Lessons from COVID-19 for protecting workers in the next pandemic
Michaels, David ; Wagner, Gregory R. ; Ryan, Lillian
2023
Early View
1-2
epidemic disease ; occupational disease ; mortality ; management failure
Occupational diseases
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2023.8229
English
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"COVID-19 is an occupational disease that sickened and killed countless workers in health care and long-term care, and in meat processing, agriculture, warehousing, transportation, corrections, and other “essential” industries. Nonetheless, COVID-19 has rarely been treated or tracked as an occupational disease by public health agencies, particularly in non–health care workplaces. The lessons from the failure to protect workers during the COVID-19 pandemic can be helpful as the nation anticipates and prepares for the next public health emergency."
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