Thread by @EdDeVere

"Exodus from the British workforce since the pandemic"

"More than 1.6 million adults aged 50 and over are unable to work because of long-term sickness. [...] The number has increased 20%, or 270,000 in three years."
theguardian.com/business/2023/…

"A rise in long-term ill health has significantly reduced the size of the UK’s potential workforce across all ages since the pandemic."

https://twitter.com/EdDeVere/status/1587062537262186496

USA: "It’s likely that long Covid is keeping somewhere around 500,000 to a million full-time-equivalent workers out of work"
"Between death and disability, the workforce has been reduced by as much as 2.6% during the pandemic, with 1bn days of work lost"
theguardian.com/world/2023/jan…

"Nearly one in five Americans developed long Covid after their initial infection, with some 7.5% of all American adults currently experiencing long Covid, according to the CDC."

"If long Covid 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."

UK: "Thousands of NHS staff across the UK are facing pay cuts because of a change in Covid sickness policy."
"Analysis by BBC Panorama suggests that between 5,000 and 10,000 NHS workers could be off sick with long Covid."
bbc.com/news/health-64…

#Schweden
Anstieg der #Langzeitkrankenstände seit Beginn der Pandemie:
▪️ 180-364 Tage um 47 %
▪️ 365-730 Tage um 34 %

https://twitter.com/bjornpiltz/status/1620820418256056320

"Berufskrankheiten und Arbeitsunfälle im Zusammenhang mit COVID-19":

550.000 Anträge/Meldungen bis bis Ende 2022 bei Unfallversicherung (DGUV) in #Deutschland.

PDF: dguv.de/medien/inhalt/… [via @ThWittlinger]