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Immigrants account for 18.2% of healthcare workers and 23.5% of formal and nonformal long-term care sector workers.
27.5% of direct care workers and 30.3% of nursing home housekeeping and maintenance workers are immigrants healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.13…
29,000 of these health workers are DACA recipients, like the emergency physician profiled in this piece. Trump has already tried to stop her, and other Dreamers, from working. They're awaiting a SCOTUS decision about whether he ended DACA lawfully
washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-d…
Additionally, another estimated 11,600 healthcare workers today are TPS holders. Long before the tweet above, Trump began working to end their status as well, which would prevent these immigrant health professionals from legally working too. americanprogress.org/issues/immigra…
Immigrants make up large shares of essential workers in other industries critical to the pandemic response, such as those in the food supply chain. They too are taking on great personal risk so that Americans can stay home, safe, and well-fed migrationpolicy.org/content/essent…
Share of foreign-born workers in other industries critical to the coronavirus response migrationpolicy.org/research/immig…
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If you listen to Trump, Kudlow or other WH aides, you might think we have to choose between what's optimal for public health and what's optimal for the economy. Save lives, or maximize GDP. But if you listen to actual economists, you'll learn this is a false choice. /1
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I've heard from ~15 physicians in past day that hospitals are reprimanding them for wearing masks, or refusing to make small operational changes such as doing frequent staff temperature checks, put away communal coffee pot, cancel routine visits b/c might "alarm" patients /1
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