Introduction
Each year on this date, labor unions, other advocacy groups and family members mark Workers Memorial Day in recognition of lives lost on the job. In 2019, the most recent year for which data is available, 5,333 workers died of traumatic injury or sudden illness. It’s as if the entire population of Dayton, Kentucky, were erased.
This Workers Memorial Day has a different timbre than previous ones, which have tended to focus on explosions, transportation accidents, falls, trench collapses and other easily measurable events, as opposed to chronic, work-related diseases, which develop over time and take an estimated 95,000 lives a year.
They died saving others from Covid. Will anyone count them?
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By: Andrew Jacobs
Medical workers are called heroes. But there hasn t been a national reckoning over the many thousands lost to Covid. Here are a few of the people who gave their lives while on the front lines of the pandemic.
Dr. Claire Rezba is exhausted from counting the dead.
An anaesthesiologist in Virginia, Rezba, 41, has spent the past year running a Twitter feed that memorialises American health care workers who have died of Covid-19. So far, she has published more than 2,500 tributes to the doctors, emergency room nurses, respiratory therapists and mental health counsellors cut down in their prime. Although she knows there are at least a thousand other deaths that remain unrecognised, Rezba plans to discontinue the project at the end of March.
They Died Saving Others From Covid. Will Anyone Count Them?
Medical workers are called heroes. But there hasn’t been a national reckoning over the many thousands lost to Covid. Here are a few of the people who gave their lives while on the front lines of the pandemic.
Celia Yap-Banago a nurse in Kansas City, Mo., died on April 21. “Don’t worry,” she told her son earlier that day. “I’ll be fine.”Credit.Photo via Jhulan Banago
Dr. Claire Rezba is exhausted from counting the dead.
An anesthesiologist in Virginia, Dr. Rezba, 41, has spent the past year running a Twitter feed that memorializes American health care workers who have died of Covid-19. So far, she has published more than 2,500 tributes to the doctors, emergency room nurses, respiratory therapists and mental health counselors cut down in their prime. Although she knows there are at least a thousand other deaths that remain unrecognized, Dr. Rezba plans to discontinue the project at the end of March.
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Covid-19 is taking a devastating toll on Filipino American nurses
Co-President of National Nurses United, Zenei Cortez, tells Amanpour she s seeing supplies that nurses need locked up in closets.
Posted: Dec 12, 2020 9:01 PM
Updated: Dec 12, 2020 9:01 PM
Posted By: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
Nearly a third of the nurses who ve died of coronavirus in the US are Filipino, even though Filipino nurses make up just 4% of the nursing population nationwide.
A recent report from the largest nurses union in the country revealed the disproportionate number of deaths. It s a jarring statistic researchers are working to understand and a tragedy families across the US and around the world are living with every day.