Emily Withnall caught her son’s COVID-19 in July 2020. For more than two years, the 40-year-old has suffered debilitating fatigue, pain in her spine and palpitations in the center. In addition to her GP, she visits a cardiologist and says her acupuncturist and assistance in craniosacral treatment relieves her pain and difficulty concentrating.
Although his condition is improving, Withnall said he has not yet returned to his pre-COVID-19 fitness and has had to ask for housing from his employer, the University of New Mexico Highlands, which includes time off to get to his doctor. quotes and the ability to paint remotely. When you travel, it takes you an hour to get to the office.
“There were some times when I had to do it and it was actually very, very difficult and physically exhausting,” he said. It doesn’t take much to cause a setback in fitness. flu again, or worse, COVID.
“I have no idea how bad it can be for me,” he said.
Prolonged COVID, which the Mayo Clinic classifies as new, recurrent or persistent symptoms, can present with fatigue, chest pain, joint pain, dizziness, headaches, digestive problems, blood clots, and mental confusion, making it difficult to concentrate.
Sixteen million other working-age people in the U. S. U. S. citizens are suffering from long-term COVID, and of those, between 2 and 4 million other people were unemployed in June and July, according to an August 2022 Brookings Institution report, which analyzes survey data from the Census Bureau. This is one of many articles, surveys, and studies attempting to assess the effect of prolonged COVID on workers, businesses, and the economy as a whole.
The unemployment of so many Americans with longtime COVID, the lack of a social safety net for many of them, and a hard labor market that is starting to turn in favor of employers may collide to create broader economic problems, according to some. economic experts.
The charge for lost wages has already been high. The Brookings Institution report puts the amount between $170 billion and $230 billion a year. And a National Bureau of Economic Research article published in September found that staff absent from COVID-19 can see their earnings drop by about $9,000 over the next 14 months.
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, senior research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said it’s unclear how the spending behavior of other people with COVID will be affected in the long run through their illness.
“Some families will definitely have to cut spending,” he said. “But some subsets of those families will also have tactics to insure themselves or be insured through those public programs . . . What would overall spending look like if we enter a recession?With a giant staffing organization with a fitness challenge, a newly acquired fitness challenge that is hard to predict?in the other direction.
Goodman-Bacon added, “The fitness of workforce issues has long been important. . . We all seek to solve the same questions of how much and right now we don’t know. “
Withnall said that at the beginning of the pandemic he was living in Missoula, Montana, and training art writing in schools. This work ended when schools closed. It is also more complicated to position one’s writing independently.
Then his landlord raised the rent.
“Property costs skyrocketed, and still do, and as a single mother with a scarce, independent source of income and very little education, Array suffered even with unemployment benefits,” she said in a telephone interview. I can’t work much because of the severity of my COVID symptoms. “
She said that for the first six weeks after testing positive for COVID, her neck and back “felt like they had turned into concrete. “At one point, walking to the bathroom can take your breath away. He ended up in the emergency room 3 times.
She still struggles financially because of health care prices despite her job as associate director of communications at the university and writing a few articles a month as an economic justice fellow for the nonprofit Community Change.
“I also don’t have savings or the ability to think about more important things like buying a home,” he said. “My oldest son just started school and I can’t help pay anything. I wish I could use the cash I pay for my son’s college medical expenses, but that’s still not imaginable. I still hope for a full recovery from a long COVID, but let’s see.
While the hotels she earned from her employer allowed Withnall to continue working, Katie Bach, a senior nonresident researcher at the Brookings Institution and author of the 2022 report, said that with a market for conversion tasks, there is question whether employers will be less likely than long-term COVID staff who want hotels at work.
“The participation of other people with disabilities in the hard work market has increased by about 2% during the pandemic,” Bach said. Greater incentive to find tactics to accommodate other people because they don’t have enough staff. If the macroeconomic situations are such that over the next year we really see a move away from this kind of tension in the labor market, employers are a little less motivated.
