Coping with Coronavirus: How to Stay Calm and Protect your Mental Health

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Dr Brendan Kelly. Coping with Coronavirus: How to Stay Calm and Protect your Mental Health

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This book is dedicated to all who are affected by coronavirus and all who care for them.

Royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to medical charities assisting with the global response to coronavirus.

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The novel virus spread rapidly in China. By 20 February 2020, there were over 75,000 cases reported in the country. The age of those infected was usually around 51 years but ranged from just two days to 100 years old. Over three-quarters of cases were aged between 30 and 69 years. Just over half were male.

Over the following months, the new coronavirus spread around the world, well beyond the Chinese border. There was a particular cluster of cases in northern Italy, from which the virus spread rapidly onwards again. By early March 2020, most of the world was experiencing blanket media coverage about coronavirus, how it spreads and – to a lesser extent – what can be done to prevent transmission. By the middle of March, over 170,000 people were infected across 158 countries. More than 6,600 had died. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic.

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