Most of us aren't going to experience PTSD as a result of COVID, but some people will have acute stress reactions. Emergency room workers who are seeing one case after another role in unable to help. One study in Spain showed that more than half are showing signs of PTSD. It says though the virus did not only attack the vulnerability of an individual, it attacks the vulnerability of a society.
Five years ago, a vast wave of migrants and refugees began to spill into the country. We examine their fates amid a tangle of bureaucracy. Even for the uninfected, the coronavirus has caused widespread “collective trauma”; we ask about its effects and how to heal from it. And Palestinians sneak to the beach as security forces look the other way.
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