The attack in Nigeria early last month was just one of many on health workers globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the United States, for example, researchers counted about a dozen threats to health care workers last year. “I think in the U.S. the culture has been more of trusting health workers,” Haar, the emergency physician, said. “There hasn’t been a longstanding conflict where there’s been a dissonance between health workers and the community.”Yet health workers in the U.S. are still subject to great risk. With or without a pandemic, the most dangerous places for health workers are often areas of conflict and political upheaval.

Source: Egypt Independent March 02, 2021 05:26 UTC