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The Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI), a non-profit research and educational organization focused on workforce health and productivity, estimates that the cost associated with the loss of work hours because of COVID-19 is $213.1 billion ($167.4 billion in the first year and $45.7 billion in the second year). The number of lost hours attributed to the pandemic was 6.6 billion hours (5.2 billion in the first year and 1.4 billion in the second year).

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