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0 pointscom2kid4y ago0 comments

Some interesting numbers at https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/new-report-reveal... and https://abcnews.go.com/Health/3600-us-health-workers-died-co...

All of that is pre-delta, remember that when COVID first hit in 2020 we still didn't have a good idea how it spread.

The tl;dr is that the US government doesn't do a good job of collecting statistics of how many health care workers died of COVID.

1.5k nursing home workers seems to be the one reliable # from the first article, and The Guardian is saying around 3600 healthcare workers in total.

https://www.statnews.com/2021/10/21/who-estimate-115000-heal...

WHO reports over 100k deaths of healthcare workers world wide.

So statistically a small #, but it doesn't account for the # of nurses who got COVID and had long term symptoms that kept them from going back to work, or who just decided to no longer work at all.

And it looks like these #s are highly biased towards major population centers, so it wasn't an even distribution from the country or anything.

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jefftk4y ago

1.5k nursing home workers out of a total of about 600k. That's 0.25%. Across the whole population, we've had 810k deaths out of 330M, which is also 0.25%. So we still have the same number of nursing home workers per capita. Except that, considered per nursing home resident, it's an increase, because the rate of nursing home residents dying has been much higher than the general population.

jacquesm4y ago

That's true, but it is an excellent advertisement for the risks of the job to others who may not have thought about this beforehand. So one person may die and a multiple may walk.

jefftk4y ago

How is it an excellent advertisement for the risks of the job, when it is the same level of covid risk experienced by the population at large?

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0 pointscom2kid4y ago0 comments

Some interesting numbers at https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/new-report-reveal... and https://abcnews.go.com/Health/3600-us-health-workers-died-co...

All of that is pre-delta, remember that when COVID first hit in 2020 we still didn't have a good idea how it spread.

The tl;dr is that the US government doesn't do a good job of collecting statistics of how many health care workers died of COVID.

1.5k nursing home workers seems to be the one reliable # from the first article, and The Guardian is saying around 3600 healthcare workers in total.

https://www.statnews.com/2021/10/21/who-estimate-115000-heal...

WHO reports over 100k deaths of healthcare workers world wide.

So statistically a small #, but it doesn't account for the # of nurses who got COVID and had long term symptoms that kept them from going back to work, or who just decided to no longer work at all.

And it looks like these #s are highly biased towards major population centers, so it wasn't an even distribution from the country or anything.

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jefftk4y ago

jacquesm4y ago

That's true, but it is an excellent advertisement for the risks of the job to others who may not have thought about this beforehand. So one person may die and a multiple may walk.

jefftk4y ago

How is it an excellent advertisement for the risks of the job, when it is the same level of covid risk experienced by the population at large?

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