Opinion by Céline Gounder and Mollyann Brodie: For far too many American workers, the virus is still a serious threat to their family’s well-being.
A grocery store worker in Dallas wears a mask and face shield as she serves a customer in April 2020.
Céline Gounder, senior fellow and editor at large for Kaiser Health News, is an internist and epidemiologist and the host of the “American Diagnosis” and “Epidemic” podcasts. Mollyann Brodie is executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Kaiser Family Foundation and executive director of KFF’s Public Opinion and Survey Research.Tracy Kitchen Delong lives in the Tampa Bay area with her 11-year-old grandson.
Rehison Walker got sick during the omicron wave. He had to take two weeks off from his job at an automotive collision repair shop in rural Kansas, and, as in Delong’s case, his employer didn’t provide paid sick leave. “I was sick enough to go to the hospital,” he said. “I thought I was going to die. I couldn’t breathe.” Walker had health insurance, but he didn’t want to take on the out-of-pocket costs at the same time as he had lost income. So instead, he declined to go to the hospital.
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