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Annie Tubadji, Don Webber, Frederic Boy Existing research has found negative short-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health (e.g. McGinty et al. 2020, Pierce et al. 2020, Pan et al. 2021, Wang et al. 2021), but the longer-term effects have been less documented (e.g. Salanti et al. 2021). People may have developed better coping strategies, or the accumulated effects of stress may make longer-term effects more severe than the short-term effects. In a recent paper (Hvide and J...