Sibling anesthesiologists ask whether significantly low COVID-19 proportionate mortality ratios in 2020 among anesthetists in the United States could be extrapolated to India

For the year 2020, the pre-vaccination COVID-19 pandemic era, public use data of decedents as delineated and stratified by their occupations among the residents in India may not be available. Contrastingly, public use data of decedents as delineated and stratified by their occupations among the residents in the United States (U.S.) is available for the year 2020. It was found that all-age (18–90-year-old) and older (65+ year-old) nurse anesthetists in the U.S. as well as the youngest (18–54-year-old) physicians and surgeons including U.S. anesthesiologists had significantly lower proportions of COVID-19 deaths as compared to COVID-19 deaths among all correspondingly age-grouped U.S. workers during the pre-vaccination COVID-19 pandemic era in the year 2020. The question remains whether inverse association between COVID-19 and deaths specifically amongst nurse anesthetists in the U.S. may be a proxy indicator of a potentially inverse association between COVID-19 and deaths amongst anesthesiologists across the world wherever anesthesiologists personally deliver anesthesia to their patients and stay with their patients during the entirety of peri-anesthesia period while following the peri-anesthesia standards of personal protective equipment use as analogous to their use standards followed by nurse anesthetists in the U.S.