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Coronavirus will cause global ‘tsunami’ of mental health problems worse than 2008 financial crash, Harvard warns – Telegraph.co.uk
Experts fear the world may see a rise in suicides and substance abuse similar to that seen after the recession
The coronavirus pandemic could cause a global tsunami of mental health problems worse than the 2008 financial crash, Harvard scientists have warned.
Staff at the leading American university said that the long list of worries people are having to cope with during the coronavirus crisis is making existing mental health problems worse.
And they fear the world may see a rise in suicides and substance abuse similar to that seen after the 2008 recession, when there was a wave of so- called deaths of…
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