Swathes of young people are still off work with self-reported long Covid and it is wreaking havoc on employers, an analysis suggests.
The study, published by New York’s largest workers’ compensation insurer, found 71 percent of people the fund classified as experiencing long Covid were unable to work for six months or more.
Almost a fifth (18 percent) still were not back at work a full year later, according to the data that covers the first two years of the pandemic. The analysis showed that the vast majority of these employees were under 60.