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NAMI goes virtual, addresses ‘epidemic within the pandemic’
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32640
Subject(s) - alliance , pandemic , covid-19 , mental health , political science , public relations , criminology , sociology , psychology , medicine , psychiatry , virology , law , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has, like other organizations, had to contend with a lot regarding COVID‐19 and the delivery of its educational programming, according to its CEO. “People fail to realize that we have an epidemic within the pandemic,” Daniel H. Gillison Jr. told MHW . A “ripple of mental health issues” has been exacerbated. Racial trauma and economic issues have created fear and uncertainty, he said.