Nearly Two-Thirds Of U.S. Households Struck By COVID-19 Face Financial Trouble

[TomCADem]

Source: NPR

COVID-19 has caused widespread damage to the economy — so wide that it can be easy to overlook how unevenly households are suffering. But new polling data out this month reveal households that either have had someone with COVID-19 or include someone who has a disability or special needs are much more likely to also be hurting financially.

That was the case for a young mother named Elizabeth who was waiting for her kindergartener to get out of school in Smyrna, Tenn., when we spoke with her. Her family is still recovering from its bout with COVID-19.

"We had to be quarantined for a while, and me and my husband didn't get paid for it," says Elizabeth, who didn't want to give her last name because she needs to get back to work and worries about her job prospects.

She says she's grateful that in-person school has resumed because she can't afford to sit with her daughter all day, working on a laptop.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/28/916605221/nearly-two-thirds-of-u-s-households-struck-by-covid-19-face-financial-trouble

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Don't worry. Trump's favorite pandemic advisor Scott Atlas wants to just let COVID-19 run rampant.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. What few will talk about is the probable $6000 - $10,000 or more A DAY bill

that anyone who had to go to and stay in the hospital, would or will eventually receive. It ain't free.

[iluvtennis]

2. Joe Biden needs to keep's Don the Con's failure at national mitigation of CV-19 at the forefront

of the debate.

[Bayard]

3. Like a cherry on top

Let's take these families' healthcare away from them!

[bluewater]

4. K&R

[Rott Weiler]

5. I don't get it...

How mindlessly partisan, how virulently racist do you have to be to support this POS? You simply have to be morally and intellectually damaged.

[ancianita]

6. The headline says 2/3 of U.S households; the body of the report says

The poll, conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, surveyed around 3,500 respondents nationwide in July and early August and found that nearly half of American households faced lost jobs or pay cuts during the pandemic.

Google's Corona Dashboard ( https://ncov2019.live ) counts 7,331,020 Americans being confirmed for COVID out of 104,534,594 tested.

Continuing with Google's data, if each confirmed person represents a household, their total households represent 6% of 128,580,000 million households in the U.S., by Statista's count.
( https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-households-in-the-us/ )

Am I missing something? Is the number polled -- 3,500 -- really representative of the country's numbers map?

[bronxiteforever]

7. The GOP solution is to take away health care