Headline Diplomat - Issue 1
The perilous lenses of COVID-19: The impact on the economy
Writes Brock Cooper, Journalist, Profitable Prose, LinkedIn
Covid-19 has infected millions of people across the globe and healthcare workers are on the front lines battling the disease and putting their own health at risk. The healthcare system in numerous countries is taxed beyond the peoples’ limits putting tremendous stress on healthcare workers who attend to patients around the clock.

“Depression, anxiety, insomnia, substance use: those are the four things we watch out for,” Dr. Chris Thurstone, director of behavioral health at Denver’s largest hospital to The Denver Channel. “As things start to settle down and people actually get a chance to breathe and think and be themselves again, they might notice that they’re not completely themselves.”

Covid-19 forced changes in a healthcare system that was not prepared for a pandemic of this magnitude and it will never be the same.
Burnout and Anger for Health Professionals
Hospitals are short on supplies, respirators, and other equipment as doctors and nurses do their best to comfort those inflicted with this terrible disease. They are bu...

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