TIME | "How to Manage Your Health Anxiety About Hantavirus”

TIME interviewed Dr. Dana Rose Garfin, associate professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences, about the mental health impact of public health crises.

'That tracks with what Dana Rose Garfin, a psychologist and professor at University of California, Los Angeles, who studies collective trauma, sees in her data. Major events like COVID, she says, rewire people.

'Those types of events do tend to sensitize people to respond more negatively to future events,” Garfin says. “And this is happening on the backdrop of intense political polarization and geopolitical instability - people are really inundated with bad news about these escalating threats.'

There’s a longer arc to this anxiety, too."

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