The staggering toll of Covid-19 on health care workers
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As calls mount for the federal government to track Covid-19 deaths among health care workers, an investigation by
The Guardian and
Kaiser Health News has found that more than 3,600 American health care workers died in the first year of the Covid-19 epidemic.
Over 3,600 health care worker deaths in one year
The investigation, called Lost on the Frontline, monitored who among the health care workforce died and why to provide a window into the workings…of the U.S. health system during the Covid-19 pandemic,
KHN reports. The project, which launched April 2020, ends this month after a full year in operation.
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Yearlong investigation examines the whos, whys of more than 3,600 U.S. health-care worker deaths
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An investigation by The Guardian and KHN found that more than 3,600 U.S. health care workers died in the first year of the pandemic. (Lydia Zuraw/KHN)TNS
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More than 3,600 U.S. health care workers perished in the first year of the pandemic, according to “Lost on the Frontline,” a 12-month investigation by The Guardian and KHN to track such deaths.
Lost on the Frontline is the most complete accounting of U.S. health care worker deaths. The federal government has not comprehensively tracked this data. But calls are mounting for the Biden administration to undertake a count as the KHN/Guardian project comes to a close.
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