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Understaffed Veterans Affairs scrambles to confront COVID-19
The nation’s largest integrated health care system has only limited protocols in place to protect its millions of elderly patients.
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How federal agencies put immigrants and immigration workers at risk amid coronavirus
As American life grinds to a halt, the immigration system – with agencies across two federal departments – has often continued with business as usual.
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Containing the coronavirus
How the coronavirus came to California and whether the response could have been better. Plus, a forgotten lynching in Atlanta raises new questions.
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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.
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Detained and exposed
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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Farmworkers are now deemed essential. But are they protected?
Compelled to keep working, many farmworkers lack masks, sanitizer and paid sick leave – and are blocked from accessing federal aid.
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3 VA health workers have died of COVID-19. 776 have tested positive.
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.
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Essential workers
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
Efforts to create a federal rule to protect workers from infectious diseases have dragged on for decades.
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Tesla workers say company risked lives by sending them to work in shutdown
“It’s pretty shady,” said one worker who was called in to fix paint on new cars.
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‘I’ll be the oversight,’ Trump says as his political appointees protect Wall Street, real estate
As families and small businesses wait for a share of the $2 trillion stimulus, banks, real estate investors and lenders have already been bailed out.
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Quarantine nation
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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California created a massive medical reserve – with acute care beds, ventilators and N95 masks — then let it collapse
Mobile acute care hospitals, ventilators and N95 respirators were stocked, but state leaders refused to allocate funds to maintain them.
