Tara Bannow / Modern Healthcare
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The health care sector’s single worst month before this year: losing 37,000 jobs in August 1984, per @Altarum_SHSS.
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) May 8, 2020
The health sector lost 1.4 million jobs last month, per new BLS estimates.
Judging by health care jobs, it is striking how the clamor for bailouts has almost entirely ignored the hardest hit providers.
— Dan O'Neill (@dp_oneill) May 8, 2020
While hospital employment is down less than 1% from a year ago, *half* of all staff in dentists' offices were laid off.
~5x as many workers affected. pic.twitter.com/8NycjMt3xN