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Mourning and melancholia: the psychological shadow-pandemic


Mourning and melancholia: the psychological shadow-pandemic
Why the Covid crisis is the biggest hit to mental health since the Second World War.
When organs fail, the staff on intensive care units try to take over their work. Ventilators act as lungs, medicines delivered intravenously maintain a person’s heartbeat and blood pressure, filter machines prevent a fatal build-up of waste, and everything – every drop of fluid that enters the body and every drop that leaves it – is constantly monitored by a nurse. For days or weeks or even months the ICU staff maintain bodies that have all but shut down, and still on average around one in five of their patients will not make it. ....

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