Effects of COVID-19
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Zhang, W. R., Wang, K., Yin, L., Zhao, W. F., Xue, Q., Peng, M., … & Chang, H. (2020). Mental health and psychosocial problems of medical health workers during the COVID-19 epidemic. Psychotherapy and psychosomatics, 89(4), 242-250.
The author in this article asserts that the lack of explicit attention towards health professionals is among the severe healthcare gaps, especially towards the potential hazards that might be faced during family caregiving. He further indicates that most of the caregivers have adverse severe mental and physical health consequences from their emotionally and physically demanding work where they work as caregivers and reduced attention directed towards their healthcare and health. The author reports concerns about the decline in premature death and physical health, especially among caregivers. The author found out that there is an experienced physical consequence that has negative significance among the caregivers. The author in this article found out after researching that the elderly spouses who are considered to have experienced stressful caregiving demands have a mortality rate of more than 63 percent compared to their age-peers of noncaregiver. Research documents recently documented that most of the elderly wives and husbands who offer care to the spouses who are considered to have been hospitalized for some severe illness are considered to have an increased risk of premature death themselves. The author further asserts that a decline in the caregiver’s health is usually associated with various caregivers who consider themselves to be a burden. However, the caregiver strain and burden have been related to the increased healthcare behaviors that are risky, the caregiver’s low health status, and uncontrolled prescription drug usage. Most of the researchers have asserted that, during Covid-19, most of the caregivers have put themselves at a higher risk of sleep disturbances and fatigue. An increase in the blood pressure among others, the author found out that caregiving activities of high levels, failure to have some rest to the caregivers, and failure to have enough time required for carrying out physical exercise were considered high. Therefore, the provision of care, especially by the caregivers, poses a threat to their overall health; hence, such can compromise their ability to continue to be caregivers.
Anderson, Evan, ‘Is Law Working? A Brief Look at the Legal Epidemiology of COVID-19′ in Scott Burris et al. (eds), Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19 (Public Health Law Watch, 2020) Jurisdiction: USA.
Legal intervention is considered to have been featured so prominently, especially in responding to the COVID-19pandemic. However, in various places worldwide, the legal response is believed to have consisted of various combinations of the disease’s control measures, such as contact-tracing, individualized testing and distancing, physical distancing, which is based on the population structures of travel, and economic measures of support. The author asserts that most researchers have made some trials to guide the response by ensuring that they measure the changing legal interventions rapidly, thus assessing their future and current effects. This article tries to explain that the records of epidemiology show that there is a failure by the U.S. government to have control over the Coronavirus. Understanding how worse or better things might be with different legal interventions is considered complicated with the rules’ effects relying on the settings, social context, and timing, especially in relation to the population’s transmission rates. Furthermore, the doctors and nurses’ normal functioning has been affected as the elderly have been forced to take a force to retire since they are the most likely group to contract the virus due to the presence of weak hormones within their body.