{"id":8082,"date":"2020-07-09T09:07:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8082"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:07:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:07:49","slug":"increases-in-health-related-workplace-absenteeism-among-workers-in-essential-critical-infrastructure-occupations-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-march-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/09\/increases-in-health-related-workplace-absenteeism-among-workers-in-essential-critical-infrastructure-occupations-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-march-april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Increases in Health-Related Workplace Absenteeism Among Workers in Essential Critical Infrastructure Occupations During the COVID-19 Pandemic \u2014 United States, March\u2013April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">W<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hile<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0effect of COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">on\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">overall workplace absenteeism in March and April was minor<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">absenteeism was significantly higher than expected<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(based on the previous 5-years)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">among workers in job categories that contain a large proportion of workers who are part of the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">essential critical infrastructure workforce.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0These include the areas of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">personal care and service, healthcare support, and production occupations<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Many essential critical infrastructure jobs inherently involve prolonged close contact with patients, the general public, or coworkers<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">require individuals to be<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0physically present in their workplaces<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">W<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">orkers in these essential critical infrastructure occupations are likely to be at increased risk for occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Groenewold et al. (July 10, 2020). Increases in Health-Related Workplace Absenteeism Among Workers in Essential Critical Infrastructure Occupation<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">s During the COVID-19 Pandemic \u2014 United States, March\u2013April 2020. MMWR.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6927a1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6927a1<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While\u00a0the\u00a0effect of COVID-19\u00a0on\u00a0overall workplace absenteeism in March and April was minor,\u00a0absenteeism was significantly higher than expected\u00a0(based on the previous 5-years)\u00a0among workers in job categories that contain a large proportion of workers who are part of the\u00a0essential critical infrastructure workforce.\u00a0These include the areas of\u00a0personal care and service, healthcare support, and production occupations.\u00a0Many essential critical infrastructure jobs&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/09\/increases-in-health-related-workplace-absenteeism-among-workers-in-essential-critical-infrastructure-occupations-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-united-states-march-april-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[18],"class_list":["post-8082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-mental-health-and-personal-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8083,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8082\/revisions\/8083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8082"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}