People with long Covid suffer from ongoing symptoms and neurological effects, long after their infection is over. Now, they're being asked to go back to the office — even if it means risking their health
. While this was a step forward in legitimizing the lasting effects of a Covid-19 infection, it left many questions unanswered — including how, exactly, the ADA can be applied to people with long Covid., professor of law at St. Louis University and an expert on employment and disability law, the ADA’s workplace protections apply to qualified people with disabilities — meaning individuals who are able to perform the essential functions of the job, even if they need accommodations to do so.
In Michael’s case, his university employer denied his request to work remotely — as he had done throughout the pandemic — on the basis that it “wasn’t feasible,” he says. Part of his job involves monitoring student use of an on-campus resource, and in his accommodation request, he proposed a way he could perform the task remotely via the existing technology available in the office.
At this point, long Covid is still poorly understood, which, Pendo says, can make it challenging for employees like Michael to access the ADA’s workplace protections. And it doesn’t help that there isn’t an objective diagnostic test for long Covid , and that new research findings are emerging on a regular basis.
Ultimately, Ranney hopes that the initiative will be an opportunity to improve the lives of people living with other chronic conditions and invisible illnesses who have been working in this space for years. “I think that if long Covid is addressed properly, it gives us a chance to create solutions for people that have been suffering from other chronic diseases, that there’s just never been an interest in or commitment to,” she explains.
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