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Joe Cool

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Tue Jan 31, 2023, 09:47 AM Jan 2023

Long Covid has an 'underappreciated' role in labor shortage, study finds [View all]

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/30/long-covid-has-underappreciated-role-in-labor-gap-study.html

Long Covid — also known as long-haul Covid, post-Covid or post-acute Covid syndrome — is a chronic illness with potentially debilitating symptoms.
About 18% of people with long Covid hadn’t returned to work for more than a year, according to a report by the New York State Insurance Fund, state’s largest workers’ compensation insurer.
The finding adds to other research suggesting long Covid is contributing to a labor shortage and hurting the U.S. economy.
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