And there are signs that the hard work market is possibly cooling. The U. S. unemployment rate The U. S. economy was 3. 5% in September, unchanged from September 2019 before the pandemic. In the U. S. , corporations have fewer problems hiring staff, according to New York Times reports, and the rate of other people leaving their jobs fell to 4. 1% in July 2022 from 5. 9% in July 2021, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York SCE labor market survey.
If employers no longer need to stay with other people with COVID for a long time or if those employees are forced to quit for health reasons, many elements of the social safety net, including the unemployment system, are not well set up for them, according to the researchers.
Andrew Stettner, director of hard work policy and senior fellow at the Century Foundation, said there are some states with legislation that allows other people to get unemployment benefits from the state if they can’t work because of their own illness, but “it’s not the majority. “
Biden’s management has taken steps to make sure other people with long-term COVID have safeguards against discrimination, adding guidance on treating long-term COVID as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Office of Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities of the Ministry of Labour. Disabilities also has an online page that links to resources for employers about hotels for others with long-term COVID.
But Goodman-Bacon noted that as more people return to work, employers are more likely to retain only hotels they deem useful and inexpensive, such as allowing remote work, which has been shown to increase productivity.
It can also be tricky for other people to get reimbursement from workers when they contract prolonged COVID. Tom Wiese, vice president of claims at MEMIC Group, said long-term COVID-related work-related claims are difficult to investigate.
“While medical causation and/or the origin of disease symptoms/diagnoses would possibly be somewhat similar to COVID, there is still causality of workers’ compensation from the standpoint of legal principles. Did this causal link occur, and did it happen in the course of its use? Said.
For example, a woman who had COVID-19 lost a workers’ reimbursement case in Virginia in 2021, even though she was running in a nursing home when she became ill. His weekly trips to the grocery store hurt his demand, according to the Virginia Mercurio.
Proponents and researchers have proposed a number of policies to ensure some economic stability for others who have been suffering from COVID for a long time, a number that, according to the Brookings Report, can rise by as much as 10% annually, and result in a loss of wages of part of a trillion dollars in 10 years. if other people don’t start recovering at higher rates.
In addition to greater remedy options, the Brookings Report recommends:
Bach and Stettner say the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics want more questions about the long duration of COVID and employment in their surveys for more policy advisers.
The Patient-Led Research Collaborative, which is an organization of long-term COVID patients and researchers, says there will be a federal advisory committee on long-term COVID at HHS, that Congress will budget states to fund or open clinics that treat other people with long-term COVID, Embrace universal physical care and expand access to disability benefits. among other policies.
Lisa McCorkell, a longtime COVID patient and co-founder and researcher of the patient-led studies collaboration, said that while the Biden administration’s recommendation is helpful, there are many other people with long-term COVID who will still face discrimination at work. .
“We still see a lot of other people not getting the housing they need,” he said.
It can be tricky for some long-term COVID patients to access physical care they want to know are covered, and some employers still don’t want to offer hotels like breaks or initial jobs later in the day, McCorkell said. .
She said that while she has noticed that other people have been expelled due to a lack of housing by employers, few people have the resources to combat that dismissal, and it’s also tricky to deal with legal issues when you’re sick.
Stettner said it’s vital that employers adapt and provide housing for staff with COVID for a long time as it evolves over the long term.
“We had a giant generation of staff born in the ’40s and ’50s and those staff are reaching retirement age,” he said. “We don’t have enough staff to grow the economy and we want to be able to accommodate those who are able to paint, even if they can’t paint full-time, 12 months a year. We want to do a greater job of this. It is an economic necessity for us to do so as a society.
by Casey Quinlan, New Jersey Monitor October 22, 2022
Emily Withnall caught her son’s COVID-19 in July 2020. For more than two years, the 40-year-old has suffered debilitating fatigue, pain in her spine and palpitations in the center. In addition to her GP, she visits a cardiologist and says her acupuncturist and assistance in craniosacral treatment relieves her pain and difficulty concentrating.
