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COVID-19 Could Lead to An Epidemic of Clinical Depression

Stress, loss, loneliness and isolation are key factors in clinical depression, which affects millions. The U.S was unprepared for COVID-19 – will it remain unprepared for its medical aftermath?

  • Jonathan Kanter and Katherine Manbeck, The Conversation

Social Distancing Is Hard When You Live With Roommates

No one answers a Craigslist ad for housemates expecting to end up quarantined with those people.

  • Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic

4 Weird Things that Happen When You Videoconference

An educational technology scholar illuminates some of odd feelings people experience when they communicate through cameras on the web.

  • Norm Friesen, The Conversation

How To Keep Your Pets Happy While Social Distancing

Staying home for social distancing may disrupt your pets' routine. But recreating a schedule can keep them (and you) happy.

  • Futurity

4 Tips to Protect Your Sleep in the COVID-19 Pandemic

With the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s important to get quality sleep, researchers warn.

How to Survive Pandemic Re-entry

Astronauts have given us some useful tips for surviving isolation, but we’ll need more to weather a pandemic.

  • Marina Koren, The Atlantic

Try These Tips to Keep Your Cool at Home

Here are a range of expert tips and resources to reduce stress as we adjust to a new normal. For example, how on earth do we parent through a pandemic?

  • Futurity

Carefree Amid a Contagion: How to Talk to COVID-19 Skeptics

As isolation becomes normal, its toll begins to emerge in more subtle ways, including on the body itself.

  • Teresa Carr, Undark

Workers Left out of Government and Business Response to the Coronavirus

If government and business collaborate with workers, a scholar of labor relations writes, current economic problems could get less severe, the recovery smoother and lasting prosperity more likely.

  • Thomas Kochan, The Conversation

Don’t Halt Social Distancing. Instead, Do It Right.

There are two things the United States must do to beat the coronavirus.

  • Aaron E. Carroll and Ashish Jha, The Atlantic

Dogs Can Ease Your Self-Quarantine Stress

Dogs can ease our stress during these times of COVID-19 self-quarantine, an expert explains. As an extra bonus, we can do the same for them.

  • Futurity

How to Maintain Physical and Mental Health during Coronavirus

There are plenty of ways to keep your mind and body active and healthy during the outbreak.

  • Nita Bharti, The Conversation

5 Ways To Maintain Community While Social Distancing

It's possible to maintain community despite the social distancing necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19, according to a professor of health psychology.

  • Eric Stann, Futurity
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The Pandemic Could Change How Americans View Government

Congress’s push to temporarily expand the social safety net may have the country asking one big question: Why only now?

  • Abdallah Fayyad, The Atlantic

The Pivot: Leading Your Mission and Your People Through COVID-19

It is a greater risk to the mission to not consider workplace flexibilities that keep employees working.

  • Jacquelyn Phillips

How to Actually Stop Touching Your Face

Not touching your face is a simple way to protect yourself from COVID-19, but it's not easy. Here's how to break the habit.

  • Caitlin Clark, Futurity

Social Distancing Comes with Social Side Effects – Here’s How to Stay Connected

Physically isolating yourself can feel psychologically isolating too. But there are ways to maintain connections in these crazy coronavirus times.

  • Jonathan Kanter and Adam Kuczynski, The Conversation

No Matter What Some Public Officials Say, the Message You Need to Hear Is 'Stay Home'

Mixed messaging from all levels of government is putting Americans at risk and will speed the spread of the coronavirus. No matter what politicians say, public health experts agree. Stay home, even if you feel fine.

  • Charles Ornstein, ProPublica

Experts: Here’s What We Know about the New Coronavirus

Two infectious disease experts have put together a "COVID-19 primer" that includes information on prevention, symptoms, and work toward a vaccine.

  • Jessica Colarossi

Viewpoint: Managing Your TSP Account Through Coronavirus Turbulence

Long-term market history provides a good guide for context.

  • W. Lee Radcliffe

Social Distancing: What It Is and Why It’s the Best Tool We Have to Fight the Coronavirus

With no vaccines or treatments, the fight against coronavirus comes down to this behavioral technique. A physician explains how it works.

  • Thomas Perls, The Conversation