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Dozens of grocery store workers have died. Here’s what workers say their employers did wrong.

by Will Carless and Patrick Michels April 15, 2020April 14, 2020

Policies incentivized sick and vulnerable workers to report for duty. Masks and gloves were forbidden. Confusion reigned within chains.

COVID-19, Kids on the Line

Detained and exposed

by Sarah Mirk, Kevin Sullivan, Al Letson, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Mwende Hinojosa, Laura C. Morel, Aura Bogado, Emily Harris, Stan Alcorn, Priska Neely, Katharine Mieszkowski, Brett Myers, Taki Telonidis, Jen Chien and Andrew Donohue April 11, 2020April 13, 2020

Social distancing and hand-washing are meant to keep us safe from the coronavirus. But in immigrant detention centers, those measures are impossible.

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COVID-19, Returning Home to Battle

3 VA health workers have died of COVID-19. 776 have tested positive.

by Aaron Glantz April 7, 2020April 7, 2020

The casualties come in the wake of reporting that staff were short of protective masks and gloves and were required to report to work sick.

Immigration, Inequality

Inside ICE lockdown: Face masks made of socks, no hand sanitizer and growing tensions

by Laura C. Morel April 7, 2020May 6, 2020

As the tally of detainees and staff testing positive for COVID-19 rises, asylum seekers in crowded settings continue to be denied parole.

Essential workers

by Sarah Mirk, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy, Al Letson, Mwende Hinojosa, Will Carless, Patrick Michels, Melissa Lewis, Hannah Young, Anayansi Diaz-Cortes, Michael I Schiller, Emily Schwing, Brett Myers, Jen Chien, Taki Telonidis, Sumi Aggarwal, Byard Duncan, Andrew Donohue, Narda Zacchino, Esther Kaplan and Soo Oh April 4, 2020March 1, 2021

Farmworkers, grocery store clerks and airline employees are on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis. But what’s being done to protect them?

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How OSHA has failed to protect America’s workers from COVID-19

by Emily Schwing April 4, 2020April 8, 2020

Efforts to create a federal rule to protect workers from infectious diseases have dragged on for decades.

All Work. No Pay.

Drug rehab shutters amid coronavirus outbreak, sending residents scrambling

by Shoshana Walter April 3, 2020April 3, 2020

At a Cenikor drug rehab in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, residents were given two days to find a place to live. Some became homeless.

Tesla workers say company risked lives by sending them to work in shutdown

by Will Evans March 31, 2020March 31, 2020

“It’s pretty shady,” said one worker who was called in to fix paint on new cars.

Quarantine nation

by Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Mwende Hinojosa, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy, Al Letson, Will Carless, Will Evans, Taki Telonidis, Elizabeth Shogren, Jennifer Gollan, Brett Myers, Lance Williams and Katharine Mieszkowski March 28, 2020March 31, 2020

Quarantines are supposed to contain the new coronavirus, but are the right people going into isolation, and are federal guidelines strong enough?

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Accountability, COVID-19

Is 14 days enough?

by Jennifer Gollan and Elizabeth Shogren March 23, 2020March 24, 2020

New studies show that the debate over how long the new coronavirus incubates – and how long it sheds after recovery – is far from settled.