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Media reports describe the inarguable, if inconvenient, circumstances that follow us into the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic: In addition to hundreds of thousands of Americans killed by the …
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Gonzales is a small city in central California populated mostly by Latino immigrant families and farmworkers. Like other places, it has felt the weight of the coronavirus pandemic. When Covid-19 …
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Remember outings in elementary school or at camp? You were probably paired with another kid about your age and size whose hand you held. The buddy system made losing someone …
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An unexpected side effect of the tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic is unprecedented opportunity for innovation in mental health care, largely due to the rapid expansion of telehealth and the …
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In a sign of the red-hot market for telemental health care, Talkspace announced Wednesday it would go public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company Hudson Executive Investment Corp …
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Hallie-Beth Hollister is a master at cold calling. She has to be. She and a small team of psychiatric bed searchers are responsible for calling hospitals across Massachusetts any time …
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Long before the pandemic arrived, Renée battled intense fears of getting sick from daily life. She worried she could get HIV from doorknobs or suffer brain damage from odorless carbon …
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The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically cut the availability of inpatient psychiatric beds, with facilities across the country forced to reduce their capacity to meet social distancing requirements, stem outbreaks of …
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This year was one that no one could have imagined — 2020 has been marked by devastation, by passion, and by change. Our photographers covered patients, hospitals, and medical workers …
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