https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/covid-19s-psychosocial-impacts/

The novel coronavirus has touched off another stealthy and growing public health crisis that calls for an equally matched emergency response.

Like other pandemics and emerging disease outbreaks, COVID-19 is creating immense psychosocial disturbances. The disease involves an unfamiliar threat that is difficult to detect and challenging to distinguish from more benign illnesses. Protracted and dynamic pandemic conditions will draw out the anxiety. Things will get worse before they get better. Absent a vaccine, nonpharmaceutical interventions are the only way to prevent infections, and they dramatically upset everyday bodily habits, social interactions and economic exchanges.