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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.

An illustration shows a teen boy sitting on a bunk bed in immigration detention while coronavirus cells lurk nearby

COVID-19, Immigration

Families are standing by to take in migrant kids, but the government won’t let them out

by Aura Bogado May 14, 2020June 30, 2021

An urgent battle is playing out between the U.S. government and immigration lawyers over detained children as COVID-19 sweeps across the country.

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.

In the foreground, text reads Pandemic Protests and Profits. In the background is a green and blue painting evoking a sea of Coronavirus cells.

Pandemic, protests and profits

by Al Letson, Taki Telonidis, Kevin Sullivan, Katharine Mieszkowski, Mwende Hinojosa, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy, Byard Duncan, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Will Evans, Melissa Lewis, Hannah Young, David Rodriguez, Andy Donohue and Chris Harland-Dunaway April 25, 2020July 1, 2021

Protesters around the country are pushing to loosen stay-at-home orders. Meanwhile, some Amazon workers say not enough is being done to protect them.

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?

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.