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Exclusive: Over 900 Health Workers Have Died of COVID-19. And the Toll Is Rising. – Kaiser Health News
KHN and The Guardian unveil an interactive database documenting front-line health care worker deaths. The majority of them are people of color — and nurses face the highest toll.
More than 900 front-line health care workers have died of COVID-19, according to an interactive database unveiled Tuesday by The Guardian and KHN. 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.
It is the most comprehensive accounting of U.S. health care workers’ deaths in the country.
As coronavirus cases surge and dire shortages of lifesaving protective gear like N95 masks,…
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