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LIFE


LIFELINE


Estimated ticket sales for Friday
through Sunday at U.S. and Canadi-
an theaters, according to comScore.

1. The Invisible Man..................... $29M
2.
Sonic the Hedgehog................ $16M
3.
The Call of the Wild .............. $13.2M
4.
My Hero Academia.................. $6.3M
5.
Bad Boys for Life ...................... $4.3M


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Weekend box office


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Americans planning to travel
abroad may be looking nervously as
coronavirus spreads to multiple coun-
tries and wondering how much protec-
tion they have if they want to change or
cancel their travel plans. They may
have questions about what’s covered if
something happens on their trip.
The most important thing to re-
member is that standard travel
insurance does not cover you if you de-
cide not to travel because of the
outbreak. Nor does the type of insur-
ance that comes with certain credit
cards. Travel insurance can cover you,
though, in case of a disruption while
you’re on your trip, such as a quaran-
tine period. But you’ll pay extra for a
policy that allows you to cancel be-
cause of coronavirus.
Travel insurance providers note
that it does not matter if the U.S. State
Department or the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention advise Amer-
icans to reconsider travel to a country
or to not travel there. These advisories
do not invoke coverage for standard
travel insurance policy holders if they
decide to cancel or change their plans.
As the coronavirus outbreak has
disrupted international travel, airlines
have offered waivers that allow people
to cancel or change their flights with-
out the usual penalty. Cruise ship op-
erators have paid for passengers’
flights home and reimbursed them for
the cost of the cruise. Some hotel
chains are waiving cancellation fees.

Cancel-for-any-reason policies

Those who are booking travel now
may want to consider cancel-for-any-
reason insurance policies. According
to SquareMouth, a travel insurance
comparison site, such policies cost
40% more than standard policies and
will reimburse up to 75% of the insured
trip cost.
Those who choose this option must
purchase the policy within 14 to 21 days
of making the first payment for the trip
and must insure 100% of the trip cost.
For example, a standard travel in-
surance policy for a two-week, $5,000
trip might cost $137. To upgrade that
policy to cancel-for-any-reason would
cost $267, but a traveler could get back
as much as $3,750.
Though it’s more expensive and
doesn’t fully cover your travel costs,
this option could help travelers man-
age the unpredictability of the corona-
virus outbreak.

Disrupted en route

Two cruise ships, Holland Ameri-
ca’s MS Westerdam and Princess
Cruises’ Diamond Princess, made
headlines in recent weeks because of
the disruptions their passengers en-
dured. Multiple countries declined to
allow the Westerdam to dock because
of coronavirus concerns.
The Diamond Princess passengers
endured a quarantine period at the

CORONAVIRUS


What will,


won’t be


covered by


travel policy


Curtis Tate
USA TODAY

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A couple, wearing protective
facemasks, walk past a screening
check in Singapore on Thursday.
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In “Find Your Path: Honor Your Body, Fuel Your
Soul, and Get Strong with the Fit52 Life,” Under-
wood (with help from her writing partner, Eve Ad-
amson) shares her fitness philosophy, called
“Fit52.”
While Underwood juggles her careers as a coun-
try singer, businesswoman and designer with
motherhood, she also maintains a healthful life-
style. That doesn’t mean being perfect every day,
she tells USA TODAY.
The book “looks at health as an overall balanced
approach to things and being good,” Underwood
says. “It’s more about what your week looks like
instead of trying so hard to be super-strict every
single day.”
To do this, she had to find her path and stick to
it. Now, she wants to help others do the same.
The book’s launch coincides with the debut of
Underwood’s app, fit52. And the Underwood fit-
ness empire goes beyond her two newest en-
deavors – she also has a line of fitness apparel,
CALIA, which she created with Dick’s Sporting
Goods.
“It all started with a love for health and fit-
ness and has blossomed into lots of things,”
she says. “I live and breathe and sleep and
eat all of this,” she adds, noting that she’s
dressed head-to-toe in CALIA at that very
moment.
In the book, Underwood shares
healthful food options, recipes and jour-
naling practices in addition to her Fit52
workout program, which involves pick-
ing from a deck of cards to determine
exercises.
“In the book, we tell people about ex-
ercises and give everyone the tools that
they need. We mapped out different
paths for people to choose – can be be-
ginner, intermediate, advanced.”
The fit52 app is an extension of the
book, she says. It’s engineered to make

BOOKS


Carrie Underwood performs at the CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena on
Nov. 13, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. LARRY MCCORMACK/USA TODAY NETWORK

Underwood


follows ‘Path’


to good health


Morgan Hines USA TODAY

See UNDERWOOD, Page 2D

Carrie Underwood, the seven-time Grammy award-winning sing-

er and songwriter who came to fame as the winner of “American

Idol” in 2005, has written her first book.❚ But it’s not about mu-

sic. It’s focused on one of the multifaceted star’s other passions:

fitness and healthy living.

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“The Bachelorette” is mixing things
up with its newest star. On Monday
morning, the franchise alum was
announced on “Good Morning Amer-
ica” as Season 16’s leading lady. Not
only is the newest star not from the
current season of “The Bachelor,” as
the lead often is, Crawley, 38, marks a
significant increase in age for the
franchise’s leads as of late: The last
three stars – Colton Underwood,
Hannah Brown and Peter Weber –
have been 26, 24 and 28 respectively
during filming. This will be the fifth
appearance in “Bachelor” nation for
Crawley, who fans first met in 2014 as
the runner-up in Juan Pablo Galavis’
season of “The Bachelor.”


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MAKING WAVES
CLARE CRAWLEY


Court will soon be adjourned.
Judy Sheindlin, the star of reality
court show “Judge Judy,” announced
in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres
released Monday that the show’s
upcoming 25th season will be its last.
But don’t worry, Judy fans: Sheindlin
isn’t going away for long. “I’m not
tired,” she told DeGeneres. “So ‘Judy
Justice’ will be coming out a year
later... If you’re not tired, you’re not
supposed to stop.”


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