By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
More than 1,000 TSA employees have tested for the coronavirus, and six have died, the agency revealed Thursday.
No federal agency has been hit harder by COVID-19 than the TSA, whose employee have close contact with the public.
The TSA will now require its employees to wear face shields while screening passengers. TSA employees also mush change their gloves after every interaction with the public.
The TSA has come under fire for failing to adequately protect its employees.
“Right now they’re bringing people back to work and the social distance is not in total effect,” Hydrick Thomas, president of the union that represents the officers, told The Washington Post. “Employees are still complaining there’s too many of them in one area.”
TSA employees have been infected at more than 125 airports.
