Scores of US poll workers tested positive for Covid over election period

Analysis shows Covid-19 spread among poll workers in many parts of America - in some cases hampering election results

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On 5 November, two days after election day, an employee in the Onondaga county, New York, board of elections office went home early. She felt exhausted, according to the election commissioner Dustin Czarny, and assumed the long shifts were to blame.