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December 1, 2020

OSHA Let Employers Decide Whether to Report Health Care Worker Deaths. Many Didn’t.

Aneri Pattani, Robert Lewis and Christina Jewett The Guardian

“It is so disrespectful of the agencies and the employers to shunt these cases aside and not do everything possible to investigate the exposures,” said Peg Seminario, a retired union health and safety director.

October 15, 2020

A Dose of Optimism, as the Pandemic Rages On

Donald G. McNeil Jr. New York Times

The months ahead will be difficult. But the medical cavalry is coming, and the rest of us know what we need to do. The final death toll from Covid-19 will depend both on how we behave going forward and how quickly innovations arrive.

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April 14, 2020

Hit Hard by Covid-19, Transit Workers Call for Shutdowns

Laura Bliss CityLab

Bus drivers and subway workers are dying from coronavirus at an alarming rate, and transit union leaders are calling for aggressive action to make them safer.

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