, five ofthe 10 countries reporting the highest number ofcases are in the Americas: the U.S., Brazil, Peru, Chileand Mexico. He said that while the growth of CO-VID-19 was not exponential in all those countries, of-ficials were seeing a progressive increase in casesand that hospitals were starting to strain under thepressure.

“We’re particularly concerned about places likeHaiti because of the inherent weaknesses in the sys-tem,” Ryan said Monday. “I think we now absolutelyneed to focus on supporting particularly Central andSouth America.” While officials previously had seri-ous concerns about COVID-19 in South Asia and Afri-ca, outbreaks in those regions were now stable.

“I don’t believe we’ve reached the peak” in theAmericas, Ryan said, noting that several factors inthe region, including the number of urban poor andfragile health systems, made outbreaks in thosecountries particularly dangerous.

As of Monday afternoon, the virus had killed morethan 104,000 in the U.S. and more than 373,000worldwide. There are more than 6.2 million con-firmed cases across the globe and nearly 1.8 million inthe U.S.

South Korea case spike sparks alarm

South Korea has reported 238 cases over the pastfive days, causing some worry as the country haseased social distancing rules, including openingschools. Most of the cases are centered in the Seoulmetropolitan area, and hundreds of infections havebeen linked to nightspots, restaurants and a massivee-commerce warehouse near Seoul.

According to the Yonhap News Agency, Monday’s35 new cases is a slight tick down after Thursday sawa two-month high of 75 cases. The news agency re-ported that some worries have been raised as nearlytwo dozen cases were traced to 13 small churches inIncheon, west of Seoul, and Gyeonggi Province sur-rounding the capital.

Family of cruise passenger files suit

The family of a California cruise ship passengerwho died of the coronavirus has sued PrincessCruises and its parent company in federal court. Ron-ald Wong, 64, and his wife, Eva, were on the GrandPrincess when the ship set sail from San Francisco onFeb. 21. He died in a California hospital a month later.Eva Wong tested positive and recovered.

According to the complaint, filed last week in U.S.District Court for the Central District of California,Princess and its parent, Carnival Corp., should haveknown that a passenger on the ship’s prior voyagehad the virus. Sixty-two passengers and 1,000 crewmembers who sailed on the Grand Princess to Mexicostayed on board for the next sailing to Hawaii, ac-cording to the complaint.

NY bill supports families of front-line workers

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill into law thatcreates a death benefit for families of state and localgovernment workers who have been on the frontlines of the coronavirus response. Those workers“gave their lives for us,” Cuomo said.

New York has been the state hardest hit by the cor-onavirus.

Contributing: Jessica Flores, Ryan W. Miller, Cur-tis Tate, The Associated Press

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WHO: Viruscases surgingin the Americas

lead federal operations during the whole-of-AmericaCOVID-19 response, we continue to take deliberateand proactive steps to respond to and recover from fu-ture disasters, such as hurricanes, while responding toCOVID-19. FEMA has already responded to severeweather during this pandemic, with devastating tor-nadoes in the southeast, while also preparing for thestart of the 2020 hurricane season.”

Nevertheless, the overwhelming fight against CO-VID-19, paired with already scarce resources, will dra-matically impact the ability of federal, state, and localgovernments to support hurricane disaster relief.

And the threat of contracting COVID-19 will be a de-terrent for some people considering to go to a shelter toride out a hurricane.

“If we have to do mass congregate sheltering, whatare the protocols we’re going to have in place?,” JaredMoskowitz, the director of the Florida Division ofEmergency Management, said in a recent news con-ference, AccuWeather reported. “Are we going to haveCOVID-only shelters? How are we going to do evacua-tions?”

Another dynamic may also come into play this yearwhen tropical systems threaten the U.S.: disaster fa-tigue.

Months of stress and worrying over the coronaviruspandemic and its implications on society, the econo-my and everyday living has taken its toll on manyAmericans, AccuWeather reported.

