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Like most actors, Bryce DallasHoward is used to showing up onfilm sets knowing what lines she’ssupposed to say, when she’s sup-posed to say them and, often, notmuch more.

Things are very different on“Jurassic World: Dominion,” oneof the first major Hollywood stu-dio films to restart production

since the coronavirus pandemicled to a global shutdown in March.Before agreeing to return toPinewood Studios outside Lon-don, Ms. Howard and other mem-bers of the cast grilled producersand executives from the studio be-hind the movie, Universal,through a series of Zoom calls andemails about what precautionswere being taken.

Ms. Howard now knows every-thing from how to attach her mi-

crophone before filming — shedoes it herself outside, with helpfrom her dresser, as a boom opera-tor wearing a mask and a shieldinstructs them — to the personwho makes her bed at the luxury

hotel Universal has rented out for20 weeks for the cast and crew.

“Until now, actors were not re-ally included in prep,” Ms. Howardsaid in a phone interview, refer-ring to the moviemaking processas “a need-to-know-business.”“But in order to get any of us on aplane, we had to thoroughly un-derstand the protocols, who wasinvolved and hear second andthird opinions. We are the guinea

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Actors Are Guinea Pigsfor Vast Precautions

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WILMINGTON, Del. — JosephR. Biden Jr. and Senator KamalaHarris made their debut as run-ning mates in a high school gym-nasium on Wednesday, pledgingto lead the country out of the coro-navirus crisis amid an onslaughtof attacks from President Trumpas the two national tickets wenthead-to-head for the first time,less than three months beforeElection Day.

The first full day for the newDemocratic presidential ticket of-fered a glimpse of how two once-bitter rivals from opposite coastsand different generations will tryto unite Americans around theirplatform. Projecting warmth to-ward each other, they sketchedout a vision of recovery from thenation’s crises surrounding publichealth, the economy and racial in-justice — challenges that, they ar-gued, Mr. Trump has made worseat every turn with an extraordi-narily divisive presidency.

“We need more than a victoryon Nov. 3,” Ms. Harris said. “Weneed a mandate that proves thatthe past few years do not repre-sent who we are or who we aspireto be.”

Ms. Harris, a Californian whoonce served as attorney general ofthe state, made clear that part ofher campaign role would be dem-onstrating her skills as a prosecu-tor to build a case against Mr.Trump and Vice President MikePence, methodically detailingwhat she cast as the administra-tion’s failures in combating the co-ronavirus, reopening the econ-omy and creating conditions un-der which schools could reopensafely this fall.

“Let me tell you, as somebodywho has presented my fair shareof arguments in court, the caseagainst Donald Trump and MikePence is open and shut,” Ms. Har-ris said.

Other contours of Ms. Harris’srole in the campaign also startedcoming into focus on Wednesday.A Biden adviser described Ms.Harris as well positioned to con-nect with Black and Latino votersacross the country as well as withsuburban women, saying that thecampaign expected her presenceon the ticket to drive turnout inArizona, Florida and Texas in par-

BIDEN AND HARRISVOW TO REVIVE U.S.

AS TRUMP ATTACKSFirst Taste of Clash

Between Tickets

By KATIE GLUECKand THOMAS KAPLAN

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WASHINGTON — Opening anugly new chapter in the 2020 cam-paign, President Trump and alliesin the Republican Party and onFox News have swiftly gone all-inon sexist and personal attacksagainst Kamala Harris, the Demo-cratic vice-presidential candidate,from Mr. Trump demeaning her as“angry” and “horrible” to com-mentators mocking her first nameto comparing her to “payday lend-ers.”

Hours after Ms. Harris was an-nounced, Mr. Trump describedher as “nasty” or “nastier” fourtimes — terms he often uses for fe-male opponents — and com-plained that her tough question-ing was disrespectful to Brett M.Kavanaugh during SupremeCourt confirmation hearings. Andon Wednesday, after Joseph R. Bi-den Jr. and Ms. Harris held theirfirst joint appearance, Mr. Trumpclaimed without evidence that Ms.Harris was furious when she leftthe Democratic primary race af-ter falling in the polls.

“She left angry, she left mad,” hesaid. “There was nobody more in-sulting to Biden than she was.”

One right-wing commentator,Dinesh D’Souza, appeared on FoxNews to question whether Ms.Harris, the junior senator fromCalifornia and a child of immi-grants from Jamaica and India,could truly claim she was Black.And on Tuesday night, TuckerCarlson, the Fox News host, mis-pronounced her first name, evengrowing angry when corrected.

“So what?” he said, when aguest told him it was pronounced“Comma-la.” (Fox News declinedto comment on the exchange.)

On Twitter, Eric Trump, one ofthe president’s sons, favorited atweet, which was later deleted,that referred to Ms. Harris as a“whorendous pick.” Jenna Ellis, asenior legal adviser to the Trumpcampaign, posted during Ms. Har-ris’s first speech as Mr. Biden’srunning mate on Wednesday, “Ka-mala sounds like Marge Simp-son.”

Mr. Trump added to the barragewith a racist tweet on Wednesdaymorning claiming that Mr. Bidenwould put another Black leader,Senator Cory Booker of New Jer-sey, in charge of low-income hous-

G.O.P. Falls Back onPattern of Insults

By ANNIE KARNIand JEREMY W. PETERS

Senator Kamala Harris with Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday in Wilmington, Del. “Her story’s America’s story,” Mr. Biden said.ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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CANTON, Ga. — The first letterwent out on Aug. 4, one day afterstudents in the Cherokee CountySchool District returned to theirclassrooms for the first time sincethe eruption of the coronaviruspandemic.

