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TribCast: Texas health care workers take on the coronavirus

On this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Emma and Shannon about how health care workers are preparing for a rush of COVID-19 hospitalizations and why health care workers on the front lines don't get expanded paid sick leave protections.

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Theresa Riggens, a healthcare worker for Baylor, Scott, and White Medical Center is stationed outside their office in North Austin on March 16, 2020.
Theresa Riggens, a health care worker for Baylor Scott and White Medical Center, is stationed outside its North Austin office. Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for the Texas Tribune

On this week's TribCast — a different format in the time of the new coronavirus — Alexa talks to Emma and Shannon about how health care workers are preparing for a rush of COVID-19 hospitalizations and why health care workers on the front lines don't get expanded paid sick leave protections.

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