A study by the Catalan Institute of Health carried out via sick leave has made it possible to identify a trend regarding the professions most affected by the cases of Covid-19.
A total of 153 different professions, bringing together more than two million people aged 16 to 65, all for a year and a half (from March 2020 to September 2021), were analyzed. The aim was, by noting the number of sick leaves linked to Covid-19, to report which were the most affected by Covid-19.
The results, published on May 4 in the Spanish Journal of Public Health of the Ministry of Health, first showed that the average incidence rate over the period is 14.1%. It is specified that the health sector has been excluded for this average, so as not to distort the statistics.
Health professionals, out of category
Indeed, health professions are logically the most represented among patients. And widely. The overall incidence rate is 27.7%. In detail, caregivers are those with the highest incidence rate (29.4%), ahead of doctors (27.3%) and nurses (26.3%).
Excluding health professionals, slaughterhouse employees and agricultural workers were the most affected (incidence rate of 23%). Next come home caregivers (22%), domestic workers (20.5%), those working in cleaning (17.5%), hairdressers and beauticians (17.2%), street vendors ( 16.8%), judges and lawyers (16.3%) and teachers (16.1%). Jobs where it has not been possible to integrate telework and where contact with others is necessary.
Plumbers and engineers did well
Regarding the trades least affected, plumbers come first (9.1%), ahead of computer programmers or analysts, chemists and mathematicians (9.7%), librarians, engineers (9.8%) and, more curiously, firefighters (10.2%).
Note that one result was submitted for comment, that of taxis. While the incidence rate of Covid-19 contamination among this profession was only 13.4% during the period, in Catalonia it was however the group of workers most at risk in countries such as Sweden. , England or Wales. Bus and tram drivers too. This difference in results could be explained by the restrictions put in place in Catalonia and the drop in tourism during the period.