The tally includes doctors, nurses and paramedics, as well as crucial health care support staff such as hospital janitors, administrators and nursing home workers.
The Guardian and KHN are building an interactive, public-facing database that will also track factors such as race and ethnicity, age, profession, location and whether the workers had adequate access to protective gear. The database — to be released this summer — will offer insight into the workings and failings of the U.S. health care system during the pandemic.reports on the challenges health care workers are facing during the pandemic.
The number released today reflects the 586 names currently in the Lost on the Frontline internal database, which have been collected from family members, friends and colleagues of the deceased, health workers unions, media reports, unions, among other sources. Reporters at KHN and The Guardian are independently confirming each death by contacting family members, employers, medical examiners and others before publishing names and obituaries on our sites.
They undertook their work with passion and dedication. They were also beloved spouses, parents, friends, military veterans and community activists. None started 2020 knowing that simply showing up to work would expose them to a virus that would kill them. This project aims to capture the human stories, compassion and heroism behind the statistics. Among those lost were Dr.
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