Covid General Articles, Discussions, Videos

Covid General Articles, Discussions, Videos

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If you think the pandemic's over, you're badly wrong.
If you think the pandemic's over, you're badly wrong.

If you think the pandemic's over, you're badly wrong.

This is the staff absence rate for the seventh largest employer in the world.

See the consistency of the absence rate leading up to the pandemic...

Look at how it changed in 2020.

And see where it's going now…

…And these graphs don't include the staff who left employment because they were disabled by Covid.” Thread:

#Covid effect on workforce#Covid Statistics#NHS#health care workers#Arbitrary Denial of the Obvious#consequences#work
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If you think the pandemic's over, you're badly wrong.
As data piles up that harms the workforce (esp in healthcare, education too), WHERE ARE THE UNIONS?
As data piles up that harms the workforce (esp in healthcare, education too), WHERE ARE THE UNIONS?

“data piles up that #LongCovid harms the workforce (esp in healthcare, education too), WHERE ARE THE UNIONS?

Dire shortages are worsened by govt’s refusal to provide clean air to ASHRAE 241 standards & laissez-faire approach to infections.

Unions need to GET LOUD, pronto. 🧵:

#Covid effect on workforce#labor#work#unions#compilations#Discussion#analysis
·x.com·
As data piles up that harms the workforce (esp in healthcare, education too), WHERE ARE THE UNIONS?
Simple measures lessen hospital-acquired COVID-19 infections
Simple measures lessen hospital-acquired COVID-19 infections
“People shouldn’t die or have medical complications from a COVID-19 infection they caught in hospital, and hospital workers shouldn’t have to take sick leave due to a COVID-19 infection they caught at work.”
In a new study published in the Journal of Hospital Infections, Burnet researchers found simple infection control measures could save lives and reduce costs for hospitals.  These measures include testing patients for COVID-19 on admission, requiring staff to wear N95 masks in clinical areas and using Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) or Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests to prevent transmissions.
#hospital acquired infection#work#Covid effect on workforce#nurses#Post-Acute Conditions#Arbitrary Denial of the Obvious#CDC failure#Duh
·burnet.edu.au·
Simple measures lessen hospital-acquired COVID-19 infections
Some back-of-the-envelope math to think about what the next few years will look like.
Some back-of-the-envelope math to think about what the next few years will look like.

“Some back-of-the-envelope math to think about what the next few years will look like.

Assumptions: *average of 1 infection/person/yr *half of infections are asymptomatic *super-optimistic: symptomatic cases recover fully in one week (no long COVID etc.)

What happens? 1/4”

Great thread:

#work#Covid effect on workforce#Covid Statistics#Discussion
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Some back-of-the-envelope math to think about what the next few years will look like.
New data shows long Covid is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work
New data shows long Covid is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work

Approximately 16 million working-age Americans (aged 18 to 65) have long Covid today.

Of those, 2 to 4 million are out of work due to long Covid.

The annual cost of those lost wages alone is around $170 billion a year (potentially as high as $230 billion).

Not. The. Flu. Not. Mild. NOT. OVER.

Actually, Democrats, Covid DOES continue to rule our lives.

#long covid#Covid Statistics#work#Covid effect on workforce
·brookings.edu·
New data shows long Covid is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work