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Exclusive: Over 900 Health Workers Have Died of COVID-19. And the Toll Is Rising.
This story is co-published with .More than 900 front-line health care workers have died of COVID-19, according to an interactive database unveiled Tuesday by and . Lost on the Frontline is a partnership between the two newsrooms that aims to count, verify and memorialize every U.S. health care worker who dies during the pandemic.KHN and The Guardian are tracking health care workers who died from COVID-19 and writing about their lives and what happened in their final days.It is the most comprehensive accounting of U.S. health care workers’ deaths in the country.As coronavirus cases...…This story is co-published with .More than 900 front-line health care workers have died of COVID-19, according to an interactive database unveiled Tuesday by and . Lost on the Frontline is a partnership between the two newsrooms that aims to count, verify and memorialize every U.S. health care worker who dies during the pandemic.KHN and The Guardian are tracking health care workers who died from COVID-19 and writing about their lives and what happened in their final days.It is the most comprehensive accounting of U.S. health care workers’ deaths in the country.As coronavirus cases...WW…
Covid cases fall over 80% among US nursing home staff and residents
This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldDespite vaccine hesitancy, figures show a big drop in infections – giving hope that, after a brutal year, an end is in sightLast modified on Mon 15 Mar 2021 06.28 EDTMonths later, it appears that danger has faded. After the rollout of Covid vaccines, the number of new Covid cases among nursing home staff fell 83% – from 28,802 for the week ending 20 December to 4,764 for the week ending 14 February, data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows.New Covid-19 infections among nursing home residents fell...…This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldDespite vaccine hesitancy, figures show a big drop in infections – giving hope that, after a brutal year, an end is in sightLast modified on Mon 15 Mar 2021 06.28 EDTMonths later, it appears that danger has faded. After the rollout of Covid vaccines, the number of new Covid cases among nursing home staff fell 83% – from 28,802 for the week ending 20 December to 4,764 for the week ending 14 February, data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows.New Covid-19 infections among nursing home residents fell...WW…
Covid Cases Plummet 83% Among Nursing Home Staffers Despite Vaccine Hesitancy
Joan Phillips, a certified nursing assistant in a Florida nursing home, loved her job but dreaded the danger of going to work in the pandemic. When vaccines became available in December, she jumped at the chance to get one.This story also ran on . It can beMonths later, it appears that danger has faded. After the rollout of covid vaccines, the number of new covid cases among nursing home staff members fell 83% — from 28,802 for the week ending Dec. 20 to 4,764 for the week ending Feb. 14, data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows.New covid-19 infections among nursing...…Joan Phillips, a certified nursing assistant in a Florida nursing home, loved her job but dreaded the danger of going to work in the pandemic. When vaccines became available in December, she jumped at the chance to get one.This story also ran on . It can beMonths later, it appears that danger has faded. After the rollout of covid vaccines, the number of new covid cases among nursing home staff members fell 83% — from 28,802 for the week ending Dec. 20 to 4,764 for the week ending Feb. 14, data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows.New covid-19 infections among nursing...WW…
These Front-Line Workers Could Have Retired. They Risked Their Lives Instead.
This story also ran on .Sonia Brown’s husband died on June 10. Two weeks later, the 65-year-old registered nurse was back at work. Her husband’s medical bills and a car payment loomed over her head.KHN and The Guardian are tracking health care workers who died from COVID-19 and writing about their lives and what happened in their final days.“She wanted to make sure all those things were taken care of before she retired,” her son David said.David and his sister begged her not to go back to work during the coronavirus pandemic — explaining their concerns about her age and diabetes — but she...…This story also ran on .Sonia Brown’s husband died on June 10. Two weeks later, the 65-year-old registered nurse was back at work. Her husband’s medical bills and a car payment loomed over her head.KHN and The Guardian are tracking health care workers who died from COVID-19 and writing about their lives and what happened in their final days.“She wanted to make sure all those things were taken care of before she retired,” her son David said.David and his sister begged her not to go back to work during the coronavirus pandemic — explaining their concerns about her age and diabetes — but she...WW…
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