“They’re tired of seeing the numbers. They’re tired

of seeing the news media. They’re tired,” Bill Wheeler,deputy emergency management coordinator in HarrisCounty, Texas, told AccuWeather.

FEMA recently released the “COVID-19 PandemicOperational Guidance for the 2020 Hurricane Season”to help emergency managers and public health offi-cials best prepare for disasters while continuing to re-spond to and recover from the pandemic.

While FEMA aims to live up to its mission, it noteddisaster response may be conducted remotely thisyear, and that the public should be aware the agency’sapplication process may not be done in-person due tohealth and safety considerations.

“While this is understandable, there’s no question itwill significantly complicate hurricane preparednessand recovery efforts, especially for communities thatare less well-resourced or more isolated,” the Union ofConcerned Scientists said.

Nursing homes are at particular risk during a hurri-cane, according to Weather.us meteorologist RyanMaue.

“(What’s) very important during hurricane seasonis to prepare those in elderly housing including nurs-ing homes for potential storm impacts,” he said. “Thisis just one of many areas where the coronavirus pan-demic and hurricane season intersect.”

Cleetus pointed out that hurricane season lasts un-til Nov. 30, and public health experts are warning of asurge in infections later this year.

“We’re not out of the woods in terms of the publichealth challenge,” she said.

At the American Red Cross, Trevor Riggen, seniorvice president of disaster services, said, “disasterswon’t stop during the coronavirus outbreak – so as wehead into hurricane season, our goal is to provide any-one in need after a disaster with comfort and support.”

He added that amid the coronavirus crisis, RedCross will provide some relief services virtually, in-cluding mental health support and financial assis-tance, thanks to investments in items like laptops,wireless hotspots and mobile devices.

“Instead of opening shelters, we’re prioritizing indi-vidual hotel rooms or dormitory style rooms to makesure people have a safe place to stay if they can’t returnhome after a disaster,” Riggen said.

And as bad as it could be in the U.S., nations of theCaribbean may be even more at risk. Erynn Carter,senior director for humanitarian response at MercyCorps, said the region faces a “nightmare scenario” if amajor hurricane hits in the middle of “an uncontainedpandemic.”

“Skyrocketing demand for health supplies hasstretched supply chains,” Carter said. “Difficulty ac-cessing items like hygiene products and medical sup-plies will hurt much needed preparations for hurricaneresponse.

So far, the hurricane season has gotten off to a faststart. Two named storms have already formed: Trop-ical Storms Arthur and Bertha.

It’s the first time since 2012 that two storms formedduring the month of May.

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TRAVEL

ROME – Marco Vigorita strummedhis ukulele and belted out three songs –his self-imposed limit – then stayedaround to joke with the table of four fin-ishing their lunch outside a restaurantin the bohemian neighborhood of Tras-tevere.

The four women at the table werethere to celebrate one of them earningher law degree, and Vigorita, a commonsight on the usually thriving restaurantand bar scene in Trastevere, had noplace to go.

“This,” Vigorita said, tilting his headtoward the restaurant, Da Enzo, “this iswhat passes for tourism these days.”

The restaurant served fewer than adozen diners that lunch shift, a far cryfrom normal circumstances when DaEnzo’s mostly international clientelestand in line for a seat at the tiny eatery.

Rich in historical and cultural trea-sures such as the Colosseum, the TreviFountain and the Pantheon and con-taining Vatican City within its borders,Italy’s capital has been among theworld’s most prominent tourist destina-tions for centuries.

But the city’s sprawling tourism in-dustry was shuttered in early Marchwhen Italy announced Europe’s firstmodern peacetime lockdown in an at-tempt to halt the spread of thecoronavirus. By mid-April, the mea-sures – most residents had to stay athome except for medical appointmentsor food shopping, and police patrolledthe streets in search of rule-breakers –had largely contained the spread of thevirus. Weeks later, the tourist industryremains a casualty of the lockdown.

