Category: Psychological and Sociological Impact
Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
NIH – Both SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly affected the mental health of adults and children. In a 2021 study, nearly half of Americans surveyed reported recent symptoms of an anxiety or depressive disorder, and 10% of respondents felt their mental health needs were not being met. Rates of anxiety, depression, and substance […]
Sep 29, 2022
Long COVID Has Forced a Reckoning for One of Medicine’s Most Neglected Diseases
The Atlantic – Only a couple dozen doctors specialize in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Now their knowledge could be crucial to treating millions more patients. ME/CFS involves a panoply of debilitating symptoms that affect many organ systems and that get worse with exertion. The Institute of Medicine estimates that it affects 836,000 to 2.5 million people in the […]
Sep 27, 2022
Fortune – The pandemic forced many Americans into constrained ways of working and socializing. Interactions generally became more limited, outside of Zoom and occasional confrontations over mask policies. Americans now really are interacting more and holding back less, proving both Biden’s and Powell’s words true, and the results aren’t so pretty. From the remote-work wars to “crisis” levels […]
Sep 27, 2022
Don’t ask when the pandemic will end. Ask how we’re going to live with covid.
Grid – The coronavirus isn’t going anywhere. We need to learn to minimize its impact. “A lot of people think of the pandemic as a hurricane: It has to be completely gone, blue skies,” said Amesh Adalja, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “That’s not the case. This is not […]
Sep 22, 2022
COVID deaths: more than 10 million children lost a parent or carer
Nature – Roughly 10.5 million children worldwide have a parent or carer who died from COVID-19, according to a modelling study1. The figure is a dramatic increase on earlier estimates. India, Indonesia and Egypt were the countries most affected; other regions throughout Africa and southeast Asia were also badly hit.
Sep 22, 2022
Stress, anxiety and depression may increase the risk of long Covid, study finds
NBC News – People who were experiencing psychological distress before getting Covid were more likely to have long-lasting symptoms than those who were not, according to new research. Link to JAMA Psychiatry Study
Sep 22, 2022