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Small Number of Covid Patients Develop Severe Psychotic Symptoms
Most had no history of mental illness and became psychotic weeks after contracting the virus. Cases are expected to remain rare but are being reported worldwide.
Dr. Hisam Goueli treated several psychotic patients who had never had mental health issues before, including a woman who told him she kept visualizing her children being murdered. “It was like she was experiencing a movie,” he said.Credit.Jovelle Tamayo for The New York Times
Almost immediately, Dr. Hisam Goueli could tell that the patient who came to his psychiatric hospital on Long Island this summer was unusual.
Holiday travelers at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on Dec. 23.Credit.Nicole Craine for The New York Times
Sunday was the busiest day for U.S. airports since mid-March, underscoring concerns that a spike in holiday travel may contribute to the spread of the coronavirus, even as new cases remain alarmingly high and officials plead with Americans to avoid taking unnecessary risks.
The Transportation Security Administration screened nearly 1.3 million people on Sunday, the most since March 15, when airline passenger numbers were in free-fall as the pandemic began to take hold within the United States.
Since then, the number of travelers screened at airports has exceeded one million fewer than a dozen times, including around Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Jama Purser isnât just a rabbi. Sheâs an epidemiologist, too.
So, Purser, rabbi of Roanokeâs Beth Israel Synagogue, had an early idea that coronavirus could be devastating to people gathering together for worship. The synagogue closed its building to all in-person gatherings on March 12, one of the earliest full-scale closings of a house of worship in the city.
âI became really worried sometime in February and our board of directors began implementing new mitigation policies in late February, early March,â Purser said.
Before graduating from Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City in 2018, Purser spent nearly two decades as an assistant professor and epidemiologist at Duke University Medical Center. A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Purser holds a doctorate in epidemiology, which has come in handy during the pandemic of 2020.