Italian officials hope that will start tochange this week. Starting Wednesday,Italy will allow travelers from the 25 oth-er members of the Schengen visa-freetravel area that covers much of Europe

to come to Italy with no restrictions.Few expect large numbers to arrive – atleast at first.

Rome, which is home to nearly 3 mil-lion permanent residents, is hardly aghost town, but without clusters oftourists and traffic jams, it has becomean unhurried place.

It looks like a throwback to anothertime: There are kids kicking a soccer ballbetween the pillars of the ancient porti-co of the Pantheon, dog walkers circlingPiazza Navona’s oval track, solitary pe-destrians emerging from the shadows ofmajestic palaces and tiny flowerssprouting through the cobblestones ofCampo de’ Fiori, whose name, whichtranslates to Field of Flowers, until re-cently seemed ironic.

Dario Franceschini, minister of cul-ture and tourism, said Italy, which host-ed nearly 63 million foreign tourists lastyear, is unlikely to see many before nextyear, and it could be 2023 before the

country’s tourism sector recovers com-pletely. Nearly half of all tourists whovisit Italy pass through Rome, the coun-try’s top tourist city.

According to Annunziata Berrino, acontemporary history professor fromFederico II University in Naples, theclosest parallel to the situation is the pe-riod immediately after World War II.

“Italy struggled to emerge from thedestruction of the war,” she said. “In thefirst years, things were tentative. No-body had money to spend, and fewcould afford to travel far from home.There were no shops to cater to tourists.Menus weren’t printed in different lan-guages. People who came to the citiesjust did what the Italians did.”

Da Teo, another restaurant in Tras-tevere, makes that point. Cateringmostly to locals, Da Teo has done betterthan many institutions as the lockdownrules are lifted. Teodoro Filippini, chefand co-owner of the restaurant, said

he’s had mixed results since reopeningin May.

“It’s wonderful to see old friends, andI’m happy to get back to work,” he said.“But we can’t survive at this level indefi-nitely. Before the crisis, I might serve120, 140 meals on a good night. The bestnight we’ve had since reopening, I thinkwe prepared 60 or 65 meals.”

On a recent afternoon, Filippiniscanned the dozen or so tables spread 6feet apart. He said he knew at least oneperson at each table. It shows: He andhis partner, Tiziana Mambrini, spentmuch of the lunch shift going from tableto table, asking regulars how they sur-vived the lockdown.

One of them, Matt Carley, a tourguide originally from Canada but livingin Rome, predicted that Roman busi-nesses that rely on tourists are going tostruggle.

“I think the few tourists that come aregoing to head to the countryside or themountains or the beach,” Carley said.“It’ll be a while before most visitors aregoing to want to spend their vacation ina big city.”

Those who do come can expect cer-tain changes. Many restaurants use QRcodes, so customers can decide on theirmeal via smartphone rather than pass-ing a menu from table to table.

A much-heralded Rome exhibitmarking the 500th anniversary of thedeath of Renaissance maestro Raphaelclosed during the lockdown but will re-open Tuesday, allowing only six visitorsto enter every five minutes. Rome’s mu-seum on futurism is so small that it canhost only one visitor at a time. Up theroad in Florence, visitors to the Duomowill be required to wear a necklace thatwill beep when people are too close toeach other.

Many expect the first visitors will seethe best of Italians.

“People here have gone through a lot,but I think that has brought out a kind ofexaggerated kindness,” said Amy Koeth,a native of New York married to an Ital-ian and teaching English at a Romanhigh school.

Italy is welcoming travelers’ returnTourism industry closedby virus in early March

Eric J. LymanSpecial to USA TODAY

Marco Vigorita plays ukelele for restaurantgoers in Rome. He couldn’t work for10 weeks during Italy’s coronavirus lockdown, but since restrictions eased,people are more generous, he says. ERIC J. LYMAN/USA TODAY

As cities reopen and air travel gradu-ally picks up, the government is on thecusp of giving final approval to a lengthylist of cities that could lose some of theirairline service.

