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Pandemic Nation

May 30, 2020

A survey of 23,000 nurses found that 87 percent of respondents must still reuse disposable masks while attending to COVID-19 patients.
Mark Kreidler speaks to Catherine Mithamo, a nursing home worker at facility with a COVID outbreak.

 


May 24, 2020

The lights are going out in America’s rural hospitals and clinics at the moment they are most needed.
Mark Kriedler speaks to Deborah Burger, co-president of National Nurses United and president of California Nurses Association.


May 15, 2020

A new study, citing historical precedent, claims 42 percent of recent layoffs will result in permanently lost jobs.
Mark Kreidler speaks to Holly Ortiz, an assistant preschool director in Fountain Valley, California. More than half of her 11-member household has been infected with COVID-19, including her home health...


May 7, 2020

The firings of Amazon whistleblowers, Tim Bray wrote, were further evidence “of a vein of toxicity running through the company’s culture." Mark Kreidler speaks to Lola Gomez, an Austin American-Statesman photojournalist that contracted COVID-19 while on assignment.


May 1, 2020

Los Angeles reports that its county’s low-income COVID deaths are triple the number of those of wealthier neighborhoods.
Mark Kreidler speaks to Felicia Canales, a grocery worker at the Vons-owned Pavilions in Orange County, California.