Care-worker death rate twice that of health workers

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Coronavirus: Care-worker death rate twice that of health workers

But because many more social care workers are female, this equates to a death rate of 23.4 per 100,000 for men and 9.6 per 100,000 for women.

However, despite their close proximity to patients, healthcare workers, including doctors and nurses, had much lower death rates. This may be because they had better access to personal protective equipment than other workers. The overall death rate for men aged 20-64 in England and Wales linked to Covid-19 was 9.9 deaths per 100,000, compared with 5.2 for women.Among men, some specific occupations had noticeably higher death rates linked to Covid-19, including:Men working in low-skilled jobs were more likely to die with Covid-19 than other groups, including managers, skilled tradesmen and professionals.

 

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this story from 3 days ago is back on the BBCnews homepage - but it's a dogs dinner of bits and pieces of facts. And it fails to put an 'average' on each of the graphs if you're going to re-cycle old stories, please at least use ones that are better writte/contextualised

Amazing that people pay £3-4000 a month for the privilege but the bosses can't even look after their workers.

Could it be that health workers are typically employed by the public sector who have their employees safety at heart whilst most care workers are employed by the private sector where profit is the main consideration?

So the fake media have been lying all along that health care workers were more vulnerable than other people. Yet where is the apology from this fake media grasping every opportunity to make it look like there was?

Lack of PPE!!! Not rocket science.

Has government daily briefing been cancelled? If so you why?

On zero Hours and minimum wage. Now THEY are heroes

Would you please consider sharing my poll, thanks in advance!

The moral is to call yourself a health worker: not a care worker

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