Fraying Mental Health on the Front Lines
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Health-care workers are under threat from more than just the coronavirus itself: The mental health effects of the work are grave. Doctors and nurses fighting Covid-19 are watching patients die at rates rarely seen in civilian medicine; and they’re delivering the news to family members who aren’t allowed inside the hospital for fear of spreading the disease. Hospitals are trying to treat the minds and hearts of the healers by offering counseling, crisis hotlines and therapy dogs. Emma Court discusses the scars the pandemic is leaving on hospital workers, and what the health care system can do about it.
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| 0:32.1 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 54 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. |
| 0:41.1 | Our main story, healthcare professionals are hailed as heroes for treating patients on the front |
| 0:46.7 | lines of a global crisis. But they're facing a crisis of their own. The outbreak is straining |
| 0:53.9 | their mental health with tragic consequences. |
| 0:58.4 | But first, here's what happened today. |
| 1:04.8 | Federal health regulators said they would tighten oversight of antibody tests |
| 1:09.6 | that can tell whether patients have been infected with the new coronavirus. |
| 1:14.8 | The Food and Drug Administration said today that the makers of the test would have to apply for authorization within 10 days of putting products on the market. |
| 1:24.5 | Since mid-March, the FDA had been allowing them to sell the tests without any |
| 1:29.8 | government sign-off. The FDA had originally relaxed its rules to give drug makers flexibility |
| 1:36.5 | to get the tests to market faster. But some manufacturers allegedly made false or inappropriate |
| 1:43.3 | claims, and the accuracy of some tests |
| 1:46.5 | was questioned. The FDA has given emergency authorizations to 12 antibody tests and said that |
| 1:54.2 | 200 are currently in the review process. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 treatment, Remdesivir, is moving quickly through the drug pipeline. |
| 2:04.1 | The antiviral drug was approved for emergency use last Friday. |
| 2:08.7 | And Gilead Sciences, the maker of the drug, says it plans to get it to patients as soon as this week. |
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