While the Federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency and National Emergency ended months ago, the pandemic is not over — and employers may still need to factor in COVID precautions as more workers return to the office.
COVID has killed between 500 and 1,000 people each week this summer, with over 1.1 million deaths in total since March 2020, according to the CDC. The week of July 15, there were nearly 8,000 new hospital admissions due to COVID. And although the data point to a lull in infections, the number of serious cases is likely to pick back up in the fall, explains Dr. Stan Schwartz, an internal medicine physician with a subspecialty in infectious diseases and the CEO of WellOK, the Northeastern Oklahoma Business Coalition on Health.
