27 US health care workers have died from COVID-19 among 9,200 cases – but there are many unreported infections, the CDC believes
The CDC report adds to mounting concern for the health and safety of hospital staff, working on the frontline of the pandemic, in some cases without needed protective equipment.
"It is critical to make every effort to ensure the health and safety of this essential national workforce of approximately 18 million , both at work and in the community," the report concluded."Improving surveillance through routine reporting of occupation and industry not only benefits HCP, but all workers during the COVID-19 pandemic."
The report comes a day after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General reported hospitals were facing equipment shortages for N95 respirator masks, surgical masks, face shields, gowns and gloves. Shortages were so severe that some hospitals were experimenting with-medical-grade gear such as construction respirators, cloth masks and handmade gowns, the inspector general reported.
Nurse Maria Gray was terminated from her job at the Research Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, after she refused to work a floor full of suspected COVID-19 patients without an N95 respiratory mask.
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