A coronavirus outbreak swept through one Bay Area facility, leaving 16 dead. Was the home a disaster waiting to happen?
A survey of 23,000 nurses found that 87 percent of respondents must still reuse disposable masks while attending to COVID-19 patients.
The lights are going out in America’s rural hospitals and clinics at the moment they are most needed.
A new study, citing historical precedent, claims 42 percent of recent layoffs will result in permanently lost jobs. Co-published by Fast Company
The firings of company whistleblowers, Tim Bray wrote, were further evidence “of a vein of toxicity running through the company’s culture."
How a safety net became "a house of cards" under the economics of a pandemic.
Los Angeles reports that its county’s low-income COVID deaths are triple the number of those of wealthier neighborhoods.
From health care workers to immigrant detainees, efforts to acquire protective face coverings are complicated by bureaucratic resistance.
San Francisco’s early lockdown spared it from the brunt of COVID-19, but the city has failed to shelter its homeless during the crisis.
A trio of Democratic lawmakers is attempting to correct Congress' omission of undocumented workers from the CARES Act.Co-published by Fast Company
Unclear policies and protective equipment shortages are stirring heated confrontations in the hallways of Kaiser Permanente hospitals.
SB 943 would expand the state’s Paid Family Leave program, extending benefits to parents impacted by school closures.
As uncertainties and conflicting data swirl around COVID-19, a few truths about the poor bear repeating.Co-published by Fast Company
After a week of private negotiations, the state is no closer to filling empty hotel rooms with at-risk homeless people.Co-published by Fast Company.
Today veteran journalist Mark Kreidler begins a new weekly column covering the coronavirus and its social impacts.Co-published by Fast Company
The coronavirus story involves governmental response times and political spin. But economic inequality issues also play a large part.Co-published by Fast Company
A deeply funded lobbying group led by a former Hillary Clinton aide is out to kill Medicare for All. Its ideological roots run back to the...