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The price of being ‘essential’: Latino service workers bear brunt of coronavirus
For Lupe Martinez, who does the laundry at a Riverside nursing home, each day presented an agonizing choice: Go to work and risk getting the novel coronavirus or lose the $13.58-an...
Martinez went to work.
- HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS, ALEJANDRA REYES-VELARDE, MATT STILES, ANDREW J. CAMPA
- Los Angeles Times
Even after the masks started running low. Even, she said, after a patient whose room she had entered without protective equipment fell ill and was put into isolation.
Martinez, 62, tested positive for COVID-19 last month, followed by her 60-year-old husband, who had to stop working after having a heart attack last year.Her adult son and daughter, who live with them, also tested positive.