Long COVID - The Economic Cost

There's been some other estimates that show a much higher cost in terms of treating the medical costs. So I am trying to stay in what is like mostly my lane, which is just talking about the wage numbers. There is a really well known and well respected health economist at Harvard who recently put out a more comprehensive estimate. And he finds his has the reduced earnings, which is my lost wages over five years, he finds is about a trillion dollars. In other words, 200 billion a year. It's not a cash cost for the US economy, but it is something that health economists do tend to consider.