The list is the latest attempt by theDepartment of Transportation to helpairlines cope with a dearth of passengersand conserve cash amid stay-at-homeorders because of the coronavirus whiletrying to make sure the communities stillhave airline service.

Before the pandemic, airlines couldhave just cut flights on their own. But asa condition of having accepted bailoutfunds under the federal stimulus, theymust apply for DOT approval beforestopping service to a particular city.

Recently, airlines have received per-mission to stop serving certain cities onan individual basis. But the latest moverepresents an attempt to take the re-quests as a group under a new system tolet airlines drop up to five cities, or 5% ofthe cities in a network, whichever isgreater.

If travel picks up, there’s nothing topreclude airlines from restoring service.The DOT didn’t spell out when it wouldissue a final ruling or when cuts wouldgo into effect.

With the government’s comment pe-riod having ended Thursday, cities,members of Congress and chambers ofcommerce have tried to make theircases for why the DOT shouldn’t allowservice to be cut.

The DOT stipulated that it would notleave any destination that had servicebefore the pandemic struck without atleast one carrier continuing to serve it.Also, the service cuts, to which it has al-ready given preliminary approval,would expire Sept. 30.

The proposed service suspensionscome as airlines are starting to see thefirst signs that passenger traffic couldrebound as cities reopen. The Transpor-tation Security Administration reportedseeing the first increases in passengercounts above 300,000 a day over theMemorial Day weekend.

More US airline service beingcut: Is your airport on the list?Chris WoodyardUSA TODAY

Possible airline service cutsComplete list, subject to final approval:

Alaska Airlines❚ Charleston, SouthCarolina❚ Columbus, Ohio ❚ El Paso, Texas❚ New Orleans❚ San Antonio, Texas

Allegiant Air❚ New Orleans❚ Ogdensburg, NewYork❚ Palm Springs,California❚ San Antonio❚ Springfield, Illinois❚ Tucson, Arizona

American Airlines❚ Aspen, Colorado❚ Eagle, Colorado❚ Montrose/Delta,Colorado❚ Worcester,Massachusetts

Cape Air❚ Portland, Maine

Corvus Airlines❚ Goodnews Bay, Alaska❚ Kodiak, Alaska❚ Napakiak, Alaska❚ Napaskiak, Alaska❚ Platinum, Alaska

Delta Air Lines❚ Aspen, Colorado❚ Bangor, Maine❚ Erie, Pennsylvania❚ Flint, Michigan❚ Fort Smith, Arkansas❚ Lincoln, Nebraska❚ New Bern/Morehead/Beaufort, NorthCarolina ❚ Peoria, Illinois❚ Santa Barbara,California❚ Scranton/

Wilkes-Barre,Pennsylvania ❚ Williston, NorthDakota

Elite Airways❚ Sarasota/Bradenton,Florida

Frontier Airlines❚ Greenville/Spartanburg, SouthCarolina❚ Mobile, Alabama❚ Palm Springs❚ Portland, Maine❚ Tyler, Texas

JetBlue Airways❚ Albuquerque, NewMexico❚ Palm Springs❚ Sacramento, California❚ Sarasota/Bradenton,Florida❚ Worcester,Massachusetts

Seaborne VirginIslands❚ Charlotte Amalie,Virgin Islands❚ Christiansted, VirginIslands❚ Culebra, Puerto Rico

❚ San Juan, Puerto Rico❚ Vieques, Puerto Rico

Silver Airways❚ Charlotte Amalie,Virgin Islands❚ Huntsville, Alabama❚ Key West, Florida❚ Tallahassee, Florida❚ Tampa, Florida

Spirit Airlines❚ Asheville, NorthCarolina❚ Charlotte Amalie,Virgin Islands❚ Christiansted, VirginIslands❚ Greensboro/HighPoint, North Carolina ❚ Plattsburgh, New York

Sun Air Express❚ Nashville, Tennessee

Sun Country Airlines❚ Madison, Wisconsin❚ Philadelphia❚ Portland, Oregon❚ Sacramento ❚ St. Louis, Missouri

United Air Lines❚ Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton,Pennsylvania❚ Charlotte Amalie❚ Chattanooga,Tennessee❚ Fairbanks, Alaska❚ Hilton Head, SouthCarolina❚ Ithaca/Cortland, NewYork❚ Kalamazoo, Michigan❚ Key West, Florida❚ Lansing, Michigan❚ Myrtle Beach, SouthCarolina❚ Rochester, Minnesota

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United Airlines will cut 13 of its 67senior executive positions, the compa-ny said Friday.

