Line Cooks Have the Highest Risk of Dying During Pandemic, Plus Other Riskiest Jobs: Study

[Wicked Blue]

NBCWashington
By Cory Stieg, CNBC • Published February 3, 2021

A new study from the University of California, San Francisco suggests that line cooks have the highest risk of mortality during the Covid pandemic — even more than healthcare workers.

For the study, which hasn't been peer-reviewed yet, researchers analyzed California death certificates for working-age people 18 to 65, during the first seven months of the pandemic. Then they looked at how the number of deaths increased in that time frame compared to pre-pandemic times.

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Line cooks had a 60% increase in mortality associated with the pandemic.

The top five occupations that had higher than a 50% mortality rate increase during the pandemic include cooks, line workers in warehouses, agricultural workers, bakers and construction laborers.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/business/money-report/line-cooks-have-the-highest-risk-of-dying-during-pandemic-plus-other-riskiest-jobs-study/2559660/

[Johnny2X2X]

1. $15 an hour

People don't remember, but there was a time when line cooks in America made decent livings. You could work the grill at your local Diner and have enough pay to rent a small apartment and drive a decent vehicle. Biden and the Dems are trying to bring it back.

[Anza404]

2. I am a line cook and this does not surprise me

I had to email my regional manager and get OSHA into my restaurant before the managers would enforce the covid policy. Does not even pay the bills i make over $15 an hour. Labor these days gets eaten by the front of the house so no hours for cooks they run as little as possible and when you protect yourself like i did they put you on the shit list and cut your hours does not matter if you make $20 an hour when you are not given any.

All we get is more work, more suffering, more death for less and less.