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Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety and depression. A round-up of where and how the virus spreads, including how safe you may be on planes and going into the office. Plus, the details behind the futuristic SpaceX flight suits. The woman on TikTok trying to trade a bobby pin for a house. And a soothing soundscape of narwhals. Sponsors: Beachbody on Demand, Text "GOODNEWS" to 303030 OurCrowd, info.ourcrowd.com/goodnews Links: More People Are Taking Drugs for Anxiety and Insomnia, and Doctors Are Worried (Wall Street Journal) A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression, Census Bureau finds amid coronavirus pandemic (Washington Post) How Covid Spreads (CDC) Where Coronavirus Spreads (Christopher Mims, Twitter) That Office AC System Is Great — at Recirculating Viruses (New York Magazine) What Parents Should Know About Coronavirus as Kids Return to Babysitters, Day Cares and Camps (ProPublica) Boeing and Airbus Study How Coronavirus Behaves During Air Travel (Wall Street Journal) How an Immunology Blog Became a Covid-19 Guide to Going Out (Wired) Nasa SpaceX launch: Evolution of the spacesuit (BBC) One Red Paperclip Can a bobby pin be traded up to a house? A woman on TikTok is trying to find out (Boing Boing) TradeMeProject (Instagram) TradeMeProject (TikTok) Scientists Record Rarely Heard Sounds Made by Narwhals (Gizmodo) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety and depression.

0:48.9

A roundup of where and how the virus spreads, including how safe you may be on planes and going into the office,

0:57.8

plus the details behind the futuristic SpaceX flight suits, the woman on TikTok trying to trade a

1:05.4

bobby pin for a house, and a soothing soundscape of narwhals.

1:13.2

Starting with a grim milestone, the number of deaths in the U.S. has surpassed 100,000.

1:22.5

Brazil has moved into second place globally just behind the U.S. for their total number of confirmed

1:28.9

cases at almost 400,000. And in a 24-hour period ending yesterday evening, Brazil reported

1:36.5

more deaths than the U.S. Spain has begun a 10-day period of national mourning for the victims of coronavirus, the longest such official period in the nation's modern history.

1:49.0

New findings from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that a third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression.

1:58.0

Compared to a similar survey in 2014, the number of people reporting a depressed

2:02.8

mood has doubled. Symptoms were worse among younger people and those earning lower incomes.

2:10.0

And doctors are concerned about the increased number of people taking medications for anxiety

2:15.0

and insomnia. Quoting the Wall Street Journal,

2:18.0

prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications such as Clonopin and Ativan rose 10.2% in the U.S. to

2:25.1

9.7 million in March 2020 from 8.8 million in March 2019. Prescriptions for antidepressants

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