A day after Boris Johnson fumbled his way through an announcement that he wants to get people back to work, The Office of National Statistics has released some intriguing figures about which professions are most at risk, and surprisingly it is not the Health Sector.
We already know that men are more at risk than women, for males of working age the rate is 9.9 deaths per 100,000 with 5.2 deaths per 100,000 females, and that compared to white people, the black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) communities are disproportionately affected with black African descent 3·5 times higher of catching the disease, black Caribbean 1.7 higher and Pakistani descent 2.7 times.
Security guards, chefs and taxi drivers are among those most likely to die from COVID-19 according to the new figures and then plant processing workers, construction workers, prison officers, opticians and bus and coach drivers are also among those with the highest Coronavirus death rates but surprisingly healthcare workers like doctors and nurses are not in the most dangerous professions although all Healthcare roles including dental nurses, paramedics, nurses and doctors dominate the list of occupations most exposed to the virus.
The ONS said its analysis: 'does not prove conclusively that the observed rates of death involving COVID-19 are necessarily caused by differences in occupational exposure' but it does confirm that some jobs have higher death rates from COVID-19 than others.
It should, but won't, cause pause for thought for employers, especially as many of the occupations most at risk at at the lower end of the pay-scale and dismissed by the Home Secretary recently, as low skilled with regards to her post-Brexit immigration policy.
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