coronavirus
A worker dies every 99 minutes from being injured on the job
December 23, 2020And the data for 2020 could be even worse, BLS says—but it won’t be because of COVID-19, at least not officially.
Read moreVA workers: Short-staffing and PPE shortages impacting vets’ care
December 23, 2020Staff shortages are not new, but now they’re really bad.
Read moreA pandemic ‘Nurse T’ tells her COVID-19 story in new published diary
December 22, 2020Reading A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary, particularly against prevalent media representations of healthcare workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, brought to mind for me the opening words of the sketch by the U.S. radical writer Jesús Colón,...
Read moreBritain’s right-wing government under fire as new COVID strain rapidly spreads
December 21, 2020Many countries are halting flights from the U.K., but Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Trump administration allies are scrambling and unsure what to do.
Read moreArizona’s GOP governor committed to inaction as COVID spirals out of control
December 18, 2020In the month of December so far, there have been over 100,000 new cases, accounting for a quarter of the state’s total number since the start of the pandemic.
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