Abstract
OPINION article Front. Psychiatry, 13 January 2021Sec. Public Mental Health Volume 11 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.555559
Highlights
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tragic impact on the health and economy sectors of many countries in the world
The deepening social isolation resulting from limited interpersonal contact, the need for quarantine, overloaded healthcare professionals, and the increasing feeling of global fear, may lead to long-term deterioration in the mental health of societies and outweigh the losses of the current crisis [1]
At the beginning of March [2], a media campaign was launched in Poland against some patients with COVID-19
Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tragic impact on the health and economy sectors of many countries in the world. The new coronavirus has become an attractive topic for mass media outlets that are outdoing each other in informing the public about the current infection and death rates. The published articles emphasized the fact that infected persons had returned from foreign travels to the country, which caused strong public outrage and accusations of deliberately bringing the virus to Poland. Stigmatization of infected people by mass media affected unaware doctors returning to Poland after a vacation during that time period [3, 4]. The hate wave is a well-known phenomenon that increases the risk of aggression and the percentage of committed suicides, that requires the use of appropriate strategies to prevent the spread of these adverse social impacts [7]
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