Modern Healthcare (5/29, Johnson, Subscription Publication) reported, “Experts fear the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s surveillance of COVID-19 cases and deaths among healthcare workers are under-counting the impact on the front lines, which could obscure the scope of the pandemic as it hits the front lines.” CDC numbers show “more than 63,000 healthcare workers have been infected with COVID-19 and 307 have died from the virus as of Friday.” However, “those figures are based on information received from a relatively small pool of test reports,” as “the vast majority of the data collected lacks key information about the occupational status of those getting tested for the coronavirus.”
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— “CDC underestimates COVID’s toll on healthcare workers, experts say, “Steven Ross Johnson, Modern Healthcare, May 29, 2020