During the plague of Athens in the fifth century BC - an epidemic that devastated the city state and killed up to one-third of its population - Greek general and historian Thucydides observed that "the most terrible feature in the malady" was public despair.
When the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, healthcare professionals started issuing warnings of the emotional and psychological fallout, from anxiety and depression to anger and fear.
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