In the United States, we price the lives of those who shield us, according to the FBI, 89 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty last year, each of those deaths being a tragedy, marked by funeral processions of burdens. patrols across the country. We mourn these deaths because we know the officers died protecting us. Maybe that’s one of the reasons we see so many “Defend the Police” signs.
What would the country do if more than a thousand policemen, more than ten times more, died in a year without getting married?There would be screams from the White House and on both sides of the political corridor. We would attend hearings in the House and Senate to identify who was to blame, what it was, and how to protect our police. These hearings would result in an invoice to provide new investment and gadgets to protect our law enforcement officers. The bill would be proudly signed in a rite in the Oval Office. with wonderful fanfare.
However, COVID-19, we see an organization of public servants dying in the line of duty with relatively little fanfare Since last week, 1336 deaths of physical care personnel were reported due to exposure to COVID-19 in paints in a database of a survey. Another exam that employs more inclusive criteria puts the general in many more situations.
Diversity of victims, from food service personnel to nurses and medical specialists. Physical care staff deaths are not recorded as consistently as law enforcement deaths, yet a 2002 study found that between 80 and 260 physical care staff die each year from infections related to the job. This is correct, it suggests that COVID-19 has multiplied those deaths tenfold, the same accumulation that would galvanize political outrage if it struck police officers. However, after the initial wave of “support our heroes” symptoms in the Beginning of the pandemic, the death of fitness care personnel has attracted little attention.
The apparent question, what Trump management deserves to ask the question, is why this is happening. Several points contribute, however, the more importantly, the more instances of COVID-19, the more patients with COVID-19 want physical care, especially the more fitness care patients receive, the more exposed the fitness care staff is. And the more exposed fitness care staff are, the more likely they are to get inflame at work.
The answer to the question “Why did so many physical care personnel die in the United States?”It’s simple: “Because our national leaders have treated the epidemic so badly. “When it has management that degrades its own public fitness scientists, denies the price of the mask and social estating that have been so effective around the world and deceives the public about the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, that’s the recipe for disaster, which claimed more than 1300 people committed to our fitness.
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The U. S. Government’s Office of ResponsibilityHe reported in September that major federal agencies had yet to expand express plans to alleviate shortages of medical supplies, adding non-public appliances needed for physical care workers.
This scarcity continues to this day, months after the outbreak began.
Other countries have been led through elected officials who responded to the emergency, issued coherent science-based rules, and more effectively controlled their COVID-19 epidemics. That is why, since the beginning of the pandemic, the United States has had a much higher level of instances and deaths than in other countries.
We now have more than 9. 2 million cases of COVID-19 and 70 deaths of 100,000 people, up to nearly 27,000 cases and 1,100,000 deaths in South Korea. Even our northern neighbor, Canada, suffered fewer than 240,000 cases and about 27 deaths consistent with 100,000 people.
The US reaction to the US and its allies in the Middle East has been a backlash. But it’s not the first time It’s useless in comparison, and we and our physical care staff have paid a very high price.
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So we want a change. We want a president and a management that tells the country about the fact of COVID-19 on the basis of the most productive medical science of qualified doctors and scientists, we want a president and a management that will systematically unite the country through the use of those resources. We want an administration that recognizes that physical care personnel deserve to be valued as much as first responders and law enforcement officers, and provided with the required resources. Only then will we stem the tragic tide of physical care personnel who have sacrificed themselves to save the lives of their patients.
Dr. Scott Deitchman, Bryan Hardin, Dr. Mitchell Cohen, and Richard Lemen are former assistant surgeons and full-time retired auditors of the U. S. Public Health Service. But it’s not the first time
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