Author: Erdem, Hakan; Lucey, Daniel R.
Title: Health Care Worker Infections and Deaths due to COVID-9: A Survey from 37 Nations and a Call for WHO to Post National Data on their Website Cord-id: dr5j0uhd Document date: 2020_10_29
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Snippet: • Health-care workers (HCW) are part of the frontline in the struggle against the pandemic. • Many HCWs have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 and have lost their lives worldwide during the pandemic. • We performed a survey among members of the ID-IRI and requested the number of HCW deaths and total HCWs infections. • Data came from 37 countries and the median of the HCW deaths per 100,000 population of the country was 0.05. Thus, the health infrastructures of many countries are apparent
Document: • Health-care workers (HCW) are part of the frontline in the struggle against the pandemic. • Many HCWs have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 and have lost their lives worldwide during the pandemic. • We performed a survey among members of the ID-IRI and requested the number of HCW deaths and total HCWs infections. • Data came from 37 countries and the median of the HCW deaths per 100,000 population of the country was 0.05. Thus, the health infrastructures of many countries are apparently struck by the pandemic. • We call on the WHO Director-General to highlight this tragedy and the need to stop it by posting nation-by-nation data on the WHO COVID-19 website beginning in November 2020.
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