Covid caused huge shortages in US labor market--studies

Covid caused huge shortages in US labor market, study shows At least 500,000 people have permanently disappeared from the workforce, analysis says the Guardian

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On top of the quarter-million people of working age who have died from coronavirus, at least twice that number across all ages have permanently disappeared from the workforce, the analysis by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows.

Other studies have shown the impact on the workforce of long Covid, where symptoms remain months or years after the initial infection has passed. A Brookings Institution study estimated last month that as many as 2.4 million have missed work, are temporarily absent or are working reduced hours because of the lingering effects of the virus.

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