More than 1,000 frontline fitness employees have died from COVID-19, according to Lost on the Frontline, an ongoing investigation through The Guardian and KHN to track down and commemorate each and every American fitness employee who died of coronavirus. Earlier this month, organizations launched a giant interactive database. This is the maximum full count of U.S. physical care personnel deaths. In the country.
KHN and the Guardian stick to COVID-19’s deceased physical condition and write about their lives and what happened in their final days.
The virus has wrianed disproportionate havoc on communities of color and immigrants, and fitness staff have been saved.
The Guardian and KHN newshounds published profiles of 177 of the 1,080 patients we know based on obituaries, reports, social media posts and other sources. Of these other 177 people, 62.1% were known as black, Latino, Asian/Pacific island or Native American, and 30.5% were born outdoors in the United States. Both figures help determine that other people of color and immigrants (regardless of race) die at higher rates than their U.S.-born white counterparts.
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These figures are in line with other research. According to a Harvard Medical School study published in The Lancet Public Health last month, color fitness staff were more likely to treat patients with suspicious or shown COVID-19 and nearly twice as likely as their opposing white numbers to test positive. Coronavirus.
The U.S. Fitness Care Formula. It is also largely based on immigrant fitness staff, which represent approximately one in five fitness staff members. Immigrant fitness staff tend to paint in the most vulnerable communities: a 2018 test found that high-poverty regions tend to have more trained doctors abroad than richer regions, for example.
Among the losses are Corrina and Cheryl Thinn, sisters who worked at a Navajo Nation clinic in northern Arizona. They shared an office, lived in the same house, helped raise their children and died a few weeks apart.
Dr. James “Charlie” Mahoney, a pneumologist from Brooklyn, one of the few black academics at his medical school in the 1970s. He is remembered as a “legend” in his hospital.
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Dr. Reza Chowdhury, a Bronx internist, a beloved figure in the city’s Bangladeshi community. He did not qualify a co-payment when his patients ran out of cash and gave their home phone number so they could only call for medical reasons.
And Milagros Abellera, whom colleagues like “hen mom,” was one of dozens of nurses in the Philippines who succumbed to the virus in the United States.
In addition to the disparities in race and origin, our researchers found that of the 177 staff members profiled in the Lost on the Frontline database:
You can read their stories and those of other physical care personnel here. And if you know a deceased COVID-19 fitness care worker, share your story with us.
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More than 1,000 frontline fitness employees have died from COVID-19, according to Lost on the Frontline, an ongoing investigation through The Guardian and KHN to track down and commemorate each and every American fitness employee who died of coronavirus. Earlier this month, organizations launched a giant interactive database. It is the most comprehensive and comprehensive accounting of U.S. health care personnel deaths.
The virus has wrianed disproportionate havoc on communities of color and immigrants, and fitness staff have been saved.
The Guardian and KHN newshounds published profiles of 177 of the 1,080 patients we know based on obituaries, reports, social media posts and other sources. Of these other 177 people, 62.1% were known as black, Latino, Asian/Pacific island or Native American, and 30.5% were born outdoors in the United States. Both figures help determine that other people of color and immigrants (regardless of race) die at higher rates than their white counterparts born in the United States.
These figures are in line with other research. According to a Harvard Medical School study published in The Lancet Public Health last month, color fitness staff were more likely to treat patients with suspicious or shown COVID-19 and nearly twice as likely as their opposing white numbers to test positive. Coronavirus.
The U.S. Fitness Care Formula. It is also largely based on immigrant fitness staff, which represent approximately one in five fitness staff members. Immigrant fitness staff tend to paint in the most vulnerable communities: a 2018 test found that high-poverty regions tend to have more trained doctors abroad than richer regions, for example.
Among the missing were Corrina and Cheryl Thinn, sisters who worked at a Navajo Nation clinic in northern Arizona. They shared an office, lived in the same house, helped raise their children and died a few weeks apart.
Dr. James “Charlie” Mahoney, a pneumologist from Brooklyn, one of the few black academics at his medical school in the 1970s. He is remembered as a “legend” in his hospital.
Dr. Reza Chowdhury, a Bronx internist, a beloved figure in the city’s Bangladeshi community. He did not qualify a co-payment when his patients ran out of cash and gave their home phone number so they could only call for medical reasons.
And Milagros Abellera, whom colleagues like “hen mom,” was one of dozens of nurses in the Philippines who succumbed to the virus in the United States.
In addition to the disparities in race and origin, our researchers found that of the 177 staff members profiled in the Lost on the Frontline database:
You can read their stories and those of other physical care staff members here. And if you know a deceased COVID-19 fitness care worker, share your story with us.
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