1/ This is a great piece on how Covid-19 is causing unprecedented levels of sickness absence from work in the US. The key thing to remember is that this phenomena - in the absence of any meaningful attempt to slow transmission - is going to trend...
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2/... dynamically upwards. The more people who get infected / re-infected with Covid-19, the higher the percentage of people who will become so disabled they will be unable to work. Of course, many with LC will eventually recover...
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3/... but this recovery will be overall negated by many of these recovered individuals getting infected again and relapsing. As such, with uncontrolled transmission now basically policy, disability rates will inevitably continue to rise.
This is unsustainable economically /end.
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Only going to get worse. Add in the long-term healthcare costs too
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Didn’t they already ask LC-Disabled to return to work because otherwise the economy would tank? 🤯
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We have had maybe one or two weeks when we haven’t had staff out at my school. My intervention specialist colleague and I are about the only two still wearing masks at school. When someone comes back after being out, they wear a mask for a week, then stop again.
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1. the current incidence of Long COVID amongst US adults is 5.9% (7.5% is the June 2022 figure)
2. the proportion of US adults who've ever had COVID reporting ever having Long COVID is now 28.3% (down from 35.1% in June '22)
as per cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/p
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Add the fact that many workers in the us are simply fired if they are out for COVID for more than a day or two, and have minimal to no health care access especially once fired, and you exacerbate the problem even more.
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People around here seem to have withdrawn from public engagement. Social crosscurrents, from politics to disease and aggression, has alarmed many of them.
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"Last year, the trend accelerated rather than returning to normal. In 2022, workers had the most sickness-related absences of the pandemic, and the highest number since record-keeping began in 1976."
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