From the report: > Today there are nearly 800,000 or 40% more people of working-age who are economically inactive for health reasons than there were in 2019.

From the report: > Today there are nearly 800,000 or 40% more people of working-age who are economically inactive for health reasons than there were in 2019. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keep-britain-working-review-discovery/keep-britain-working-review-discovery https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/keep-britain-work... I would like to see what they have to say about the population health impact of COVID and the aftermath of COVID infection. If the data shows that the population gets sicker at the same time as a once-a-century level pandemic arrives, then this is obvious and suggestive. Correlation is not causation, but if it's not the cause then that should be conclusion reached only after investigating and ruling out the glaringly obvious.