The COVID-19 pandemic has led to higher infection and death rates for health care workers compared to the general population. Sadly, this is not a new phenomenon. Health care worker infections threaten our ability to respond to disease outbreaks, and make all of us less safe.
The new report ‘Protecting our Front Line: How to Keep Health Care Workers Safe’ by Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies lays out recommendations for governments, health systems, and funders to address this problem. 
https://preventepidemics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/RTSL_Protecting-Health-Care-Workers.pdf