The recent suicide of a New York City emergency room doctor who recovered from COVID-19 has highlighted the risks health care workers face to their emotional and psychological health, too
Health care workers have faced risks to their physical health since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Many have contracted and even died from COVID-19.
For instance, Reisinger said he has heard from health care workers who say that Covid-19 has kept them from being able to fully care for their patients' needs. "I think she felt an overwhelming sense of wanting to help her colleagues and her friends who were still fighting the good fight, and so she strapped on her harness and took the bit in her mouth and she went back," he said.
In the wake of Breen's death, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and first lady Chirlane McCray announced a collaboration between the US Department of Defense, NYC Health + Hospitals, and Greater New York Hospital Association to provide mental health programs for frontline health care workers and first responders.
In addition, a CDC analysis, based on data from 17 states that participated in the 2012 and 2015 National Violent Death Reporting System, looked at US suicides by occupational group. The analysis found that, among all occupations, health care practitioners and technical occupations had the sixth-highest suicide rate among women and the eighth-highest rate among men in 2015.
Last month, at Elmhurst Hospital in New York, health care workers were living in a"constant state of paranoia," one person who identified as a nurse there but did not want to be named told CNN at the time.
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