essential workers

Health Care Workers Share Stories of Delta Variant’s Toll

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Michael Battistelli, licensed paramedic, emergency medical services instructor, Stratford, CT. Todd Rice, MD, associate professor of medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care; and medical director COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville. Yvonne Billings, MD, director of cardiopulmonary medicine, Cleveland Clinic Martin Health, Stuart, FL. Gina McNemar, ICU nurse, Baton Rouge General … Read more

Many Grocery Workers Still Waiting for COVID-19 Shot

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Eric Nelson, online shopper, Kroger, Cincinnati, OH. Dawn Hand, Kroger employee, Houston. Kathleen Scott, Albertsons employee, Los Angeles. Sue Wilmot, Safeway employee, Seattle. Margaret Kitt, MD, lead, CDC Essential Workers Team, COVID Vaccine Task Force, COVID-19 Emergency Response. Rebecca Weintraub, MD, assistant professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, PhD, professor of law, University … Read more

74 Million U.S. Workers at High Risk for COVID

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The findings were published online Nov. 9 in JAMA Internal Medicine. The risks to essential workers in all disciplines who could not work from home were clear from the beginning of the pandemic, said Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency medicine physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. “But the risk of … Read more