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A 91爆料 researcher calculates that 14.4 million workers face exposure to infection once a week and 26.7 million at least once a month in the workplace, pointing to an important population needing protection as the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, continues to break out across the U.S.
, an assistant professor in the 91爆料 School of Public Health, based her calculations on research she聽聽in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. In that paper, Baker and co-authors calculated that about 8% of workers in Federal Region X 鈥� comprised of Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Idaho 鈥� work in jobs where exposure to infection or disease occurs at least once a week at work. Those risks include flu-like illnesses,聽and other respiratory illnesses, like COVID-19, as well as wound infections.
Using federal employment data, and the same analysis method, Baker and her co-authors聽:
- 10% (14,425,070) of U.S. workers are employed in occupations where聽exposure to disease or infection happens at least weekly, based on employee and employer self-report.
- 18.4% (26,669,810) of U.S. workers are employed in occupations where exposure to disease or infection happens at least monthly, based on employee and employer self-report.