Measuring long Covid's impact on the labor market (with Katie Bach)
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Millions of Americans are being kept out of the workforce due to the lingering effects of Covid, resulting in billions of dollars in lost wages and productivity. How is this affecting our economy? Returning guest Katie Bach shares the findings from her new report which outlines just how severe the labor market effects of long Covid have become.
Kathryn Bach is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute and the CBO of &pizza.
Twitter: @kathrynsbach
New data shows long Covid is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-data-shows-long-covid-is-keeping-as-many-as-4-million-people-out-of-work
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Given the socio-political context, I don't think she did nearly enough to specify what long-COVID is and to provide evidence that differentiates it from generally diffuse claims of illness. Her whole analysis rests on that issue, yet she didn't establish it.
Why must she growl the last two syllables of every clause? Just speak.