Heart Disease Is Still A Killer Here s How To Reverse It
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Heart Disease Is Still A Killer Here s How To Reverse It
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Originally published on April 8, 2021 5:35 pm
Thousands of health care workers across North Carolina, charged with the care of patients, have declined to get COVID-19 vaccinations, even as eligibility has opened to the entire state.
Hospitals that were willing to disclose employee vaccination rates reported between 40% and 75% of hospital staff members have been vaccinated, a NC Watchdog Reporting Network survey shows.
The informal survey was sent to 32 health systems, representing about 100 hospitals across the state. Fifteen health systems were willing to provide at least some data on the number of vaccinated employees.
The overall uptake rate among the state s roughly 200,000 hospital employees surprised even state health care leaders.
More than 3,600 US health workers died in COVID-19 s first year
Two-thirds of deceased health care workers for whom the Lost on the Frontline project has data identified as people of color, revealing the deep inequities tied to race, ethnicity and economic status in America’s health care workforce.
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Jane Spencer / The Guardian and Christina Jewett / Kaiser Health News | 10:28 am, Apr. 8, 2021 ×
Illustration by Lydia Zuraw / Kaiser Health News
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.