Eight of its executives will leaveOct. 1, and five openings will not befilled.

The moves are part of United’s planto cut management and support staffby at least 30% in October, the earliestit can do so under terms of $5 billion infederal aid it is getting to help coverpayroll cost, according to The Associ-ated Press.

United Airlines President Scott Kir-by has issued bleak outlook after bleakoutlook since the coronavirus crisisbegan hitting U.S. airlines in late Feb-ruary, noting each time that he waslaying out a worst-case scenario.

The bleakest arrived this monthduring the airline’s quarterly earningsconference call.

Kirby said travel demand is essen-tially “zero,” and the airline is bracingfor that to be the case for the rest of theyear and into 2021. United has 93,000employees.

And United isn’t the only airline toannounce cuts to its administrativestaff.

Airlines have suffered major lossessince travel screeched to a near halt asthe coronavirus pandemic spreadacross the globe, infecting nearly 6million people and killing more than366,000, according to Johns Hopkinsdata. Airlines executives say it couldtake years for air travel to recover.

American Airlines also made thecall to cut its management and sup-port staff by about 30%, according toan internal letter from Elise Eberwein,executive vice president of people andcommunication, obtained by USA TO-DAY.

The airline’s management and sup-port staff include about 17,000 people.

Contributing: Dawn Gilbertson,USA TODAY; The Associated Press

United to cut13 executiveposts amidairline crisisMorgan HinesUSA TODAY

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News from across the USA

ALABAMA Montgomery: The citymight become the state’s latest torequire the wearing of face masks inpublic amid rising COVID-19 cases.Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed saidthe proposal may be brought to theCity Council as soon as Tuesday.

ALASKA Anchorage: The state onSunday reported 27 new coronaviruscases, the largest one-day increasesince the pandemic started. Caseshave spiked since Republican Gov.Mike Dunleavy loosened restrictionsto guard against the virus’s spread.

ARIZONA Eloy: Immigrants detainedat the La Palma Correctional Centerhave become increasingly desperateas the outbreak at the facility hasgrown into one of the biggest in thenation. At least 76 undocumentedimmigrants detained there had testedpositive for COVID-19 as of Saturday.

ARKANSAS Little Rock: The numberof confirmed coronavirus cases inArkansas has surpassed 7,000, andone additional death is reported dueto COVID-19, the Arkansas Depart-ment of Health said.

CALIFORNIA Palm Springs: Of the 49counties that received approval tospeed along a quicker path to nor-malcy, 49% failed to meet at least oneof the reopening criteria mandated bythe state, according to an analysis.

COLORADO Fort Collins: The morethan 4 million visitors who flock toRocky Mountain National Park eachyear will see big changes as the parkbalances visitors’ safety with theirlove of nature while reopening afterits COVID-19 shutdown. The park willonly partially open some of its camp-grounds and restrooms, while evalu-ating the opening of others.

CONNECTICUT New London: Healthcare workers rallied Saturday to pro-test what they called a shortage ofpersonal protective equipment andpay tribute to a nurse’s aide who diedafter contracting the coronavirus.

DELAWARE Wilmington: A federaljudge and a federal appeals panelhave rejected a request from apreacher for an emergency injunctionto lift state restrictions on churchworship to prevent spread of thecoronavirus.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washing-ton: The district lowered the speedlimit on streets to 20 miles per houreffective Monday, WUSA-TV reports.The change was made in an effort tokeep D.C. streets safe during the pan-demic and social distancing era.

