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COVID-19, In/Vulnerable

‘If the virus makes it here, this place is a ticking time bomb.’

by Thi Bui, Laura C. Morel, Sarah Mirk and Amanda Pike May 18, 2020June 30, 2021

Part one in our weekly series with The Nib on inequity in the time of pandemic.

Nurses and doctors hiding under an oversized, flimsy surgical mask.

Accountability, COVID-19

31,000 and counting

by Jennifer Gollan and Elizabeth Shogren May 12, 2020June 30, 2021

A lobbying campaign driven by scarcity pushed the CDC to relax protective gear guidelines. Now tens of thousands of health workers are infected.

A red and yellow painting of a coronavirus cell is behind text that says Unprotected

(Un)protected

by Kevin Sullivan, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Mwende Hinojosa, Al Letson, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Priska Neely, Michael Montgomery, Esther Kaplan, Taki Telonidis, Jennifer Gollan, Elizabeth Shogren and Chris Harland-Dunaway May 9, 2020July 1, 2021

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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A green painting evoking Coronavirus cells is behind text that says The Cost of COVID-19

The cost of COVID-19

by Aaron Glantz, Jonathan Jones, Katharine Mieszkowski, Najib Aminy, Emily Harris, Brett Myers, Jen Chien, Esther Kaplan, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Amy Mostafa, Al Letson and Mwende Hinojosa April 18, 2020July 1, 2021

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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Nathan Tetreault, wearing a red uniform t-shirt and baseball cap, walks in the parking lot of a Winn-Dixie grocery store

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

by Will Carless and Patrick Michels April 15, 2020June 30, 2021

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

A vivid red and yellow painting swirls colors with shapes evoking Coronavirus cells. Text in the front reads Detained and Exposed.

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 Andy Donohue April 11, 2020July 1, 2021

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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Workers wearing red shirts and surgical face masks hold protest signs outside the VA.

COVID-19, Returning Home to Battle

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

by Aaron Glantz April 7, 2020June 30, 2021

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.

Larger than life size cutout billboards portray farm workers standing at the edge of a farm field.

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, Andy Donohue, Narda Zacchino, Esther Kaplan and Soo Oh April 4, 2020July 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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Nancy Pelosi, wearing a blue suit, sits at a table signing a bill. A sign reading "families first" is on the table. A group of officials surrounding her applauds.

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

by Emily Schwing April 4, 2020June 30, 2021

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, 2020June 30, 2021

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