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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