Retired, fired, or killed by covid. Covid killed a huge number of US workers, and for some strange reason that nobody can figure out, all the workplaces who ref

Retired, fired, or killed by covid. Covid killed a huge number of US workers, and for some strange reason that nobody can figure out, all the workplaces who refused to help protect their workers are either completely silent about their complicity in their deaths or saying ridiculous things like "nobody wants to work anymore". > Covid caused huge shortages in US labor market, study shows > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/13/us-labor-shortage-long-covid https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/13/us-labor-sho... > “Our estimates suggest Covid-19 illnesses have reduced the US labor force by approximately 500,000 people,” say the study’s authors, Gopi Shah Goda of Stanford University and Evan Soltas of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s economics department. > “Covid-19 illnesses persistently reduce labor supply. We estimate that workers with week-long work absences are 7% less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise-similar workers who do not miss a week of work for health reasons.” > The study adds: “Many who fall ill but survive Covid-19 suffer from enduring health problems … approximately 500,000 adults are neither working nor actively looking for work due to the persistent effects of Covid-19 illnesses.” > How much of our labor force has been lost to COVID-19? > https://www.marketplace.org/2022/01/24/how-much-labor-force-has-been-lost-covid-19/amp/ https://www.marketplace.org/2022/01/24/how-much-labor-force-... > Richard Johnson, who researches the economics of aging as a senior fellow at the Urban Institute…took excess deaths and COVID deaths by age and applied labor force participation rates by age. And he got 300,000 workers who died as a result of COVID. Add that to the long-haul workers, and we’ve lost 1.9 million workers — or 18% of currently unfilled jobs.