🔸️Decreasing labor productivity, e.g. substantial extra educational disturbances
🔸️Persistent labor shortages and chronic long COVID, due to failing “let it rip” policies, require significant interventions.
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➡️Elevated health-related work absences persist, and is associated with circulating COVID, including...
➡️...subsequent decreases in labor by absence-affected workers.
➡️These absenses are comparable to peak-influenza seasons, like Dec 2019/Feb 2020.
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➡️During 2020-24 work absenses persist, although at attenuated levels..,
➡️...however NOT for workers in occupations at greater risk of exposure.
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➡️Absences are higher in:
- high physical-proximity occupations (13%)
- low work-from-home occupations (8%).
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➡️Particular workers experienced disproportionately large increases in health-related absences:
- the younger
- American Indian
- Hispanic
- non-Hispanic Black
- less educated than a bachelor’s degree.
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➡️Labor exits after a health-related absence also continued to be elevated (13%) in 2023-24, magnifying their economic costs.
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➡️These outcomes suggest that 19% of the labor force in Dec 2024 has been lost for COVID-19 illnesses.
It is 41% of the estimated labor-force burden of diabetes.
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Conclusions:
🔸️Policymakers/politicians have failed to prevent and mitigate current pandemic labor market consequences.
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🔸️Sound public-health thinking and acting based on the good pandemic practices could have made a huge difference in excess deaths, health, and socio-economic/wellbeing costs.
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A. Shouldn't we know who financed it, are accountable; Fauci?
B. What leaked, e.g. bat LAV/virus/bioweapon? Who provided synthesizing/dangerous transmission model, e.g. Baric, Munster/NIAID, horseshoe-bats experiments (EH/Daszak), or was it China PLA?
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🚨 USA Disabilty Population (16+) Growing Fast !
#LongCOVID
Reform public health NOW; transparency, truth, and trust;
🔸️clean air
🔸️prevention
🔸️containment
🔸️tracking, tracing, quarantining (TTIQ)
🔸️safe and sterilising/effective vaxx.
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Huge Impact of New Primate Study: Long COVID Is More Prevalent Than Previously Thought: 60-90% Prevalence...
While overt symptoms appeared relatively mild, exposure to COVID may lead to chronic health impacts that, in some cases, may become apparent only years later.
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In humams: ">>30% of individuals who contract COVID-19 will go on to develop a long COVID-19 condition and experience long-lasting symptoms, persistent cognitive complaints."
Based on self-reporting, we anticipate an (large) underestimation.