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handmade34

(22,755 posts)
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 07:20 AM Apr 2020

"Women Fill Most Of The Frontline Jobs"


while this is a Vermont piece, I suspect that this is a Nationwide scenario...


https://www.caledonianrecord.com/opinion/columns/jack-hoffman-women-fill-most-of-the-frontline-jobs/article_408c2a60-15e8-597c-a2e9-dec3019c1e87.html#utm_source=caledonianrecord.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Fheadlines%2F%3F-dc%3D1586865604&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline


More than 72,000 Vermonters worked in jobs that are now on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis, providing goods and services that many of the rest of us need as we shelter in place.

Two out of three of these workers were women. Nearly one in three (30 percent) had a child living at home.

Nearly half of Vermont workers are female (49.2 percent). But in the frontline jobs, 66 percent were women. Three out of four jobs in health care were held by women.
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"Women Fill Most Of The Frontline Jobs" (Original Post) handmade34 Apr 2020 OP
I read somewhere that 2 out of 3 victims of CV-9 were men, is thst right? secondwind Apr 2020 #1
This is true everywhere janterry Apr 2020 #2

secondwind

(16,903 posts)
1. I read somewhere that 2 out of 3 victims of CV-9 were men, is thst right?
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 07:35 AM
Apr 2020

That men are dying at a faster rate .... please correct me if I’m wrong.
 

janterry

(4,429 posts)
2. This is true everywhere
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 07:44 AM
Apr 2020

China, Italy, USA.

Very interesting.

There are several reasons this might be true - including the fact that sex based hormones appear to have an enhanced immune reactivity.

But (from my perspective) all of this data will be better to understand retrospectively (data is too noisy in the middle of a pandemic). (Also, significantly easier when we discover the pathogenesis of covid)

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