Chicago Tribune | “ ‘I just don’t want it to take over my life’: Hantavirus sparks fear, questions for some students in a post-COVID world”
The Chicago Tribune interviewed Dr. Dana Rose Garfin, associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about mental health crises.
The Chicago Tribune interviewed Dr. Dana Rose Garfin, associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about the mental health impact of public health crises, including infectious disease outbreaks.
"Social media can be a landscape of conflicting information during a new outbreak, which Dana Rose Garfin, an associate professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, called 'a perfect storm of people’s fears and anxieties,' coming off the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic.
'The more people are exposed to confusing or conflicting information, the more distressed they are and the less people trust the media, the more distressed they are,' said Garfin, who works at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health."
