Employers’ Long Game for Long Covid, 2025, Conard et al

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Employers’ Long Game for Long Covid

Scott Conard, Mark Cunningham-Hill, Mohannad Kusti, , Suresh Mukherji, Wayne Rawlins, Stan Schwartz, and Co-authored by members of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions’ Medical Director Advisory Council
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In-Brief
The COVID-19 pandemic has left an enduring impact on global health, with a sizable portion of individuals experiencing prolonged symptoms long after infection. This condition, known as Long COVID, presents unique challenges for both affected individuals and their employers.

Employers can play a role in retaining employees with Long COVID and supporting their health and well-being by acknowledging what they are going through, offering accommodations and flexibilities, and choosing health plans that meet the needs of people with Long COVID. Employers can also help to prevent new cases of COVID-19 and Long COVID.

The support strategies outlined in this paper not only promote health and well-being for people with Long COVID, but for many other employees with chronic health conditions or disabilities.

Link | PDF (American Journal of Health Promotion) [Open Access]
 
Some examples of policies that support prevention might include holding annual flu and COVID vaccination clinics on-site, providing incentives for employees who get vaccinated, having N95 masks available in the workplace, hosting large events outside and/or making them hybrid, improving ventilation in the office, creating a culture that discourages people from coming into work when they are sick, and providing adequate sick leave.
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Given the emergence of a greater understanding and the implications of this condition, employers can decrease confusion, stigma of reporting, and possibly reduce costs by educating their workforce about Long COVID. Messages on symptoms and potential impacts, raising awareness about the condition’s legitimacy and variability, encouraging affected employees to seek treatment, and sharing supporting policies and resources are important. Concurrently, it will be important to educate leaders to understand and respond appropriately to Long COVID-related questions and issues.
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The first paragraph is probably more realistic than the second. The second should have focused on chronic illness in general, in my opinion.
 
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