Coronavirus: Care-worker death rate twice that of health workers
But because many more social care workers are female, this equates to a death rate of 23.4 per 100,000 for men and 9.6 per 100,000 for women.
However, despite their close proximity to patients, healthcare workers, including doctors and nurses, had much lower death rates. This may be because they had better access to personal protective equipment than other workers. The overall death rate for men aged 20-64 in England and Wales linked to Covid-19 was 9.9 deaths per 100,000, compared with 5.2 for women.Among men, some specific occupations had noticeably higher death rates linked to Covid-19, including:Men working in low-skilled jobs were more likely to die with Covid-19 than other groups, including managers, skilled tradesmen and professionals.
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