H1N1 Can Make Bizs Sick, Too
CBS News reports that small business could feel the most pain from the H1N1 flu virus.
In Boston, the Port Authority is training extra workers to operate snowplows – following concern regular drivers will get sick.
And in Malibu, Calif., one restaurant is giving its employees vitamins and wiping down every door knob every two hours.
A bad flu season would do more than make people sick – it would make the economy sick too. Worst-case estimates have a full H1N1 pandemic costing the nation $700 billion, knocking up to 4 percent off our gross domestic product.
Karen Mills heads the Small Business Administration. She knows many large corporations have contingency plans, but a recent survey shows 68 percent of small businesses do not.
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