According to an article on NPR News, many millions of Americans have long Covid and thus many of them have stop working.

Quoting from a new survey results from the the Brookings Institution, drew on survey data from the Census Bureau, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the Lancet, the news organization writes “millions of people may be sidelined from their jobs due to long COVID”.

Katie Bach, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution, told NPR News “That is just a shocking number. That’s 2.4% of the U.S. working population.”

According to the NPR News the long Covid can be disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and employers “must offer accommodations to workers with disabilities unless doing so presents an undue burden”.

Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, professor of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, reportedly told “If someone has to go back 100% when they start feeling a little bit better, they are going to crash and burn fast.”

• Millions of Americans have long COVID. Many of them are no longer working
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In an opinion piece on The Guardian, Greg Frey writes that long Covid may lead to a shorter work-week as well. “A shorter work-week would reduce carbon emissions, make life easier for parents and people with illnesses or disabilities, and generally make people happier”.

Frey, a long-Covid patients himself since the beginning of the year, writes “The illness demands rest. Not just a day or two in bed, but months and months of rest. Overexertion can leave you too exhausted to the most basic things; no television, no leaving the house, no conversations longer than 10 minutes. Even though I know the illness well by now, I still often fail to rest enough. This is partly a normal restlessness, but it is also the baked-in ideal of hard graft as the only real source of success, value and purpose.”