Although his condition is improving, Withnall said he has not yet returned to his pre-COVID-19 fitness and has had to ask for housing from his employer, the University of New Mexico Highlands, which includes time off to get to his doctor. quotes and the ability to paint remotely. When you travel, it takes you an hour to get to the office.
“There were some times when I had to do it and it was actually very, very difficult and physically exhausting,” he said. It doesn’t take much to cause a setback in fitness. flu again, or worse, COVID.
“I have no idea how bad this can be for me,” he said.
Prolonged COVID, which the Mayo Clinic classifies as new, recurrent or persistent symptoms, can present with fatigue, chest pain, joint pain, dizziness, headaches, digestive problems, blood clots, and mental confusion, making it difficult to concentrate.
Sixteen million other working-age people in the U. S. U. S. citizens are suffering from long-term COVID, and of those, between 2 and 4 million other people were unemployed in June and July, according to an August 2022 Brookings Institution report, which analyzes survey data from the Census Bureau. This is one of many articles, surveys, and studies attempting to assess the effect of prolonged COVID on workers, businesses, and the economy as a whole.
The unemployment of so many Americans with longtime COVID, the lack of a social safety net for many of them, and a hard labor market that is starting to turn in favor of employers may collide to create broader economic problems, according to some. economic experts.
The charge for lost wages has already been high. The Brookings Institution report puts the amount between $170 billion and $230 billion a year. And a National Bureau of Economic Research article published in September found that staff absent from COVID-19 can see their earnings drop by about $9,000 over the next 14 months.
Andrew Goodman-Bacon, senior research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said it’s unclear how the spending behavior of other people with COVID will be affected in the long run through their illness.
“Some families will definitely have to cut spending,” he said. “But some subsets of those families will also have tactics to insure themselves or be insured through those public programs . . . What would overall spending look like if we enter a recession?With a giant staffing organization with a fitness challenge, a newly acquired fitness challenge that is hard to predict?in the other direction.
Goodman-Bacon added, “The fitness of workforce issues has long been important. . . We all seek to solve the same questions of how much and right now we don’t know. “
Withnall said that at the beginning of the pandemic he was living in Missoula, Montana, and training art writing in schools. This work ended when schools closed. It is also more complicated to position one’s writing independently.
Then his landlord raised the rent.
“Property costs skyrocketed, and still do, and as a single mother with a scarce, independent source of income and very little education, Array suffered even with unemployment benefits,” she said in a telephone interview. I can’t work much because of the severity of my COVID symptoms. “
She said that for the first six weeks after testing positive for COVID, her neck and back “felt like they had turned into concrete. “At one point, walking to the bathroom can take your breath away. He ended up in the emergency room 3 times.
She still struggles financially because of health care prices despite her job as associate director of communications at the university and writing a few articles a month as an economic justice fellow for the nonprofit Community Change.
“I also don’t have savings or the ability to think about more important things like buying a home,” he said. “My oldest son just started school and I can’t help pay anything. I wish I could use the cash I pay for my son’s college medical expenses, but that’s still not imaginable. I still hope for a full recovery from a long COVID, but let’s see.
While the hotels she earned from her employer allowed Withnall to continue working, Katie Bach, a senior nonresident researcher at the Brookings Institution and author of the 2022 report, said that with a market for conversion tasks, there is question whether employers will be less likely than long-term COVID staff who want hotels at work.
“The participation of other people with disabilities in the hard work market has increased by about 2% during the pandemic,” Bach said. Greater incentive to find tactics to accommodate other people because they don’t have enough staff. If the macroeconomic situations are such that over the next year we really see a move away from this kind of tension in the labor market, employers are a little less motivated.
