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Other studies investigated the ongoing pandemic’s psychological impact on Chinese health care workers. Lai et Ma and Wang al., 2020 conducted a survey-based cross-sectional study that empirically quantified severe depressive symptoms, insomnia, anxiety, and other symptoms of distress from a total of 1257 health care workers. According to the authors, 50.4% of participants demonstrated symptoms of depression, 44.6% suffered from anxiety, 34% had insomnia, and 71.5% were categorically distresse...

email article Lung cancer diagnoses declined and outcomes deteriorated during the first 6 months of 2020, coinciding with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a retrospective cohort study from Spain. The number of new lung cancer cases decreased by 38% from January to June 2020 as compared with the same period a year earlier. The 30-day mortality almost doubled, and median overall survival (OS) decreased by more than a month. "Lung cancer diagnosis is being affected during COVID," Roxana R...