Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorLos Angeles County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer revealed on Monday the toll that the coronavirus pandemic has taken on the region’s healthcare workers.While it was well documented that the virus ravaged the area’s nursing home patients in the early stages of L.A.’s battle with COVID-19, less has been said about the toll on healthcare workers themselves.A total of 11,841 healthcare workers and first responders in L.A.
County have been infected with the coronavirus, according to Ferrer. That total includes an additional 1,149 new cases just in the past week.
Sixty-five percent of those impacted were caregivers in skilled nursing facilities, “Healthcare workers continue to be the most affected” worker.
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