“Dear Parents,” wrote Dr. Ash-ley Kennerly, the principal ofSixes Elementary School. “I amwriting this letter in order to com-municate that a student in 2ndgrade has tested positive forCovid-19.”

By the time the last bell rang onFriday afternoon, principals at 10

other schools had sent similar let-ters to families in CherokeeCounty, a bucolic and politicallyconservative stretch of suburbsnorth of Atlanta. This week, moreletters went out.

Nearly 1,200 students and staffmembers in the district have al-ready been ordered to quarantine.On Tuesday, one high school

closed its doors until at least Aug.31. A second high school followedon Wednesday.

While many of the nation’s larg-est school systems have opted tostart the academic year online,other districts have forged aheadwith reopening. In Georgia, Ten-nessee, Mississippi, Indiana andelsewhere, some schools, mainlyin suburban and rural areas, havebeen open for almost two weeks.

Their experience reveals theperils of returning to classroomsin places where the coronavirushas hardly been tamed. Studentsand teachers have immediately

Back to School in Georgia: 1,193 Are QuarantinedBy RICHARD FAUSSET A District’s Reopening

Amid Growing CasesExposes Risks

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HONG KONG — Li Qianxin, theelder daughter of the ChineseCommunist Party’s No. 3 leader,has quietly crafted a life in HongKong that traverses the city’s fi-nancial elite and the secretiveworld of Chinese politics.

For years, she has mingled withsenior executives of state compa-nies through Hong Kong andmainland professional clubsknown for grooming the sons anddaughters of officials. She has rep-resented Hong Kong in Chineseprovincial political advisorygroups. She is the chairwoman ofa state-owned investment bankbased in Hong Kong that has longdone business with the relatives oftop Chinese officials.

Ms. Li, 38, also has deep finan-cial roots in the city, havingbought a $15 million, four-storytownhouse perched high above abeach. Her partner owns a now-retired racehorse and spent hun-dreds of millions on a stake in thestoried Peninsula Hotel that helater sold.

Ms. Li and other members ofthe Communist nobility are em-bedded in the fabric of HongKong’s society and its financialsystem, binding the formerBritish colony closer to the main-land. By building alliances andputting their money into HongKong’s real estate, China’s topleaders have inextricably linkedthemselves to the fate of the city.

As the party now takes a strong-er hand in running Hong Kong,

Lavish HomesTie China EliteTo Hong KongBy ALEXANDRA STEVENSON

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Many city residents and workers hadbeen lukewarm on car ownership. Thencame the pandemic. Above, Troy Kelley,who commutes in his Mercedes. PAGE D1

THURSDAY STYLES D1-6

New York, Motor CityIn the Covid era, some theaters stagescenes in parks and fields. Above, actorsin a park on the Niagara Gorge. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-6

A Show (and a Walking Tour)Australian descendants of Pacific is-landers are examining their 19th-cen-tury ancestors’ servitude. PAGE A10

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‘No Slavery,’ but Close

Sumner Redstone, who was 97, wasrelentless in building a huge mediaempire that included CBS and Viacomand dominated the screen age. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-7

Death of a Media MogulA sheriff in Florida forbade his deputiesto wear masks, with some exceptions,and also barred visitors to sheriff’soffices from wearing them. PAGE A6

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Still Fighting Over Masks

The Big 12 announced its footballschedule, but TV networks will still reelfrom the decision by other conferencesto postpone their seasons. PAGE B10

SPORTSTHURSDAY B9-12

In Colleges, Confusion WinsFive New Yorkers describe the nightthey were arrested during Black LivesMatter demonstrations. PAGE A18

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After Being Detained

Tickets have been sold for livestreamshows by performers like Renée Flem-ing, Daniil Trifonov and others. PAGE C3

Backing Classical Music OnlineIn an oral history released after hisdeath, Brent Scowcroft reflects on someof the failed decisions on Iraq. PAGE A17

Regrets of a Policy GiantFirearms smuggled into Britain aresaid to be contributing to a surge ingang-related crime there. PAGE A9

U.S. Guns in the U.K.

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The coronavirus is ragingthrough the White MountainApache tribe. Spread across alarge reservation in eastern Ari-zona, the Apaches have been in-fected at more than 10 times therate of people in the state as awhole.

Yet their death rate fromCovid-19 is far lower, just 1.3 per-cent, as compared with 2.1 percentin Arizona. Epidemiologists havea hopeful theory about what led tothis startling result: Intensivecontact tracing on the reservationlikely enabled teams that includeddoctors to find and treat gravely illpeople before it was too late tosave them.

A crucial tool has been a simple,inexpensive medical device: anoximeter that, clipped to a finger,detected dangerously low bloodoxygen levels in people who oftendidn’t even realize they were seri-ously ill.

Contact tracing is generallyused to identify and isolate the in-

fected, and to slow the spread ofthe coronavirus. Elsewhere in theUnited States, the strategy mostlyis failing; the virus has spread toowidely, and tracers are strugglingto keep up.

But on the reservation, contacttracers have discovered effectivenew tactics as they trek fromhome to faraway home. They maynot have been able to stop the vi-rus, but they have managed toprevent it from causing so manydeaths.

“This is really not about contacttracing cutting down spread,” saidDr. Arnold Monto, a professor ofepidemiology and public health atthe University of Michigan whowas not involved in the project butreviewed the findings. “Do itright, and the mortality will belower.”

“This could help with otherhard-to-reach communities,” headded. “If we identify casessooner, they won’t come in half

On Apache Reservation, CluesTo Keeping Down Death Toll

By GINA KOLATA and TOMÁS KARMELO AMAYA

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