US physician COVID deaths hit international grads harder, data showInternational medical graduate physicians, or IMG physicians, make up about 25% of the practicing physicians in the United States, but they have made up 45% of COVID-related physician deaths, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter late last week, but the association held for only New York state.The researchers used investigations conducted by MedPage Today, MedScape, and a collaboration between The Guardian and Kaiser Health News to identify COVID-related physician deaths through Nov 23, 2020.
Data showed 132 deaths in 28 states. IMG physicians made up 59 of these deaths (44.7%), 1.80 times higher than the national average (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.51 to