2 Annelieke M. Roest, Elisabeth J. Martens, Peter De Jonge, and Johan Denollet, “Anxiety and Risk of Incident Coronary Heart Disease: A Meta-Analysis,” Journal of the American College of Cardiology 56, no. 1 (2010): 38–46.
3 Allison Aubrey, Laurel Wamsley, and Carmel Wroth, “From Camping to Dining Out: Here’s How Experts Rate the Risks of 14 Summer Activities,” NPR, May 23, 2020.
4 “Always Worried About Your Health? You May Be Dealing with Health Anxiety Disorder,” Harvard Health Publishing, Harvard Medical School, September 2018.
5 University of Bath, “Lockdown Study Reports Surge in Health Anxieties: New Research into People’s Coping Strategies Faced with COVID-19 Highlights the Mental Health Toll for Those Shielding,” ScienceDaily, August 4, 2020.
6 Amy Gunia, “ ‘I Don’t Think We Should Ever Shake Hands Again’: Dr. Fauci Says Coronavirus Should Change Some Behaviors for Good,” Time, April 9, 2020.
7 Clare Lally, “Child and Adolescent Mental Health During COVID-19,” POST, UK Parliament, July 14, 2020.
8 “Signs You May Be a Hypochondriac,” Center for Treatment of Anxiety and Mood Disorders, June 15, 2020.
9 Ken Goodman, “Health Anxiety: What It Is and How to Beat It,” Anxiety and Depression Association of America, June 22, 2020.
10 Honor Whiteman, “Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ‘Effective’ for Health Anxiety,” Medical News Today, October 19, 2013.
11 Molly Jong-Fast, “Why Are So Many Baby Boomers in Denial Over the Coronavirus?” Vogue, March 13, 2020.
12 “United States COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by State,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, n.d.
13 “What Are the Odds of Dying From . . . ,” National Safety Council, n.d.
14 “Fifty Quotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson,” Walden Woods Project, Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods, n.d.
15 Isabel Reche, Gaetano D’Orta, Natalie Mladenov, Danielle M. Winget, and Curtis A. Suttle, “Deposition Rates of Viruses and Bacteria Above the Atmospheric Boundary Layer,” The ISME Journal 12, no. 4 (2018): 1154–62.
16 Eniola Kasim, “The Wonderful World of Virology,” Institute for Public Health (blog), July 9, 2019.
17 “CDC Updates COVID-19 Transmission Webpage to Clarify Information About Types of Spread,” CDC Newsroom, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, May 22, 2020.
18 “How COVID-19 Spreads,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, September 21, 2020.
19 “Cleaning and Disinfection for Households,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, July 10, 2020.
20 Terry Gross, “ ‘The Beautiful Cure’ Reveals the ‘Profound’ Power of the Immune System,” Fresh Air, NPR, November 26, 2018.
21 Suzanne C. Segerstrom and Sandra E. Sephton, “Optimistic Expectancies and Cell-Mediated Immunity,” Psychological Science 21, no. 3 (2010): 448–55.
22 Natalie B. Compton, “People Are Wearing Hazmat Suits on Planes: But Should They?” Washington Post, May 25, 2020.
23 Darwin Malicdem, “Your Favorite Bleach Could Produce Dangerous Indoor Air Pollutants,” Medical Daily, October 3, 2019.
24 “Cleaning Supplies and Your Health,” EWG, n.d.
Chapter 8: Medical News
1 “Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing,” WhiteHouse.gov, April 3, 2020.
2 Sonal Desai, “On My Mind: They Blinded Us from Science,” Franklin Templeton Investments, July 29, 2020.
3 Mark Jurkowitz and Amy Mitchell, “Coronavirus Stories Cited as Made-Up News Include Claims About Risks, Details of Virus,” Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project, August 18, 2020.
4 Md Saiful Islam, Tonmoy Sarkar, Sazzad Hossain Khan, Abu-Hena Mostofa Kamal, S. M. Murshid Hasan, Alamgir Kabir, Dalia Yeasmin, et al. “COVID-19–Related Infodemic and Its Impact on Public Health: A Global Social Media Analysis,” The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 103, no. 4 (2020): 1621–29.
