America lags the world in paid sick leave, hobbling our fight against COVID-19.
Starting with President Trump, the GOP is calling to put millions at risk of contracting coronavirusso the stock market recovers.Without nationwide paid sick leave, the task of keeping people at home to suppress the coronavirus is obviously much harder. “Paid sick days do a few things,” Heymann says.
Moreover, “the willingness of people to get tested when they have a mild cough and see if they’re going to need to be out of work for two weeks,” Heymann says, “that depends a lot on paid sick days.”
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