Researchers are studying the magnitude and impact that grief from the COVID-19 pandemic has had and will have for years to come.
March 11 marks the fourth anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration that the COVID-19 outbreak was a pandemic. COVID-19 hasn’t gone away, but there have been plenty of actions that suggest otherwise.for people with COVID-19. Now the CDC says infected people can be around others as soon as a day after a fever subsides and symptoms are improving, even though
Many people are coping not just with the deaths of family and friends from COVID-19, but with how the pandemic robbed them of the chance to say goodbye to loved ones and grieve with their family and community. Researchers are studying the extent to which these losses rippled out into society and how the pandemic interrupted the grieving process.
A throughline in the research is that this mourning was interrupted and constrained by the conditions of the pandemic itself, but also troubled by politicization of the deaths. And then this expectation that we move on, we push past the pandemic, and yet we have not acknowledged the enormity of the tragedy.: We think about rituals as providing a means to respond to rupture.
This pandemic will stay with us for a very long time. young people who remember losing their grandma, but they couldn’t go see her in the hospital, or remember losing a parent in this sudden way because they brought COVID-19 home from school. So many lives were imprinted at such an early stage of life.: Whether we are talking to the bereaved, members of the clergy, health care workers or staff from funeral homes, people describe the isolation.
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