Report From a Worker at Home This pandemic has brought uncertainty for many people. Many jobs are vanishing out of thin air, and the jobs that do stay, have become an everyday physical threat of contamination. But there is a certain layer of workers that have been...
Report From Someone Trying to Roll Out Accurate Testing and Reporting at a Huge Public University Many of us wonder why the testing is taking so long to roll out in the U.S., a presumably developed country. One reason is a lack of a centralized health records system,...
From an Oakland Resident Here in the so-called United States we are at just over a month of shelter in place ordinances due to COVID-19. We here in California have benefited from a statewide eviction moratorium for renters. In so-called Oakland (actually the land of...
Report From an Unemployed Worker I have been getting my health insurance through Covered California, which is a marketplace for buying state subsidized health insurance. Before the crisis, I had a low monthly premium and decent health coverage, since the state...
From a Recent Nursing Graduate There are currently thousands of us recent graduate nurses anxiously looking for our dream job in a hospital in the Bay Area. We knew from the minute we started nursing school that this would be a hard task, given how impacted the job...
