https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-examines-connections-between-covid-19-and-civil-rights
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Laurie McCann of the AARP Foundation said, “Like throwing jet fuel on a fire, the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified age discrimination as an obstacle to older workers’ efforts to find and keep jobs. The pandemic, which places older workers at greater risk of more serious illness than other age groups, and the recession that has accompanied it, have dealt devastating blows to the job prospects and future retirement security of older workers.” She noted that many older workers, especially women, may never fully recover from long-term unemployment.