![]() ![]() COVID-19: elective surgical procedure guidance. The regions and phases of Pritzker’s plan to reopen Illinois. Role and management of a head and neck department during the COVID-19 outbreak in Lombardy. Saibene AM, Allevi F, Biglioli F, Felisati G. A surgical safety checklist for performing tracheotomy in patients with coronavirus disease 19. Portugal LG, Adams DR, Baroody FM, Agrawal N. Safety recommendations for evaluation and surgery of the head and neck during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Givi B, Schiff BA, Chinn SB, et al. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. ![]() And so to have some type of events where we can actually come together and acknowledge what we've been through, what we would love to leave behind, what we would love to take with us.ĬHATTERJEE: And Epel says, no matter how you feel, try to make room for some joy.ĮPEL: I think it's wonderful to feel joy, and we shouldn't feel guilty about having a great day or expressing when we feel happy and things are going well.ĬHATTERJEE: She says joy is contagious and can help counter the other negative emotions you may be feeling right now.Ĭopyright © 2021 NPR. She says decide what kinds of other activities and social interactions you're comfortable with and start with those things.ĮLISSA EPEL: We're not yet used to going back to normal social interactions, and we need to set our own boundaries and return at our own pace.ĬHATTERJEE: Also, she says, in order to move forward, it helps to acknowledge the grief and losses of the past year.ĮPEL: We have all had losses or felt the losses. Psychologist Elissa Epel is at the University of California in San Francisco. GARFIN: If people were able to find things during the pandemic that gave them comfort, that helped them, I would say to take some of those things with them into the new normal.ĬHATTERJEE: So if you found solace in gardening or more time with family during the pandemic, Garfin says, hold on to those things. GARFIN: So after 14 or 15 months of sitting at home and not having to deal with traffic and having a slower pace of life, people are now having to get in their cars and race to work and sit in a traffic jam and race home to change to run out to a social event.ĬHATTERJEE: So how can one make this transition less stressful, less anxiety-ridden? Garfin says, firstly, be patient and kind with yourself. And research shows that any change, good or bad, is stressful, even more so when it means going back to a more hectic pace of life. We just don't exactly know what they're going to look like.ĬHATTERJEE: Uncertainty, she says, drives up our anxiety, especially since most people have already spent the past year feeling anxious, says psychologist Dana Garfin of the University of California, Irvine.ĭANA GARFIN: The pandemic really shattered people's assumptions of their safety, their security, what their lives were going to be like.ĬHATTERJEE: Then, Garfin says, a return to normalcy also means a big change. If you're a parent with children under the age of 12, you're thinking about how can you keep them safe until they're vaccinated? And a lot of things are going to change - the workplace, education, health care. No one can ever know for sure when life will return to normal after a particular event, not least because what’s normal keeps on changing, even in normal times. WRIGHT: We're unclear about what role the variants and vaccine hesitancy is going to play. And I think that's hard for people to understand because we have been waiting for this moment for so long that it feels like we should just be excited.ĬHATTERJEE: And she says it's normal to feel this way because despite the light at the end of the tunnel, there's still a lot of uncertainty. WRIGHT: Things like nervousness, anxiety, trepidation, discomfort. She says, in fact, most people are feeling a whole range of emotions right now. In it, Harding outlined his hope that the United States would, after a decade of progressive politics and foreign interventions, return to normalcy. VAILE WRIGHT: But I still feel a little trepidation about going out.ĬHATTERJEE: Wright is a psychologist and senior director of Health Care Innovation at the American Psychological Association. RHITU CHATTERJEE, BYLINE: Vaile Wright has been fully vaccinated since last week. NPR's Rhitu Chatterjee has been talking with psychologists about why. fully vaccinated, many parts of this country are opening up, but not everybody is quite ready. ![]()
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