Category: Psychological and Sociological Impact
Painting Through the Pandemic: A Lifeline in Linseed Oil
MedPageToday Working on the frontlines during the pandemic was akin to emotional whiplash. The days on service in the ICU were chaotic and relentless, and I barely had time to meet my most basic physiologic needs, let alone emotionally process the horrors I was seeing play out in front of me. Twelve hours would pass […]
Jan 22, 2025
What Covid tried to teach us — and why it will matter in the next pandemic
Stat Five years ago this week, STAT was interviewing nervous infectious disease scientists about a mysterious disease spreading in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, located roughly 500 miles west of Shanghai. On Jan. 4, 2020, we published the first of what would become a torrent of articles on the disease now known as Covid-19. The […]
Jan 7, 2025
When The Pandemic Came, Zoos Closed, And Animals Began to Act Differently
Science Alert We all had to make adjustments as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded – even zoo animals who were suddenly not seeing crowds of visitors pass by every single day. In a study published in 2022, researchers discovered how primates reacted to that shift, looking at the behavior of bonobos, chimpanzees, western lowland gorillas, and olive baboons, and […]
Dec 17, 2024
Fewer teens are using alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana than before the pandemic
Philly Voice Substance use fell among adolescents when COVID-19 hit. Those declines have continued – to the surprise of some experts. he majority of teenagers in the U.S. do not drink, smoke or use marijuana, a new report shows. The percentage of teens abstaining from alcohol, tobacco and marijuana in 2024 was the highest since […]
Dec 17, 2024
Growing gulf in US life expectancy deepened by COVID-19 pandemic
Medical News.Net In a recent study published in The Lancet, researchers updated their analysis from the original Eight Americas study to reflect current life expectancy disparities in the United States. What is the Eight Americas study? The Eight Americas study was published nearly two decades ago to provide crucial insights into life expectancy inequities in the […]
Dec 4, 2024
As the Pandemic Deepened, Americans Kept Drinking More
NYT Excessive drinking persisted in the years after Covid arrived, according to new data. Americans started drinking more as the Covid-19 pandemic got underway. They were stressed, isolated, uncertain — the world as they had known it had changed overnight. Two years into the disaster, the trend had not abated, researchers reported on Monday. The […]
Nov 12, 2024
How close were hospitals to collapse in Covid?
BBC Five times Prof Kevin Fong broke down in tears in a nondescript hearing room in West London, while giving evidence to the Covid inquiry. The 53-year-old has the kind of CV that makes you pay attention: a consultant anaesthetist in London who also works for the air ambulance service and specialises in space medicine. […]
Oct 29, 2024
Nature The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of understanding environmental factors in disease transmission. This study aims to explore the spatial association between nighttime light (NTL) from satellite imagery and COVID-19 mortality. It particularly examines how NTL serves as a pragmatic proxy to estimate human interaction in illuminated nocturnal area, thereby impacting viral transmission […]
Oct 23, 2024
COVID Deaths in the United States: Who Pays the Highest Price?
Medscape Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I’m Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine. From March of 2020 to May of 2023, 1.38 million more people died in the United States than would have been expected — 1.38 million lives that, had circumstances been […]
Oct 15, 2024
The story of a scientist who tried to stand for the truth and avoid Covid politics
NPR A scientist tried to stand up for the truth during a pandemic when political rhetoric and conspiracies were clouding everyone’s world. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the truth has often felt elusive. As conspiracy theories, misinformation and political rhetoric took hold early on, many people found themselves unsure of what to believe. Rund Abdelfatah and […]
Sep 25, 2024