HEALTHCARE WORKERS, WE ARE HERE FOR YOU TOO.

Before the pandemic, I’ve always been interested in the causes of diseases and how it spreads throughout regions of the world. Data is a way for me to explore the regions that are more susceptible to the spread of diseases and which populations are most vulnerable to the disease. Since COVID, the Ebola virus has been forgotten and less spoken about. However, Ebola still exists in many parts of Africa, and has recently appeared in the news due to the increase of cases in West Africa. The problem is, we tend to forget about the healthcare workers that get infected by the virus from being in contact with patients. This dataset retrieved from data.world (source: World Health Organization), sheds light on the number of healthcare workers who were infected and died from Ebola in 2014–2015. From outside research, the years of 2014–2015 were the years that Ebola cases has reached its peak and has spread all throughout the world. Healthcare workers, who treated the patients with Ebola, received the disease and many died from it. Though there were thousands of records from the WHO, I used the Pivot Table function to “slice and dice” the dataset to make it easier for me to understand. I found that the healthcare workers from Sierra Leone had the highest number of people infected with Ebola. In relation to the number of Healthcare worker deaths, Sierra Leone also had the highest death rate from Ebola. Though the two graphs are similar in a way, I was interested in knowing the reason for why USA, Spain, and the United Kingdom were not on the Healthcare Worker Deaths graph. Was there no record for the healthcare workers who died from Ebola in the USA, Spain, and the United Kingdom? Or were there no cases of deaths? I am interested in uncovering that question for my next steps.

One Dataset, Visualized 13 Ways