And there are signs that the hard work market is possibly cooling. The U. S. unemployment rate The U. S. economy was 3. 5% in September, unchanged from September 2019 before the pandemic. In the U. S. , corporations have fewer problems hiring staff, according to New York Times reports, and the rate of other people leaving their jobs fell to 4. 1% in July 2022 from 5. 9% in July 2021, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York SCE labor market survey.
If employers no longer need to stay with other people with COVID for a long time or if those employees are forced to quit for health reasons, many elements of the social safety net, including the unemployment system, are not well set up for them, according to the researchers.
Andrew Stettner, director of hard work policy and senior fellow at the Century Foundation, said there are some states with legislation that allows other people to get unemployment benefits from the state if they can’t work because of their own illness, but “it’s not the majority. “
Biden’s management has taken steps to make sure other people with long-term COVID have safeguards against discrimination, adding guidance on treating long-term COVID as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Office of Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities of the Ministry of Labour. Disabilities also has an online page that links to resources for employers about hotels for others with long-term COVID.
But Goodman-Bacon noted that as more people return to work, employers are more likely to retain only hotels they deem useful and inexpensive, such as allowing remote work, which has been shown to increase productivity.
It can also be tricky for other people to get reimbursement from workers when they contract prolonged COVID. Tom Wiese, vice president of claims at MEMIC Group, said long-term COVID-related work-related claims are difficult to investigate.
“While medical causation and/or the origin of disease symptoms/diagnoses would possibly be somewhat similar to COVID, there is still causality of workers’ compensation from the standpoint of legal principles. Did this causal link occur, and did it happen in the course of its use? Said.
For example, a woman who had COVID-19 lost a workers’ reimbursement case in Virginia in 2021, even though she was running in a nursing home when she became ill. His weekly trips to the grocery store hurt his demand, according to the Virginia Mercurio.
Proponents and researchers have proposed a number of policies to ensure some economic stability for others who have been suffering from COVID for a long time, a number that, according to the Brookings Report, can rise by as much as 10% annually, and result in a loss of wages of part of a trillion dollars in 10 years. if other people don’t start recovering at higher rates.
In addition to greater remedy options, the Brookings Report recommends:
Bach and Stettner say the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics want more questions about the long duration of COVID and employment in their surveys for more policy advisers.
The Patient-Led Research Collaborative, which is an organization of long-term COVID patients and researchers, says there will be a federal advisory committee on long-term COVID at HHS, that Congress will budget states to fund or open clinics that treat other people with long-term COVID, Embrace universal physical care and expand access to disability benefits. among other policies.
Lisa McCorkell, a longtime COVID patient and co-founder and researcher of the patient-led studies collaboration, said that while the Biden administration’s recommendation is helpful, there are many other people with long-term COVID who will still face discrimination at work. .
“We still see a lot of other people not getting the housing they need,” he said.
It can be tricky for some long-term COVID patients to access physical care they want to know are covered, and some employers still don’t want to offer hotels like breaks or initial jobs later in the day, McCorkell said. .
She said that while she has noticed that other people have been expelled due to a lack of housing by employers, few people have the resources to combat that dismissal, and it’s also tricky to deal with legal issues when you’re sick.
Stettner said it’s vital for employers to adapt and provide housing for staff who have had COVID for a long time because it’s converting long-term.
“We had a giant generation of staff born in the ’40s and ’50s and those staff are reaching retirement age,” he said. “We don’t have enough staff to grow the economy and we want to be able to accommodate those who are able to paint, even if they can’t paint full-time, 12 months a year. We want to do a greater job of this. It is an economic necessity for us to do so as a society.
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Casey Quinlan is a business reporter for States Newsroom in Washington, D. C. Over the past decade, they have reported on national and state politics, LGBTQ rights, abortion access, hard work issues, education, Supreme Court news, and more for publications such as The American. Independent, ThinkProgress, New Republic, Rewire News, SCOTUSblog, In These Times, and Vox.
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