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  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Occupational Health

Background:

  • Essential workers are often aggregated in COVID-19 models, obscuring industry-specific risks.
  • Understanding differential occupational exposure is key for targeted public health interventions.
  • Non-healthcare essential workers require specific risk assessments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop novel essential worker categories beyond broad aggregations.
  • To evaluate the association between these categories and COVID-19 cases and deaths.
  • To inform targeted interventions for essential worker populations.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized census tract-level American Community Survey data to categorize essential workers in Massachusetts.
  • Analyzed COVID-19 case and death data from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
  • Employed adjusted mixed-effects negative binomial regression to assess associations over two pandemic phases (March 2020 - February 2021).

Main Results:

  • Elevated COVID-19 case incidence observed in tracts with high concentrations of construction/transportation/buildings maintenance, production, and public-facing sales/services workers.
  • Reduced case incidence linked to a higher percentage of essential workers able to work remotely.
  • Similar, though attenuated, trends were found for COVID-19 deaths.

Conclusions:

  • Industry-specific risk estimation for essential workers is vital for effective COVID-19 intervention strategies.
  • The developed essential worker categories offer a reproducible method for risk assessment.
  • This approach can support targeted public health efforts for various diseases.