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The Evidence: Coronavirus: The Evidence: Mental health and Covid-19

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02/05/2020 GMT

Mental health and Covid-19

Coronavirus: The Evidence

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How is our mental health during the pandemic?

Mental health during and after lockdown; health anxiety; loneliness and isolation; update from China and India

Now that more than half the population of the world has been living for a time in lockdown, Claudia Hammond and her panel of psychologists and psychiatrists answer the audience’s questions on the impact of the pandemic on our mental health. Dr George Hu, clinical psychologist and section chief of mental health at Shanghai United Family Pudong Hospital, tells us what he has seen in China, as it comes out of lockdown. 

Professor Vikram Patel gives us a picture of mental health in India, which went very suddenly into lockdown. Manuela Barreto, Professor of Psychology at Exeter University, explains what research tells us about how isolation and loneliness affects us.  Dr Jo Daniels, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Bath in the UK, talks about who is susceptible to long term health anxiety following the pandemic. And Professor Sir Simon Wessley, psychiatrist and Director of the Kings Centre for Military Research in London, answers questions on whether we can learn about the likely psychological consequences from previous pandemics and other global upheavals. 

The Evidence is produced in association with Wellcome Collection. 

Producer: Caroline Steel
Editor: Deborah Cohen

(Photo: Coronavirus outbreak in Pakistan, Credit: European Photopress Agency)

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Claudia Hammond is joined by experts to answer questions about the coronavirus Covid-19.

In The Evidence Claudia Hammond is joined by an expert scientific panel to answer questions from the audience on a variety of aspects of the coronavirus and Covid 19, from the impact of lockdowns and self isolation on the spread of the disease, to the question of who should be tested and the search for treatments. 
Professor Vivek Jha, Executive Director, of the George Institute for Global Health, India, talks about the situation in his country where a lockdown was announced four hours before it began.

Dr Lyndsey Broadbent, a virologist at Queens University Belfast in Northern Ireland, explains what is now known about the biology of the virus and why it causes serious disease in some people and no symptoms in others. 
Christos Lynteris, a medical anthropologist from St Andrews University, discusses the issue of stigma that’s being experienced by some people who have had Covid-19. 

Claudia also hears from a psychiatrist at the University of Verona in northern Italy, which has taken the brunt of cases in the country about some of the most serious consequences for doctors and nurses, and the general population.

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