Reuters (3/26, Bernstein, Becker) reports, “The global coronavirus pandemic has infected at least 73,000 people and killed more than 1,000 in the United States as of Thursday afternoon.” As US authorities “have told residents to remain at home and limited all but essential healthcare, the directives aimed at saving lives have hit women particularly hard, healthcare [professionals] and patients said.” Maureen Sayres Van Niel, “a psychiatrist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and president of the American Psychiatric Association’s women’s caucus,” said: “We’re just hearing from a lot of women who are hitting a tipping point trying to do all of this. You just can’t get all the help that you normally would.”
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