Category: Psychological and Sociological Impact
New CDC life expectancy data shows painfully slow rebound from covid
Washington Post Newly published data on life expectancy in the United States shows a partial rebound from the worst phase of the coronavirus pandemic, but drug overdoses, homicides and chronic illnesses such as heart disease continue to drive a long-term mortality crisis that has made this country an outlier in longevity among wealthy nations. Life […]
Nov 29, 2023
Outlook of pandemic preparedness in a post-COVID-19 world
Nature The COVID-19 pandemic was met with rapid, unprecedented global collaboration and action. Even still, the public health, societal, and economic impact may be felt for years to come. The risk of another pandemic occurring in the next few decades is ever-present and potentially increasing due to trends such as urbanization and climate change. While […]
Nov 21, 2023
How our memories of COVID-19 are biased — and why it matters
Nature Our view of the effectiveness of past pandemic responses is influenced by our present vaccination status. Public inquiries and future research must take this factor into account. Lives are still being lost to COVID-19 every day. And for many left with debilitating after-effects of the disease, it remains a very real, immediate experience. But […]
Nov 14, 2023
Memory in action: what the UK’s official COVID commemoration should look like
The Conversation Whether an actual bereavement or a loss of experience, everyone has lost something to COVID. From early on in the pandemic, grassroots memorials sought to acknowledge this collective experience, including the national COVID memorial wall in London and the annual national day of reflection organised by the Marie Curie charity. In September 2023, the UK Commission on COVID Commemoration released its final […]
Oct 17, 2023
Teen Depression Rose Sharply During the Pandemic, but Treatment Didn’t Follow
NYT Approximately 20 percent of adolescents had symptoms of major depressive disorder in 2021 — the first full calendar year of the pandemic — but less than half who needed treatment received it, according to a new study. The research, published in JAMA Pediatrics, found that treatment was most lacking for minority adolescents, particularly those who […]
Oct 11, 2023
Kids’ Mental Health Spending Soared 26% During Pandemic
Forbes Anxiety, adjustment disorders and ADHD are largely to blame for a sharp 26% rise in mental healthcare costs for children in the two-and-a-half years following the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new study out Tuesday found—the latest evidence of the pandemic’s dire impact on both kids’ and adults’ mental health. Researchers with the RAND Corporation, […]
Oct 4, 2023
Psychiatric Symptoms and Fatigue in COVID-19 Survivors
Cureus Introduction: Psychiatric symptoms and fatigue are common after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) illness. The cause of these symptoms is direct neuronal injury and indirect injury with immune-mediated inflammation. In addition, social factors also affect mental health. Objective: We aim to compare psychiatric symptoms and fatigue between COVID-19 survivors and healthy controls. Material and […]
Sep 27, 2023
The Pandemic Was a Time Machine
NYT Recently I came across perhaps the most mind-bending chart about the pandemic I’d seen over three-plus years. Originally published two years ago in The British Medical Journal, it shows how Covid affected age-standardized mortality in England and Wales — a statistic that controls for demographic change in measuring death rates, so that a country doesn’t look […]
Sep 19, 2023
New Jersey Failed Veterans at Pandemic-Ravaged Nursing Homes, U.S. Says
NYT A scathing Justice Department report found that care at the state facilities was so poor that it violated residents’ constitutional rights and led to a rash of deaths. The care given to military veterans at two state-run nursing homes in New Jersey ravaged by the coronavirus was so poor that it violated residents’ constitutional […]
Sep 19, 2023
Meet the Man Who Named Covid’s New Variants
WSJ Pirola, Eris, Kraken: T. Ryan Gregory finds inspiration in mythology and the stars. Pirola. Eris. Kraken. Covid-19 subvariants’ viral nicknames lead back to one man: evolutionary biologist T. Ryan Gregory. Gregory, 48 years old, a professor at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, works with a band of unofficial Covid-19 trackers on social media to […]
Sep 19, 2023
