"There's a lot we need to do to understand what it takes to enable disabled people to participate more in the economy," says Katie Bach, a senior fellow with Brookings Institution and the author of a study looking into long COVID's impact on the labor market. Data from June 2022 from the CDC shows that of the 40% of American adults who contracted COVID-19, nearly 1 in 5 still have long COVID symptoms. That works out to 1 in 13, or 7.5%, of the overall U.S. adult population. [ed note: What is our role to prepare this population to contribute while accommodating their lingering conditions?]
