Report shows pace has slowed, however, with 70 law enforcement deaths recorded in the line of duty
The actual mortality rate from Covid among law enforcement is assuredly higher, due to undercounting when tests were scarce and because reports like these only include line-of-duty deaths.
As emergency measures enacted during the pandemic end, a key way of counting line-of-duty deaths from Covid will soon disappear, making it harder to discern the virus’s toll. It will also signal the loss of benefits for families of officers who die because they contract Covid in the course of their duties.
For officers, “you still have to be out there on the streets, interacting directly with people – often with people who don’t have a lot of regard for your health,” said David Dowdy, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.The highest number of reported line-of-duty Covid deaths by far has been 223 deaths in Texas, or more than one-fifth of all US police deaths, according to aas of September 2022 by the Fraternal Order of Police.
In North Carolina, Michael Godwin, 41, caught Covid while working as a detective and died soon after. He never met the child he and his wife were expecting.
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