{"id":1216,"date":"2021-07-29T20:08:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2021-07-29T20:08:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:08:53","slug":"what-is-covid-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1216","title":{"rendered":"What Is COVID Fatigue?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authors: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/intl\/contributors\/paul-thagard-phd\">Paul Thagard Ph.D.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:24px\">Pandemic fatigue is a complex of emotions that includes sadness and boredom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:24px\">The scientific study of pandemics requires the cooperation of many medical fields including virology, epidemiology, and pulmonology. The impact of behavior on disease spread shows that psychology belongs in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/intl\/basics\/teamwork\">collaboration<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:24px\">Here are some of the questions that psychology should help to answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><li>Why do scientists believe that COVID-19 is caused by the novel coronavirus and that wearing masks is a helpful measure for controlling it?<\/li><li>Why do some ordinary people and leaders deny COVID-19 risks and reject effective measures?<\/li><li>Why do some individuals and leaders make bad decisions about COVID-19 and how could their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/intl\/basics\/decision-making\">decision-making<\/a>\u00a0be improved?<\/li><li>How can doubtful people be convinced that COVID-19 is a serious problem that needs to be handled with strong measures such as lockdowns and wearing masks?<\/li><li>Why do some people who believe that COVID-19 is a serious problem nevertheless take dangerous risks?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/intl\/blog\/hot-thought\/202011\/what-is-covid-fatigue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/intl\/blog\/hot-thought\/202011\/what-is-covid-fatigue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Paul Thagard Ph.D. Pandemic fatigue is a complex of emotions that includes sadness and boredom. The scientific study of pandemics requires the cooperation of many medical fields including virology, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,169,470],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-fatigure","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}