Lost on the frontline, and lost in the data: COVID-19 deaths among Filipinx healthcare workers in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Filipinx Americans working in healthcare are at risk for COVID-19 death but lack consistent mortality data on healthcare worker deaths. The lack of disaggregated data for Asian subgroups proliferates anti-Asian structural racism as the needs of high-risk groups are systematically undetected to merit a proper public health response. We work around this aggregated data problem by examining how the overrepresentation of Filipinxs in healthcare contributes to COVID-19 mortality among Asian American populations.

Methods

To overcome the lack of COVID-19 mortality data among Filipinx American healthcare workers, we merged data from several sources: Kanlungan website (the only known public-facing source of systematically reported mortality data on Filipinx healthcare work

SUBMITTER: Escobedo LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9452815 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature