'The burden that we're asking so many millions of essential workers to carry for the rest of us falls often on those with the least. The least respect, the least pay, the least everything, and now they are holding up the country for us.'
On April 4, she died from the coronavirus at the age of 59. After falling ill just a week-and-a-half earlier, her condition quickly deteriorated. She was in the hospital by March 28 and on a ventilator shortly thereafter, her husband said.
Still, he said,"I think workers should get P.P.E. [personal protective equipment] when they need it." Vitalina Williams is one of the millions of newly-classified"essential workers" in the COVID-19 pandemic, who still have to come into work to support their families and keep the economy going while the country is being told to stay at home.
In this"unprecedented" coronavirus crisis, the definition of an essential worker has become much more expansive, according to Kinder. insurance, and wages that did not even sustain a family," she said."They're now going to jobs and risking their lives for $9, $10 dollars an hour." As a result, many of these workers are still heading to public-facing jobs absent many protections -- from paid sick leave to basic protective equipment.
Nationally, there have been more than two dozen grocery workers who have died of the novel coronavirus. A person picks up his order from the new Call Your Mother deli during its opening in Capitol Hill iN Washington, D.C., on April 15, 2020.
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