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#NewOnKHN: More than 1,000 front-line health care workers reportedly have died of COVID-19, according to an ongoing investigation by KHN/@GuardianUS. #LostOnTheFrontline
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Earlier this month, we published a major interactive database. It is the most comprehensive accounting of U.S. health care workers’ deaths in the country. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…
We need your help! If you know of a health care worker who died of COVID-19, please share their story with us. KHN/@GuardianUS #LostOnTheFrontline theguardian.com/us-news/2020/a…
#NewOnKHN: More than 900 front-line health care workers have died of COVID-19, according to an interactive database unveiled Wednesday by The @GuardianUS and KHN. #LostOnTheFrontline
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The tally includes doctors, nurses and paramedics, as well as crucial support staff such as hospital custodians, administrators and nursing home workers, who put their own lives at risk during the pandemic to care for others. #LostOnTheFrontline
The early data indicates that dozens have died who were unable to access adequate #PPE and at least 35 succumbed after federal work-safety officials received safety complaints about their workplaces. #LostOnTheFrontline
#NewOnKHN: Time and again over the past two decades, peace officers have targeted civilian demonstrators with munitions designed to stun and stop, rather than kill. KHN/@USATODAY
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While locations and demonstration types vary, a pattern has emerged: Shooting victims file lawsuits, cities pay out millions of dollars, police departments try to adopt reforms. And, a few years later, it happens again.
Among the shooting victims was Victoria Snelgrove. Snelgrove was leaning against a railing of a parking garage at Fenway Park, when the Boston police fired the projectile that tore through her eye and into her brain.
#NewOnKHN: After Izzy had surgery to repair a torn meniscus in her knee, her father, Steve, noticed that a surgical assistant had billed their insurance plan for $1,167.
📝: @MarkianHawryluk, KHN/@NPR #BilloftheMonth khn.org/news/ever-hear…
📝: @MarkianHawryluk, KHN/@NPR #BilloftheMonth khn.org/news/ever-hear…
Even before any other medical bills showed up, Izzy received a notice: “I’m writing this letter as a courtesy to remind you of my presence during your surgery,” the letter read.
Steve Benasso says he was perplexed after receiving a letter from the surgical assistant who was in the operating room during daughter Izzy Benasso’s knee surgery. "We had never read or heard of anything like that before,” Steve says.
đź“·: Rachel Woolf
đź“·: Rachel Woolf
