The COVID-19 pandemic and mental health impacts

Author(s)
Usher, Kim
Durkin, Joanne
Bhullar, Navjot
Publication Date
2020-06
Abstract
The newly identified novel coronavirus, COVID-19, was first reported in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. The COVID-19 virus is now known to belong to the same family as SARS and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), which are zoonotic infections thought to have originated from snakes, bats, and pangolins at the Wuhan wet markets (Ji et al. 2020). The virus has rapidly spread across the globe leading to many infected people and multiple deaths (Wang et al. 2020); especially of the elderly and vulnerable (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020). While efforts to control and limit the spread of the pandemic in the community are quite straight forward to follow, it seems that prejudice and fear have jeopardized the response efforts (Ren et al. 2020).
Citation
International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 29(3), p. 315-318
ISSN
1447-0349
1445-8330
Pubmed ID
32277578
Link
Language
en
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Title
The COVID-19 pandemic and mental health impacts
Type of document
Journal Article
Entity Type
Publication

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