Nurse Martha Marx talks about the difficulties of caring for patients amid the COVID-19 pandemic in this interview illustrated by Thi Bui.
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‘It felt like the floor was giving in on me.’
Part of our illustrated series on inequity in the time of pandemic.
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Home school
Online learning works only if you can get online. We explore why tens of thousands of families are caught on the wrong side of the digital divide.
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‘Scary times can be exciting as well.’
Part of our weekly series with The Nib on inequity in the time of pandemic. Sean, San Mateo, CaliforniaInterviewed April 13, 2020 Interview by Mallory Newman, illustrated by Thi Bui, script by Sarah Mirk and Amanda Pike.
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Inside one of Amazon’s hardest-hit warehouses: ‘Why aren’t we closing the building?’
The company’s long-simmering tensions with its warehouse workers have spilled over in the coronavirus pandemic.
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‘If the virus makes it here, this place is a ticking time bomb.’
Part one in our weekly series with The Nib on inequity in the time of pandemic.
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31,000 and counting
A lobbying campaign driven by scarcity pushed the CDC to relax protective gear guidelines. Now tens of thousands of health workers are infected.
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(Un)protected
At a time when America is relying on health care workers more than ever, we look at why there’s not enough protective gear to keep them safe.
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The cost of COVID-19
Can the biggest U.S. stimulus stave off home foreclosures, save businesses and prevent the worst economic crash since the Great Depression?
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Dozens of grocery store workers have died. Here’s what workers say their employers did wrong.
Policies incentivized sick and vulnerable workers to report for duty. Masks and gloves were forbidden. Confusion reigned within chains.