I was Obama’s Ebola tsar. US healthcare workers are dying at a shameful rate | Ronald A Klain

More than 900 healthcare workers have died in this pandemic. Many of those deaths could have been prevented

Healthcare workers usually bear the brunt of an epidemic. Doctors, nurses and other medical personnel are in constant contact with people who may be infected. The cruel math of such potential exposures, multiplied over and over, inevitably takes a toll.

Covid-19 is no exception. Lost on the Frontline, a new database from the Guardian and Kaiser Health News, shows that more than 900 American healthcare workers have already paid the ultimate price in the battle against coronavirus.