Running a Business From the Sickbed at the Virus's Center in NYC
Hundreds of entrepreneurs, many of them women, are carrying on while the pandemic is raging in largely working-class Queens neighborhoods.
Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg
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Right in the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic, Maria Lugo has managed to keep her small business afloat. From her sickbed.
Lugo owns an auto repair shop in central Queens, one of the hardest-hit areas of New York City, which itself leads the U.S. in Covid-19 infections. She spent two days in the hospital after contracting the virus. Both her children and her husband also fell ill. Two other family members died from the disease.