Ensuring the Safety of Health Care Workers

This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:

THE QUICK FACTS

• As the U.S. becomes the most highly coronavirus-infected country in the world, health care workers are on the front lines. Experts say that health care workers who contract the virus get sicker than others of the same age.
• 18% of diagnosed coronavirus cases in Ohio and 20% of cases in Minnesota were health care workers (Source: NBC News).
• Actions taken by hospitals and state governments have increased the number of health care workers dramatically--in New York alone, over 82,000 people signed up for the state's volunteer reserve force of medical workers.
• As of Wednesday, there have been 216,515 confirmed cases and 5,119 deaths in the U.S. (Source: Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center).

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