CWCI Reports Sharp Drop in COVID-19 Claims

The California Workers’ Compensation Institute said wild fluctuations in COVID-19 claim volume continued into early 2022, soaring to an all-time high in January, then dropping more than 90% in February. “The new monthly tallies show that as the omicron variant spread at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, the COVID-19 claim count increased more than sixfold between November and December, then doubled from 21,55 cases in December to 46,331 cases in January before plunging back down to 3,294 cases in February,” CWCI said in a March 16 bulletin. Those figures ...