5 Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, “Munich Security Conference,” World Health Organization, February 15, 2020.
6 “1st WHO Infodemiology Conference,” World Health Organization, July 16, 2020.
7 Mark Jurkowitz, Amy Mitchell, J. Baxter Oliphant, and Elisa Shearer, “Three Months In, Many Americans See Exaggeration, Conspiracy Theories and Partisanship in COVID-19 News,” Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project, September 18, 2020.
8 Sarah Kreps and Douglas Kriner, “Good News and Bad News About COVID-19 Misinformation,” Scientific American, June 10, 2020.
9 Jurkowitz et al., “Three Months In.”
10 Ryan Broderick, “ ‘I’m Not an Epidemiologist But . . .’: The Rise of the Coronavirus Influencers,” BuzzFeed News, March 18, 2020.
11 Julian E. Barnes and David E. Sanger, “Russian Intelligence Agencies Push Disinformation on Pandemic,” New York Times, July 28, 2020.
12 Jennifer Rankin, “EU Says China Behind ‘Huge Wave’ of Covid-19 Disinformation,” Guardian, June 10, 2020.
13 Monica Gandhi and George W. Rutherford, “Facial Masking for Covid-19—Potential for ‘Variolation’ as We Await a Vaccine,” The New England Journal of Medicine, September 8, 2020.
14 B. Blocken, F. Malizia, T. van Druenen, and T. Marchal, “Towards Aerodynamically Equivalent COVID-19 1.5m Social Distancing for Walking and Running,” 2020.
15 Sigal Samuel, “Why You’re Unlikely to Get the Coronavirus from Runners or Cyclists,” VOX, August 13, 2020.
16 Eric Niiler, “Are Running or Cycling Actually Risks for Spreading Covid-19?” Wired, April 14, 2020.
17 Heena Sahni and Hunny Sharma, “Role of Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Beneficial, Destructive, or Reconstructive?” International Journal of Academic Medicine 6, no. 2 (June 29, 2020): 70–75.
18 Kreps and Kriner, “Good News and Bad News About COVID-19 Misinformation.”
19 Emma Graham-Harrison and Alex Hern, “Facebook Funnelling Readers Towards Covid Misinformation—Study,” Guardian, August 19, 2020.
20 Katie Paul and Munsif Vengattil, “Facebook Removed Seven Million Posts in Second Quarter for False Coronavirus Information,” Thomson Reuters, August 11, 2020.
21 “How Facebook Can Flatten the Curve of the Coronavirus Infodemic,” Avaaz, April 15, 2020.
22 Amy Mitchell, Galen Stocking, and Katerina Eva Matsa, “Some Readers Willing to Dig into Long-Form News on Cellphones,” Pew Research Center’s Journalism Project, May 30, 2020.
23 E. J. Mundell, “ ‘COVID Toe’ Probably Not Caused by COVID-19,” WebMD, June 25, 2020.
24 Kim Schive, “Will Gargling Wash the Virus Away?” MIT Medical, April 13, 2020.
Chapter 9: Family And Friends
1 “Older Adults and COVID-19,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, September 11, 2020.
2 “COVID-19 Hospitalization and Death by Age,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, September 11, 2020.
3 “Children’s Role in Spread of Virus Bigger Than Thought,” Harvard Gazette, August 20, 2020.
4 Robert L. DeBiasi and Meghan Delaney, “Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Viral Shedding in Pediatric Patients Infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2): Under the Surface,” JAMA Pediatrics, August 28, 2020.
5 “Health Department-Reported Cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) in the United States,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, September 18, 2020.
6 “CDC Childhood Injury Report,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, February 6, 2019.
7 “As Pandemic Drags On, Relationships Are Getting More Serious,” Ipsos, August 4, 2020.
8 Andy Fies, “Surge in Divorces Anticipated in Wake of COVID-19 Quarantine,” ABCNews, April 17, 2020.
9 “As Pandemic Drags On, Relationships.”
10 Ibid.
11 “What to Do If Your Pet Tests Positive for the Virus That Causes COVID-19,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, September 10, 2020.
