From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.

I'm Al Etzen.

It's been just three months since the illness were all afraid of getting.

It was given a name by the World Health Organization.

As of May 4, COVID-19 has claimed the lives of around 70,000 Americans and completely

changed daily life for the rest of us.

The pandemic has been kind of a stress test on America, and it's exposed weak spots, cracks

that were there already, now being pushed even wider.

A lot of what we're witnessing is hard to take in.

Poor communities without access to health care, bearing more than their fair share of victims.

Over the 80% of those COVID-19 patients were African-American, the CDC.

School kids who now have to learn from home only they don't have computers or internet access.

In fact, 5 million households with school-aged kids around the country don't have access to

the institutions we're all depending on, collapsing.

Under a worst-case scenario of the spokesman says the postal service could run out of money.

The stress points raise big questions about how things work in our country and who's

responsible for making them better.

That's the focus of our coverage during the pandemic.

This week we go on the front lines with health care workers.

We wanted to know why nurses, doctors and others are being asked to work without the

personal protective equipment or PPE they need to keep them safe.

Well we've uncovered.

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