{"id":2549,"date":"2020-04-16T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2020-04-16T16:59:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T16:59:10","slug":"the-other-hospital-workers-on-the-front-lines-of-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2549","title":{"rendered":"The other hospital workers on the front lines of the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;Protecting these workers is also a larger safety issue. In previous epidemics, unprotected support staff have emerged as hidden \u201csuper-spreaders\u201d as they traverse hospital floors serving lunch, cleaning linens, or taking X-rays. During the West African Ebola epidemic of 2014-\u201915, for example, support staff were up to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/csr\/resources\/publications\/ebola\/health-worker-infections\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">32 times more likely<\/a>\u00a0to become infected than the general population, according to the World Health Organization \u2014 and 48 percent more likely to become infected than doctors. And without these workers, the hospital\u2019s delicate ecosystem would collapse.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/identities\/2020\/4\/14\/21218956\/hospital-workers-emt-masks-coronavirus-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/identities\/2020\/4\/14\/21218956\/hospital-workers-emt-masks-coronavirus-covid-19<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Protecting these workers is also a larger safety issue. In previous epidemics, unprotected support staff have emerged as hidden \u201csuper-spreaders\u201d as they traverse hospital floors serving lunch, cleaning linens, or taking X-rays. During the West African Ebola epidemic of 2014-\u201915, for example, support staff were up to 32 times more likely to become infected than the general population, according to the World Health Organization \u2014 and 48 percent more likely to become infected than doctors. And without these workers, the hospital\u2019s delicate ecosystem would collapse.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}