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When the Covid-19 pandemic hit New York City in early 2020, Emma Sadler didn t need to wait long to find out whether or not she was keeping her job. The 29-year-old was told that her role as a restaurant manager for Union Square Hospitality Group in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
had been cut just a day after it closed its dining room in March. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
A single mom with a 9-year-old daughter at home, Sadler suddenly found herself with no income for the foreseeable future and a career dependent on restaurants opening back up.
Sadler said: “We are operating in 146 different council areas. So we made 146 phone calls to try to get our staff booked in, but more than half the local authorities said they did not know that they had a responsibility to manage the rollout of vaccinating the social care workforce.”
“So far, only 30% of our staff have been either vaccinated or have appointments booked. There is no way the remaining 560-odd carers will be vaccinated by the government’s target of 15 February.”
Even among those home care companies reporting more positive figures, there are worrying regional variations. Martin Jones, chief executive of Home Instead, which employs around 10,000 homecare workers throughout the UK, said 5,900 had received their first dose. “We anticipate that the vast majority of our caregivers will have been offered their first dose by Monday 15 February. But it has been a bit of a postcode lottery: while an impressive 67% of our caregivers in the north-east have been vaccin
stand trying to convince the judge when the blade runner shot his girlfriend last year in his bathroom it was mistaken identity, not murder. challenging because last month pistorius was mulled in cross-examination. say yes, i killed i shot and killed reeva steenkamp. i did, my lady. reporter: so punishing, defense sources say pistorius who pleaded not guilty spent the past couple of weeks recuperating with his family. his team is expected to call to the stand 11 witnesses among them an audio witness who will try to discount the damaging testimony so called ear witnesses like annette stipp. i heard a lady screaming, terrified, terrified screaming. reporter: the expert is likely to bolster pistorius claim that he sounds like a woman in distress and may even provide a sample of him screaming. and finally, expect a psychologist says legal expert emma sadler. he will raise the fact he is disabled. he has a heightened sense of vulnerability. reporter: and therefore more
announcer: from abc news, this is world news now with john muller and diana perez. good monday morning, everyone. we will begin with the late details on that frightening accident at the barnum bailey circus in rhode island. eight young woman hanging by their hair for a stunt called the human chandelier and then suddenly, they plunged to the ground. here s abc s rina ninan. reporter: with thousands in rhode island watching in wonder, circus performers hanging from their hair in an aerial act meant to defy gravity, then in a split second, that terrifying moment. that giant fall, 25 to 40 feet. 11 rushed to the hospital. one critical. none life-threatening according to a spokesperson. the lights still dark, the audience uncertain of what they just witnessed. authorities still working to determine what went wrong. the ringling brothers and barnum bailey circus show seen here in this promotional video was supposed to look like this. i screamed. i m like that s not ri