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75% of those deaths were over the age of 65, past retirement age. So we're talking -250k from a working pool of 150m (-0.17%). It seems to me that the pandemic impact on the other 99.83% of the workforce is what's probably moving the needle on any recent employment trends.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

> Close to a million people have died in the US. That is a pretty important point in the labour market

This doesn't make sense given the average age of people who died from Covid is well over working age.

Per https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliejason/2021/11/14/still-wor... there are ~10 million people working in the US that are over 65.

Also long covid which can render people unable to work or issues like taking care of people who are sick or immunocompromised people who used to work outside but can't now.