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Workers are out sick in record numbers, exacerbating labor shortage woes

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Workers are out sick in record numbers, exacerbating labor shortage woes
Eli Rosenberg - 5h ago

The latest surge of coronavirus cases powered by the omicron variant has caused extremely high numbers of employees to miss work because of illness, exacerbating the country’s persistent labor shortages and threatening to complicate the labor market’s push toward pre-pandemic employment levels.

Between Dec. 29 and Jan. 10, approximately 8.8 million workers reported not working because they were sick with the coronavirus or caring for someone who was, according to data from the Census Bureau.

Those numbers are nearly triple the levels from the first two weeks of December, before cases had started to peak around the country. They were also the highest numbers since the agency started taking the survey in April 2020 — well over last January’s peak of 6.6 million workers out...
 
A record 9 million Americans are out sick as COVID rates surge

JANUARY 20, 2022 / 11:59 AM
BY AIMEE PICCHI

As the Omicron variant rips across the U.S., in early January almost 9 million Americans said they were not working because they had COVID-19 or were caring for someone with the virus — triple the number from a month ago. The surge in sick workers is impacting industries ranging from hospitals to airlines, adding to the nation's labor crunch.

... The data on the number of sidelined Americans, collected by the Census Bureau, provides the first real-time look at how the spike in COVID cases is affecting the nation's workforce.

... The most recent Census analysis reflects the highest number of people who have called in sick due to COVID since the survey began. To put that in perspective, 9 million people represents about 6% of the U.S. workforce.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-omicron-variant-out-sick-9-million-january-2022/
 
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