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Who Are America’s Missing Workers?

Yasmin Schamiloglu, 25, doesn’t know when her case of long Covid will allow her to return to work.

She contracted Covid in January and had relatively mild symptoms. She was able to do her job helping researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with community engagement remotely for a while, and then started trying to go back into the office. Her managers were understanding, but every hour at work was exhausting, and the fatigue soon became too much to bear.