How Covid-19 regulations has made the air-traffic-control controller shortage worse

See Fatigue and Mandatory Overtime: America’s Air-Traffic Controllers Are Stretched Thin by Andrew Tangel, Micah Maidenberg and Alison Sider of The WSJ. Excerpt:

"The FAA has fallen behind its training and hiring goals, a situation exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, earlier government shutdowns and what former agency officials complain has been years of inadequate funding. As the coronavircovus began spreading more than three years ago, the agency suspended training at its academy for new hires for four months and paused training elsewhere for stretches ranging from seven months to almost two years, according to a Transportation Department inspector general’s report."