🇮🇪 Ireland: COVID staff absences in two hospitals cost nearly €400,000 in just 9 months.

Absences of a group of health staff due to Covid-19 in 2 hospitals cost nearly €400,000 within just 9 months, according to a new study.

The researchers surveyed 1,218 healthcare staff and 208 missed at least one day at work.

The snapshot of direct economic costs highlights the financial drain on hospitals as staff are absent due to COVID-19.

#COVID19 #Ireland #COVIDisNotOver #PandemicIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne @auscovid19

Source: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/covid-staff-absences-in-two-hospitals-cost-nearly-400000-in-just-nine-months/a1708970625.html

The next phase of the pandemic is going to be largely about the medical and viral evolutionary effects of persistent infections.

https://time.com/6968880/long-covid-record-infection-mutations-netherlands/

"What's in a (nick)name?"

On the value of accessible names for SARS-CoV-2 variants

The latest post by Arijit Chakravarty and me on our Substack "Monkeys On Typewriters".

https://typingmonkeys.substack.com/p/whats-in-a-nickname

Bezos has been selling your Kindle activity to law enforcement.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90996547/e-books-are-fast-becoming-tools-of-corporate-surveillance

BREAKING: Trump LOSES attempt to kill NY AG fraud case -- for the 5TH time.

Court denies motion for directed verdict, dismantling Trump's arguments, some of which "personify frivolity."

At this rate, Trump is going to lose the NY case more times than he lost the 2020 election.

Researchers estimate that the economic cost of Long COVID in the US is $3.7 trillion, which is comparable to the cost of the Great Recession.

It is reckless for governments to ignore preventing and treating COVID and Long COVID.

Source: https://hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/programs/growthpolicy/economic-cost-long-covid-update-david-cutler