COVID-19 Pandemic: Fear, Anxiety and our Mental Health

As the saying goes: history repeats itself but for those who fail to learn lessons from it, they are often the worst off when the boomerang returns to strike them at the back. The 1918 influenza pandemic, caused by H1N1 virus was perhaps the worst that our humanity had yet encountered. It’s origin d...

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Main Author: Naweed I. Syed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Advance Educational Institute & Research Centre 2020-06-01
Series:International Journal of Endorsing Health Science Research
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Online Access:http://aeirc-edu.com/ojs14/index.php/IJEHSR/article/view/436/570
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description As the saying goes: history repeats itself but for those who fail to learn lessons from it, they are often the worst off when the boomerang returns to strike them at the back. The 1918 influenza pandemic, caused by H1N1 virus was perhaps the worst that our humanity had yet encountered. It’s origin debatable (avian or otherwise), it infected over 500 Million people across the globe within a year, and wiped out almost 50 Million humans (40% world population) from the face of the earth.
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spelling doaj.art-b8bf1026a27b488ea39e1ba0851ba8392022-12-21T19:45:32ZengAdvance Educational Institute & Research CentreInternational Journal of Endorsing Health Science Research2307-37482310-38412020-06-01824749https://doi.org/10.29052/JEHSR.v8.i2.2020.47-49COVID-19 Pandemic: Fear, Anxiety and our Mental HealthNaweed I. Syed0Creative Destruction Lab, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, CanadaAs the saying goes: history repeats itself but for those who fail to learn lessons from it, they are often the worst off when the boomerang returns to strike them at the back. The 1918 influenza pandemic, caused by H1N1 virus was perhaps the worst that our humanity had yet encountered. It’s origin debatable (avian or otherwise), it infected over 500 Million people across the globe within a year, and wiped out almost 50 Million humans (40% world population) from the face of the earth.http://aeirc-edu.com/ojs14/index.php/IJEHSR/article/view/436/570covid-19fearanxietymental health
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Fear, Anxiety and our Mental Health
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title COVID-19 Pandemic: Fear, Anxiety and our Mental Health
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