More than 600 nurses around the world have died from COVID-19 and approximately 230,000 health-care workers have contracted the virus, according to the International Council of Nurses.
Catton continued that, without this data, it will be impossible to know the “true cost” of COVID-19 and it will hinder efforts to respond to other pandemics in the future.
The ICN’s estimation of more than 600 deaths among nurses and more than 230,000 infections came from data from national nurses associations, official figures, and media reports from a “limited number of countries.”more than 260 COVID-19 deaths among nurses and 90,000 infections worldwide. “Nurses and other staff are at great personal risk, and so are the patients they care for,” the press release stated.
Because of this lack of data, the ICN said that a number of questions concerning infections among health-care workers still can’t be answered.What is contributing to the range in infection rates among health-care workers between countries? For example, cases are less than 1 per cent in Singapore, but 30 per cent in Ireland.Why is there a higher death rate for nurses in Latin American countries?
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