{"id":6434,"date":"2022-01-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2022-01-27T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T19:15:53","slug":"americans-out-sick-because-of-covid-19-surges-to-record-8-8-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6434","title":{"rendered":"Americans Out Sick Because of COVID-19 Surges to Record 8.8 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>About 6 percent of the U.S. workforce, nearly 9 million Americans are out sick due to a recent surge in COVID-19 cases. Between December 29 and January 10, 8.8 million people told the Census Bureau that they were not working due to a COVID-19 diagnosis, either of themselves or caring for someone else. 3.2 million people said they weren&#8217;t working due to concerns of the virus spreading and getting infected from it, up 25 percent from December. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/images-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/images-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6436\" width=\"175\" height=\"139\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Facing financial trouble due to COVID-19? Call us at 816-524-4949 or click <a href=\"http:\/\/calendly.com\/hoorfarlaw\" data-type=\"page\">here <\/a>to schedule a free consultation.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 6 percent of the U.S. workforce, nearly 9 million Americans are out sick due to a recent surge in COVID-19 cases. Between December 29 and January 10, 8.8 million people told the Census Bureau that they were not working &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=6434\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1152],"class_list":["post-6434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-covid-19"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6437,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions\/6437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}