two young male workers in masks at computers The safety and health infrastructure that employers have implemented in response to COVID should be the foundation for efforts to limit the spread of infectious disease in workplaces in the future. (Photo: kite_rin/Adobe Stock)

It has been just over two years since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first domestic case of COVID-19. Seventy-eight million novel coronavirus cases and nearly a million deaths later, to say that the pandemic upended our lives is an understatement. Employers, of course, were not spared strain and disruption—at times over the past 24 months, it seemed that each day of the pandemic presented a new, thorny employment-related challenge for which there was no clear solution.

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