US: CDC count of health care personnel COVID-19 cases and deaths

[sharon sanders]

CDC healthcare worker 702 death count. link

The Guardian investigating 1,150 US healthcare workers deaths link

At this minute: 6,496,159 cases 193,787 deaths reported today by JHU link

Here is a recent death. Condolences to her family and friends:


"We are grieving the loss of Dr. Rebecca Shadowen. There are really no words to describe the pain felt by her family, physician colleagues and Med Center Health teammates,” said Connie Smith, president and CEO of Med Center Health, in a statement released Friday night. “Dr. Shadowen will forever be remembered as a nationally recognized expert who provided the very best care for our patients and community. She was a dear friend to many.”

The state- and nationally renowned Shadowen was a specialist in infectious diseases and health care epidemiology at Med Center Health and had been a member of the Bowling Green-Warren County Coronavirus Workgroup. She was diagnosed with the virus on May 13.

https://www.bgdailynews.com/news/med...cdb308e41.html

[Mary Wilson]

Trump officials seek greater control over CDC reports on coronavirus

By Lena H. Sun
September 12, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. CDT

Political appointees at the Department of Health and Human Services have sought to change, delay and prevent the release of reports about the coronavirus by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because they were viewed as undermining President Trump’s message that the pandemic is under control.

Michael Caputo, the top HHS spokesman, said in an interview Saturday that he and one of his advisers have been seeking greater scrutiny of the CDC’s weekly scientific dispatches, known as the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, for the past 3? months. The adviser, Paul Alexander, has sent repeated emails to the CDC seeking changes and demanding that the reports be halted until he could make edits.

CDC documents, widely known as the MMWR, as being “hit pieces on the administration.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/09/12/trump-control-over-cdc-reports/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_main

[sharon sanders]

Somehow today the CDC count of health care workers deaths went down to 695. link

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Anyway I am wondering if the case fatality rate among health care workers is partly due to the possibly higher viral load of SARS-Cov-2 in their system due their constant exposure?


Available online 15 September 2020


Article

SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load Predicts Mortality in Patients with and Without Cancer Who Are Hospitalized with COVID-19

Author links open overlay panelLars F.Westblade^123#GagandeepBrar^13#Laura C.Pinheiro¹DemetriosPaidoussis⁴MangalaRajan¹PeterMartin¹³ParagGoyal¹³Jorge L.Sepulveda⁵LisaZhang¹GaryGeorge¹DakaiLiu⁴SusanWhittier⁶⁷MarkusPlate¹³Catherine B.Small¹³Jacob H.Rand²³Melissa M.Cushing²³Thomas J.Walsh¹³JosephCooke¹⁴…Michael J.Satlin¹³
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HIGHLIGHTS



•High admission viral load predicts mortality in hospitalized patients with and without cancer
•Patients with hematologic malignancies have higher viral loads than patients without cancer
•Viral load results may assist clinicians in caring for hospitalized patients with COVID-19

Summary


Patients with cancer may be at increased risk of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), but the role of viral load on this risk is unknown. We measured SARS-CoV-2 viral load using cycle threshold (C_T) values from reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assays applied to nasopharyngeal swab specimens in 100 patients with cancer and 2914 without cancer who were admitted to three New York City hospitals.

Overall, the in-hospital mortality rate was 38.8% among patients with a high viral load, 24.1% among patients with a medium viral load, and 15.3% among patients with a low viral load (P<0.001).

Similar findings were observed in patients with cancer (high, 45.2% mortality; medium, 28.0%; low, 12.1%; P=0.008). Patients with hematologic malignancies had higher median viral loads (C_T=25.0) than patients without cancer (C_T=29.2; P=0.0039). SARS-CoV-2 viral load results may offer vital prognostic information for patients with and without cancer who are hospitalized with COVID-19.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...35610820304815

[sharon sanders]

Today's health care worker numbers from the CDC:

CASES AMONG HCP

178,032

DEATHS AMONG HCP

753

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#health-care-personnel

[sharon sanders]

CDC | Updated: Nov 08 2020 12:32 PM


CASES AMONG HCP

207,558

DEATHS AMONG HCP

792

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#health-care-personnel

[sharon sanders]

CDC | Updated: Dec 12 2020 12:18 PM


CASES AMONG HCP

266,938

DEATHS AMONG HCP

900

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#health-care-personnel

[sharon sanders]

Guardian investigations show 2,921 US health care worker deaths:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2020/aug/11/lost-on-the-frontline-covid-19-coronavirus-us-healthcare-workers-deaths-database

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CDC | Updated: Dec 22 2020 07:04 PM


HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL CASES

288,066

HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL DEATHS

955

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#health-care-personnel

[sharon sanders]

CDC | Updated: Jan 17 2021 12:19 PM


HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL CASES

367,489

HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL DEATHS

1,257

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#health-care-personnel

[sharon sanders]

CDC | Updated: Jan 24 2021 02:04 PM


HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL CASES

378,220

HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL DEATHS

1,286

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#health-care-personnel

[sharon sanders]

CDC | Updated: Feb 27 2021 12:31 PM


HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL CASES

414,339

HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL DEATHS

1,380

[sharon sanders]

CDC | Updated: Mar 20 2021 12:29 PM


HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL CASES

448,863

HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL DEATHS

1,487


https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra...care-personnel

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The Guardian is showing 3,561 total US healthcare workers deaths.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2020/aug/11/lost-on-the-frontline-covid-19-coronavirus-us-healthcare-workers-deaths-database

[sharon sanders]

The Guardian stopped their count in April 2021.


Cases & Deaths among Healthcare Personnel

Of 27,364,179 case reports received by CDC, 5,179,018 (18.93%) have known healthcare personnel (HCP) status. Completion of HCP status varied in case reporting over time and is noted in the figure and table below.

For the 514,677 cases of COVID-19 among HCP, death status is available for 409,653 (79.59%).


Maps, charts, and data provided by CDC, updates Tues-Sun by 8 pm ET^†CDC | Data as of: Sunday, July 4, 2021 12:25 PM ET. Posted: Sunday, July 4, 2021 1:30 PM ET

HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL CASES

514,677

HEALTHCARE PERSONNEL DEATHS

1,688

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#health-care-personnel