HIALEAH, Fla. – Epidemiologists have warned large crowds during the coronavirus pandemic can cost lives, yet hundreds of desperate people were willing to risk their health on Tuesday in Hialeah in hopes of starting the process to apply for unemployment benefits.
A long tight line snaked outside of the John F. Kennedy Library before it opened at 11 a.m. They were at 190 W. 49 St. to pick up a copy of a blank form to apply for unemployment insurance benefits, News 6 partnerWPLG-TVreported. “I have a printer, but I don’t have the cartridge,” a woman, who was standing in line, shouted in Spanish.
The epidemiologists’ strategies to lower cases of COVID-19, the highly contagious respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, prompted an