October 2021 – When COVID-19 raged across the globe in early 2020,people were terrified of the novel pathogen. Health-care professionals were taxed to their limits as hospitals filled with patients struggling to breathe. Virologists and epidemiologists worked frantically to understand the virus, while national governments disagreed over policies to contain and control it. Meanwhile, Columbia’s … Continue reading The Mental Weight of COVID-19: Columbia psychologists and psychiatrists prepare for a tsunami of mental-health issues caused by the collective trauma of the pandemic