An Overview of Health Care Worker Reported Deaths During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Table 1.

Specialty of Physician Deaths, as of May 13, 2020

Specialty of Physician Deaths	Number	Percent
Anesthesiology	15	2.7
Cardiology	21	3.8
Dermatology	4	0.7
Emergency medicine/critical care	26	4.7
Endocrinology	2	0.4
Ear, nose, and throat	8	1.5
Gastroenterology	1	0.2
General practitioner/family medicine/primary care	148	26.9
Geriatrics	4	0.7
Hematology	4	0.7
Infectious disease	5	0.9
Internal medicine	30	5.5
Nephrology	6	1.1
Neurology	6	1.1
Neurosurgery	6	1.1
Obstetrician-gynecologist	22	4.0
Oncology	3	0.5
Ophthalmology	13	2.4
Orthopedist	15	2.7
Otolaryngology	6	1.1
Pathology/histopathology	10	1.8
Pediatrics	26	4.7
Plastic surgery	4	0.7
Psychiatry	11	2.0
Pulmonology	13	2.4
Radiology	13	2.4
Rheumatology	1	0.2
Surgery	33	6.0
Urology	8	1.5
Other	29	5.3
Total	493	89.6
Missing	57	10.4
Total	550	100.0