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Home health care workers care for community-dwelling adults and play an important role in supporting patients with confirmed and suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who remain at home. These workers are mostly middle-aged women and racial/ethnic minorities who typically earn low wages. Despite being integral to patient care, these workers are often neglected by the medical community and society at large; thus, developing a health care system capable of addressing the COVID-19 crisis and future pandemics requires a better understanding of the experiences of home health care workers.

To understand the experiences of home health care workers caring for patients in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From March to April 2020, a qualitative study with 1-to-1 semistructured interviews of 33 home health care workers in New York …