This article uses the concept of ‘moral injury’ to provide insight into the mental health challenges faced by healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify approaches to help prevent negative impacts on their mental health.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/27/health/domestic-violence-coronavirus-wellness-trnd/index.html The CNN article covers how globally, domestic violence is on the rise as families and partners are forced to be home with abusers. Communities with stay-at-home orders in the US are already seeing increased reports of domestic violence. Gun sales are rising in the country. In a time where staying at home is critical … Read more
Article link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jmv.25785 Published in the Journal of Medical Virology on March 27, 2020, Cheng and colleagues demonstrate that an enzyme found in the lungs, Angiotensin-converting Enzyme 2 (ACE2), is highly protective against acute lung injury – particularly in the case of COVID-19 patients who are in critical condition. Therefore, the authors believe that the … Read more
In an article published in The Lancet by physicians from China, they discuss the challenges and effects in the comorbidity of mental health illnesses along with physical illness, in this case specifically COVID-19. In addition, the piece discusses the social difficulties that are experienced among residents including stigma as well as general inability to access … Read more
The Human Rights Watch, a non-profit organization based in New York, recently published an article entitled “A Deadly Lack of Affordable COVID-19 Treatment in the US” which addresses how costly and inaccessible it is, particularly for low-income people, to receive testing and treatment for COVID-19. One uninsured woman in Boston reported that her COVID-19 testing … Read more
This New York Times article presents updated national information about which U.S. states and cities have issued stay-at-home quarantine measures. As of March 30th, 30 states of have been issued to stay at home by their government officials. Link to Article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-stay-at-home-order.html By looking at this guide, we can see when and how each state … Read more
The current advisor to Red Bull’s Formula One Team, Helmut Marko, had the idea to bring together his team of about fourteen men into a camp where they could all be infected with COVID-19 together. He suggested that now would be a very good time for the racers to become infected as their season is … Read more
“Trump suggested the sudden massive increase in need for masks might be the result of something nefarious — despite the very logical answer being that we have a global pandemic involving a respiratory disease” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/29/trump-bizarrely-blames-hospitals-mask-ventilator-shortages/
