As Society Reopens, Not Everyone is Ready

By | May 6, 2020

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Disaster Distress Helpline.

WebMD poll of 3,101 readers, May 3-4, 2020.

CDC: “Stress and Coping.”

American Psychiatric Association: “Coping After Disaster.”

Kaiser Family Foundation: “The Implications of COVID-19 for Mental Health and Substance Use.”

Simon: “Reopening Update.”

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations: “COVID-19 Projections.”

Johns Hopkins University of Medicine Coronavirus Research Center: “COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU).”

United States Air Force Thunderbirds: “Blue Angels, Thunderbirds to Salute Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, Georgia COVID-19 Responders.”

Georgia Department of Health: “Georgia Department of Public Health Daily Status Report.”

Office of Georgia Gov. Brian P. Kemp: “2020 Executive Orders.”

Texas Health and Human Services: “Texas Case Counts COVID-19.”

Dallas County, Texas: “Dallas County Reports 187 Additional Positive 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases.”

Facebook: The Forum at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, May 5, 2020.

The Lancet: “Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science.”

Joshua Morganstein, MD, chair, American Psychiatric Association, Committee on the Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster.

Leigh Ellen Watts, licensed clinical social worker; co-owner, Athens Center for Counseling and Play Therapy, Athens, GA.

Cara Blair, Atlanta.

Jordan Griffith, Dallas County, TX.

Juan Balderas, Dallas County, TX.

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