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Lost on the frontline

The Guardian has partnered with Kaiser Health News in an effort to document every US healthcare worker who dies from Covid-19
  • A healthcare worker checks on patients inside an oxygen tent outside the emergency room in Huntington Park, California, on 29 December 2020.

    At least 400 US healthcare workers have died of Covid despite vaccine rollout

    • The healthy nurse who died at 40 on the Covid frontline: 'She was the best mom I ever had' – video

    • Did they have to die? How America's Covid response left 3,000 health workers dead

    • Texas doctor, 28, dies of Covid: 'She wore the same mask for weeks, if not months'

    • ‘It decimated our staff’: Covid ravages Black and brown health workers in US

    • 'His lies are killing my neighbors': swing-state health workers organize in bid to defeat Trump

    • 'We risk our lives for our patients': the US immigrant doctors dying of Covid

Investigations

  • Registered nurses demand optimal PPE<br>epa08562903 Registered nurses and members of National Nurses United participate in a press conference to demand that optimal PPE be provided to the RNs and that the hospital abandons the decontamination process for N95 respirators at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, USA, 23 July 2020. There are reports of nurses not being fit-tested for their N95 respirators and the hospital recently announced a pilot program that would have nurses reuse their PPE for an entire week. EPA/SHAWN THEW

    'Just a matter of time': nurses die as US hospitals fail to contain Covid-19

  • Hospital employees are not only forced to choose between their paychecks and their health, they also go back to work knowing they may infect patients or colleagues.

    US hospitals pressure healthcare staff to work even if they have Covid symptoms

  • Jasime and Joshua Obra both tested positive for Covid-19 on the same day. Only one of them survived.

    Dying young: the healthcare workers in their 20s killed by Covid-19

  • Wayne county jail in downtown Detroit, Michigan.

    Covid-19 erupted in Detroit jails. It killed two doctors caring for inmates

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Profiles

  • Frank Gabrin.

    America's first ER doctor to die on the frontline of the coronavirus battle

  • Nikita Rahman, wearing her late father’s shirt and a custom-made necklace in his honor.

    ‘My children were priceless jewels’: three families reflect on the health workers they lost

  • Dr James Mahoney, center, and his colleagues.

    A legend at a Brooklyn hospital dies of Covid-19: 'He ran into the fire'

  • Corrina and Cheryl Thinn, two of four siblings, lived together with their mother, Mary, and helped raise each other’s children. From left: Fabian Thinn, Corrina Thinn, Chris Thinn, Mary Thinn and Cheryl Thinn.

    Sisters die weeks apart from Covid-19 as virus ravages Navajo Nation

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Recent stories

  • Carmela Sileo, left, and Susan McEachern at the Arbor Springs nursing home in Opelika, Alabama in February.

    Covid cases fall over 80% among US nursing home staff and residents

  • A registered nurse adjusts a patient’s medication in Houston, Texas.

    CDC's 'huge mistake': did misguided mask advice drive up Covid death toll for health workers?

    Researchers say ‘very low’-quality research led to outdated guidelines on who got the best PPE, leaving those most at risk exposed
  • February 21, 2021 - BROOKLYN, NEW YORK: Anthony Almojera, an emergency medical services (EMS) lieutenant and union leader with the New York fire department, poses for a portrait at the FDNY EMS Station 40 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Amongst all of the first responders during the coronavirus pandemic EMS workers are the lowest paid. Almojera earns $70,000 annually as a lieutenant, but his paramedic colleagues’ salaries in non-leadership roles are capped at around $65,000 after five years on the job. He earns extra income as a paramedic at area race tracks and conducting defibrillator inspections. He has colleagues who drive for Uber, deliver for GrubHub and stock grocery shelves on the side. “There are certain jobs that deserve all your time and effort,” Almojera says. “This should be your only job.” Elias Williams for The Guardian

    'It doesn't feel worth it': Covid-19 is pushing New York's EMTs to the brink

    Struggling with low pay and high stress, New York paramedics and emergency medical technicians are reaching a breaking point

  • First doctor in US receives coronavirus vaccine: 'I went in today feeling very hopeful'

  • US healthcare workers have faced devastating losses amid PPE shortages

  • In US Covid-19 hot zones, firefighters now ‘pump more oxygen than water’

  • Scores of worker Covid deaths not reported amid US regulator's lenient approach

  • ‘Many of us have PTSD’: Pennsylvania nurses strike amid Covid fears

  • These frontline health workers could have retired – instead they died helping others

  • Mayo Clinic: 900 employees at top US hospital catch Covid-19 in two weeks

  • Anger in North Dakota after governor asks Covid-positive health workers to keep working

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