CWCI: 7% of Working-Age COVID Cases Claimed as Occupational, 4% of Deaths

The California Workers’ Compensation Institute on Thursday reported that 1 in 14 COVID-19 cases involving people of working age from May through September were claimed as occupational. Over that same period, 1 in 25 COVID-19 deaths among working-age adults — defined as those between 18 and 65 — was claimed. CWCI said there were 647,196 COVID-19 cases among California’s working-age population during the five-month study period. Of those, 43,490 resulted in workers’ compensation claims. At the same time, CWCI reports more than 17,000 Californians have died f...