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Health care workers
Care givers, Child care workers,
Nurses, Nursing assistants
Nobody Accurately Tracks Health Care Workers Lost to COVID-19.
So She Stays Up At Night Cataloging the Dead.
Anesthesiologist Claire Rezba
started tracking lost health workers almost instinctively.
Researchers and industry professionals say
the lack of good official data on these deaths is “scandalous”
and is putting lives in danger.
by Nina Martin
Aug. 2, 2020 5 a.m. EDT
ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/
nobody-accurately-tracks-health-care-workers-lost-to-covid-19-so-she-stays-up-at-night-cataloging-the-dead
Why Do Some Health Care Workers
Live in Poverty?
NYT 19 May 2020
Why Do Some Health Care Workers Live in Poverty?
Video NYT Opinion
The New York Times 19 May 2020
It’s 3 a.m. and Kim Rockwood,
a health care worker, is driving to her patients’ homes
— even during the coronavirus pandemic —
to help them take medication or go to the bathroom.
She’s effectively on call 24/7.
Yet she can barely make ends meet.
As she explains in the above video,
she’s always on the clock,
and even though she loves her job,
she can’t afford her own health insurance.
Why is someone so vital
to our health care system
scraping by on poverty wages?
Ms. Rockwood,
a certified nursing assistant
in Worcester County, Mass.,
is not alone.
The average home care worker in America
makes just $16,200 a
year.
Many of them would make
more on unemployment.
Someday, most of us will need supportive care.
Will there be any workers left when that time comes?
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqCKPWEZfAE
healthcare workers UK
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/28/
coronavirus-mental-health-storm-nhs-workers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/27/
healthcare-workers-heros-language-heroism
USA > medical workers, healthcare / health care workers
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/
lost-on-the-frontline
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/08/13/
901720066/lives-cut-short-
remembering-health-care-workers-in-their-20s-killed-by-covid-19
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/12/
us-health-workers-died-coronavirus
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/
health/coronavirus-ptsd-medical-workers.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/13/
lost-on-the-frontline-us-healthcare-coronavirus-deaths
health care workers USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/01/
940700204/should-nursing-home-residents-be-prioritized-for-getting-the-covid-19-vaccine
https://www.propublica.org/article/
nobody-accurately-tracks-health-care-workers-lost-to-covid-19-
so-she-stays-up-at-night-cataloging-the-dead - August 2, 2020
Why Do Some Health Care Workers Live in Poverty?
Video - NYT - 19 May 2020
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=JqCKPWEZfAE
USA > home care workers
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/11/
us-home-care-workers-wages-conditions-union-organizing
nurse UK
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/09/
william-pooley-ebola-sierra-leone-outbreak-epidemic
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/03/
regret-dying-palliative-care-nurse-top-5-regrets-prof-john-ashton
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/09/
hospitals-need-thousands-extra-nurses-or-patients-safety-at-risk
nurse USA
https://www.npr.org/series/385540559/
injured-nurses
2023
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/
1173107527/nursing-staffing-crisis
2022
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/03/31/
1088672446/a-nurses-death-raises-the-alarm-a
bout-the-professions-mental-health-crisis
2021
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/03/06/
973294303/comic-how-one-covid-19-nurse-navigates-anti-mask-sentiment
Insie a Covid I.C.U., Through a Nurse's Eyes
NYT Opinion - 25 February 2021 - warning: graphic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR4ifeGxdQw
2020
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/12/24/
945027680/its-so-much-worse-than-before-dread-and-despair-haunt-nurses-inside-las-icus
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/
896767422/overwhelmed-stressed-scared-school-nurses-brace-for-the-fall-semester
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/02/
848997142/nurses-left-vulnerable-to-covid-19-we-re-not-martyrs-sacrificing-our-lives
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/24/
843529559/nurses-struggle-for-covid-19-protection-survey-shows
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/
nyregion/nurse-dies-coronavirus-mount-sinai.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/20/
818402142/seattle-nurses-scrounge-for-masks-to-stay-safe-on-pandemics-front-lines
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/04/
upshot/male-nurses.html
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/
providing-the-balm-of-truth/
Intensive Care Unit / ICU nurse
USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/03/06/
973294303/comic-how-one-covid-19-nurse-navigates-anti-mask-sentiment
school nurses
USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/30/
897344986/its-very-daunting-and-overwhelming-
school-nurses-on-preparing-for-the-school-yea
certified nursing assistant
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/
opinion/coronavirus-health-care-workers-hazard-pay.html
child care workers USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/
824385002/essential-child-care-workers-
struggle-to-balance-family-needs-safety
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USA
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brave-new-workers
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