The test they administered came back positive.Įrin Doss, administrator of Queen Anne, where Clea began working soon after emigrating from the Philippines in 1994, said they don’t know whether she was exposed there. Thirty-six hours later, Dave summoned paramedics. Nursing a cough, Clea was tested for COVID-19 that Monday. Over Memorial Day, Clea and Dave started to build a shed as a prelude to her own flower garden. She did so, he said, to spare her daughter, Minerva, from working while in college. Husband Dave often left bouquets at two health care facilities where she worked a combined 72 hours weekly. She helped her mother, Felicidad, 82, tend them. Working Two Jobs, She Was Still the ‘Best Listener Ever’įlowers of all kinds - particularly purple ones - were Clea Alverio-Hume’s passion. Elizabeth Lawrence, Kaiser Health News | Published July 29, 2020 Naorin said her mother did not have adequate PPE but, despite the risks, insisted on caring for her patient.

Representatives from CarePro confirmed that Rashida worked in an area with many COVID-19 patients and said that all aides are provided the necessary personal protective equipment. She developed debilitating fatigue and fever, checking into a hospital on March 31. It’s unclear whether Rashida became infected from her patient or during her train commute. Rashida cared for an older woman on Long Island who died on March 30 of COVID-19 complications. Community activist Fakrul Islam Delwar called Rashida a “very helping, kind-hearted person” who brought food to her neighbors in Jackson Heights.

Rashida loved to sing and cook - Naorin especially relished her biryani. “If you met her, you would remember her.” “She was a very people’s person,” Naorin said. In Queens, she became active in the local Bengali community, joining a local rights group that advocates for South Asian and Indo-Caribbean workers. for an arranged marriage a few years earlier. Rashida emigrated from her native Bangladesh in 2015 to be closer to her daughter, who had moved to the U.S. There’s not a single photo of Rashida Ahmed where she doesn’t have “a very, very big smile,” said Naorin Ahmed, her daughter. Health Care Workers of Color Nearly Twice as Likely as Whites to Get COVID-19 Nurses and Doctors Sick With COVID Feel Pressured to Get Back to Work

And the Toll Is Rising.ĭying Young: The Health Care Workers in Their 20s Killed by COVID-19 health workers who die of COVID-19, and to understand why so many are falling victim to the pandemic.Įxclusive: Over 900 Health Workers Have Died of COVID-19. This project aims to document the lives of U.S. In the chaos, COVID casualties might otherwise get overlooked. Many hospitals have been overwhelmed and workers sometimes have lacked protective equipment or suffer from underlying health conditions that make them vulnerable to the highly infectious virus. Our team contacts family members, employers and medical examiners to independently confirm each death. We have published profiles for 164 workers whose deaths have been confirmed by our reporters. “Lost on the Frontline,” a collaboration between KHN and The Guardian, has identified 922 such workers who likely died of COVID-19 after helping patients during the pandemic. Others at risk work in nursing homes or are employed as home health aides. They tend to patients in hospitals, treating them, serving them food and cleaning their rooms. In some states, medical personnel account for as many as 20% of known coronavirus cases. 10, 2020, all updates to Lost on the Frontline are available at khn.org/lost-on-the-frontline.Īmerica’s health care workers are dying.

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