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Lives cut short: Remembering healthcare workers in their 20s killed by COVID-19

from NPR

Lives cut short: Remembering healthcare workers in their 20s killed by COVID-19 NPR While COVID-19 takes a far deadlier toll on elderly people than on young adults, an investigation of front-line healthcare worker deaths by Kaiser Health News and The Guardian has uncovered numerous instances in which staff members under age 30 were exposed on the job and also succumbed. Among 167 confirmed front-line worker deaths the reporters investigated, 21 medical staffers, or 13 percent of the total, were under 40, and eight (five percent) fatalities were under 30. The median age of a COVID-19 death in the general population is 78, while the median age of health care worker deaths in the database is 57. This is in part because the reporters included only people of working age who were treating patients during the pandemic — but it is also because, as health workers, they are exposed to the virus far more. READ MORE

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