FLORIDA Key Largo: The FloridaKeys reopened for visitors Mondayafter the tourist-dependent islandchain was closed for more than twomonths to prevent the spread of thecoronavirus through the island chain.

GEORGIA Atlanta: Emergency offi-cials are nervously bracing for thisyear’s hurricane season amid newdangers posed by the coronavirus. InLiberty County, emergency manage-ment director Larry Logan said hedidn’t have enough shelters to main-tain social distance in case of a massevacuation. He was concerned thatfear of contracting the virus at a shel-ter would lead more residents to ig-nore any evacuation orders.

HAWAII Wailuku: The Maui CountyLiquor Control Department has is-sued a written notice of warning toMaui Brewing Co. after an investiga-tion revealed the company violatedstate law by advertising free handsanitizer with the sale of liquor.

IDAHO Boise: New data shows arecent spike in coronavirus cases hashit Latinos in rural Idaho – an alreadydisproportionately affected commu-nity that makes up a third of thestate’s cases where the race isknown.

ILLINOIS Springfield: The state willoffer free meals to school-age chil-dren at hundreds of sites this sum-mer, using options such as homedelivery and drive-thru distributionto ensure families that need help canget it during the pandemic.

INDIANA Indianapolis: Central Indi-ana trash haulers have collected rec-ord levels of residential trash since astatewide stay-at-home order that’snow being eased took effect in Marchdue to the coronavirus pandemic,officials said.

IOWA Des Moines: Another five peo-ple with COVID-19 have died, andthere have been an additional 204positive cases, the state reportedMonday morning.

KANSAS Wichita: Hundreds ofpeople in the city flocked to barsand clubs on the first weekend theywere open after Gov. Laura Kellyand local officials lifted restrictionsmeant to check the spread of thecoronavirus. Knots of people movedthrough the streets, hugging friendsthey met and, in some cases, turn-ing cartwheels.

KENTUCKY Frankfort: Four Ken-tucky State Park lodges that werepreviously designated as part of thestate’s coronavirus emergency re-sponse will reopen June 8, Gov.Andy Beshear announced. A declinein cases of the virus means thelodging is no longer necessary forresponse efforts, officials said.

LOUISIANA New Orleans: The Au-dubon Zoo plans to reopen Wednes-day with special guidelines in placedesigned to reduce the spread of thecoronavirus.

MAINE Portland: A federal judgehas denied a motion in a lawsuitthat was filed by some campgroundoperators who believe a state quar-antine order for out-of-state visitorsis unconstitutional.

MARYLAND College Park: The 12state schools that constitute theUniversity System of Maryland willuse a mix of in-person and remotelearning when they reopen. Thesystem announced a frameworkFriday for schools to respond to thecoronavirus. Some may adjust cal-endars to start the fall semester asearly as July so the semester canconclude by Thanksgiving.

MASSACHUSETTS Boston: Cityofficials are concerned that manyAsian American residents, especial-ly in Chinatown, may not be gettingtested for the new coronavirus.

MICHIGAN Detroit: Public healthofficials worry future outbreaks ofvaccine-preventable diseases couldemerge in the state, as vaccinationrates have dramatically fallen dur-ing the coronavirus pandemic.

MINNESOTA Minneapolis: Minne-sota health officials reported 10 newdeaths from COVID-19 on Monday,raising the state’s death toll to 1,050on the same day Gov. Tim Walzallowed restaurants and bars tostart offering outdoor dining. Salonsand barbershops were also able toreopen starting Monday.

MISSISSIPPI Jackson: The Mis-sissippi Department of Correctionssays it will soon restart the transferof inmates from county jails intostate prisons and from one prison toanother – a practice that has beenon hold for about two months be-cause of the coronavirus pandemic.

MISSOURI O’Fallon: Casinos arebeginning to reopen in the stateafter a more than two-month shut-down caused by the coronavirus,and it was clear Monday that manypeople were eager to gamble. Nearly100 people lined up awaiting the9 a.m. reopening of Lumiere Placecasino in downtown St. Louis, in-cluding many older adults, mostwearing masks, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. In the Kansas Cityarea, gambling was resuming atAmeristar, Argosy, Isle of Capri andHarrah’s.

