2 Data detailing the disproportionate effects on HCWs are only now emerging for the COVID-19 pandemic. Comparable statistics were also observed in Sierra Leone and Guinea, where 0.06 percent and 0.02 percent of the population infected with Ebola virus disease (EVD) died versus 6.7 percent and 1.45 percent of HCWs with EVD, respectively. Liberia saw more than 8 percent of its health care population killed by the disease, compared to 0.11 percent of its general population. –2016 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa also disproportionately affected health care professionals.
During the first severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003, HCWs accounted for 1,707 (21 percent) of 8098 cases globally. At present, the nation lacks a uniform system to collect, collate, and report illnesses and deaths among HCWs due to COVID-19.Īs with COVID-19, past epidemics have severely harmed HCWs. The COVID-19 pandemic has created both acute and chronic stresses on the health care system and on health care personnel nationwide. Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats We hope the assessment in this rapid expert consultation can help protect the HCWs who care for all of us. Building on such a data system, focused epidemiological studies can better home in on measures that will protect the health and well-being of the health care workforce.Ī healthy health care workforce is vital to the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The document stresses the advantages that could follow from more complete national data on the scope of the problem. This rapid expert consultation describes what we know about the extent of deaths and mental health impairments among HCWs due to COVID-19. Rapid Expert Consultation on Understanding Causes of HealthĬare Worker Deaths Due to the COVID-19 PandemicĪssistant Secretary for Preparedness and ResponseĪttached please find a rapid expert consultation on health care worker (HCW) morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19 that was prepared by Sue Anne Bell, and Matthew Wynia, with input from John Hick, and conducted under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats.
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