1 in 5
COVID-19 Cases will be Health Care Workers
It's estimated that around 1 in 5 COVID-19 cases will be healthcare workers. Places like Minnesota are already reporting that happening.
As a nation, we are facing a realistic worst-case estimate of 40-70% of Americans falling seriously ill or dying from COVID-19. That's 214 million citizens -old, chronically ill, young, and healthy.
Unlucky for us, nurses and doctors are not immune to this novel human virus. There's no treatment or cure. Nearly 200 healthcare professionals have died during the two week "shelter in place" -designed to "flatten the curve" and ease hospital impacting. In more than 100 years, the institution of modern medicine has never been faced with this kind of challenge.
Currently, our human heroes on the front lines of the COVID-19 public health emergency are almost singularly shouldered with burden of lack of access to protective equipment, ventilators, CPAP machines, and blood.
It's time for we the people to lend a hand.
Our Healthcare Industry
Response of many health care organizations to the reduction in primary and elective care has been to reduce staff providing those services. Emplyment in health care declined by an estimated 43,000 people from mid-February through mid-March and has undoubtedly declined further since then. Approximately half the cost of primary care practices is attributable to salaries, so furloughs help ensure solvency. But bills will have to be paid and remaining costs cannot be reduced as much. Tha bank accounts of many practices are not large enough to absorb long-term shutdown.
43,000 furloughed
16,000 infected
"It is like a war zone here. They're rationing one surgical mask per employee per day and we don't have access to N95s or face shields, yet we're expected to take care of COVID-19 positive patients. We're getting a huge influx of COVID-19 patients."
Sources
- http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/oeh.2004.10.4.421
- https://www.fox9.com/news/1-in-5-covid-19-cases-in-minnesota-are-health-care-workers-mdh-says
- https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/482794-officials-say-the-cdc-is-preparing-for
- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615358/worst-case-coronavirus-scenario-214-million-americans-infected-17-million-dead/
- https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/summary.html
- https://emergency.cdc.gov/coca/calls/2020/callinfo_032720.asp
- https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/03/416961/coronavirus-sickening-young-adults-and-spreading-through-them-experts-say
- https://nypost.com/2020/03/20/dr-anthony-fauci-says-theres-no-magic-drug-to-treat-coronavirus/
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764031
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763590
- https://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000007052136/coronavirus-elmhurst-hospital-queens.html
- https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/05/medics-left-sore-marks-skin-coronavirus-face-masks-12188952/
- https://www.ksat.com/news/national/2020/03/31/new-york-neurosurgeon-who-separated-conjoined-twins-dies-from-complications-of-covid-19/
- https://ncov2019.live/
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