MONTANA Bozeman: The Montanaentrances to Yellowstone NationalPark are still closed, but that hasn’tstopped several Big Sky tour com-panies from teaming up to be readywhen those gates do open. The fivecompanies got together to create aCOVID-19 operating plan to submitto the park, a requirement for allcommercial business going in andout of Yellowstone.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: Bars, zoos,swimming pools and other publicvenues were allowed to reopenMonday in 89 of 93 counties even asthe pandemic continues to loom asa major public health threat.

NEVADA Carson City: Health offi-cials are reporting the state’s totalnumber of COVID-19 cases is nowpast 8,600. The number of knowndeaths is now up to 421.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord: Theowner of the Mount WashingtonCog Railway implored a state taskforce Monday to allow his businessto reopen, even if it means stoppingshort of the summit of the North-east’s highest peak.

NEW JERSEY Trenton: Shopperswill soon be able to enter nonessen-tial retail establishments, and res-taurants may allow outdoor diningas of June 15, Gov. Phil Murphy said.

NEW MEXICO Albuquerque: Thestate’s largest electric provider isasking state regulators to consider aproposal that would allow it to re-cover fixed service costs indepen-dent of how much electricity is ac-tually consumed by customers.Public Service Co. of New Mexico ispursing what is known as decou-pling, pointing to uncertainty amidthe coronavirus pandemic.

NEW YORK New York: Gov. AndrewCuomo signed a bill Saturday grant-ing death benefits to the families ofpolice officers, public health work-ers and other front-line workerswho have died of the coronavirus.The bill passed by lawmakers lastweek provides an accidental deathbenefit that is more substantialthan the regular death benefit thatpublic workers’ families receive.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: All 20counties in the state’s coastal man-agement zone said COVID-19 is fac-toring into hurricane preparations.Fifteen acknowledged shortfalls orconcerns about supplies, with pro-tective gear being the most commonworry during a national shortage.

NORTH DAKOTA Bismarck: Statecorrections officials are seeking upto $2.5 million in federal COVID-19aid to give temporary pay increasesto employees who are required to bein close contact with prisoners andothers during the pandemic.

OHIO Cincinnati: Child care provid-ers can begin to reopen this week,but they will look much differentfrom how they did in March. Thereare new rules for cleaning andwashing hands. Classrooms arecapped at six for infants and tod-dlers or nine for preschoolers andschool-age children – half or fewerthan they held before the pandemic.Day camps were also given thegreen light to open Sunday withgroups of nine children at most.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: Stateprisons will reopen for inmate visita-tion starting next weekend, but withprecautions to prevent the spread ofthe coronavirus, according to thestate Department of Correction. Visi-tors must remain in their vehicle untilcalled, wear a mask, complete ahealth screening, show no symptomsof the virus and maintain social dis-tancing, the department said Friday.

OREGON Hood River: State officialsdisclosed Friday that a Hood RiverCounty pear-packing company is thesite of the latest COVID-19 outbreakconnected to the agriculture industry.Six employees of Duckwall Fruit havetested positive for coronavirus, theOregon Health Authority said.

PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg: Stateofficials reported comparatively lowfigures for new COVID-19 infectionsand deaths Monday, a sign the pan-demic’s impact may be on the wane.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Mallswelcomed shoppers Monday as thestate moves into the second phase ofits economic restart. Hair stylists,nail salons, gyms and child care cen-ters are also among the businessesallowed to reopen with restrictions.

SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston: Asthe debate heats up over how to se-cure restaurant spaces during thepandemic, a mainstay of downtownCharleston dining has come up with aparticularly summery solution, ThePost and Courier reports. “It’s a hard-core, full-height, double-wide life-guard tower,” Edmund’s Oast ownerScott Shor said of the custom-builtelevated watchtower that now loomsover the restaurant’s popular patio.

