Twelve months of trauma: more than 3,600 US health workers died in Covid’s first year

Lost on the Frontline, a year-long investigation by the Guardian and KHN to count healthcare worker deaths, ends today. This is what we learned in a year of tracing the lives of those who made the ultimate sacrifice

• 3,607 healthcare workers have died in the first year of the pandemic. Explore our interactive database

More than 3,600 US healthcare workers perished in the first year of the pandemic according to Lost on the Frontline, a 12-month investigation by the Guardian and Kaiser Health News (KHN) to track such deaths.