"“We started to see retail workers get sick and put themselves on self-quarantine,” said Kim Cordova, president of the UFCW Local 7 in Colorado, which represents more than 17,000 private sector grocery workers in the state. “They had to use personal time to take time off or go to work sick...Workers felt [hazard pay] was just like a carrot to keep you working during this dangerous health crisis.""
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Kim Cordova, quoted in “Grocery workers died feeding the nation. Now, their families are left to pick up the pieces.”, NBC News, (April 13, 2021)
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(COVID-19) is an caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The disease was first identified in December 2019 in , the capital of China's [[w:COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei|Hubei]
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