As Postal Workers Fall Sick, Colleagues Keep Working. And Worrying.

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As Postal Workers Fall Sick, Colleagues Keep Working. And Worrying.
The coronavirus has affected about two dozen Postal Service workers around the country, and fear of a greater outbreak grows.
By Sam Dolnick
Published March 23, 2020
Updated March 24, 2020, 8:37 a.m. ET

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Neither sleet, nor snow — nor the coronavirus. With tens of millions of people across huge swaths of the country on state-ordered lockdown, the mail has remained one of the few physical tethers to the wider world. Medicine, packages bought online, at-home coronavirus tests, even mail-in presidential ballots — all require a reliable federal mail system.

But mail delivery requires a healthy work force, and postal workers have been falling sick across the country — Miami, Manhattan, Seattle, Portland and more have reported sick workers, according to Paul Hogrogian, national president of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union.

On Thursday, 13 postal workers had tested positive; by Friday, that number was 20, including the one from the Bethlehem facility where Mr. Jackson works, according to Mr. Hogrogian. On Sunday, postal officials in Washington said the number was “fewer than 30.”

With a work force of 630,000, those numbers are still relatively small, but they are expected to keep rising in the coming days and weeks. Mr. Jackson and other rank-and-file workers worry that the Postal Service is not doing enough to protect them, and that they could become unwitting carriers of the virus.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/coronavirus-post-office-workers.html

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1. They need protection and help

Testing is very, very important preventing it's spreading , along with strict safe practicing of social distancing. The government maybe need to give them all things to boost their immunity since they are out there so much now..