REPORT: Long COVID Keeps Many From Full Time Work

The Washington Post reports:

Across America, many of the nearly 50 million people infected with the coronavirus continue to suffer from some persistent symptoms, with a smaller subset experiencing such unbearable fatigue and other maladies that they can’t work, forcing them to drop out of the workforce, abandon careers and rack up huge debts.

Hard data is not available and estimates vary widely, but based on published studies and their own experience treating patients, several medical specialists said 750,000 to 1.3 million patients likely remain so sick for extended periods that they can’t return to the workforce full time.

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For patients with long covid, long-term fatigue, pain, and other debilitating symptoms are keeping them out of work, creating financial stress and despair https://t.co/hJgRDP5zXL

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 9, 2021