At a time when the number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 is putting the health care system at risk, and governments are imposing new restrictions on the population, researchers at
An antidepressant medication created and approved for obsessive-compulsive disorder is being examined as a possible treatment to slow the effects of COVID-19
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Roughly 35,000 students came back to Penn State this fall for classes during the coronavirus pandemic. One out of every seven of those students contracted COVID-19 during the semester. Some Penn State students who tested positive shared their experiences with the virus and whether catching it made them more or less cautious.
Junior Nate Paisley contracted COVID-19 in mid-September. He felt achy and lost his sense of taste and smell for two weeks. After that he felt fine, and he found an added benefit to getting over the coronavirus.
“Now, I can kind of just like not really have to worry about it as much, which is definitely a nice relief, Paisley said.
Just opening my laptop to begin this column took quite a bit out of me, I won’t lie. Many breaks were required. I rewarded myself for every line I wrote … the typical just-get-through-the-finish-line tactics I’m sure we are all experiencing right about now.
With dead week and finals starting, it was tough to find students who had enough time to answer a few interview questions. The irony of this does not escape me – a column on student burnout requiring students to take more time on their phones and computers to answer a bunch of questions … I know.
In fact, there were a few who volunteered and then backed out due to stress. And herein lies what I believe to be the ultimate cause of burnout this semester: even the things we