COVID-19's crushing mental health toll on health care workers: Beyond its devastating physical effects, the pandemic has unleashed a mental health crisis marked by anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and even suicide. Here, in part 1 of a 2-part series, we examine the growing effort to identify and alleviate the fallout for health care workers.

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COVID-19's crushing mental health toll on health care workers: Beyond its devastating physical effects, the pandemic has unleashed a mental health crisis marked by anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and even suicide. Here, in part 1 of a 2-part series, we examine the growing effort to identify and alleviate the fallout for health care workers.