WASHINGTON – The back door clicked shut behind him and he faced the brick walls of the alley. Roberto, one of tens of millions of newly laid off U.S.
workers desperate to make ends meet in the pandemic, struggled with his emotions, upset at being steered to the clinic’s rear exit.
But then fear and sorrow overtook him as the doctor’s final words sank in. “It’s possible you have the virus,” the doctor had said from under her mask, standing all the way across the room. “You have the symptoms.” His mind turned to the hundreds of thousands of people already dead of the disease around the world.
That may be me now, he thought. Earlier this month, The Associated Press documented the plight of Roberto, a restaurant cook in his mid-30s, and his
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