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Is there a reason to expect union membership would change the decisions of patients? Data can be wrong always, but I don't understand the confounding effect yo
by newacct583 6y ago
Is there a reason to expect union membership would change the decisions of patients? Data can be wrong always, but I don't understand the confounding effect you're imagining. Generally chasing correlations like that leads to more noise, not less.
- caseysoftware 6y agoNot imaging, asking: - Were unionized nursing homes covered by the same orders? - Did they have separate/additional staff/patient safeguards that allowed for testing and/or redirecting patients elsewhere? - Did staff have quarantine/isolation policies as part of their contracts? - Did they send patients out to hospitals at the same rate? Did they accept them back at the same rate? If the mere existence of a union contract was key, that's beyond odd. I'd love to understand: WHAT about being unionized helped them?
- ceejayoz 6y agoThe study states: > Although labor unions may influence COVID-19 mortality rates in numerous ways, we hypothesized that two important mechanisms were successful demands for PPE and reduced COVID-19 infection rates. By increasing access to PPE, labor unions may reduce the spread of COVID-19 between health care workers and nursing home residents, thus reducing COVID-19 mortality rates for residents. and: > Specifically, unions were associated with a 13.8% relative increase in access to N95 masks and a 7.3% relative increase in access to eye shields.
- skybrian 6y agoCorrelations can happen by chance or via a common cause. If it's not a randomized controlled trial then you need to be wary of any correlations that might distort the data.