Miami (AFP) – As the United States hit the grim milestone of half a million lives lost to Covid-19, it seems almost impossible to believe that an American company would bar its workers from wearing protective masks. But it happened as recently as last March, when a major supermarket chain in Florida prohibited its employees from wearing masks, even as the virus — accompanied by a mounting sense of terror — was spreading around the world. At the time, 70-year-old Gerardo Gutierrez was working in a Publix grocery store in Miami Beach. He died in late April, having contracted the coronavirus…
