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History tells us the pandemic mental health crisis is far from over

History tells us the pandemic mental health crisis is far from over

In 1918, as the earth collapsed below the body weight of a distinct pandemic, a simultaneous mental health and fitness toll rose from beneath. Although the influenza pandemic of that period contaminated 500 million men and women — having  the life of 50 million globally and 675,000 in the United States – a lot of survivors suffered a “post-influenzal melancholy.” Historians noted how their lives grew to become “unbearable, even following the infection experienced passed.” Nowadays, we are looking at equivalent trends among the COVID survivors.

When pandemic flu took hold, a novel scientific entity named “encephalitis lethargica” also surged. Irrespective of unclear evidence, physicians connected it to influenza. The syndrome’s constellation of vague neuropsychiatric signs or symptoms seems eerily equivalent to prolonged COVID.