Table 1.
Occupation and demographic characteristics of all workers at long-term care (LTC) facilities and workers grouped by risk of severe COVID-19 Illness.
| All LTC workers n = 552 Weighted % | Risk of severe COVID-19 illness |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Increased risk n = 298 (50.0%) Weighted % | Potentially increased risk n = 118 (19.6%) Weighted % | Not at increased risk n = 136 (30.4%) Weighted % | p-value | ||
| Type of worker | 0.08 | ||||
| Managers and operations staff | 8.7 | 5.2 | 14.0 | 11.1 | |
| Health care providers and technicians | 25.3 | 22.1 | 35.4 | 24.0 | |
| Health aides and other health support | 32.3 | 35.8 | 28.4 | 29.2 | |
| Personal support | 14.7 | 14.8 | 10.6 | 17.0 | |
| Other workers | 19.0 | 22.1 | 11.6 | 18.7 | |
| Female | 83.3 | 86.9 | 78.1 | 80.8 | 0.24 |
| Education | <0.00 | ||||
| Less than high school | 9.8 | 11.4 | 13.4 | 5.0 | |
| High school degree | 23.8 | 27.6 | 22.3 | 18.5 | |
| Some college | 43.4 | 46.3 | 37.2 | 42.6 | |
| College degree or more | 23.0 | 14.7 | 27.2 | 33.9 | |
| Race/ethnicity | 0.80 | ||||
| White (non-Latino) | 60.1 | 58.0 | 67.4 | 58.7 | |
| Black (non-Latino) | 23.7 | 26.3 | 16.2 | 24.3 | |
| Latino | 11.8 | 11.4 | 11.2 | 13.0 | |
| Other | 4.4 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 4.0 | |
| Has health Insurance |
87.6 | 87.3 | 84.6 | 90.0 | 0.57 |
| Family financial resources | |||||
| Income <200% of federal Poverty level |
30.8 | 34.9 | 27.6 | 26.3 | 0.24 |
| Could not afford prescriptions in past 12 months | 10.3 | 15.0 | 9.7 | 2.8 | <0.00 |
| Worried food would run Out, past 30 days |
17.2 | 19.9 | 17.6 | 12.7 | 0.32 |
| Has paid sick leave | 66.6 | 69.0 | 66.9 | 62.4 | 0.53 |
Note: Differences in percentages across levels of risk were tested using the F statistic from the Rao-Scott corrected Pearson chi-square test. Estimates were all weighted, and took into account the complex NHIS design.