Study: COVID-19 deaths higher among nurses, support staff than physicians

Lost on the Frontline, an investigation tracking COVID-19 deaths among health care workers, found nurses and support staff members died in higher numbers than physicians during the pandemic. More than a third of the health care workers who died from the coronavirus were born outside the United States, with those from the Philippines accounting for a disproportionate number of deaths. Relatively few COVID-19 deaths occurred in well-funded academic medical centers. The remaining deaths occurred in less prestigious residential facilities, outpatient clinics, hospices and prisons, among other places. The 12-month reporting project by The Guardian and Kaiser Health News (KHN) came to an end last week on April 8. (KHN article, 4/8/21)