President Trump listened to his public-health advisers in March and ordered a two-week shutdown that extended to six weeks.
Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic last month reported the incidence of stress-induced cardiomyopathy from March 1 to April 30 increased four-fold.
Doctors at Tufts Medical Center last month warned that psychological distress, fear and emotional stress, "Coupled with worse clinical outcomes when patients avoid seeking effective care, creates a double hit from this pandemic in which morbidity and mortality associated with cardiac disease might well overtake the risks directly linked to the virus itself."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week reported that 13.3% of Americans in June said they had increased substance use to cope with pandemic-related stress.
A new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston reports a spike in injuries indicative of domestic abuse, especially severe injuries from strangulation and use of weapons, from March 11 to May 3.
"While confronting the possibility of a second wave of the pandemic, these calculations of total lives lost, both from SARS-CoV-2 infection and because of social, psychological, and unemployment outcomes, may prove important in policy decisions," epidemiologist Tyler J. VanderWeele of Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health recently wrote in JAMA. Mr. Biden says he'd order another shutdown if scientists say it would save lives.
He wants to blame Mr. Trump for unemployment but another lockdown would cost millions more jobs.
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