Coronavirus: Care-worker death rate twice that of health workers
People working in social care in England and Wales have been twice as likely to die with coronavirus as the general working-age population, Office for National Statistics figures show.Nearly two-thirds of the 2,494 20- to 64-year-olds whose deaths were linked to Covid-19 were men.
And 63 were male security guards, making them almost twice as likely to die as even men working in social care., up to 20 April, factored in age but did not take account of people's ethnicity, location, wealth or underlying health conditions.Being male, from an ethnic minority and having other health problems increase the risk of dying with Covid-19.But because many more social care workers are female, this equates to a death rate of 23.4 per 100,000 for men and 9.6 per 100,000 for women.
However, despite their close proximity to patients, healthcare workers, including doctors and nurses, had much lower death rates.The overall death rate for men aged 20-64 in England and Wales linked to Covid-19 was 9.9 deaths per 100,000, compared with 5.2 for women.
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