Good morning, I'm Allison Michaels from The Washington Post, and this is the Daily 202

for Thursday, February 8th.

In today's news, a vaccine shortage prompts U.S. diplomats to request doses from foreign

governments, including from Russia.

And the UK gets approval to infect healthy volunteers in the world's first of something called

a coronavirus challenge trial.

But first, the big idea.

Economists are warning that millions of jobs that have been short-changed or wiped out

entirely by the coronavirus pandemic are unlikely to come back.

That reality sets up a massive need for career changes and for job retraining in the U.S.

The Post's Heather Long reports that the coronavirus pandemic has triggered permanent shifts in

how and where people work.

Businesses are planning for a future where more people are working from home, traveling

less for business, or replacing workers altogether with robots.

All of these modifications mean many workers will not be able to do the same job they did

before the pandemic, even after much of the U.S. population gets vaccinated against the

deadly virus.

Microsoft founder, turned philanthropist Bill Gates, raised eyebrows in November when he predicted

that half of business travel and 30% of days in the office would go away forever.

Now, that forecast doesn't seem so far-fetched.

In a report coming out later this week that was previewed to the Washington Post, the McKinsey

Global Institute says that 20% of business travel won't come back, and about 20% of workers

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