What Wuhan’s frontline medical workers can teach the world about the Covid-19 mental health battle

The recent suicides of health care workers in New York brought attention to the Covid-19 mental health crisis emerging in the US and Europe. Yet in Wuhan, ground zero of the global pandemic, health care workers’ reports of burnout, trauma and emotional distress were already common in February.Emerging research from China shows that frontline health care workers, especially women, had high levels of depression, anxiety, insomnia and distress. As we see many of the challenges in Wuhan are being…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3084834/what-wuhans-frontline-medical-workers-can-teach-world-about-covid