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Since early in 2020, the global pandemic of COVID-19 has had profound and damaging effects on the health of the world's population and severely disrupted education, trade, and many other aspects of human activity. Alongside concerted efforts to develop new vaccines and therapies, social distancing and lockdowns were widely implemented to interrupt viral transmission. Subsequently, the longer-term consequences of the pandemic owing to disrupted social connections and relationships across diverse societies and groups have raised concern and become an important area for study. In an Editorial, Guest Editors Vikram Patel, Daisy Fancourt, Toshi A. Furukawa and Lola Kola discuss PLOS Medicine's Special Issue focussed on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health.
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Citation: (2023) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 20(4) May 2023. PLoS Med 20(4): ev20.i04. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v20.i04
Published: May 12, 2023
Copyright: © 2023 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Since early in 2020, the global pandemic of COVID-19 has had profound and damaging effects on the health of the world's population and severely disrupted education, trade, and many other aspects of human activity. Alongside concerted efforts to develop new vaccines and therapies, social distancing and lockdowns were widely implemented to interrupt viral transmission. Subsequently, the longer-term consequences of the pandemic owing to disrupted social connections and relationships across diverse societies and groups have raised concern and become an important area for study. In an Editorial, Guest Editors Vikram Patel, Daisy Fancourt, Toshi A. Furukawa and Lola Kola discuss PLOS Medicine's Special Issue focussed on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health.
Image Credit: Taylor Deas-Melesh/Unsplash