January 19, 2021
(The Atlantic) – Then there’s a more curious response. Some people tuck away a bout of COVID-19 like it’s a deep, dark secret. Even among those who have been fully responsible about quarantining, at least a small number have decided … Read More
January 18, 2021
(Wired) – While there’s been ample discussion of the economic fallout from a global pandemic, the toll it takes on our collective mental health is harder to quantify. It’s almost impossible to stay at home for months on end, cancel … Read More
January 13, 2021
(Reuters) – Nearly half of staff working in intensive care units (ICU) in England in the COVID-19 pandemic have severe anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder, with some reporting feeling they’d be better off dead, according to a study published … Read More
January 6, 2021
(STAT News) – The pandemic has made the majority of Americans feel more anxious, but for Renée and millions of people like her, the virus is the encapsulation of every fear they had ever experienced. Invisible. Seemingly on every surface. … Read More
January 6, 2021
(Medical Xpress) – Between May 2019 and May 2020, 81,230 Americans died of drug overdoses—the highest number of drug deaths ever recorded in a 12-month span, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. After a drop in 2018, overdoses … Read More
January 5, 2021
(The Toronto Star) – Something has been killing young men in Western Canada — something that’s not COVID-19. At least, not directly. New numbers released by Statistics Canada point to deadly knock-on effects of the pandemic, even for the parts … Read More
December 28, 2020
(The New York Times) – Beyond individual reports, a British study of neurological or psychiatric complications in 153 patients hospitalized with Covid-19 found that 10 people had “new-onset psychosis.” Another study identified 10 such patients in one hospital in Spain. … Read More
December 23, 2020
(STAT News) – The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically cut the availability of inpatient psychiatric beds, with facilities across the country forced to reduce their capacity to meet social distancing requirements, stem outbreaks of the virus, or repurpose psychiatric beds to … Read More
December 23, 2020
(STAT News) – It’s become standard for some to cast 2020 as a throw-away year, something the door should hit on its way out. Plans were disrupted, celebrations postponed, everything — dating, vacations, just a dinner out — hit by … Read More
December 11, 2020
(Associated Press) – Doctors and nurses around the U.S. are becoming exhausted and demoralized as they struggle to cope with a record-breaking surge of COVID-19 patients that is overwhelming hospitals and prompting governors to clamp back down to contain the … Read More
