COVID-19 Archives - Page 4 of 5 - Reveal

A person wearing a red sweatshirt and a facemask walks down the street past a store called Wine and Spirits, whose windows have been boarded up.

Bailout money bypasses hard-hit New York, California for North Dakota, Nebraska

by Aaron Glantz April 23, 2020June 30, 2021

A Reveal analysis of Paycheck Protection Program loans shows states feeling the economic brunt of the pandemic were left behind by the relief bill.

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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Mike Pence gestures with his hand while speaking into a microphone at a podium.

COVID-19, Returning Home to Battle

VA hospitals are rationing protective gear, emails show. Congress wants to know why.

by Aaron Glantz April 16, 2020June 30, 2021

The chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs and seven colleagues have written to Vice President Mike Pence asking for answers.

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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Nicolás Merino González, a farmworker in Greenfield, Calif, wears a gray hoodie and blue jeans as he stares at the camera.

Accountability, COVID-19

Farmworkers are now deemed essential. But are they protected?

by Monica Campbell, The World April 9, 2020June 30, 2021

Compelled to keep working, many farmworkers lack masks, sanitizer and paid sick leave – and are blocked from accessing federal aid.

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.

Accountability, COVID-19

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.