As businesses around the country start to open up, those of us who still have jobs have to think about how much protection against infection there will be for us when we return to work. New York City building service companies laid off 6,000 janitors when Manhattan...
In mid-May there was a big announcement regarding the development of a vaccine for COVID-19. Moderna, the pharmaceutical company at the head of the race, released a statement saying the results from phase 1 clinical trials were positive. The patients in the trial had...
Finding Housing During a Pandemic If the global pandemic situation wasn’t hard enough to deal with, some of us are finding ourselves in an even more complicated situation by having to find new housing during this time. This virus doesn’t seem to care about timing....
Billionaire techies like Bill Gates of Microsoft and Eric Schmidt of Google have been using the COVID crisis to meet U.S. military and other federal officials, as well as governors like Andrew Cuomo of New York in an attempt to create a high-tech future where...
On March 28, George Leigh, a worker at Amazon’s DNY4 distribution center in Bethpage, New York stopped working due to illness. On April 9 he died as a result of COVID-19. Leigh was 59 years old, leaving behind a daughter and grandchildren. At the warehouse he was a...
