Risk Awareness
A new study from the University of California, San Francisco suggests that line cooks have the highest risk of mortality during the Covid pandemic — even more than healthcare workers.
For the study, which hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet, researchers analyzed California death certificates for working-age people 18 to 65, during the first seven months of the pandemic. Then they looked at how the number of deaths increased in that time frame compared to pre-pandemic times.
Overall, the researchers found a 22% increase in mortality during the pandemic.
But “what we’re so surprised to see is just how much that risk varied across sectors and even across specific jobs,” Riley tells CNBC Make It
Line cooks had a 60% increase in mortality associated with the pandemic.
The top five occupations that had higher than a 50% mortality rate increase during the pandemic include:
For the study, which hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet, researchers analyzed California death certificates for working-age people 18 to 65, during the first seven months of the pandemic. Then they looked at how the number of deaths increased in that time frame compared to pre-pandemic times.
Overall, the researchers found a 22% increase in mortality during the pandemic.
But “what we’re so surprised to see is just how much that risk varied across sectors and even across specific jobs,” Riley tells CNBC Make It
Line cooks had a 60% increase in mortality associated with the pandemic.
The top five occupations that had higher than a 50% mortality rate increase during the pandemic include:
- cooks,
- line workers in warehouses,
- agricultural workers,
- bakers and
- construction labourers
