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For severe cases of SARS, MERS, and COVID-19 (all caused by coronaviruses), some patients experience temporary confusion and delirium. After recovery, some patients may also experience depression, anxiety, or post-traumatic stress disorder.

The Lancet Psychiatry

Health

Many White medical students and residents hold false beliefs about biological differences between Black and White people. These biases are linked to underestimating and under-treating pain felt by Black patients, likely contributing to racial disparities in healthcare.

Psychological and Cognitive Sciences

People who received a flu shot did not have increased fevers, muscle aches, or other side effects compared to those that received a placebo, except for increased soreness where they were injected.

JAMA

Health

In a series of mock court trials involving a Black defendant, racially diverse juries made fewer inaccurate statements and deliberated more than all-White juries.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Persuasion

Engaging people in a community-based setting and in empathetic conversation focused on safety improved safe firearms storage and the understanding that most firearm fatalities are suicides.

BMJ Injury Prevention

People with disagreeable personalities (selfish, combative, and manipulative) do not have an advantage in attaining power within their organization.

Persuasion

Long-term exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in COVID-19 mortality rate.

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in herbicides such as Roundup, harms freshwater plankton biodiversity important to freshwater ecosystems.

Environment

COVID-19-related psychological distress was linked to heavier drinking in women, but not men.

Elsevier Research Selection

Health

If 95% of people wear masks in public, approximately 130,000 American lives could be saved from the COVID-19 pandemic over five months this fall and winter.

Health