Hurricane Ian impact: The unexpected health effects

Hurricane Ian impact: The unexpected health effects

Those forced to seek refuge in emergency shelters can also find themselves at higher risk of infectious diseases. … And let’s not forget COVID-19. “The Omicron virus can spread very easily among crowds,” Jun Wu, PhD, professor of environmental and occupational health in University of California, Irvine’s Department of Public Health, told Healthline. … Anxiety and depression are often seen as hurricanes create “a lot of unknowns,” explained E. Alison Holman, PhD, professor of psychological science at the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, UC Irvine. “Any time there are those kinds of unknowns, it generates anxiety.”