Healthcare workers 7 times as likely to have severe COVID-19 as other workers

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-12/b-hw7120720.php

 

News Release 8-Dec-2020
BMJ

 

Healthcare workers are 7 times as likely to have severe COVID-19 infection as those with other types of 'non-essential' jobs, finds research focusing on the first UK-wide lockdown and published online in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine.

And those with jobs in the social care and transport sectors are twice as likely to do so, emphasising the need to ensure that essential (key) workers are adequately protected against the infection, say the researchers.


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