Will telecommuting spell Parents weigh whether to Colin Jost

end for office buildings? send kids back to school shares pain
It’s unlikely, analysts say. But many companies Confusion and worry reign as families struggle
for laughs in
find they don’t need as much space. In Money with their options for this fall. Nation’s Health new book

USA TODAY
THE NATION'S NEWS | $2 | TUESDAY, JULY 14, 2020 EVAN AGOSTINI/AP
Comedian discusses
“A Very Punchable Face,”
the ups and downs of
“Saturday Night Live,” and
his fiancée, actress Scar-
lett Johansson. In Life

E2

ELECTION 2020
Washington’s NFL team
Pollsters changing its name, logo
are wary
Seven years after its owner said he would “never” change its name,
Washington’s NFL team announced Monday that it will drop the
name and logo that many Native Americans and others find offen-
sive. USA TODAY columnist Nancy Armour says owner Daniel Snyder

of 2016 Washington’s logo on FedEx Field. MARK TENALLY/AP

wasn’t moved by compassion to make the change but rather by what
was at stake financially. Sports, 1C

repeat Coronavirus pandemic: ‘No one is safe until everyone is safe’

Surveys say Trump
is trailing, as they
did before he won
Ledyard King and Michael Collins
USA TODAY

WASHINGTON – Joe Biden can look

at the polls and smile.
Cautiously.
A double-digit advantage in numer-
ous national surveys, solid leads in a
number of battlegrounds and compet-
itive showings in states Donald Trump
carried handily in 2016 suggest the
presumptive Democratic nominee is
the favorite to win in November.
The overwhelming
majority of polls four
years ago indicated
Trump would lose as
well. So why put much
faith in the 2020 polls
that show the former
Biden vice president consis-
tently on top?
David Burgess of Kit-
tery, Maine, said he
stopped believing polls
after the 2016 presiden-
tial election. A health care worker signs people up for COVID-19 testing Monday at the Miami Beach Convention Center. LYNNE SLADKY/AP
“They predicted Hil-
Trump lary Clinton would win,
and she didn’t,” Burgess
said while taking a stroll through
downtown Portsmouth, New Hamp-
shire, with his miniature schnauzer,
Vaccine nationalism
threatens global effort
Taavi. “Voters are like an iceberg.
(With polls), you just see the tip of the
iceberg. You don’t see the rest of the
iceberg. You don’t know who they’re
going to vote for.”
Pollsters said lessons they learned
from 2016’s failings will make this Elizabeth Weise ically turbo-charged but chaotic race to
campaign season’s polls more accu- USA TODAY create, then produce coronavirus vac-
rate. Although they sympathize with Cyberattacks against cines. Rather than widespread coordina-
voters’ frustrations, they defend their A deadly virus causes a pandemic. A tion and sharing, “me first” vaccine na-
work as needing minor tweaks, not a hospitals increase wealthy country signs a more than $100 tionalism pits nation against nation to get
fundamental overhaul. More than 80% of medical practices million contract for vaccine with a man- and keep enough doses for their citizens.
“The public understandably walked have been victims of hacks, according ufacturer in a small nation. When the Countries focus on their own vaccine
away from 2016 feeling like polls were to a national survey. 1D vaccine becomes available, the small development programs rather than col-
broken. And there’s some truth to nation’s government balks, demanding laborating to pool resources. Agree-
that,” said Courtney Kennedy, director Job reunites couple enough for its entire population before ments are scarce to share vaccines
any can be exported. when they’re available so health work-
See POLLS, Page 8A after 114-day separation That’s what happened in 2009, when ers and those in international COVID-19
Desperate to see her husband, who has Australia demanded biotech manufactur- hot spots can have first access.
Alzheimer’s and lives in a locked-down er CSL fulfill domestic needs for H1N1 vac- As what happened in Australia
memory-care center, a Florida woman cine before any could be sent to the USA. shows, no matter what contracts may be

QIJFAF-02005y(c)o
finds a creative way to get inside. 1D And it’s the scenario public health ex-
perts fear as the world enters a scientif- See VACCINE, Page 5A
©COPYRIGHT 2020
USA TODAY,
A division of
Gannett Co., Inc.
HOME DELIVERY
1-800-872-0001, USATODAYSERVICE.COM
RACE IN AMERICA

Economic hit worst

Reparations bill gets new attention
for young adults Other nations could
Americans who say they or someone in
their household has lost employment provide blueprint for US
or wages as a result of the pandemic:
All adults 43% Kim Hjelmgaard
USA TODAY
18-29 54%
30-49 49% Tony Burroughs’ great-great-great-
great grandfather was freed from slav-
50-64 42% ery in 1806 by a white woman from
65+ 25% Pennsylvania. In her will, Margaret
Hutton said David Truman was to be
taught to read and do math. He was
given $8, about $165 in today’s money.
Truman was 25.
Fifty-nine years later, when a Union
Army general announced in Texas on
June 19, 1865 – now known as
SOURCE: Pew Research Center Juneteenth – that “all slaves are free,”
AMY BARNETTE, BILL CAMPLING/USA TODAY
neither Truman nor his descendants
benefited from the federal government’s
short-lived promise of what passed for
reparations: “40 acres and a mule.”
Truman’s grandson accumulated
enough money to buy a single acre for
farming, but it would take six genera-
tions – until Burroughs’ parents’ gener-
ation, in the late 1960s – before the fam-
ily had the financial footing to become
homeowners.
“The Confederates lost the Civil War.
They sure didn’t give up the fight,” said
Burroughs, 71, founder of the Center for
Black Genealogy, a Chicago-based or-
ganization that helps people scour rec-
ords and trace lineages.
Burroughs has spent more than 20
years researching his ancestors. Tony Burroughs researches his
ancestors in a library at the University
See REPARATIONS, Page 4A of Oxford in England. BURROUGHS FAMILY