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Protecting yourself from COVID-19 these days is hard. And it comes at a cost.

by Samantha Fields
Mar 20, 2024
Governments and businesses need to invest in ways to prevent transmission, experts say, instead of leaving people on their own.
"We cannot rely on masking forever. We cannot ask people, even immunocompromised people, to mask for the next 100 years," says Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, a clinical epidemiologist. Above, people with long COVID symptoms sit in on a Senate hearing about the condition.
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How "long COVID" is impacting the labor force

by Matt Levin
Sep 13, 2022
A new Stanford study found that long-haul COVID and other COVID-related health issues have led at least half a million workers to leave the job market.
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How much of our labor force has been lost to COVID-19?

by Kristin Schwab
Jan 24, 2022
According to one expert, COVID deaths and workers left on the sidelines from long COVID account for 18% of unfilled jobs.
New data show that hourly wages are up by 5.6 percent on average as of March, but employees are demanding more from employers in a strong labor market.
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Is the American disability system prepared for long COVID-19?

by Jasmine Garsd
Apr 22, 2021
A growing number of patients continue to have symptoms months after the onset of COVID-19, even after tests no longer detect it.
COVID-19 long-haulers experience symptoms from fatigue to heart problems after the virus is no longer detected in their bodies.
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