SOUTH DAKOTA Pierre: The statehas surpassed 5,000 confirmed casesof the coronavius, the South DakotaDepartment of Health said Monday.

TENNESSEE Nashville: A sexual andreproductive health advocacy groupis launching a billboard and digital adcampaign intended to show howCOVID-19 has exposed inequality,according to a news release. A bill-board image released to media byHealthy & Free Tennessee reads,“End mass incarceration. Make par-enthood and abortion accessible foreveryone. Protect transgender youth.”

TEXAS Austin: The number of con-firmed COVID-19 cases in the staterose by nearly 2,000 Sunday, andthere were another 24 deaths tied tothe disease caused by the new coro-navirus, according to health officials.

VERMONT Montpelier: The state’scourthouses resumed more routineoperations Monday for the first timesince mid-March, but people will berequired to wear masks and answerquestions about their health.

VIRGINIA Virginia Beach: As hurri-cane season begins and the pandem-ic continues, the city is facing theprospect of having fewer resources torespond to a major storm. Plummet-ing tax revenues are raising questionsin Virginia Beach about how muchfunding would be available.

WASHINGTON Seattle: King Countyplanned to apply for approval to enterinto a modified Phase 1 on Mondayafter Gov. Jay Inslee announced hewouldn’t extend the state’s COVID-19stay-home orders. An order in placesince March 23 expired Sunday.

WEST VIRGINIA Charleston: Threepeople have tested positive for thecoronavirus at Marshall University asthe college is allowing athletes toreturn to campus for training, offi-cials said Monday. The college ismaking all student athletes self-iso-late for a week when they return tocampus.

WISCONSIN Madison: The percent-age of new positive COVID-19 casesin the state continued a downwardtrend Monday, based on the latestfigures reported by the Department ofHealth Services. Only 4% of all testsreported Monday were positive, thethird-smallest total on record in thepast two weeks.

WYOMING Casper: Vital social ser-vices including child care assistanceand the Supplemental Nutrition As-sistance Program are experiencinggrowing pressures resulting from thecoronavirus pandemic. State Depart-ment of Family Services DirectorKorin Schmidt told lawmakers thatadditional funding will likely be re-quired to meet rising demand, TheCasper Star-Tribune reports.

From USA TODAY Network andwire reports

HIGHLIGHT: UTAH

A campsite at Wood Camp sits along the Logan River near Logan, Utah. AP

Logan: With outdoor recreation being one of the few activities available duringthe COVID-19 pandemic, campsites are undergoing a large uptick in positive andnegative use. Local forest rangers are encouraging folks to treat campgroundsrespectfully, extinguish campfires and plan ahead for trips. Cache National For-est Logan District Ranger Jennefer Parker said irresponsible gun shooting, gar-bage and trespassing are all on the rise this season. However, an increase inunattended fires is prompting the most concern. Parker said multiple citationshave been issued for people who “completely walked away” from their campfires.

6D ❚ TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2020 ❚ USA TODAY NEWS

Tracking coronavirus across the states

Each circle represents total numbers for one county:

Reported cases in the United States

Each dot represents total numbers for one county:

Reported deaths in the United States

New confirmed coronavirus patients

reported in the US by day

New coronavirus-related deaths

reported in the US by day

As of Monday, there were nearly 1.8 million cases in the United States. More than 104,000 people have died in the U.S., with more than 373,000 deaths worldwide.

KARINA ZAIETS, MITCHELL THORSON, SHAWN J. SULLIVAN, JANIE HASEMAN AND KARL GELLES, USA TODAY

As of Monday, 3 p.m. EDT

Miami-Dade County18,138 cases

New Orleans7,141 cases

Los Angeles55,001 cases

Clark County, Nev.6,719 cases

Phoenix9,937 cases

King County, Wash.8,092 cases

Detroit2,463 deaths

Los Angeles2,362 deaths

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NOTE Some states do not report deaths by county

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New York City15,800 deaths

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