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title: Spend a day with a Doctor to understand how serious Covid is
description: Mental Health and Covid 19, understand how serious this is. Mental / Physical health matters.
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# [Spend a day with a Doctor to understand how serious Covid is](https://www.maryaprn.com/blog/spend-a-day-with-a-doctor-to-understand-how-serious-covid-is)

 Written by [MaryAPRN.com/ Advanced Practice Psych LLC](https://www.maryaprn.com/blog/author/maryaprn-com-advanced-practice-psych-llc) | Thu, Oct 15, 2020 @ 11:00 AM

## Mental Health and Covid 19

Here is an excerpt from a doctors perspective on how serious Covid is in America, in your neighborhood, your town.

I am an emergency medicine physician in an inner-city emergency department, and I would like to start by stating a simple truth: coronavirus is not going away any time soon.  Cases are climbing in practically every state and show no signs of slowing down. From my personal perspective, things are getting worse. Every day I am treating more and more patients who are ill with COVID-19 infections........

 

Stay safe out there, Mental Health Matters

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