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Measuring long Covid's impact on the labor market (with Katie Bach)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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Long COVID - What's the Cost of Lost Wages?

Long COVID is estimated to have cost the U.S. economy $170 billion a year in lost wages. That's about 1.8% of the entire civilian labor force, which would be 2.4 million full-time equivalent workers. President Obama says we need better data collection and mitigation measures are needed.

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