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Long-Haul COVID Can Be Covered under ADA

InterWest Insurance Services

The guidance states that someone suffering from impairments resulting from long-haul COVID-19 symptoms can be considered “disabled” under the Americans with Disabilities Act and entitled to the same treatment as other disabled workers. But not in every case. What to do.

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National Online Dialog on Long COVID’s Workplace Challenges

Workers' Compensation

Surgeon General are inviting the public to join a national online dialogue beginning today to gather ideas to better support workers coping with symptoms, their co-workers and their employers. Specifically, the department is seeking public input on long COVID in the following areas: * Challenges workers face as they cope with symptoms.

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Innovation is Necessary to Meet the Challenge of COVID in 2022

Workers' Compensation

PASC has been attributed to acute inflammations of the blood vessels or brain, which causes a loss of sense of smell and other symptomatology such as a fast heart rate, severe fatigue, breathing problems, and countless other issues. Another biological cause of PASC has been attributed to the residuals of the viral symptoms.

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Long COVID Continues as a Workplace Crisis

Workers' Compensation

Millions of Americans live with long COVID and its many symptoms. Long Covid is a multisystem disorder that affects nearly every organ system, including the heart, the brain , the endocrine system, the immune system 9, and the gastrointestinal system. Long COVID continues to impact the lives of US workers. ECONOMIC COST $3.7