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The nurses union SEIU 121 have also filed a complaint with the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration calling nurse Cecilia Marcos' death "the result of inadequate PPE provided to staff."

As the dust now settles and the company seeks to revoke temporary gains such as a $2 wage increase and unlimited unpaid time off, it is important to work out a long-term strategy for building power.

Studies of past emerging disease epidemics have taught us that testing alone will not prevent new outbreaks. To re-open the economy we must undertake the most massive effort to trace and isolate new infections in history.

Evictions and foreclosures in the U.S. could trigger a new wave of infection and illness—but it’s not too late to act.

Today, all we’re left with is a deafening silence that muffles the sound of so much suffering. The unfolding public health, mental health, and economic crisis of Covid-19 has laid bare the fragility of what was.

The pandemic inflames inequalities throughout the country

A community coalition employs an alternative approach at an Alabama bus plant. (Co-published by Newsweek).

The shift toward home cooking and eating at home during the past months of the pandemic may lead to healthier diets.

As we head into the fifth month of the outbreak millions of working families feel like they have been kidnapped and sent to hell.

From our vantage point at the beginning of this pandemic, it is not hard to see how it would have been different if we had had a Medicare for All system before the virus arrived.