Long Covid is affecting millions of Americans and the consequences are devastating

[boingboing]

Originally published at: Long Covid is affecting millions of Americans and the consequences are devastating | Boing Boing

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[Simon_Clift]

Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 4)

Ugh… thanks… I just dropped two family members off at the airport. (Necessary trip, unfortunately.) So (and the segue here is “why are the airports a mess?”)… check this out from the economic data site of the U.S. FED St. Louis: [image] From 2016 to 2020 the U.S. labour force grew about 1.550 million per year. In June 2022 the number is 103,000 short of the January 2020 number. That means the U.S. is missing about 3,978,000 people from its labour force, or about 2.5% or one in 40. We know…

The missing labour force figures match earlier observations on the COVID threads. Nice to see more research to actually attribute the gap to Long COVID.

[anothernewbbaccount]

Long COVID Likely Disparately Affects Women, Black and Hispanic Americans, and Those with Disabilities.

(My bold)

So long covid affects each of the above classes of persons in entirely different ways?

I suspect that word does not mean what they thought it meant.

Probably meant ‘disproportionately’

(“Education, education, education”.)

[RigelT]

Good site tracking long covid estimates.
https://pascdashboard.aapmr.org/

[tyroney]

How long before someone conservative paints long covid as an opportunity to get more people for working in service jobs? (while working to deny the same any recompense)