United States treats COVID-19 pandemic as ‘over’ but the economy is still sick 28.09.2022

Deutsche Welle | Sep 28, 2022 at 2:00 AM
  • If aliens were to visit the United States and much of the world, one might not blame them for, at first glance, not knowing that a global pandemic was underway.
  • Patient advocates and public health experts claim that receding government efforts to contain the coronavirus and public claims by the president that the pandemic is “over” are at odds with the public health reality.
  • The lost wages do not include the loss of productivity of those who continue to work despite being sick, as well as the health care costs incurred by long-COVID patients and the loss of productivity of their caretakers.