Forbes March 10, 2025
A new survey examines the experiences of frontline grocery store and drug retail workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and the lasting effects five years later. As farmworkers start to fall ill with a rapidly evolving avian flu, the lessons of the last pandemic loom large for the food industry.
Around 100,000 grocery workers fell ill and hundreds died from the Covid-19 pandemic. These deaths climbed into the thousands when families and community members of food workers were included in statistics. For many food workers still in the day to day retail grind, this is not a trauma they can easily move past.
“Every single one of us was exposed to COVID-19. So many of my coworkers got sick—one almost died,...
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