A new CDC report published Friday found protection service workers such as police and firefighters had the job with highest COVID-19 death rates in 2020.
, published Friday by the National Center for Health Statistics -- a branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, looked at COVID mortality during the first year of the pandemic across 46 states and New York City by profession.
According to federal data, this is twice as high as the overall workers' COVID-19 death rate in 2020, which sits at 28.6 per 100,000. Health care support workers -- who help doctors and nurses care for patients, perform tests or manage equipment, among other tasks -- had a rate of 31.2 per 100,000.The study did not examine why some professions were more at risk of dying than others.
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