Calls mount for Biden to track US healthcare worker deaths

As the Guardian and KHN end Lost on the Frontline, a year-long project to count healthcare worker deaths in the pandemic, the White House is under pressure to take up the task

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

Calls are mounting for the Biden administration to set up a national tracking system of Covid-19 deaths among frontline healthcare workers to honor the thousands of nurses, doctors and support staff who have died and ensure that future generations are not forced to make the same ultimate - and in many cases needless - sacrifice.