There Were Over 600 Excess Deaths in Doctors During 1st Years of COVID-19 Pandemic

ABC News ^ | February 8, 2023 | Youri Benadjaoud

[nickcarraway]

Physicians had much lower excess mortality than the general population.

In the early months of 2020, doctors were left responsible to treat a little-known virus that prompted the worst pandemic the world had seen in a century – risking their lives in the process. During the study timeframe, from March 2020 to December 2021, 622 more physicians died than expected, according to a recently released study.

Physicians had much lower excess mortality than the general population, perhaps indicative that protective equipment and workplace measures were effective, the researchers wrote.

Despite a potentially higher risk of being exposed to COVID-19, active physicians had a lower risk of being infected than non-active physicians.

MORE: Women in health care suffer burnout disproportionately to men "Non-active physicians are those that are retired, semi-retired, or just not actively practicing medicine. Further research is necessary, but that active physicians had lower excess deaths suggests workplace interventions could have protected them," Mathew Kiang, ScD, assistant professor of epidemiology and population health at Stanford University and author of the study, told ABC News.

Yet, health care workers were left with limited protective equipment in the very early days of the pandemic.

"We felt powerless because there were a lot of unknowns … that powerlessness was felt in the fact that we couldn't adequately protect ourselves," Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, told ABC News. He then recounted discussions on disinfecting previously used masks with UV light and how mask drives were organized to obtain more supplies.

At the time, the hospital environment was filled with uncertainty and fear.

"In the beginning, as I like to say, we all opened up our textbooks to COVID and we only had blank pages, because there had not been any experience with COVID," Dr. William

[Brellium]

we got it earlier.

Yeah, sorry, December the 11th for EUA, anything earlier was phase 3 trial

Since Dec. 11, 2020, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine has been available under EUA in individuals 16 years of age and older, and the authorization was expanded to include those 12 through 15 years of age on May 10, 2021.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine#:~:text=Since%20Dec.,age%20on%20May%2010%2C%202021.

[dadfly]

believe what you want. don’t know why we got it early. just know we got it.

[Pollard]

“years” - plural - meaning more than one.

Jab came out in Nov 2020, the first year.

What’s amazing though is that they’re suddenly talking about excess deaths but a twisted way to do so. Skip right over the general population and talk about those poor doctors.