Re:Suicide rates are rising among U.S. nurses
by bitexploder on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:46PM
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The risk of catching a deadly infectious disease is the burden... masks mitigate the risk. Is it comfortable no? It’s a constant reminder of your workplace hazards. What are you even trying to argue?
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Re:Suicide rates are rising among U.S. nurses
by ArkanExplorer on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:12PM
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The average age of a nurse (in the UK) is about 45.
Taking the average weight and height of an average woman (in the UK), and assuming the person is otherwise healthy, the risk of COVID hospitalization is 1 in 3000, and risk of death 1 in 66,000
This is from the UK's own data: https://www.qcovid.org/Calculation
There are 670,000 nurses in the UK, so if all of them got COVID, 223 of them would need hospitalisation, and 10 would die.
Admittedly this is a simple extrapolation and doesn't account for the risk to older nurses.
By contrast with a general population of 670,000 women in their 40-50s, about 1600 will die each year from any cause: http://www.bandolier.org.uk/booth/Risk/dyingage.html