COVID-19 Risk by Workers' Occupation and Industry in the United States, 2020‒2021.

Adam Gaffney, David U Himmelstein, Danny McCormick, Steffie Woolhandler

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Article in American journal of public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in

11citing papers in PubMed

6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

Mortality Risks by Occupation During the Early Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City.American journal of industrial medicine · 2026
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Alcohol consumption and the risk of coronavirus disease 2019: A prospective cohort study.Medicine · 2026
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Mortality of American Indian and Alaska Native workers by occupation and industry, 2020-2022.Journal of safety research · 2025
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Incidence of severe COVID-19 among 1.2 million workers in Ontario, Canada.Occupational medicine (Oxford, England) · 2025
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Extending a COVID-19 Job Exposure Matrix: The SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 Job Exposure Matrix Module (SCoVJEM Module) for Population-Based Studies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
Article
Prevalence of COVID-19 and Long COVID by Industry and Occupation: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2022.American journal of industrial medicine · 2025
Article
Occupation and COVID-19: Lessons From the Pandemic.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2024
Article
Demographic changes in COVID-19 mortality during the pandemic: analysis of trends in disparities among workers using California's mortality surveillance system.BMC public health · 2024
Article
Occupation and SARS-CoV-2 in Europe: a review.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2024
Review
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among US blood donors by industry, May-December 2021.American journal of industrial medicine · 2024
Article
Health impact of the COVID-19 in Spanish non-healthcare workers by gender: Use of sickness absence for surveillance.PloS one · 2024
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Commented on by
The Other Side of the Balance Sheet: Work as a Fundamental Determinant of Health.2023
Commented on by
COVID-19 May Have Been Job Related for One Fourth of Diagnosed Adults.2023

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Adam GaffneyAdam Gaffney and Danny McCormick are with the Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler are with City University of New York at Hunter College, New York, NY; Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance; Harvard Medical School; and Public Citizen Health Research Group, Washington, DC.

David U HimmelsteinAdam Gaffney and Danny McCormick are with the Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler are with City University of New York at Hunter College, New York, NY; Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance; Harvard Medical School; and Public Citizen Health Research Group, Washington, DC.

Danny McCormickAdam Gaffney and Danny McCormick are with the Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler are with City University of New York at Hunter College, New York, NY; Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance; Harvard Medical School; and Public Citizen Health Research Group, Washington, DC.

Steffie WoolhandlerAdam Gaffney and Danny McCormick are with the Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler are with City University of New York at Hunter College, New York, NY; Department of Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance; Harvard Medical School; and Public Citizen Health Research Group, Washington, DC.

Cambridge Health Alliance · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19AdultEmploymentHumansIndustryOccupationsUnited StatesWorkplace

Identifiers

PMID37053525

DOI10.2105/AJPH.2023.307249

PMCPMC10186833

OpenAlexW4365457420

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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