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Kathleen Steele Gaivin

Laws and regulations failed to protect US frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research published Monday in the British Medical Journal. Federal standards and employer preparedness plans should be strengthened to protect long-term care and healthcare workers in the future, the authors said.

COVID-19 disproportionately affected essential, frontline workers whose services were necessary, that is, those who had to show up to work outside of their homes, such as long-term care and healthcare workers, according to the analysis.

A reason for the failure, the authors said, was gaps in laws and regulations that didn’t consider the rapid spread of disease in workplaces and didn’t see frontline workers as needing special attention or protections.

“The consequences of these failures...

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