What will happen with COVID-19 through 2022, and what does this mean for programs like Social Security and Medicare? A new report from the National Academy of Social Insurance provides a framework to connect the various factors affecting the pandemic’s trajectory and the outcomes that are impacting, and will continue to impact, social insurance programs, including Unemployment Insurance and Workers’ Compensation.
David Weber, MD, MPH, professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, is a member of the Academy’s COVID-19 Task Force Epidemiological Working Group, which convened in late fall 2020.
The pandemic’s direct effects and outcomes – including cases, hospitalizations, deaths, disability, and unemployment – significantly affect the funding, benefits, and equity of Social Security, Medicare, and other programs. (Access the full 26-page report via the Academy’s website.)
An announcement can be found here.