“If #LongCovid continues to affect 7% of the country, that’s 23 million people at any given time who may require accommodations under laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act.”theguardian.com/world/2023/jan…
“About 1.5 million Americans missed work because of sickness in December. Each month, more than a million people have called out sick for the past three years. About 7% of Americans currently have #LongCovid, which can affect productivity and ability to work”
“The last time the absentee number dipped below a million Americans was in 2019. Last year, the trend accelerated... In 2022, workers had the most sickness-related absences of the pandemic, & highest number since record-keeping began in 1976.” #LongCovid theguardian.com/world/2023/jan…
“Patterns in absenteeism correspond with rises & falls in the spread of Covid.. One analysis in New York found 71% of #LongCovid patients who filed for worker’s compensation still had symptoms requiring medical attention or were unable to work completely for at least 6 months.”
“Two in five returned to work within two months, but still needed medical treatment. Nearly one in five (18%) of claimants with #LongCovid could not return to work for a year or longer after first getting sick. The majority were under the age of 60.”
“It’s likely that #LongCovid is keeping somewhere around 500,000 to a million full-time-equivalent workers out of work,” said @kathrynsbach, a nonresident senior fellow at the @BrookingsInst theguardian.com/world/2023/jan…
“Some affected by #LongCovid have reduced their hours, while others have left the workforce temporarily or permanently..”
..Patients who are very sick with #LongCovid often “try to work for some amount of time and then eventually they drop out”, @kathrynsbach said.
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..Patients who are very sick with #LongCovid often “try to work for some amount of time and then eventually they drop out”, @kathrynsbach said.
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“Between death and disability, the workforce has been reduced by as much as 2.6% during the pandemic, with 1 billion days of work lost, @McKinsey recently reported.”
“Much more research still needs to be done on the causes of and treatments for #LongCovid, the researchers said…
“We don’t know how long it’s taking them to recover. There’s a lot of uncertainty there,” said Alice Burns, at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
“We don’t know how long it’s taking them to recover. There’s a lot of uncertainty there,” said Alice Burns, at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
“The more immunity people have, from vaccines and recovery from prior cases, the less likely they are to get sick in the first place, which reduces the risk of developing long Covid. But it is still possible to have #LongCovid even after mild or asymptomatic infection.”
“While Covid has thrown the country into disarray in every realm, including work, it is also shining a more intense light on the ways chronic illness affects productivity & workforce participation – a change that disability & chronic illness activists say is long overdue”
“My hope is that it’s big enough that we can rethink how we research and treat these diseases, and how we approach workplace accommodation,” @kathrynsbach said. “In a world where any of your workers could suddenly become disabled, I think you have to be more flexible.” #LongCovid
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