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The Surprising Mental Toll of COVID

Scientific American, Dec. 2020 Issue

November 19, 2020

The Surprising Mental Toll of COVID

Young adults were also the most affected age group in an unusual, real-time study that tracked the rapid rise in “acute distress” and depression at three points between mid-March and mid-April. “We expected the opposite because it was already clear that older individuals were at greater risk” from the virus, says senior author Roxane Cohen Silver, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine.