Billionaires made $1tn since Covid-19. They can afford to protect their workers | Chuck Collins and Omar Ocampo

In a holiday shopping season with rampant rates of Covid-19 infection, we must protect frontline workers before it's too late

There are few scenes more sordid than the surging wealth gains of the world's billionaire class during an unprecedented pandemic when millions have lost their lives, health, and livelihoods.

As the US heads into another wave of Covid-19 infections, the wealth of 650 American billionaires has increased by over $1tn since mid-March, the beginning of the pandemic lockdowns.