The Biden administration announced that long Covid, a condition where people experience long-term Covid-19 symptoms long after clearing the actual virus from their system, could be considered a disability under civil rights laws
The Biden administration announced Monday that long Covid, a condition where people experience long-term Covid-19 symptoms long after clearing the actual virus from their system, could be considered a disability under civil rights laws.
In Rose Garden remarks on Monday marking the ADA anniversary, President Joe Biden noted that long Covid conditions can rise to disability level. He said accommodations for these conditions are necessary for long-haulers “so they can live their lives in dignity,” noting that this effort is the “first of its kind.”
The guidance comes more than a year after the U.S. began shutting down vast swaths of its economy and public life to slow the spread of Covid-19, and months after the availability of multiple vaccines started the country on its path back to normalcy. But as the Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads and some states lag in their vaccination rates, Covid-19 cases are on the rise in many places.
According to the DOJ, long Covid will be considered a disability “if the person’s condition or any of its symptoms is a ‘physical or mental’ impairment that ‘substantially limits’ one or more major life activities.”
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