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7. May not look sick (physically). Sound sick? That's a whole different matter
Wed Dec 30, 2020, 01:44 AM
Dec 2020

Small Number of COVID Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms, New York Times, 12/28/20
https://www.yahoo.com/news/small-number-covid-patients-develop-204642351.html

That could have been what happened to her. And they drive good people crazy:

'Toxic individualism': Pandemic politics driving health care workers from small towns, 12/28/20
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/12/28/npr-toxic-individualism-pandemic-politics-driving-health-care-workers-from-small-tow

More than a quarter of all the public health administrators in Kansas quit, retired or got fired this year, according to Vicki Collie-Akers, an associate professor of population health at the University of Kansas. Some of them got death threats. Some had to hire armed guards.

"These are leaders in their community," Collie-Akers says. "And they are leaving broken." Collie-Akers notes these professionals also leaving at a terrible time. The pandemic is still raging. Vaccines still need to get from cities to small towns and into people's arms; public health officers are as important as ever.

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