Posted on 06/05/2022 5:34:00 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Most working-age Americans who died of COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic were so-called essential workers in labor, service and retail jobs that required on-site attendance and prolonged contact with others, according to a recently published study led by a University of South Florida epidemiologist.
he study looks back on COVID-19 deaths in 2020 and affirms what many had already known or suspected — that Americans who could not work from home and who labored in low-paying jobs with few or no benefits, such as paid sick leave and health insurance coverage, bore the brunt of deaths during the pandemic’s first year, said Jason Salemi, an associate professor in USF’s College of Public Health and co-author of the study.
Salemi said the finding, while perhaps expected, left him with two takeaways: That essential workers need more protections during an infectious disease pandemic, and that society’s desire to “return to normal” will mean different things for different people — with inequitable consequences.
“If I say I want things to return to normal, I’m in a position of advantage,” Salemi said. “I can work from home most days. I have access to a primary care physician, and paid sick leave. There are people in this study for whom that may not be the case.”
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Since the Virus was “made to order” by Quackony Fauxi and his WHO-WUHAN Gleepers, I say bring charges and get rid of the cancer that this little, evil twerp and his fat friend Bill Bluescreenofdeath have wrought..
They all took Remdesivir.
Everyone who died was too stupid, too lazy, too inept... to research the easily found information on HCQ+Zn, IVM, Vitamins....
Early treatment and prevention work very well.
Enjoy your spike protein!
Regards, Pure Blood (which you can no longer be, LOL)
You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties you want to wear a mask, you need to wear a mask. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use them as the backbone of a life trying to defend something. You use them as a lie. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very masks Dr Fauci provides and then questions the manner in which Dr Fauci provides it. You should just wear your mask, say "Thank you" and be on your way.
I’m 55 and in said category.
Why am I not dead? My wife? All my coworkers?
EVERYBODY who was under the company umbrella as customers?
NOT ONE person in my sphere can cite a single death either directly or indirectly from the virus, let alone a declaration as being a ‘covid death’.
Statistically, labeling what I describe as ‘outliers’ is as improbable as the conclusions of the cited study, and I’m only scratching the surface (the improbability of discrepancy in deaths between lockdown and non-lockdown states, for example).
Horse hockey.
This is complete manure. Whomever funds a “study” gets the results they want. The types of workers they describe were not in the age group that t were most at risk.
Nonsense study.I worked in a Covid ICU. No staff got sick. Our patients were all obese. And when we checked Vitamin D levels, they were always low.
What a vocal minority here had said from the beginning. Even without MDs or advanced degrees of any kind. Locking down the healthy and keeping them from productive work was both ruinous and contrary to proven measures.
Well, several points.
Having real workers suffer just signals to the elites like the HagHillary that only peasants get sick.
And, this is worthless on two counts: how many had co-morbids, and how many died WITH the WuhanFlu rather that Of it?
These stories are more often than not politically slanted to triggers emotional reaction based on politics. The story backs the conclusion for one side, while making sound like they are obvious flaws to the other side. When that happens it will take a while to look up the study on your own, since the study's title and journal it is published will not be given.
Here is the full text of the study, "Joint Effects of Socioeconomic Position, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender on COVID-19 Mortality among Working-Age Adults in the United States" NCBI/Pubmed, Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 May; 19(9): 5479. Looking up Dr. Salemi, he has a impressive curriculum vitae.
I think I am going to read this on my own and make up my own mind, instead of letting the news tell me what to think about it.
My wife and I are both 68. I only wear masks a total of perhaps 90 minutes during this entire pandemic. And that includes the time I was on a flight to Denver from seattle. Meanwhile, we’ve driven all over the country, visiting friends and relatives, stopping off at loves and pilot gas stations, visiting resorts in Texas and seattle, and we’ve never had so much as a sniffle from this thing.
Of course, we also don’t eat fast food, we take supplements, enjoy zinc, sunshine, vitamin d3, and, most importantly, prayer. For us it’s like this pandemic never existed.
The better off people hid from covid in their closets, while the less fortunate kept working. Many of those same people will be the ones losing their jobs when the economy crashes because of inflation.
Methodology left out essential workers who didn’t die, left out those over 64, and left a lot of room for speculation—from further down in the article:
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To conduct the study, Salemi and his colleagues analyzed nearly 70,000 death certificates for people ages 25 to 64 years old and who had died of COVID-19 in 2020, nearly all of which occurred before the first vaccine was authorized in December of that year.
But death certificates do not always include a decedent’s occupation, Salemi said. Instead, researchers used education attainment level, which is listed on all death certificates, as a proxy for an individual’s socioeconomic position. No education beyond high school was “low” while some college education was “intermediate” and anyone with at least a bachelor’s degree was “high.”
Researchers then used U.S. Census data on occupations held by adults in 2020 to calculate the possibility of remote work for the different groups, which were further divided by race, ethnicity, gender and age.
USF? How is that rebuilding of the student overpass going? You know, the one that was designed and built primarily by inexperienced female engineers? Or was it a different Luniversity.
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