; 12 Ibid.
Chapter 10: Public Places
1 Tim Heffernan, “Can HEPA Air Purifiers Capture the Coronavirus?” New York Times, July 9, 2020.
2 “How HEPA Filters Have Been Purifying Cabin Air Since the 1990s,” American Airlines Newsroom, June 26, 2020.
3 Arnold Barnett, “Covid-19 Risk Among Airline Passengers: Should the Middle Seat Stay Empty?” MedRxiv, August 2, 2020.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid.
6 Jessica Craig, “Can Air Conditioners Spread COVID-19?” NPR, August 15, 2020.
7 “Air Conditioning Risks?” MIT Medical, June 23, 2020.
8 “Q&A: Ventilation and Air Conditioning in Public Spaces and Buildings and COVID-19,” World Health Organization, July 29, 2020.
9 Choe Sang-Hun, “South Korea Warns of Another Covid-19 Outbreak Tied to a Church,” New York Times, August 16, 2020.
10 Allison James, Lesli Eagle, Cassandra Phillips, Stephen Hedges, Cathie Bodenhamer, Robin Brown, J. Gary Wheeler, and Hannah Kirking, “High COVID-19 Attack Rate Among Attendees at Events at a Church—Arkansas, March 2020,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, May 21, 2020.
11 Kate Conger, Jack Healy, and Lucy Tompkins, “Churches Were Eager to Reopen: Now They Are Confronting Coronavirus Cases,” New York Times, July 8, 2020.
12 Megan Hart, “Sheboygan County Outbreak Highlights Risks of Reopening Church During Pandemic,” Wisconsin Public Radio, June 17, 2020.
13 Allison Aubrey, Laurel Wamsley, and Carmel Wroth, “From Camping to Dining Out: Here’s How Experts Rate the Risks of 14 Summer Activities,” WBUR News, May 23, 2020.
Chapter 11: Silver Linings
1 Ana Swanson, “Coronavirus Spurs U.S. Efforts to End China’s Chokehold on Drugs,” New York Times, March 11, 2020.
2 “Retired Doctors and Nurses Don Scrubs Again in Coronavirus Fight,” U.S. News & World Report, March 27, 2020.
3 Charlie Campbell, “Don’t Blame China: The Next Pandemic Could Come from Anywhere,” Time, March 10, 2020.
4 Christian Walzer, “The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Introduced Us to a New Word: Zoonosis (Op-Ed),” LiveScience, April 1, 2020.
5 Ananya Mandal, “Could the Next Pandemic Be 100 Times Worse Than COVID-19?” News Medical Life Sciences, June 2, 2020.
Epilogue
1 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812.
2 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-19-is-now-the-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-u-s1/.
About the Authors
DR. JENNIFER ASHTON is the chief medical correspondent of ABC News, including Good Morning America, World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline, and GMA3: What You Need to Know. Since joining ABC in 2012, Ashton has reported on a range of medical topics including the maternal mortality crisis, mental illness and suicide, and heart disease. At the onset of the 2020 coronavirus outbreak, Ashton appeared as the featured medical correspondent on ABC News’s Pandemic: What You Need to Know and has covered the outbreak extensively for the network since then, talking regularly with the world’s leading infectious-disease doctors. Ashton has met with the CDC director, visited the National Institutes of Health’s vaccine development lab with Dr. Anthony Fauci, and met with members of the Coronavirus Task Force at the White House. In 2009, she received the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Journalism for her work in television medical reporting.
Dr. Ashton is a graduate of Columbia College, Columbia University, and Columbia Medical School. She completed her residency training in obstetrics and gynecology and received a Master of Science degree in nutrition from Columbia University. She is board-certified in OB-GYN and obesity medicine and maintains a private clinical practice in New Jersey. The author of five other books, Ashton lives in New York City with her two children.
SARAH TOLAND is the coauthor of several bestselling books, including the New York Times bestselling Strong Is the New Beautiful with Lindsey Vonn. A former editor for Men’s Journal, Prevention, and other national magazines, Toland has also written for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, and a handful of other eminent publications. Toland lives in New York City.
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