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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
Fri May 8, 2020, 08:53 PM May 2020

Here's how coronavirus could kill 75,000 more Americans -- without even infecting them

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/heres-how-coronavirus-could-kill-75000-more-americans-without-even-infecting-them/

The coronavirus pandemic has already killed over 75,000 people. But on CNN Friday, Benjamin Miller, chief strategy officer at Well Being Trust, told anchor Wolf Blitzer that it could kill another 75,000 people — without them ever actually having it.

That’s because the economic conditions and isolation caused by the pandemic will spur a wave of deaths from increased mental health problems and substance abuse.

Apologies, I cannot copy more, but there is more text at link.

Please, if you are bummed, please get help.

Yale is offering their very popular "Science of Well-Being" course FREE here:

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