APRIL 2021 | Volume 38, No. 4 12 Months Of Trauma: More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died In Covid’s First Year By JANE SPENCER & CHRISTINA JEWETT More than 3,600 U.S. healthcare health system during the COVID-19 workers perished in the first year pandemic....
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APRIL 2021 | Volume 38, No. 4 12 Months Of Trauma: More Than 3,600 US Health Workers Died In Covid’s First Year By JANE SPENCER & CHRISTINA JEWETT More than 3,600 U.S. healthcare health system during the COVID-19 workers perished in the first year pandemic. One key finding: Two-thirds of the pandemic, according to of deceased healthcare workers for “Lost on the Frontline,” a 12-month whom the project has data identified investigation by The Guardian and as people of color, revealing the KHN to track such deaths. deep inequities tied to race, ethnicity Lost on the Frontline is the most and economic status in America’s complete accounting of U.S. healthcare workforce. Lower-paid healthcare worker deaths. The federal workers who handled everyday patient government has not comprehensively care, including nurses, support staff tracked this data. But calls are and nursing home employees, were far mounting for the Biden administration more likely to die in the pandemic than to undertake a cou
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