As COVID-19 cases in the U.S. continue to soar, healthcare workers on the frontlines are increasingly getting sick and even dying of the disease. A recent Kaiser Health News report found that many of the sick workers and families of the deceased are facing hurdles and are even being denied benefits from the worker's compensation system. Christina Jewett who co-wrote that report joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss.

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