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Share on PinterestHow has the pandemic affected different aspects of primary healthcare? In this Special Feature, we investigate.Over the past few weeks, Medical News Today have investigated the many ways in which the coronavirus pandemic has affected — directly or indirectly — the lives of people all around the globe.In one feature, we spoke about…

How long will public health and the US economy be widely threatened by Covid-19? We don’t know. Without a vaccine, experts say, it’s likely to be years. The future is murky for a lot of reasons. Namely: So much depends on human actions, both individual and collective, that are simply hard to predict and model…

Depression affects 264 million people around the world, according to the United Nations.Thanakorn Suppamethasawat/EyeEm/Getty ImagesThe coronavirus pandemic "has the seeds of a major mental health crisis," the United Nations (UN) warned in a policy briefing this week, calling for substantial investment in support services.Devora Kestel, director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Use…

health and economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus.Experts have frequently compared the current health crisis to the 1918 pandemic, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. A new report by Kristian Blickle, an economist at the New York Fed, suggests that along with high death tolls and an economic downturn, the 1918 flu also correlated with the rise…

Share on PinterestWhat do people do to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictive measures? In this Special Feature, we present some of the top coping strategies that readers shared with us.People from all over the world have been reporting that current restrictive measures taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly altered the…