Occupations more at risk from coronavirus

[bear66]

Being a security guard is particularly hazardous. From ONS statistics:

Some of the lowest paid workers have the highest Covid-19 death rate according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics.

Security guards, care workers, taxi drivers, bus drivers, chefs and retail workers are all at a greater risk of dying from Covid-19, according to new analysis.

Among people of working age men are at a greater risk of dying from the virus than women, with 9.9 deaths compared to 4.2 fatalities per 100,000 people. However the figures show men working in the lowest skilled jobs face the greatest risk of dying from the virus.

Men working as security guards had one of the highest rates, with 45.7 deaths per 100,000, followed by taxi drivers and chauffeurs (36.4), bus and coach drivers (26.4), chefs (35.9), and sales and retail assistants (19.8).

Care workers and home carers had higher death rates, with 23.4 deaths per 100,000 men and 9.6 deaths per 100,000 women. However healthcare workers, including doctors and nurses, were not found to have a higher death rate when compared to the general population.

 

[borolad259]

Perhaps the security guards are working mainly at night ... or many of them. Shift work plays havoc with immune health ... as well as probable low Vit D (which you know all about).

 

[Randy]

Perhaps the security guards are working mainly at night ... or many of them. Shift work plays havoc with immune health ... as well as probable low Vit D (which you know all about).

Would explain the chef statistic aswell, but they must have been from the start of the pandemic as 90% of us are on furlough.

 

[bear66]

Perhaps the security guards are working mainly at night ... or many of them. Shift work plays havoc with immune health ... as well as probable low Vit D (which you know all about).

All the other occupations I can understand. But that is a strange one. You'd expect NHS staff to be shift working as well though.

 

[borolad259]

All the other occupations I can understand. But that is a strange one. You'd expect NHS staff to be shift working as well though.

I guess so. And to be exposed to high viral load. With care workers in old people's homes I'd expect to see high risk ... especially as the workers, in my experience, tend to be on very low pay, many are from BAME backgrounds and I see a lot of smoking too.

 

[bear66]

Chefs seem very high as well. They can't be coming into contact with a lot of the general public either.

 

[borolad259]

High incidence of type 2 diabetes perhaps ... also, they spend all their time indoors. The ones I know do. I thought video editors would be high risk. They never see daylight.

 

[Randy]

Chefs seem very high as well. They can't be coming into contact with a lot of the general public either.

Over the winter, if I didn't smoke, I could go to work in the dark and come home from work in the dark and only see daylight either through the frosted glass window in our kitchen or for 30 seconds at a time taking rubbish to the bins.

 

[A]

Over the winter, if I didn't smoke, I could go to work in the dark and come home from work in the dark and only see daylight either through the frosted glass window in our kitchen or for 30 seconds at a time taking rubbish to the bins.

I used to work in a place where my office was a small internal room with no windows, so quite often I would go a whole day, or a few in a row, during winter without seeing daylight

 

[Evil]

73% of ICU patients obese - is this true?

The lifestyles of taxi drivers and security guards are sedentary.