Volume 28, Number 8—August 2022
Research
COVID-19 Symptoms and Deaths among Healthcare Workers, United States
Table 1
Comparison of sociodemographics among HCWs who died from COVID-19 versus 3 control groups, United States, January 1, 2020–October 12, 2021*
Variable | HCW deaths, no. (%) | Control 1: HCW nondeaths |
Control 2: non-HCW deaths |
Control 3: non-HCW nondeaths |
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No. (%) | p value† | No. (%) | p value‡ | No. (%) | p value§ | ||||
Sex | |||||||||
F | 893 (60.79) | 356,553 (81.36) | <0.001 | 50,104 (44.97) | <0.001 | 2,240,363 (51.07) | <0.001 | ||
M |
576 (39.21) |
81,700 (18.64) |
61,306 (55.03) |
2,146,333 (48.93) |
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Age group, y | |||||||||
10–19 | 1 (0.07) | 10,866 (2.48) | <0.001 | 104 (0.09) | <0.001 | 610,578 (13.89) | <0.001 | ||
20–29 | 27 (1.84) | 109,220 (24.90) | 536 (0.48) | 794,483 (18.08) | |||||
30–39 | 86 (5.85) | 111,437 (25.41) | 1,471 (1.32) | 698,099 (15.89) | |||||
40–49 | 160 (10.89) | 90,003 (20.52) | 3,613 (3.24) | 633,574 (14.42) | |||||
50–59 | 412 (28.05) | 75,625 (17.24) | 9,013 (8.08) | 593,951 (13.52) | |||||
60–69 | 551 (37.51) | 36,657 (8.36) | 18,621 (16.69) | 423,500 (9.64) | |||||
70–79 | 176 (11.98) | 3,382 (0.77) | 28,157 (25.23) | 224,251 (5.10) | |||||
80+ |
56 (3.81) |
294 (0.07) |
50,026 (44.83) |
123,222 (2.80) |
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Ethnicity | |||||||||
Non-Hispanic | 1,104 (80.29) | 299,362 (80.63) | 0.774 | 79,520 (76.84) | <0.001 | 2,588,535 (69.11) | <0.001 | ||
Hispanic |
271 (19.71) |
71,899 (19.37) |
23,973 (23.16) |
1,157,127 (30.89) |
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Race | |||||||||
White | 530 (48.01) | 208,585 (69.68) | <0.001 | 59,586 (74.93) | <0.001 | 1,878,386 (72.57) | <0.001 | ||
Black | 300 (27.17) | 46,883 (15.66) | 10,644 (13.39) | 350,133 (13.53) | |||||
Asian | 237 (21.47) | 19,156 (6.40) | 6,031 (7.58) | 113,042 (4.37) | |||||
American Indian/Alaska Native | 0 | 497 (0.17) | 292 (0.37) | 13,813 (0.53) | |||||
Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander | 3 (0.27) | 988 (0.33) | 327 (0.41) | 11,837 (0.46) | |||||
Multiple/Other |
34 (3.08) |
23,253 (7.77) |
2,640 (3.32) |
221,324 (8.55) |
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Month | |||||||||
January | 89 (7.00) | 47,353 (11.52) | <0.001 | 11,209 (12.81) | <0.001 | 512,018 (12.61) | <0.001 | ||
February | 30 (2.36) | 15,997 (3.89) | 3,455 (3.95) | 217,736 (5.36) | |||||
March | 51 (4.01) | 17,412 (4.24) | 3,500 (4.00) | 198,717 (4.90) | |||||
April | 95 (7.47) | 35,111 (8.55) | 7,079 (8.09) | 268,465 (6.61) | |||||
May | 86 (6.77) | 27,006 (6.57) | 5,938 (6.79) | 223,827 (5.51) | |||||
June | 347 (27.30) | 43,318 (10.54) | 10,658 (12.18) | 318,614 (7.85) | |||||
July | 87 (6.85) | 30,810 (7.50) | 6,860 (7.84) | 331,432 (8.16) | |||||
August | 107 (8.42) | 34,256 (8.34) | 7,088 (8.10) | 405,229 (9.98) | |||||
September | 82 (6.45) | 29,824 (7.26) | 5,726 (6.54) | 348,613 (8.59) | |||||
October | 49 (3.86) | 23,615 (5.75) | 4,492 (5.13) | 238,337 (5.87) | |||||
November | 109 (8.58) | 51,872 (12.62) | 9,349 (10.68) | 480,294 (11.83) | |||||
December |
139 (10.94) |
54,316 (13.22) |
12,149 (13.88) |
516,249 (12.72) |
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Season | |||||||||
Spring | 232 (18.25) | 79,529 (19.36) | <0.001 | 16,517 (18.88) | <0.001 | 691,009 (17.02) | <0.001 | ||
Summer | 541 (42.56) | 108,384 (26.38) | 24,606 (28.12) | 1,055,275 (25.99) | |||||
Fall | 240 (18.88) | 105,311 (25.63) | 19,567 (22.36) | 1,067,244 (26.29) | |||||
Winter | 258 (20.30) | 117,666 (28.64) | 26,813 (30.64) | 1,246,003 (30.69) |
*A total of 440,044 healthcare workers were reported to have COVID-19, including 1,469 in the HCW deaths group and 438,575 in HCW nondeaths group. HCW, healthcare worker. †Comparison of HCW deaths vs. HCW nondeaths (control 1). ‡Comparison of HCW deaths vs. non-HCW deaths (control 2). §Comparison of HCW deaths vs. non-HCW nondeaths (control 3).
1This author was the principal investigator and first author.
2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.
3These authors contributed equally to this article.