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maybe the person working near you the one who dragged himself or herself to work and is now coughing and sneezing couldn't afford to stay at home each week about one and a half million Americans without paid sick leave go to work despite feeling ill at least half of employees of restaurants and hospitals to settings were diseases easily spread go to work when they have a cold or the flu according to a recent poll to address that issue Chipotle began offering paid sick leave to all of its employees in the United States this year the restaurant chain is hoping to reduce the spread of infectious disease like the norovirus outbreaks traced to its restaurants last year and earlier this year though many other industrialized countries already require employers to offer paid sick leave to all employees the United States does not shocks you are I know that's the topic of this week's healthcare triage [Music] special thanks to austin fracked who wrote the upshot column this episode was adapted from paid sick leave is not free of course economic theory suggests that its cost would be passed from employers to their employees in the form of lower wages or reduction and other benefits like vacation time yet employees and their co-workers may be better off with an incentive to take time off when sick a number of recent studies point to the benefits one by Phillip saucer now a medical student and Nicolas Ziebarth a Cornell economist backs up Chipotle's theory that paid sick leave could reduce the spread of contagion their study published in Health Services Research estimated that 45% of the American workforce does not have paid sick leave that's about 50 million workers low-income mothers are particularly likely to work while sick another study in Health Affairs explains why it found that families with less ability to afford unpaid time off are more likely to lack paid sick leave according to the study sixty-five percent of families with incomes below $35,000 had no paid sick leave while the same was true of only 25 percent of families with annual incomes above $100,000 paid sick leave slows the spread of disease cities and states that require employers to offer it like Washington DC Seattle New York City Philadelphia as well as Connecticut California Massachusetts and Oregon have fewer cases of seasonal flu than other comparable cities and states flu rates would fall five percent if paid sick leave were Universal according to one estimate an additional seven million people contracted the h1n1 flu virus in 2009 because employees came to work while infected the illness led to 1,500 additional deaths sick leave has other benefits besides reducing flu deaths for example workers may use it for preventive care for stalling subsequent more disruptive health problems workers lacking paid sick leave are more likely to delay needed medical care a finding that holds for both insured and uninsured workers in other words though health insurance...