BLOOMBERG: Black-Lung Coal Miners Facing Serious Threat from Virus Spread

On Friday March 13th, Bloomberg published an article about the increased risk of COVID-19 for miners with black lung disease.

“As many as 20% of long-time miners may have black lung in central Appalachia, a historic bastion of U.S. coal production that includes parts of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. That would be an underlying health condition that could exacerbate the symptoms of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus that was officially labeled a pandemic on Wednesday.”

View the article here.

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