How to reduce the mental trauma of covid-19

IN ECUADOR PEOPLEThe Economist Today are still searching for the bodies of relatives who died of covid-19 four months ago. In Italy a boy begged a priest to forgive the “sin” of lowering his face mask outdoors. Not since the second world war have so many people in so many places been traumatised at once (see ). Even after the disease itself is brought under control, the mental scars will linger.