We Need a National Mental Health Response to Coronavirus

The mental health fallout of Covid-19 will be huge for health workers and all Americans

Alexandra Sifferlin
Elemental
Published in
11 min readApr 9, 2020

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TThe greatest coronavirus-related risk America faces right now is from the virus itself, and the deadly disease it causes, Covid-19. There’s no drug or vaccine, the United States has a shortage of ventilators, and there’s not…

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Alexandra Sifferlin
Elemental

Health and science journalist. Former editor of Medium’s Covid-19 Blog and deputy editor at Elemental. TIME Magazine writer before that