This is one of the most dangerous jobs to have during the coronavirus pandemic – and now there’s proof

[Chris Smith]

• Researchers from Harvard found that a considerable number of asymptomatic grocery store workers tested positive for coronavirus at a time when face mask mandates were not enforced in a state.
• The scientists found that employees with direct customer contact were five times more likely to test positive.
• Grocery store staff are essential workers who are routinely exposed to COVID-19 transmission risks, especially in regions like the US that are dealing with significant outbreaks.

Personal protective equipment isn’t enough to prevent healthcare workers from getting infected with the novel coronavirus. Doctors, nurses, other hospital staff, and frontline workers have been exposed to the virus for months at work, and that’s on top of regular community transmission risks that everyone else faces. CDC tallies said back in August that more than 600 health care workers had already died of COVID-19 complications, although others have counted hundreds more. But medical personnel aren’t the only type of essential workers who are more likely to be infected with the novel coronavirus.

A brand new study identified an “alarming rate” of COVID-19 infection among the kind of workers you’re most likely to interact with on a regular basis. That’s grocery store workers, who are themselves constantly exposed to the risk of community COVID-19 transmission because of the nature of their jobs.

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