Nearly 3 million Americans cited COVID-19 as their reason for not working last month, according to new Census Bureau data.
A projected 1,880,551 out of 94,318,693 non-working adults in December were either “sick with coronavirus symptoms or caring for someone” with them, including long COVID symptoms, the bureau reported Thursday.
And an estimated 1,014,887 Americans did not work because they were “concerned about getting or spreading the coronavirus,” the Census found.
Census researchers extrapolated the numbers from data collected Dec. 9-19 in the latest Household Pulse Survey, a weekly measure of pandemic social impacts that launched in April 2020.