Long COVID Takes Toll on Already Stretched Healthcare Workforce
While the shortage of clinical workers continues, support workers are also in short supply, with no end in sight.
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While the shortage of clinical workers continues, support workers are also in short supply, with no end in sight.
The dollar figures are just part of an emerging picture of how the illness is impacting not just patients, but their employers and the wider labor market.
For the past two years, California workplace regulators have tried to slow the spread of the coronavirus by requiring infected workers to stay home while also guaranteeing them they would still be paid.
An Air Canada flight attendant who says she contracted COVID-19 on the job has won a battle with the airline for workers' compensation. The decision highlights the struggles that employees in different fields have had in trying to get compensation for workplace exposure to the coronavirus.