Tracking the health impacts of grief: 'People suffer when they lose someone'
There isn't a lot of data available about the scope of bereavement on public health. Some researchers say it's time for a collective response.
Cicero once said: “There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.”
More than 2,000 years later, the Roman scholar’s words still resonate for many Americans grieving during the pandemic.
Grief, whether it’s caused by COVID-19 or other deaths, has a medical cost: It’s linked to higher blood pressure, shorter lives, depression and sleeping problems.
And when we consider that 700,000 people have died of the coronavirus alone
