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New York City's Covid economic recovery and workers' return is drawn out

Thu, 2022-10-13 15:26 — mike kraft

In drawn-out recovery, NYC inches out from COVID's shadow NEW YORK (AP) — As kids returned to school last month, people watching New York City pull itself out of COVID-19's shadow wondered whether workers who fled Manhattan's office towers during the pandemic would finally return in a rush, too. AP NEWS

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Covid has left a third of young people feeling life is out of control – British study

Tue, 2022-10-04 14:58 — mike kraft

Covid has left a third of young people feeling life is out of control – study Researchers also found more than 60% of 16-25-year-olds are scared about their generation’s future the Guardian

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UK long-term sickness rate rises to highest since 2005

Tue, 2022-09-13 22:47 — mike kraft

UK long-term sickness rate rises to highest since 2005 The proportion of Britain's workforce too sick to work has jumped to its highest since 2005, which economists say is likely due to a mix of long COVID and greater difficulty in accessing health care since the start of the pandemic. David Milliken Reuters

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Covid caused huge shortages in US labor market--studies

Tue, 2022-09-13 17:39 — mike kraft

Covid caused huge shortages in US labor market, study shows At least 500,000 people have permanently disappeared from the workforce, analysis says the Guardian

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High pay is ending, some US traveling nurses are joining other nurses in leaving the profession altogether.

Wed, 2022-09-07 14:40 — mike kraft

The gold rush for travel nurses is over. Now what will they do? During the Covid pandemic, nurses tripled their pay by moving from job to job. But the short-lived boom was a temporary fix for a long-term decline in the nursing profession. NBC News

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COVID's high impact on children in poor countries and essential workers--two studies

Fri, 2022-09-02 14:26 — mike kraft

COVID's hidden victims: New orphans and essential workers Children were more likely to be COVID-19 orphans if they live in poor nations with high chronic disease rates. CIDRAP

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Long Covid in the U.S. is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work--

Thu, 2022-08-25 14:03 — mike kraft

New data shows long Covid is keeping as many as 4 million people out of work Since the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic through today, news about labor shortages and missing workers has dominated headlines. The question everyone still seems to be asking is: Why? In January … Carie Muscatello Brookings

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Amazon, America's 2nd largest employer, reinstates mask mandate for warehouse workers

Thu, 2021-12-23 18:13 — mike kraft

Amazon revives mask mandate for warehouse workers due to rise in Covid cases Amazon is requiring all U.S. warehouse workers to wear a mask inside operations facilities. Annie Palmer CNBC

Amazon’s U.S. warehouse employees will once again be required to wear face masks at work amid a surge in Covid-19 cases due to the highly transmissible omicron variant.

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Federal Appeals court reinstates some of Biden's health care worker mandate

Wed, 2021-12-15 19:00 — mike kraft

Appeals court reinstates some of Biden's health care worker mandate The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order Wednesday reviving in some parts of the US the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for health care workers – effectively allowing the mandate to be enforced in about half of states. By <a href="/profiles/aditi-sandal">Aditi Sangal</a>, <a href="/profiles/adrienne-vogt">Adrienne Vogt</a>, Melissa Macaya and Mike Hayes, CNN CNN

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How Philadelphia Achieved High Vaccination Rate for Health Workers

Fri, 2021-12-10 23:42 — mike kraft

While the national vaccine mandate for health care workers remains mired in the federal courts, government officials say there is ample proof that requirements work — and do not cause a mass exodus of employees that some critics had feared.

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