Going the Distance: COVID-19 and Mental Health

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Abdul dissects the unequal burden of COVID-19 by race, chats with Dr. Sarah Jukaku, a psychiatrist, who also happens to be his wife, about what she’s hearing from her patients. Later he talks with Professor Sandro Galea, a psychiatric epidemiologist, about what COVID-19’s long-term consequences might be for our mental health. Activity

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0:00.0	Model suggests we could hit the peak in eight days, which means these next two weeks will
0:13.8	be the deadliest.
0:15.6	But that burden is not being born equally, as COVID-19 is killing black Americans at far
0:20.1	higher rates.
0:21.8	This is America Dissected, and I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Elsaim.
0:29.6	Last season of America Dissected, we recorded from a beautiful wood-paneled studio in Ann
0:33.8	Arbor, Michigan.
0:34.8	Shout out to Solid Sound.
0:36.6	This season, I'm in a closet in my in-laws basement.
0:41.0	Sara, my wife, who you'll hear from in just a few minutes, is outside taking care of
0:44.6	her patients by telehealth.
0:46.6	Upstairs, Emily, my two-year-old daughter, is playing.
0:49.8	You're playing blocks?
0:52.2	You're playing blocks to prevent the coronavirus?
0:55.2	We moved here when this all started, because it was the only way both of us could keep working
0:59.0	after Emily's daycare closed.
1:01.2	We've been here for almost a month, and though I'm grateful to be surrounded by family,
1:05.6	and no one has yet gotten sick, it's challenging.
1:08.1	We're socially distancing the best we can.
1:11.8	What are you going to do if the coronavirus comes?
1:14.4	She wins the coronavirus.
1:17.3	Okay, that's a good job.
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